Twitter is under attack. Not necessarily just from trolls but from those that would eradicate them! It would seem at the moment that Twitter is a hot bed of crime and perversion, that all users are threatening to bomb, rape and pillage others. When in actual fact most of us, like humanity itself are pretty normal.
However Twitter apparently has got to get its house in order. Those that run it are pretty much an accessory to this crime that is going on.
However surely that is crazy talk if you sit back and think. Since when did a communication medium become responsible explicitly for its users?
When the Royal Mail delivered that poison pen letter that that evil piece of work wrote fifty years ago, were they responsible? No.
When the I.R.A. sent their coded bomb threats from that phone box down the road, did the boss of B.T. stand in the dock too? No.
You could say that I make light of these crimes that are being perpetrated against (mostly) lady users of Twitter (and yes other social media), but at no point am I wishing to trivialise them in any way. What I am really saying is that crime should be controlled, and be the sole responsibility of the police. Not some internet moguls that setup a really rather successful business.
Twitter is certainly not anonymous like the Royal Mail and the telephone and that is surely the only place where the Twitter owners come in, to provide the details of the users that do the crime. To quote the old fashioned term, like all responsible adults, they should assist the police with their enquiries perhaps. Not be hung, drawn and quartered in the press because their "vessel" of social interaction is being used in a criminal way.
Twitter, Facebook and others should, and are wonderful places to gather for light-hearted fun, interaction with "famous" people and just general social activity. They should not find themselves the victim of members of the public that neither understand or want to understand how social media works.
Like all walks of life the bad can sometimes appear to be the major factor, the overwhelming evil. However like all areas of the world, they are the minority and at no point should we succumb to them or blame others, other that the authorities for not controlling them.
POWER TO THE (NEARLY) NORMAL PEOPLE!
Twitter: @asmallmind
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