Elon Musk suspends Twitter user who created pedophile flag
Elon Musk has suspended a Twitter user who created a “youth attracted person” flag to support pedophiles.
The billionaire’s tech CEO shut down the account – under the username Pot Luck Pony – and condemned it in a tweet.
The account, which had no recognizable name associated with it, had previously posted the blue, white, pink, and yellow flag on their timeline.
They claimed it was for “Alice Day,” which is a sick, pseudo-holiday invented by some to celebrate pedophilia.
The account posted on Tuesday: “Happy Alice Day, to those who celebrate! I thought why not use today to unveil the YAP (Youth Attracted Person) pride flag I designed almost a year ago?
‘I wanted to deviate from the often used horizontal bar motif, but just a little. I wanted to stay a little familiar.’
The account (pictured) that had no recognizable name associated with it had posted the blue, white, pink, and yellow flag on their timeline. They claimed it was for “Alice Day,” which is a sick, pseudo-holiday invented by some to celebrate pedophilia
Less than a day later, Musk kicked the person off the social media site and condemned the tweet.
He wrote “not tolerated on this platform” in response to a post by Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis.
Dr. Loupis, who claims to be a doctor, had posted: “Elon Musk has suspended the person who made a pedophile flag. Well done, Elon.’
She also later replied to Musk, saying, “Thank you dear Elon. You are doing great things for humanity.”
Twitter cut its child sexual abuse team in half in December after acquiring the social media giant in October.
Musk kicked the user off the site and tweeted Wednesday afternoon: ‘Not tolerated on this platform’
Bloomberg reported late last year that the number of people hunting these accounts had dropped from 20 to just 10.
Meanwhile, only one person is reportedly responsible for monitoring content posted throughout the Asia-Pacific division.
Dr. Mellissa Withers, of the University of Southern California, told Forbes at the time, “In this digital age, child trafficking and exploitation are much more widespread and more difficult to address.
“Criminals have gotten smarter in ways to avoid detection over the internet. It is much easier to exploit children today than it was twenty years ago.’
Last month, Musk dismissed claims in a BBC report that his website had become rampant over child sexual exploitation.
In a post on the site, he sarcastically apologized for “turning Twitter from a nurturing paradise to a place of… trolls.”
He added ‘(genuine article from an organization calling themselves the BBC)’ and replied to another user who said ‘have to admit trolls are kind of fun’.
Elon Musk Suspended a Twitter User Who Created a ‘Youth Attracted Person’ Flag to Support Pedophiles
Twitter insiders previously told the BBC that the company was unable to protect users from ‘trolls’ following recent layoffs.
They said new changes and features made it difficult to protect Twitter users from trolls and harassment.
This was supported by ‘exclusive academic data’ provided to the BBC, which found that misogynistic hate speech increased on the site and there was a 69 per cent increase in new accounts following misogynistic or abusive profiles.
The BBC Panorama report quoted figures from the think tank Institute for Strategic Dialogue which showed that tens of thousands of new accounts have popped up immediately following known abusive and misogynistic profiles since Musk took over.
The numbers were 69 percent higher than before he was in charge, indicating a “permissive environment,” the report claimed.
The BBC quoted Lisa Jennings Young, a former head of content design at Twitter, as saying that before the acquisition, the platform was trying to crack down on trolling that was rampant on Twitter.
“It wasn’t perfect at all. But we tried, and we kept making things better,” she said.
She said everyone on her team, who had security measures in place to protect users from hate, had been fired.
Young said one of her team’s most successful features was the “harmful reply nudge,” which alerted users to posting malicious content — without actually preventing them from posting.
Using AI technology to detect harmful language, the ‘nudge’ warns users before tweeting, deterring many people from writing offensive messages.
At the end of February, Twitter laid off another 200 employees, about 10 percent of its remaining workforce, in its latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over last October.
The layoffs reduced Twitter’s workforce to less than 2,000 — a sharp drop from the 7,500 employed when the billionaire first took over.
A day later, Musk tweeted, “Hope you’re having a good Sunday. First day of the rest of your life.’