There are problems both of the form of abuse within services, and use of services as an organising platform for abuse campaigns.
Reddit is host to some brilliant stuff. Reddit is also host to some terrible stuff. It semi-deliberately makes no delineation between the two beyond a thin figleaf of "NSFW". Some of the stuff behind NSFW is merely porn, some is a useful safe space for sex discussions, and some is well into the "cannot unsee" category. The "randNSFW" button is rather dangerous. Users aren't bounded either, so you have a lot of people with obscene usernames commenting in otherwise sensible subreddits. And posters themselves encourage cross-pollination. The "creepshots" people eventually got banned, but the only thing you really can't post anywhere on reddit is child porn. Racism is widespread.
Twitter is a brilliant platform for both entertainment and protests. However, it has very poor anti-abuse features, so users may be subjected to large volumes of abuse (Caroline Crialdo-Perez, for example) about which they can do little.
Hacker news prefers to flag "controvertial" topics off the front page, which at least causes arguments to be starved of pageviews and die down. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865
There are problems both of the form of abuse within services, and use of services as an organising platform for abuse campaigns.
Reddit is host to some brilliant stuff. Reddit is also host to some terrible stuff. It semi-deliberately makes no delineation between the two beyond a thin figleaf of "NSFW". Some of the stuff behind NSFW is merely porn, some is a useful safe space for sex discussions, and some is well into the "cannot unsee" category. The "randNSFW" button is rather dangerous. Users aren't bounded either, so you have a lot of people with obscene usernames commenting in otherwise sensible subreddits. And posters themselves encourage cross-pollination. The "creepshots" people eventually got banned, but the only thing you really can't post anywhere on reddit is child porn. Racism is widespread.
Twitter is a brilliant platform for both entertainment and protests. However, it has very poor anti-abuse features, so users may be subjected to large volumes of abuse (Caroline Crialdo-Perez, for example) about which they can do little.
Hacker news prefers to flag "controvertial" topics off the front page, which at least causes arguments to be starved of pageviews and die down. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865