If our life on social networks were a movie we should recognize that for now the bad guys are winning. A few days ago even on Twitch, the Amazon platform preferred by videogamers to broadcast their challenges, he lived the first strike against haters. It seems that groups of digital vandals enjoy entering the comments of the direct infesting them with insults. Twitch managers defended themselves by saying that they are already doing their best but these digital vandals are relentless and reappear with different names or sometimes send bots to attack, or accounts created and managed by a computer.
It is an unequal struggle that sees its favorite stage on Twitter but which also infects apparently quieter social networks such as Instagram. Otherwise, the choice of introducing a set of tools to protect our community from abuse in the middle of summer would not be explained, as he wrote on August 10 the head of Instagram Adam Mosseri. The most powerful tool is called Limits is already active and allows you to temporarily limit comments and private messages from people who do not follow us or have recently followed us and who have started following us just to be able to insult us. This is what happened to some players of the English national team after the final lost on penalties against Italy, attacked with heavily racist insults.
Twitter from September 1 is also experiencing something similar: it’s called Safety Mode, for now it is only being tested on a group of users, and automatically blocks (and temporarily) the profiles that post offensive comments or that continue to send the same messages without reply to a person who has evidently decided not to reply (obviously the profiles that one has been following for a long time and with which he often interacts will not be blocked). Limits and Safety Mode introduced a few days later are proof that we cannot do it alone, that the air on social media is less and less breathable and that all the tools must be put in place so that those who shout the most do not always win.
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