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Name And Shame Twitter By…

Using Twitter?

Ben Suroeste Far better than the ability to tweet at Amazon, Amazon’s profits, is it can remove itself from
Backpage, Comcast, Ebsco, Roku, Snapchat, the Dirty Dozen list by adopting a small set of
n January, the National Center on Sexual etc., is the ability to call out another member “common sense improvements.”
oExploitation (NCOSE) released its “Dirty of the Dirty Dozen using all means other than
Dozen List” for 2018, an annual tradition which Twitter. “To be removed from the Dirty Dozen
“names and shames a range of actors who List, we ask Twitter to initiate a program
contribute significantly to the normalization Why only offer the ability to tweet your to sweep through images and keywords to
of pornography, prostitution, sex trafficking, indignation to 11 of the Dozen and not all 12? remove accounts, Periscope streams, and
and other forms of sexual exploitation,” as the Because Twitter is the twelfth of these old Dirty web links that include pornographic material
NCOSE puts it. bastards. or advertisements for pornographic material
and/or prostitution,” the NCOSE reports. “Also,
This year’s list includes a handy feature in Yes, that’s right: To call out the Dirty Twitter should improve its reporting system so
which outraged citizens can make their voices Dozen, you can use Twitter, which is part of users can specifically report accounts or tweets
heard using canned tweets like “@HBO stop the Dirty Dozen, but you can’t use Twitter to posting prostitution or pornographic materials
call out Twitter over being one of the Dirty or links.”
producing shows like The Deuce that normalize
Dozen, because… that would just be rude, or
#rapeculture, commercial sexual exploitation,
something? See, Twitter? All you need do to avoid
and eroticizing sexual violence with gratuitous
being named and shamed by the NCOSE is
nudity.”
What did Twitter do to wind up on the list, you to shut down every account which includes
ask? Nothing – and that’s the problem. pornographic material or advertisements for
Tense and verb disagreement aside, at a
pornographic material and/or prostitution.
glance you can see how effective this tweet will
“While many know Twitter as an innovator in I mean, how many followers of those porn-
be – in terms of offering unpaid promotion of
social media communication, for years it has tweeting accounts would they irritate in the
The Deuce, at least.
done little to stem the overwhelming tide of process, realistically?
pornography and prostitution accounts on its
These canned tweets are part of the NCOSE’s
site,” the NCOSE states. “In fact, media reports The ball is in your court, Twitter; do you
strategy to make it easy for people who are
suggest that as many as 10 million Twitter want to end up like those disgraced losers at
pissed off about sexual exploitation, but too
accounts may include explicit sexual content. Amazon, or do you want to experience the
busy to come up with their own words to
Twitter’s laisse-faire approach to sexually runaway success encountered by others who
express their ire, to get the word out on social
explicit content has gone on for far too long.” have extricated themselves from business-
media that Steam, for example, “facilitates
killing Dirty Dozen lists past, like Rite Aid –
video games that promote themes of sexual While the NCOSE doesn’t offer canned which is currently trading at $2.04 per share,
violence, exhibitionism, and rape.” tweets with which its devotees can name and as opposed to the $6 at which it traded when it
shame Twitter, they do serve up a canned was part of the Dirty Dozen.
It’s very important to point this out about
email and Facebook post, as well as snazzy
the gaming platform, because a lot of parents,
graphics you can post, along with the hashtag It’s a tough call, but I’m sure in the end, Twitter
activists and professional worriers might be
#CleanUpTwitter, “across all social media will #DoTheRightThing… for its shareholders.
under the mistaken impression that Steam only
platforms.”
facilitates video games which promote themes Reprinted courtesy of YNot
of wholesome non-sexual violence, like Call of The good news for Twitter, which I’m sure will
Duty, or Counter Strike, or Rainbow Six Siege be sweating bullets over being named to the
or Shooty McBombem’s Good Time Bloodbath Dirty Dozen, because clearly being listed there
Jamboree, Iraq War Edition (Part 6). for the last several years has absolutely killed

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