Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In the beginning of 2017, Twitter said it would take on harassment and hate speech. CEO Jack Dorsey said the company would embrace a "completely new approach to abuse on Twitter" with open dialogue along the way. For months, though, the company has offered few details about what it would do, or when. That changed late yesterday, when Twitter posted a timeline with specific promises on actions it will take. The changes begin next week. On October 27, Twitter will expand what types of "non-consensual nudity" (aka "revenge porn") that it takes action against. The company will already act when a victim complains, but Twitter will soon act even in cases where the victims may not be aware images were taken, instances like upskirt photos and hidden webcams. "Anyone we identify as the original poster of non-consensual nudity will be suspended immediately," the October entry reads. On November 3, Twitter will ban hate imagery in profile headers and avatars, and the service will start suspending accounts "for organizations that use violence to advance their cause." The same day it will institute a policy of stopping "Unwanted Sexual Advances," although the company says it has already been taking enforcement actions on this front. Later in November, Twitter will ban "hateful display names."

Comments

Re:"violence to advance their cause"

[MightyMartian]

The English-speaking world spent six long years beating the living fuck out of every Nazi we could get our hands. Nazis need good beatings, it seems to be the only thing that finally gets them to settle down.

Re:"violence to advance their cause"

[PopeRatzo]

Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.

Naw, man. It's easy to tell the Nazis from Antifa. The Nazis are the ones with swastikas, throwing up the Hitler salute and talking about a "white ethnostate".

You can also tell the Nazis because they are the ones getting punched while everyone (except the Nazis) cheers. Nazis are also the ones saying, "Antifa are the real Nazis". Don't try to change history.

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Re:"violence to advance their cause"

[PopeRatzo]

really? I just see two sides of the same shit-eating coin.

That is correct. One side of the coin has a Nazi on it, and the other side of the coin kicks the Nazi's ass. It's not pretty, and it's not politically correct, but in the war against fascism, Antifa are the first responders.