{"id":3577,"date":"2021-11-05T05:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/twitter-says-any-move-by-australia-to-ban-anonymous-accounts-would-not-reduce-abuse\/"},"modified":"2021-11-05T05:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:37:47","slug":"twitter-says-any-move-by-australia-to-ban-anonymous-accounts-would-not-reduce-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/twitter-says-any-move-by-australia-to-ban-anonymous-accounts-would-not-reduce-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s public policy director says crackdown would stifle speech for vulnerable people who need to remain unidentified<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any move by the Australian government to crack down on anonymous accounts on Twitter would be ineffective and fail to reduce the amount of abuse on the platform, the social media firm has said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month prime minister Scott Morrison<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/oct\/07\/barnaby-joyce-urges-crackdown-on-social-media-misinformation-as-defamation-changes-mooted\"> decried the \u201ccoward\u2019s palace\u201d of social media<\/a>, and threatened more regulation of the companies in response.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/05\/twitter-says-any-move-by-australia-to-ban-anonymous-accounts-would-not-reduce-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/079b2faf5b930cccd7a44c1899d54564f1fc2ae3\/0_85_2190_1314\/master\/2190.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=112699baa300add5b8efaaae684fcebb\" title=\"Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse\" \/>Company\u2019s public policy director says crackdown would stifle speech for vulnerable people who need to remain unidentified<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Any move by the Australian government to crack down on anonymous accounts on Twitter would be ineffective and fail to reduce the amount of abuse on the platform, the social media firm has said.<br \/>\nLast month prime minister Scott Morrison decried the \u201ccoward\u2019s palace\u201d of social media, and threatened more regulation of the companies in response. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s public policy director says crackdown would stifle speech for vulnerable people who need to remain unidentified Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Any move by the Australian government to crack down on anonymous accounts on Twitter would be ineffective and fail to reduce the amount of abuse on the platform, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/05\/twitter-says-any-move-by-australia-to-ban-anonymous-accounts-would-not-reduce-abuse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter says any move by Australia to ban anonymous accounts would not reduce abuse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}