The New Twitter Update Addresses Hate Speech
TWITTER BANS – The text sharing platform updates their policies again to control posts that contain hateful messages towards religious groups.
With the free social networking platforms operating, many ill-mannered people have taken advantage of its reach to attack others. On Twitter, users can freely share text posts called “tweets” and some users do it to verbally attack other users.
Recently, Twitter announced that they might slap warning labels on tweets made by world leaders that appear to be abusive towards others.
As hate speech seem to continue appearing on Twitter feeds, the social media networking company decided to update their policies.
They decided to impose the rule to ban posts that attack religious groups, like posts comparing them to rats, viruses or maggots and other derogatory remarks.
Twitter said that with its implication, the rules would eventually cover more groups.
However, when consulting the public regarding the new rules, most still wanted to use derogatory language to scrutinize hate groups and political organizations.
The dilemma between giving users the the freedom to express and protect them from verbal attack has been a struggle for tech firms.
Twitter considering all factors, revealed that it took them “months of conversation” to finally come up with a decision about the policy.
They also revealed their main objective with a statement in a blog, which read:
“Our primary focus is on addressing the risks of offline harm and research shows that dehumanizing language increases that risk.”
This is according to an article from BBC News.
Offenders of the newly-imposed rules might have their accounts banned.
In another news, Instagram also took action in addressing online bullying by putting up the question “Are you sure you want to post this?” if it detects the contents and finds it to be abusive.
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.
