Despite unveiling their latest set of hard-and-fast safety guidelines, Twitter still doesn’t seem to have taken any action to deplatform serial guideline violator Carlos Maza. Apparently his calls for violence aren’t enough to land him on their radar. Will this?
@grouchybagels Lots of guys with weirdly shaped dicks on Twitter today.PS I likeyour jew face?
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) July 3, 2014
Oh, my.
Jew face? ?
— Dylan (@dylrschn) June 6, 2019
Hey @gaywonk. What exactly do you mean by “Jew face?” Asking for some friends. pic.twitter.com/RkuzM66WvX
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) June 6, 2019
We’re very curious. Because what it sounds like is hate speech. We know hate speech hasn’t been clearly defined by anyone yet, but we’re pretty sure that tweet is probably definitely hate speech.
This won't age well.
— Drew Cochran (@DrewCochran76) June 6, 2019
From 2014… pretty aged already?
I’d say it didn’t age well… at all!!
— Bacon vs Cheese (@baconvscheese) June 6, 2019
Well, things were different back in 2014. Now that safety is Twitter’s top priority, though, they should really get on Maza already. His tweet was literally indefensible.
I'm the person this out-of-context tweet was sent to. Carlos was defending me here; someone had attacked me by calling me "jew face" and he was trying to make me feel better. Carlos is a great friend, former colleague, and I support him 10000%. Don't use me in this fight, please. https://t.co/JnkuTOHBvl
— Hannah Groch-Begley (@grouchybagels) June 6, 2019
That’s great that he was defending you, Hannah, but as we all know, when it comes to policing alleged “hate speech,” context doesn’t matter.
You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people’s experience on Twitter. https://t.co/AyT3TOb34k
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) June 6, 2019
He engaged in behavior that disrupted our experience on Twitter. Because we said so. Yes, that rule is vague, but we feel like it applies here. Because we said so.
The irony of this tweet being taken out of context is that I was actually commiserating with a coworker who had been called a “Jew face” by an online troll.
It wont matter. This has already circulated around right wing echo chambers. This is how people who speak out get smeared. https://t.co/uospwV7Ooy
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 6, 2019
Sorry, Carlos, we couldn’t hear you over the sound of our tiny violins.
The irony is you now like to claim context matters https://t.co/D0BO6e0ZLJ
— Bob Malak (@bob_malak) June 6, 2019
It’s not fun when it’s done to you is it? https://t.co/omkZczuPJF
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) June 6, 2019
We all know that Carlos doesn’t like to give people the benefit of the doubt before calling for them to be deplatformed … so why should we cut him slack on this?
@YouTube @Twitter is anti semitism okay in your terms of uses?
— Mera Naam (@MeraNaam9) June 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/bob_malak/status/1136718535030296576
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