Re: "men's rights" pantywaists
@Craigness
I agree with everything besides the possibility of "less likely". I know what you mean, and specifically you may or may not be right, but I'm well known to be paranoid. What I really worry about is the censorship in general. Mechanisms just like what Twitter is proposing *could* be foundation work for censorship web wide.
My paranoia is EXTREMELY high, so high I'm wrong often. However :-), when you consider the timing of recent censor mechanics across the web, like up/down votes hiding peoples words/posts (e.g. Reddit/YouTube), net neutrality on the fringe of "Lord, what should we do!", Twitter and FaceB0rk welcoming censorship (albeit in supposed good faith), China outright demanding censorship nationwide...it all worries me a bit. In time, will government agencies step in and propose regulations not similar, but exactly like what the FCC of the U.S.A. has done to their country's network television stations?
Obviously the web is different than television. Most of us know a 2 year old toddler is far less likely to read a cyberbullying message on Twitter than to hear/see profane things coming from televisions, but that's just most of us. Recently it seems most of us is the minority to the rest of us (if that makes sense).