Twitter vows to take a more aggressive approach to unwanted sexual advances, abuse and more
Jack Dorsey has promised that Twitter will take a more aggressive stance in applying its rules. The announcement came after the #WomenBoycottTwitter protest was used to draw attention to women being silenced.
The Twitter CEO also said that new rules will be introduced to try to counter "unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence."
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Dorsey has not given any details about exactly what form the new rules will take, explaining that more information will be given this week. He promises that the new rules will roll out over the coming weeks as Twitter faces increasing criticism for the level of abuse that runs rife on the platform. While the issue has been forced into the spotlight by the #WomenBoycottTwitter protest, it's a problem for other groups using Twitter as well.
Writing on Twitter, Dorsey said:
2/ We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
4/ Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
6/ We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
8/ These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
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