Twitter rolling out new rules on hate speech, sexual harassment

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOHN BOWDEN - 10/14/17 10:14 AM EDT

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced late Friday that the social media platform will unveil a stronger set of rules against sexual harassment and threats of violence after women led by actress Rose McGowan and others boycotted the platform.

In a series of tweets, the Twitter CEO pledged to do more to ensure that women's voices are not silenced on the platform.

"We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years," Dorsey wrote. "We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them."

Dorsey added that the new policies, aimed at "tweets that glorify violence," "hate symbols" and sexual harassment would be subject to stricter enforcement in the coming weeks.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/355441-twitter-rolling-out-new-rules-on-hate-speech-sexual-harassment

[C_U_L8R]

1. Twitter is a cesspool

And they need to kick Trump, the pussygrabber and bigot in chief, the fuck off their platform...
along with his Russian bots and knuckledragging nazi trolls

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[Initech]

10. I'd like to see YouTube and iTunes follow suit.

They give Alex Jones, Breitbart, and other neo Nazis a free platform to spew their bile and garbage. And the comments being posted are just as disgusting if not worse. I'd like to see them enact stricter rules for this.

[democratisphere]

2. And the Russian and alt-right propoganda played on.

[George II]

4. Does this mean they're cutting off trump's account?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Demand that every tRump violating tweet be held to account. . . . nt

[PSPS]

6. Empty words until they delete trump's account.

[eggplant]

9. They should be able to freeze it, but notdelete it.

It should all fall under the Presidential Records Act's preservation rules. People should be able to read that shit for all eternity.

[samnsara]

8. so i can still call trump a fucking orange blob of ocean phlegm?

[bucolic_frolic]

11. It's a marketplace of ideas

monopolists should be tethered a bit too

[orleans]

12. this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/arts/rose-mcgowan-twitter-weinstein.html