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Twitter's new rules: An attempt to #StopHarassment
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 4.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, politeness, threat, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is taking steps to address the harrassment happening on their platform. They are planning to temporarily lock or permanently suspend accounts of users who use violent or hateful language. This is meant to target mainly terrorist organizations but some say that it would unjustly target republicans because negative statements about a minority group could be misconstrued as hateful. Twitter has faced criticism before about censoring republicans more than librerals.
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Twitter, eyeing trolls, provides a mute feature
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.11.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is working out a new way to adress harassment on their platform. Twitter has shied away from censorship in the past to protect free speech but now they are taking a stance against language of violence. Users can now choose not to see certain words or emojis and they can report people who harass them or other people on Twitter. So far, there have however not always been sufficient repercussions against reported users because Twitter's staff are not necessarily fully competent to understand why something is hurtful in a specific culture or context. They are working on schooling their staff.
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