Neil BrownFeb 23

> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

The examples included here are horrible. Not just the sex-shaming, but that too.

I'm far from convinced that a social media ban is the answer, but the comment is still well worth reading - especially by men.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

The Guardian
Show threadOsma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦Feb 23
I am increasingly convinced social media ban IS the answer. Not a ban for under-16, but a total ban. Commercial social media just quite simply has to be burned to the ground, no one even tries to run it safely any more.
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Show threadDarwin Woodka

@osma @neil

How about we ban the abusers not the kids

Feb 23 at 5:38pmWeb
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Feb 23
@darwinwoodka @osma @neil that still means you need to identify everyone, though. A ban won’t work if they can just pick a different username and continue on.
Show threadFinitumFeb 23

@passwordsarehard4 @darwinwoodka @osma @neil when I ever modded anything and this popped up, that person would be on my radar & their life would be made more miserable one way or another. Ban, modify their text, delete aspects of their profile, go nuts.

Letting it skate bc oh well they'll just make a new account is just shit moderation. And Zucks promoting this behavior, not at a loss to prevent it, his sites have tools galore to stop it if they wanted.

Show threadLeiaFeb 23

@Finitum @passwordsarehard4 @darwinwoodka @osma @neil

Yes this. We’d ban the bastards & if they came back we’d ban them again.

That could still work - even more so when losing an account with any significant following.

But it’s a scaling problem. On the old-internet the number of mods - real human mods who were part of the community - grew with the user base.

That doesn’t happen, and will never happen, with coporate social because to them moderation is a cost centre not a community service!

Show threadFinitumFeb 23
@leiawelsh @passwordsarehard4 @darwinwoodka @osma @neil I also think that has a lot to do with the personalities involved. As a point of pride I wouldn't want my site/server/bar/ giving harbor to that garbage. Zuckerberg, Musk, et al have no such pride, they're fine with all this. At a point (hopefully) their userbase won't be ok with it anymore.