Twitter has expanded its policy against hate speech to cover language that “dehumanizes people” based on race and nationality — the latest step to interdict what social platforms see as a rising problem both on and offline.
The popular social platform announced the change on Wednesday. It’s Twitter’s most recent effort to block hateful content that civil and human rights advocates have denounced for years. The platform last modified its hate speech policy nine months ago.
“Today, we are further expanding our hateful conduct policy to prohibit language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin,” Twitter wrote in a blog post.
“We will also continue to surface potentially violative content through proactive detection and automation. If an account repeatedly breaks the Twitter rules, we may temporarily lock or suspend the account.”
Twitter updated its policy in July 2019 to bar content that dehumanizes on the basis of religion or caste, and again in March to ban language that dehumanizes based on age, disability or disease.
“We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within,” the blog post added. “Our primary focus is on addressing the risks of offline harm, and research shows that dehumanizing language increases that risk.
“With each update to this policy, we’ve sought to expand our understanding of cultural nuances and ensure we are able to enforce our rules consistently. We’ve benefited from feedback from various communities and cultures who use Twitter around the globe.”
Facebook said two months ago it would begin targeting groups that spread misinformation and violate rules against hate speech, “organized” hate and violence and criminal activity. The company said at the time it had removed about about 12 million postings in the previous year that violated the rules.
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Hey Jack Dorsey, when Iran yells death to America and death to Israel, why is this not banned on Twitter? Should I say more Jack Dorsey??????
Cause “IRAN” has more freedom of speech rights, than do americans it seems.
What dehumanizes people is wearing enough animal hair on your face to look like a caveman, and acting like a snake in the garden of Eden who encouraged people to only eat of the tainted fruit of your knowledge who promises they will then become as God, again turning free-thinking people and nations into planets of the naked apes who took over when high technology previously destroyed their worlds, by people who bought into the secular religion of socialism ruled by fallible men of appetites for power to glorify themselves rather than their Creator. Your monopolies on truth and information is about to be destroyed, but not to worry, you and the politicians you enriched will probably walk away rich and unpunished as usual devils do, leaving havoc in your arrogant wake. Just who do you think you are to define what the realities of this American world are, what a caste or religion is, what dehumanizes and what enlightens the American souls of this nation. Who elected YOU the arbitrator and ENFORCER of American truth as you attempt to expand your understanding of cultural nuances which destroy our American culture at every opportunity, a culture that previously to your company’s arrogant evil inception, took the best and brightest ideas and incorporated them into freedom of speech and opportunity, unlike your speech restricting selection of American winners and losers, based on you false sense of self-importance, soon to be exposed for the fraud that it is. If you hated evil as much as you love your power ,not to persuade but control, you might get back on the right track,
TWITTER IS CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.
is that clear?
More and more, i would LOVE to see an asteroid fly in out of nowhere, and LEVEL THE ENTIRE Twitter HQ, while he was inside it…
“….the latest step to interdict what social platforms see as a rising problem both on and offline.”
It’s nothing that noble. They are simply stifling any intellectual arguments to their ideology and legal arguments to their illegal activities.
And by the way, the Left has always maintained that you cannot legislate morality. Here they display a sick but strict moral code that all must follow…. or else.
They can’t legislate morality but they can immorally steal the election and the legislature.
He really does resemble a devil.
One thing that Pres. Trump has managed to do (and he has done a lot) is force the Left to drop their masks and reveal who they really are. They are nothing at all like their “Like to Teach the World to sing” love all, peace, elite, superior …whatever, etc. They are hateful, self-centered without commonsense, do as I think, believe what I believe, like what I like or else.
Pity it seems, MILLIONS of americans don’t CARE that their masks are off.. CAUSE THEY SEEM TO prefer it!
Looks more like the nutty Unabomber to me, just more sinister & dangerously afflicted with a Messiah complex.
This psychosis is common among billionaires like Soros & Dorsey who want to rule the world by force but think it could be cured by attacking their ability to make or keep money by using their own tactics including boycotts, harassment & paying people to make salacious claims, question their sanity & to publicly mob them & their associates & protest at their homes, businesses & orgs.
However it’s accomplished, I know that no money = no power.
It’s time for the tyrants to experience some “tit-for-tat & turning the tables” to see how they like it.
Twitter has expanded its policy against hate speech to cover language that “dehumanizes people” based on race and nationality
But attacking Conservatives and Christians is still fine, and even encouraged.
That said, why decent Americans are still on there is hard to understand.
They’re addicted?? That’s the only thing i can think of.
So let me get this straight, names will never hurt me part of sticks and stones may break my bones, has been determined to be more harmful to snowflakes and the extremely easily offended, by this self appointed speech dictator, than the sticks or the stones? Gee, if they can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, don’t read the posts, better yet, get a life, unplug the device.
The First Amendment is a precious and essential element for freedom in America.
Thus, let the raving lunatics rant on. People will soon learn to just ignore their trash-talk.
Let the outspoken communists argue the “benefits” of that godless atrocity. But also allow rebuttal.
When EVERYONE has a forum from which to speak / write / communicate, there is no excuse for any form of censorship of the TRUTH, no matter that it is not “politically correct.” This is the Truth about opposing political ideas. This is the Truth about opposing economic plans. This is the Truth concerning the unfiltered proclamation of the Truth by the God-man, Jesus Christ; who is the Truth and the Way and the Life.
Again, let EVERYONE have their say. Let EVERYONE freely agree or disagree. Let the liars be revealed for what they are. Let those who tell the truth be appreciated and believed.
Censorship is the problem. Truth is the solution.
Hey Jack I don’t want to dehumanize you but man you are one scary dude !
Good day fellas!