Exporting Twitter Problems

Twitter’s new anti-harassment tool is lame! I wrote about why it actually kinda sucks for Wired.

The mere creation of a list doesn’t give due respect to the phenomenal complexity of online hate and abuse. The list is black and white – an account name is either present or absent, the CSV list item is either imported or it isn’t. But there is no single standard for harassment online; it’s not a simple toggle switch, so the tools built around it can’t be as simple as binary filters. more