Twitter and Facebook to provide a specific reporting function for sexual harassment

Twitter and Facebook to provide a specific reporting function for sexual harassment

Started
2 October 2021
Petition to
Twitter, Inc and
Signatures: 37,916Next Goal: 50,000
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Started by Suzannah Povey

Women experiencing daily micro aggressions towards them, be that derogatory language, outright harassment or plain misogyny.

Social media platforms are meant to be a place of safety for many women to share views without the threat of abuse. Twitter and Facebook are currently doing little to ensure this. We, the women of Twitter and Facebook, petition Twitter and Facebook to shine a light on the perpetrators, by providing us with a route to safely report men for engaging in unwanted sexual conduct, harassment and unsolicited DMs. We call for a SPECIFIC way to report this behaviour that comes under the banner of misogyny and that Twitter and Facebook investigate this and has a 'three strikes and out' policy (or similar) to de-platform men who repeatedly send harmful or inappropriate material to women.

Considering that Twitter and Facebook regularly bans people for life for general bad language, yet allows unsolicited sexual pictures to be sent privately, we think these platforms have a long way to go to consider itself on the side of women. 

Here is just one example of the low level, insidious misogyny that women on social media experience every day. Most women have experienced this, or much worse, and it should not be accepted. https://www.whingewhingewine.co.uk/social-media-and-misogyny-prn-is-fine-but-dont-say-cnt.html

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