{"id":965,"date":"2018-12-26T06:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=965"},"modified":"2018-12-26T06:09:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:09:43","slug":"one-case-where-twitter-is-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"One case where Twitter is awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/08\/the-many-ways-twitter-is-bad-at-responding-to-abuse\/376100\/\">article<\/a> in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> definitely struck a chord here.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was checking Twitter and I found in my timeline a gross, gruesome image. I won&#8217;t bother you with the details. I&#8217;m still reeling trying to &#8220;unsee&#8221; that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that a user which I follow retweet a link from a newspaper article which in turn featured such image. The link card generated by Twitter happily featured that awful picture.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of policy, in Twitter I unfollow any user who tweets or retweets any image with gore or graphic violence. I also want to report the posts, and there is the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to report the post and image as featuring graphic violence, but I got absolutely no option to do so. When I tried to report, I got this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" src=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck.png 400w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No &#8220;graphic violence&#8221; to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>If I choose &#8220;It&#8217;s abusive or harmful&#8221;, this is what I get:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck1.png 400w, https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot-2018-12-26-TweetDeck1-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still nothing about graphic violence. Of course, there is no option at all to blur the image.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is doing an awful job indeed. They need to seriously improve in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article in The Atlantic definitely struck a chord here. This morning I was checking Twitter and I found in my timeline a gross, gruesome image. I won&#8217;t bother you with the details. I&#8217;m still reeling trying to &#8220;unsee&#8221; that stuff. It turns out that a user which I follow retweet a link from a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,1],"tags":[285,284,207],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-computers","category-general","tag-graphic-violence","tag-social-networking","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}