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In the spirit of @24ways: "Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea!" https://24ways.org/2018/be-the-villain/
"On help forums for Google Drive and its products, there are questions going back years from users who want to, but can’t, block someone from sharing unwanted content." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/google-drive-harassment-remove-shared
"A network of users on the platform has allegedly been using [a] hashtag to find and share explicit photos of underage children." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/meme-accounts-are-fighting-child-porn-instagram/579730/
"The case represents a stark division between lawyers sounding an alarm over domestic abusers increasingly using smartphones and online services to track and harass their partners…" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tylerkingkade/grindr-herrick-lawsuit-230-online-stalking
"One video […] amassed more than 11 million views for the Johny Johny Yes Papa YouTube channel, which currently boasts more than 30,000 subscribers. That same channel, apparently named after a children's meme, features dozens of videos targeted at kids." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/youtube-is-still-hosting-graphic-images-of-bestiality
This is a great feature: useful if you simply don't like an artist the algorithm thinks you should, invaluable if the artist has abused you. #SurvivingRKelly https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/21/spotify-artist-blocking-soon-but-not-yet/
Let's also not forget someone deliberately Tweeting an animated, strobing image at a journalist who has epilepsy. https://twitter.com/AmeliasBrain/status/1087772356888547328
"Shefler informs us that the Spinner began using Facebook and Instagram in October, purchasing ad space on these two sites so that targets see the manipulative ads on their personal feeds." https://www.dailydot.com/debug/husband-brainwash-wife-spinner-ads-facebook/
"Apple and Google have been accused of helping to 'enforce gender apartheid' in Saudi Arabia, by offering a sinister app which allows men to track women and stop them leaving the country." https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-criticised-for-saudi-government-app-activists-say-fuel-discrimination-2019-2
"The booming industry of spyware to spy on romantic partners doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Companies need financial and tech giants to process their payments and advertise their wares." https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1098270220781785088
Stop making me have to update this horrible thread. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/youtube-kids-cartoons-include-tips-for-committing-suicide-docs-warn/
Never, ever blame the victim. https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/03/28/women-face-new-form-harassment-metro-airdrop/
"Users on Instagram are advertising guns for sale despite the social network banning trade of weapons between individuals since 2016, according to a review of Instagram accounts." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vb94pb/gun-sellers-instagram-encrypted-messaging-apps
I hate to quote myself, but it's so on-point: "…terms are dictated to you, gaslighting you to extract profit. Heaps of jargon and flashy, unnecessary features are showered on you to distract from larger structural and conceptual flaws." https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1120403954200924160
[ stares directly at the camera ] https://mashable.com/article/facebook-secret-crush-bad/
"Dozens of top posts under the #opioidcrisis and #opioidaddiction hashtags contained comments touting Oxycontin, Percocet, Codeine, and other prescription opioids — along with phone numbers and usernames for encrypted messaging accounts." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/drug-dealers-have-a-booming-marketplace-in-instagrams
"Some of the trade has been carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549
"The companies have the technical tools to stop the recirculation of abuse imagery by matching newly detected images against databases of the material. Yet the industry does not take full advantage of the tools." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html
“Ad click data provides nearly two decades worth of the world’s confessions, held in indelible ledgers by a corporation.” https://onezero.medium.com/900-000-americans-tell-google-they-want-to-try-buy-or-quit-heroin-every-year-48f725ee5db9
"Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause seizures in photosensitive people." https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/23/21035855/twitter-bans-apngs-trolls-seizures-epilepsy-foundation-attack
"If you have hundreds of people using [one of these Discord] servers, then anyone at an Internet Crimes Against Children task force in any state AG’s office would say that’s flypaper for predators." h/t @davatron5000 https://onezero.medium.com/despite-strict-ban-discord-is-a-hub-for-potentially-dangerous-underage-dating-6749383f5e90
"Motherboard found traces of The Base and its propaganda, sitting unnoticed for months, on Google Maps." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7j3dz/neo-nazi-terror-group-posted-propaganda-to-google-maps
"[Trolls] are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform’s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/style/zoombombing-zoom-trolling.html
"Freelancer platform Fiverr, where customers can hire people to perform all sorts of short term work, has been hosting advertisements for so-called "coronavirus healers" and people dubiously claiming to be able to source face masks from Vietnam and China." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74ay9/fiverr-coronavirus-healers-mask-sellers
"Less than a year later, there are signs that the 'creeperware,' as the researchers called it, is returning. The label comprises a broad category of abusable apps, including tools for spying, spoofing phone numbers, and secretly recording video and audio." https://onezero.medium.com/google-purged-almost-1-000-abusive-creeperware-apps-now-some-are-coming-back-b47aafd46459
"An Auckland woman says she feels shaken and vulnerable after a North Shore restaurant worker misused her personal information to make numerous approaches to her." https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/05/auckland-woman-creeped-out-after-restaurant-worker-uses-her-contact-tracing-details-to-hit-on-her.html
