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Oh, and here is how to fix it. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/15/2014, 11:35am PST
By the way, here is how to stop all the hate speech, death threats and unpopular web comic reviews from happening on Twitter. It could be implemented by the developers within a week.

1) It now costs $25 per account to post. While you can create an account to read all you like, if you ever want to make another tweet, it costs $25 to do so. You can't use Paypal. You can't use Bitcoin. You have to use a good, old fashioned credit card with a verified address. You can have multiple accounts on the same card, but each account is tied to a card. I'd demand a social security number and phone number, but people outside the US don't have them. (I was going to say that people outside the US don't have SS#s, but my troglodytian views of the rest of the world leads me to believe you don't have phones, either.)

2) You get charged $1 a year afterwards for the purposes of address verification. If your card bounces, you can't tweet until it's resolved.

(So far, all of this is the same shit that's in play to host your own website, and those get suspended and taken down all the time.)

3) If you don't have a credit card and don't have $25 then you can't tweet. This means that people in the Middle East trying to organize revolutions against cryptomilitiary religiously fascist dictators probably can't use Twitter to organize places to hide from machine guns any more, but this is secondary to Rebecca Watson no longer being asked out for coffee at a convention by an ugly person or someone saying "more like Lindy West East South and North."

4) Twitter hires whatever staff necessary to hand addresses over to the FBI or local law enforcement when a poster is shown to be violating the code of conduct.

5) Unlike how things work in the desperate mind of Rich Kyanka, when you get suspended for hate speech, you don't get to join back up with a new account for 25 bux the next day. You're done. The guy who hates Dragon Age has to go get a credit card tied to a different address, which is a pain in the ass and yet still more fun than using the same amount of time to play Dragon Age.


Now, when someone says that they hope you shove an entire stick of dynamite up your ass, instead of law enforcement shrugging and doing nothing, they can make a pull request for the name and address of the originator, and the cops can do nothing with that information, instead of no information.


ICJ
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Hammerwatch sucks. by Mischief Maker 08/22/2013, 7:57pm PDT NEW
    Quicksave? Checkpoints? NT by Come on, get to the important stuff 08/22/2013, 7:58pm PDT NEW
        Checkpoints. NT by Mischief Maker 08/22/2013, 8:33pm PDT NEW
            is this bullshit going to be a trend now NT by jeep 08/22/2013, 9:32pm PDT NEW
                Yep by Come on, get to the important stuff 08/22/2013, 9:39pm PDT NEW
                    which article by jeep 08/23/2013, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                        Re: which article by Souffle of Pain 08/23/2013, 4:42pm PDT NEW
                            ah that explains it thanks by jeep 08/23/2013, 5:12pm PDT NEW
                            Re: which article by E. L. Koba 08/24/2013, 11:41am PDT NEW
                            Again comparing some 12 year olds sending death threats with Phil Fish! by Worm 08/24/2013, 6:24pm PDT NEW
                                I forgot the end of that post! by Worm 08/24/2013, 6:40pm PDT NEW
                                    Anonymous QA guy says he's sick of the hate from gamers by WITTGENSTEIN 01/14/2014, 2:18pm PST NEW
                                        Re: Anonymous QA guy says he's sick of the hate from gamers by Jrdano Cable 01/14/2014, 4:35pm PST NEW
                            For years the game industry has said virtual violence doesn't mean anything by skip 01/14/2014, 7:50pm PST NEW
                                For years the game industry has said virtual violence doesn't mean anything by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/15/2014, 11:04am PST NEW
                                    Oh, and here is how to fix it. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/15/2014, 11:35am PST NEW
                                    That guy from polygon blocked me. I couldn't RT his old post about simcity :( NT by WITTGENSTEIN 01/15/2014, 12:24pm PST NEW
                                        Polygon by John Gulp 01/15/2014, 12:41pm PST NEW
                                            Hello! Don't be scared by all the "Fags" and such in the subject lines here! NT by We're straight. Mostly. 01/15/2014, 4:43pm PST NEW
                                                There's nothing more pathetic than a self-hating closet fag. NT by Mischief Maker 01/15/2014, 5:20pm PST NEW
                                                    I'm homosexual and I don't mind. NT by John Gulp 01/15/2014, 10:37pm PST NEW
                                                        HOT NT by longtime lurker 01/15/2014, 11:35pm PST NEW
                                                            Homowatch NT by Eurotrash 01/16/2014, 1:46pm PST NEW
                                    Come on, gramps, TWTR already IPO'ed by blackwater 01/16/2014, 11:59pm PST NEW
    I think Hammerwatch is okay. Worth the $2.50 or whatever it was on sale for. by Last 01/15/2014, 12:20pm PST NEW
        Gauntlet sucks by Mischief Maker 01/17/2014, 2:34pm PST NEW
            Don't go in for Mercenary Kings then by Lurker 410942 02/24/2014, 10:02pm PST NEW
        That Gauntlet remake is already on sale. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/05/2014, 9:18am PST NEW
 
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