{"id":362172,"date":"2017-10-16T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362172"},"modified":"2017-10-16T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:56:57","slug":"twitters-co-founder-vows-to-change-anti-harassment-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/twitters-co-founder-vows-to-change-anti-harassment-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter’s co founder vows to change anti-harassment policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Dorsey got the message. Probably.<\/p>\n

All day Friday, many women refused to tweet in protest of Twitter’s decision to\u00a0suspend actress Rose McGowan’s account\u00a0as she spoke out against Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Late Friday night, Dorsey \u2014 Twitter’s co-founder and CEO \u2014 responded to the\u00a0#WomenBoycottTwitter\u00a0movement. Protesters compared the company’s enforcement of a 12-hour suspension after McGowan\u00a0tweeted a private phone number\u00a0to Twitter’s ongoing failure to police racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist harassment.<\/p>\n

In an eight-tweet thread, Dorsey promised some “critical” changes to Twitter’s anti-harassment tools and policies, to be announced next week.<\/p>\n

“We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We\u2019ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years,” Dorsey tweeted in a thread. “We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn\u2019t enough. In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress.”<\/p>\n

“Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we\u2019re *still* not doing enough,” he continued. “We\u2019ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions. We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.”<\/p>\n

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1\/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We\u2019ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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3\/ In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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5\/ We\u2019ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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7\/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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8\/ These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.<\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dorsey didn’t get into any specifics beyond the areas he promised to address \u2014 “unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence” \u2014- and the promise to share more in the coming week.<\/p>\n

Twitter has\u00a0pledged to make improvements\u00a0when it comes to stopping harassment on its platform before with, as Dorsey hinted, little result. As many people\u00a0noted, the women and people of color protesting harassment on Twitter before now weren’t celebrities.<\/p>\n

McGowan had a helpful suggestion for the Twitter CEO on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

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@jack\u00a0start by immediately removing RICHARD SPENCER\u2019S VERIFICATION. I heard you have some power in these matters.\u00a0#WOC\u00a0#POC\u00a0#NONAZIS<\/p>\n

\u2014 rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan)\u00a0October 14, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The #WomenBoycottTwitter movement received criticism from many for its tactics\u2014is silence the best form of protest?\u2014and its focus. McGowan, a white woman, prompted a boycott while women of color who have been subject to unfair enforcement from Twitter or harassment on the platform\u00a0haven’t received similar outpourings of support.<\/p>\n

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Calling white women allies to recognize conflict of\u00a0#WomenBoycottTwitter\u00a0for women of color who haven’t received support on similar issues.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ava DuVernay (@ava)\u00a0October 13, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dorsey responded to both groups in his reference to “voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out.”<\/p>\n

As Dorsey promised, more to share next week.<\/p>\n

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Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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