Twitter on Tuesday announced it will begin removing tweets that feature “dehumanizing” language toward religious groups, marking the company’s latest effort to combat the scourge of harassment and bigoted content that has plagued its platform for years.
In a blog post, Twitter announced that it has updated its rules against “hateful conduct,” saying the tweak is the result of extensive conversations with experts and the public.
Twitter offered an array of tweets that would be removed under the new policy, including one that says, “We need to exterminate the rats. The [Religious group] are disgusting.”
Another example reads, “[Religious group] are viruses. They’re making this country sick.”
Twitter has hinted at a potential policy against “dehumanization” for months, saying that framework can help it weed out hateful content that does not necessarily include threats of violence or explicit slurs.
Twitter on Tuesday said that it is planning to expand the dehumanization policy to other marginalized groups at some point but is working to address ongoing questions before that happens.
The company is looking into how it can distinguish when marginalized groups are using “reclaimed terminology” and how its policy could define groups that are “historically marginalized,” according to the post.
Muslim Advocates, one of the top tech critics focused on online hate, called Twitter’s policy update “a very positive step in the right direction” in a statement on Tuesday.
Full story at The Hill.
I know a certain president who is going to need a new hobby soon!
The problem is with today’s society– since the filthy, rebellious 1960s– too many people have neither manners nor morals– and too many kids are raised to be extremely egotistical, selfish, foul- mouhted, immoral, and disrespectful!! Way “too big for their britches!” “Little Napoleons”– who think they can “do as they please”– and never outgrow toddlerhood! Everything from a mature grown-up is always answered: “NO!!”
Good for Twitter!
Regretfully, I suspect they’ll change their rules once Islam becomes mainstream.
you mean hobby as in decorating his
new $15 million dollar house on Martha’s Vineyard?
a simple man-of-the-people kind of hobby ??
So is this for all religious groups, or just certain “protected” ones? Because it seems to me like only one religion is being protected, and it’s definitely not Christian!