A Twitter user in Japan has been banned from using the social networking site for making a death threat against a mosquito.
According to BBC, it started on 20 August when the twitter user, @nemuismywife was repeatedly bitten by a mosquito as he was watching TV.
After killing the mosquito, he tweeted:
“Where do you get off biting me all over while I’m just trying to relax and watch TV? Die! (Actually you’re already dead).”
ome time later he received a message from Twitter saying his account had been frozen and cannot be reactivated.
He set up a new Twitter account, @DaydreamMatcha, to criticise Twitter’s decision.
He shared a picture of the dead mosquito and tweeted:
“My previous account was permanently frozen after I said I killed a mosquito. Is this a violation?”
His angry tweet was retweeted more than 31,000 times and liked more than 27,000 Twitter users:
Twitter has rolled out a number of new measures and tools to curb online abuse and harassment on its platform.
Some reports claimed the tweet was flagged by an automated programme and not by a human moderator.
US business magazine Fortune reported that Twitter launched an algorithm to detect abusive behaviour by looking and picking up key offensive words.
BBC
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