For ten years, women, LGBT people and people of colour have been threatened with death and serious harm on your platform. You’ve done next to nothing.
Men abusing women. White people threatening Black people. The literal President stoking violence. That’s just free speech, right? https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1312498514002243584

The hypocrisy of this is so jaw-dropping that is literally being reported as *news*, not opinion. Here’s why that hypocrisy matters >

There IS is difference when the person being wished harm is a rich white man- and specifically a rich white President. The difference is that wishing such a man harm threatens the social order and exposes the faultlines in democracy >

But murderous racism? Violence against women? Those don’t threaten the social order. Those ARE the social order. They are, in many ways, extra-judicial ‘legitimate violence.’ They’re normal and normalised. That’s why social networks run by white men have been relaxed about them.

When I was 22- 22!- and being threatened with rape and death by strangers online for daring to discuss feminism, I was told to grow a thick skin- what else did I expect?
I live with lasting, real trauma from abuse I have suffered on this platform. So do hundreds of others. >

> it’s too late for @jack to do right by us. Although I’d appreciate it if he could maybe chip in for our therapy. The damage has been done. My work has been permanently affected. There are lots of articles and books I never got to write because I was trying to survive all this.

And that’s what hurts- it’s clear that Twitter could always have done something. It was always within their power to make this a less godawful place. But they didn’t care, because controversy is actually their business model. Trolling and flame wars are good for Twitter.

If Twitter just doesn’t want to deal with a zillion people saying how much they wish Dorito Mussolini would rot in hell, fine.
But don’t pretend it has anything to do with any lofty principle of universal tolerance
And don’t pretend you didn’t spend 7 years encouraging him.