Call for Twitter to ban racist words

[Quincey]

MP Luciana Berger has called for Twitter to block racist words in tweets after experiencing a number of anti-Semetic tweets: "2,500 hate messages in the space of three days" she says, which is pretty shocking/

Should Twitter censor messages with racist words? And if so, why not censor sexist, homophobic, abelist and other words that are used by bigots?

Also, what happens if someone is tweeting and quoting a racist comment someone else made, for example someone on an antifascist march quoting fascists there?

Not sure how Twitter would censor racist words either - perhaps instead it needs to be more proactive when closing/penalising accounts using hate speech.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Only elitist sneering 'snobs' dislike racism, you know.  Nige said so...

[syntaxerror]

if you censor words then other words just take their place, so yeah its not very nice to say those things, but it does seem a bit pointless banning particular words.

[Pdine]

What kind of words could be used to replace them? I would suggest cricketing terminology, which isn't doing anything useful at the moment.

http://www.cricker.com/glossary/

From a quick scan I'd say these are good candidates:

Arm Ball
Backlift
Bat-pad
Belter
Bouncer
Box
Carom Ball
Coil
Corridor of uncertainty
Cow corner (think of 'corn' as a verb here)
Daisy Cutter
Dead bat
Diamond Duck
Dibbly Dobbly
Donkey Drop
Doosra
Draw
Duckworth-Lewis Method
Feather
Ferrey
First-class cricket
Fly slip
Front-foot shot
Full toss
Gazunder
Golden duck
Googly
Grubber
Gully
Hawk-eye
Hoodoo
Hutch
Indipper
In-cutter
Jaffa
Kolpak
Lappa
Leg cutter
Long hop
Loosener
Lower order
Mankad
Marillier shot
Meat of the bat
Michelle
Mully grubber
No ball
Nurdle
Off cutter
Out dipper
Outswing
Pads
Perfume ball
Pie chucker
Pongo
Popper
Rabbit
Red cherry
Rib tickler
Rogers
Slipper
Slog
Slog sweep
Snick
Spider graph
Square-cut
Sticky wicket
Sun ball
Surrey Cut
Tea towel explanation
Teesra
Tickle
Trundler
Vee
Wagon wheel
Waft
Wrong 'un
Yips
Zooter

[Gurke and Hare]

What kind of words could be used to replace them? I would suggest cricketing terminology, which isn't doing anything useful at the moment.

http://www.cricker.com/glossary/

From a quick scan I'd say these are good candidates:

[...]

You missed out "Chinaman".

[Pdine]

You missed out "Chinaman".

Yeah I've a feeling that'll be one of the ones we're struggling to replace.

[momatt]

What if I'm writing a tweet about Barnes Wallace's dog?
What if I'm writing a tweet about Patrick McReary's (GTA4) nickname?
What if I'm writing a tweet about a small bit of damage in a suit of armour?
What if I'm writing a tweet about late 60s German drum-heavy rock?
What if I'm writing a tweet where I have to abbreviate Water-Oil-Gas?

WHAT THEN?

[BPFHAY]

Banning the words doesn't really change the attitudes of people who would use them. It's useful when somebody calls somebody else a kike, because you then know the nature of that person and can avoid them. By banning that, you end up with secret racists who now hate you even more for exercising control over them.

[biggytitbo]

Knackers.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Semprini.

[biggytitbo]

Pimhole.


Pimhole - http://prospectgb.com/pimhole/

[Zetetic]

Can't individual clients handle this for any given user?

[BPFHAY]

I think people just want the victory of getting some people told off.

[Big Jack McBastard]

Fucking daft idea it'll just make people be more inventive with their racism, the words 'chucker' and 'spear' are not inherently racist are they? Wharrabout them eh?

[Big Jack McBastard]

Ok so anti-semitic terms were the things that caused this shitfit, yes?

What about calling someone a 'Jew cunt'? Again neither word has a racist intent on its tod.

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