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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 14 2017, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the jumping-to-conclusions dept.

The actress, who has emerged as a Hollywood voice in the Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal, revealed that Twitter had locked her account on Wednesday night.

Rose McGowan had a hold placed on her Twitter account Wednesday night, an act that quickly sparked outrage among the many users who have been following her posts ever since news first broke of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

The actress, who has emerged as a Hollywood voice after finding herself thrust into the center of the developing story of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault allegations against the movie mogul, took to her Instagram and Facebook accounts to relay the news of her temporary suspension, writing cryptically that "TWITTER HAS SUSPENDED ME. THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES AT WORK. BE MY VOICE. #ROSEARMY."

She added a screenshot (below) from a message from Twitter telling her that she had violated their terms of service and that she would be locked out for 12 hours once she deleted certain tweets. She posted the message late Wednesday night.

As of 7:20 a.m. PT on Thursday, Twitter had unlocked McGowan's account, telling THR the temporary lock was due to the actress tweeting out a private number, which falls under the private information violation under Twitter Rules. McGowan deleted the post to regain access.

Are social media platforms common carriers, or not?


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  • (Score: 2) by Virindi on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:44PM (2 children)

    by Virindi (3484) on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:44PM (#582413)

    As most sexual assault/harassment reports are of repeat offenders, I believe that it would be helpful to adopt a plan involving an "allegation escrow" that would leverage multiple independent low confidence (by the standards of evidence) allegations to reach a threshold of guilt.

    Unfortunately, this would be easily gamed. Anyone who wanted to falsely accuse someone could get friends to join in and also make false accusations. This kind of thing has happened before; the fact that there are multiple accusations doesn't tell you much more than a single one. It could be that the accused has perpetrated the crime many times, or it could be that they are the victim of conspiracy. It still has to come down to the evidence for each accusation.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:39PM (#582425)

    Unfortunately, this would be easily gamed

    I think you are overestimating people's willingness to commit illegal acts and form conspiracy to harm someone based upon the word of one friend. This is obviously possible under the current system (e.g. assembling multiple "witnesses" that could corroborate the victim's testimony) and the rate probably wouldn't substantially increase. Fabricating evidence for multiple independent crimes would probably also be more risky (more chances of conflicting evidence or alibi) than a single fabricated crime.

    This is not a perfect solution and it is more applicable to certain situations (e.g. college, workplaces, and organizations) than others (e.g. intimate partner violence, casual dating, and familial abuse). Such a system may even be impossible to implement for criminal prosecution, but putting someone in prison is not the only way to help victims and the status quo will not improve by itself.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @02:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @02:48AM (#582483)

    Was not expecting that from a feminist.