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I'd encourage anyone being stalked, harassed or threatened online to contact the authorities in addition to asking for the social networks to help rectify the problem. Cyberstalking, cyberbullying and these types of harassment ARE crimes.

Exactly, and when it comes to using venues like twitter to stalk, harass, threaten, libel and defame you begin to enter into dangerous territory from a legal standpoint. Personally, because the threats and harassment cross state lines I'd like to see the FBI involved. Professionally, I'd like to see some attorney's involved. I'm not sure what the resolution to this should be but it certainly doesn't reflect well on twitter to allow the harassment to continue. – eMOM, on August 13, 2008 02:20

Thanks for creating this thread. As mentioned, I'd love to have the option to choose if you want it to obey the block list or not when using tracking.

Thank you so much for your attention to this matter. I think it is safe to say we all enjoy twitter and only want to see the service improve.

As for the the track feature, It would be great to have the option to choose if you want it to obey the block list or not. In our most recent TOS report case, if it had ignored the block list we may not have known that the abuse had continued for weeks on end. It's important for companies ot have the ability to track and monitor certain topics. So an option would be great! – eMOM, on May 07, 2008 20:00

This isn't a debate forum.

The question here for TWITTER to address is as follows:
Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service

@panopticons is the same person using the following accounts. So I would like to see these names/accounts addressed in the question as well:

http://twitter.com/NoahDavidSimon
http://twitter.com/MediaAnalyses
http://twitter.com/CriticalMedia
http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst
http://twitter.com/Objections
http://twitter.com/TheBlackBook
http://twitter.com/avantgarde
http://twitter.com/artspace
http://twitter.com/artforum
http://twitter.com/TheYellowPages
http://twitter.com/YellowBook
http://twitter.com/YellowPage
http://twitter.com/WhitePage
http://twitter.com/WhiteBook
http://twitter.com/BIGCock
http://twitter.com/HUGECock
http://twitter.com/BIGPenis
http://twitter.com/HUGEPenis
http://twitter.com/TheJesus
http://twitter.com/TheGod
http://twitter.com/TheSatan
http://twitter.com/QRU

My concern is that while we (eMOM) are encouraging our members to use Twitter, Twitter is offering no real reporting avenue or enforcement of its terms of service as protection to its users. Though I realize that Twitter has a block button perhaps a better idea would be to have a “flag account button”. If enough users flagged an account the account could go into a suspended mode forcing the user to contact Twitter to have the account reviewed and reactivated. This would provide Twitter the opportunity to immediately halt abuse and afford them the opportunity to review accounts on a case by case basis.

Remember, blocking removes users from your Twitter stream but it doesn’t prevent the user from visiting your profile and viewing your timeline. Not to mention, it doesn’t stop the stream of harassing statements from being posted. It also doesn’t prevent the user from seeing who you are following and following the same people. This means the people you’re associated with can also be harassed for knowing you - and in this care actually are by the user in question.

The only other option Twitter gives us right now is protecting our tweets and that isn’t the best option for a social networking site or for companies/people interested in using Twitter as a social networking tool.

@NoahDavdSimon admits he has over 25 accounts to manage: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

and has provided many of the names publicly: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta... , http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

He’s also admitted these accounts were created for the purposes of going undercover to expose: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

and to create copyright violations: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta... which he has.

Some of these accounts actually use trademarked names and copyrighted logos as avatars too: http://twitter.com/YellowBook/statuse...

eMail Our Military (@MailOurMilitary) did ask him to cease and desist on April 19th: http://twitter.com/MailOurMilitary/st...

but the harassment has continued.

Because this user is posting from multiple accounts, there are well over 200 posts. We haven’t included them all but we’ve saved as many as possible as favorites on @MailOurMilitary for Twitter’s review and resolution.

It’s important to note that this user’s posts go well beyond a difference of opinion, or a disagreement and clearly enter into libelous statements, abusive and harassing behavior. Again these are saved as favorites on @MailOurMilitary for your review:

Here he states we’ve stolen someone’s art without giving them credit: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states he’s planning the next evil strike on our organization: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he states that our organization puts our troops at risk: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he states he caught us in the act of soliciting anti-war leftists: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we’re putting our soldiers in danger: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we put our troops at risk: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we don’t care about our soldiers: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we harass our soldiers: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we’re not protecting our soldiers: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we’re threatening him: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states we’re dangerous: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he states we use peer pressure and we’re a cult: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states he’s offering a free dildo to our 700th follower http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta... & http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states this tweet is a test of his new anti-emailourmilitary network: http://twitter.com/artspace/statuses/...

Here he states we’re affiliated with Rev Wright & that we have an agenda: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta...

Here he states that trashy people are involved in our organization and tells people to steer clear of us: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he states that our organization has an agenda: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he talks about his revolution against eMail Our Military: http://twitter.com/CriticalAnalyst/st...

Here he asks if he has slain eMailOurMilitary: http://twitter.com/noahdavidsimon/sta... - Taken literally that might be considered a death threat

We believe the person in question has used twitter to attack, abuse and harass and apparently from the numerous comments, so do many others.

In closing, we'd like to see Twitter not only create a clear reporting system for TOS violations but investigate and take action when necessary.

We thank you in advance for your kind consideration and we look forward to a resolution.