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."

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Re:Promoting the leftist agenda

[AmiMoJo]

Gab probably can't open up too much because then the lawsuits would start to fly. Being indexed by search engines and widely linked has that effect if you don't moderate your content.

Gab isn't safe anyway. The reason Milo for banned from Twitter and many speaking events is that he sets mobs on people and outs them against their will.

Re:"violence to advance their cause"

[Mashiki]

"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders".

Hmm...that doesn't seem to be the case, hell the original antifa which they'll claim they're based off of had leaders and even openly supported communism. You find an antifa in the street and you can bet that they'll be hoping for a commie revolution along the way. The difference between a nazi and antifa are the side of the coin they're on, that's it. They both had leaders, they both have an ideology.

Antifa just happens to be engaging in the tactics that caused the same problem as last time. Namely violently assaulting anyone who doesn't bow and scrape to them.

I will agree that the vast majority of antifa accounts are there to troll. But what I find interesting is the number of communist LARPers that openly support them as well, and have a long history of supporting these tactics to "overthrow western society" and so on.