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New UK legal guidelines for law enforcement and social media

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The UK’s Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) has recently updated its social media guidelines for prosecutors and law enforcement in an effort to aid them in deciding on whether charges can be pressed against internet users based on certain online behaviors.

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IT companies unite against illegal online hate speech

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Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft have taken up the mantle to curb harmful speech on their platforms. The latest company to join this cause is Instagram, the popular image-sharing social media network among teens.Categories: Business
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IT security girl hits back at sexist trolls on LinkedIn

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UK IT security firm Foursys writes:

Should we police or dictate how our employees dress? Should we only allow them to represent our brand if they have a specific body type or sense of style?

What about internet commenters or trolls? Is it ok for them to bombard our employees with abuse?

The reason they are asking is after Jayde, one of their sales executives, appeared in a harmless social media post on LinkedIn – celebrating that the firm now had 500 followers on the professional social network.

The response on LinkedIn was ghastly, with many offensive, derogatory and often sexual comments made towards Jayde.

Jayde, however, has stood up to the bullies – making her own brave video response where she details some of the abuse she received.

“For all of those who say that I know nothing about IT security: Shame on you. I know more than 99% of people you’d meet on the street. I can tell you what a denial-of-service attack is, how SQL injection works, and how to your protect against ransomware. To be perfectly clear: Bullying and shaming people because of the way that they look or how they choose to dress is nasty, and I am not just going to take it — and neither should you.”

Hear hear.

I find it extraordinary that some people would make such hurtful and mean remarks… and particularly dumb that so many did so on LinkedIn, which details their real names, jobs and places of employment.

Seriously, the IT security world needs to grow up and stop thinking that women can be treated in such an appalling way.

Watch Jayde’s video response to the cyber-bullies on YouTube, and read more in Foursys’s blog post.

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A simple way to kill off Twitter trolls

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@th3j35t3r writes on his blog:

Simply put. If Jim is blocked by John, Jim can no longer even utter Johns handle/twittername in a tweet. If he attempts to the tweet simply doesn’t process or gets sinkholed. Period. The end. Forever, or until John unblocks him. This approach would not infringe on Jim’s ‘freedom of speech’, he can still say whatever he likes, but he can’t include John. This approach would be self-policing essentially allowing users to decide if they are being abused or harassed and allowing them to take immediate actions without relying on Twitter to minimize the problem effectively. This approach would not be an overhead on Twitters current infrastructure and would require NOTHING by way of extra storage capacity.

Trolls are the ugly side of Twitter, but @th3j35t3r’s proposal seems very elegant to me.

So how about it Twitter?

Find out more, and check out his amusing flowchart, by reading @th3j35t3r’s blog post.

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