And Good Luck, Meghan!
"The reality, and Twitter knows this, is this is our public square. This is where conversation happens ... I can't share my work now."
"The whole situation [of accepting and normalizing transgender rights; gender identity ideology] destroys women's rights. I don't even see how we can uphold women's rights if there is no cohesive definition for women."
"Yeah, I think the government should be enforcing free expression and free speech. We should understand and acknowledge the role of Twitter [and make sure people are permitted to freely communicate]."
"It's disgusting [that Twitter permits threatening violence against some users without reacting], and then to ban someone like me."
Meghan Murphy, feminist writer, Vancouver
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| Megan Murphy |
"[Twitter] covertly made sweeping changes to its Hateful Conduct Policy sometime in late October 2018, banning, for the first time 'misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals'. This new policy banned expression of a political belief and perspective held by a majority [54 percent, according to a 2017 Pew Research Poll] of the American public that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth ..."Vancouver feminist writer Meghan Murphy has launched a lawsuit against Twitter for banning her from the social media site as punishment for using a male pronoun in identifying a transwoman complainant in a human rights dispute over access to genital waxing at beauty salons. Alongside an image of the complainant, Murphy tweeted "Yeeeah it's him", citing this indiscretionary pronoun usage as reason she was locked out of the social media site.
"[Twitter] retroactively enforced its new policy against the plaintiff in this case, Meghan Murphy."
Megan Murphy's lawsuit statement
She brought her claim to the Superior Court of California as a technical breach of contract and violation of unfair competition law, asking for an order to force Twitter to stop enforcing its rule against misgendering trans people, and furthermore any bans relying on it be lifted in the latest test of whether and how Twitter is obliged to uphold free speech and what duties governments could be responsible for to impose that free speech value on corporate social media.
Where is Jordan Peterson when a feminist writer needs him?!
Meghan Murphy argues that her exclusion from a very visible social media site impedes and obstructs her ability as a writer in modern media to reach a vital part of her audience, the ban imposed upon her representing a corporation controlling public debate. Associated with the Intellectual Dark Web movement through the publication Quillette, Ms. Murphy controversially discusses transgender people and their rights.
Her claim is that transgender rights recognition of males-by-birth transiting to female through their declarations that a female personality is more suited to their own than their birth gender and that in making that change they should be recognized by society at large as the gender of their choice, confuses issues related to women's place in society pursued by feminists. By launching her suit, she feels a court should ensure her right to free expression, even if it brings in governments to regulate the process.
The Supreme Court of Canada has clarified that publishing 'or tweeting' a link to libellous material is not in and of itself to be viewed as libellous other than when it can be clearly identified as an endorsement. Political consultant and author Warren Kinsella, a human-rights and defender against anti-Semitism activist, filed a libel claim against Twitter Canada over a tweet posted in 2017 by Lawrence McCurry associated with a publication whose editor and publisher were convicted recently of criminal hate promotion following a campaign Mr. Kinsella led.
"Twitter has published and/or republished the Tweet, [simply blocking him from seeing the tweet and] stood by their original decision not to remove the tweet, but that they would closely monitor activity from [the writer's] account", according to the libel claim filed by Mr. Kinsella.
If Twitter and other social media sites are really invested in ensuring that threats, violence, bigotry and incitement to hatred does not take advantage of publishing on their sites to reach a wide audience to promote their terrorist ideologies, they would take measures to block accounts held by terrorist groups like Hamas, and other hate-mongering, violence-threatening thuggish groups and clearly they haven't bothered.
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| In this Feb. 8, 2018, file photo, the logo for Twitter is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. |
Labels: Blocking, Censors, Hypocrisy, Social Media, Twitter
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, February 16, 2019
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