Twitter is too laconic when it comes to reports of threats against journalists on social media, a majority of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, said during a debate on press freedom. Parliamentarians are annoyed that the social media company has rejected the Cabinet’s attempts to discuss this and want to increase the pressure.
Twitter must immediately take action against violent messages shared by the social media site’s users which target members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, said Vera Bergkamp. The Tweede Kamer chair wrote a letter to Twitter about the matter, and published it on her own Twitter profile on Wednesday. In the letter, she specifically referenced tweets “showing videos and/or images containing (death) threats and calls for violence and even murder.” She continued to state, “These are probably punishable under Dutch criminal law.”
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