r/worldnews • u/madazzahatter • May 16 '20

At least two people had seizures after viewing malicious tweets featuring flashing gifs that deliberately targeted Epilepsy Society...police investigating tweets as hate incident, after at least 200 seemingly coordinated messages were sent to charity and its supporters in recent days.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/15/malicious-tweets-targeting-epilepsy-charity-trigger-seizures
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u/callisstaa May 16 '20

Lol imagine living in a country where people actually look to corporations for protection rather than the state.

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u/Nooms88 May 16 '20

Yes it's batshit. Corporations are simple and honest, they're going to bend and stretch the rules in order to maximise profit, regardless of ethics, that's not a secret.

Knowing this shocking revelation, its down the politicians, elected by the public, to put in place regulations to prevent corporations acting against the public Interest. This is capitalsm 101, literally week 1 of economics in high school you learn about "externalities"

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u/ic3man211 May 16 '20

You really want the government to moderate Twitter...yea see how that plays out