Twitter’s CEO announced that new rules will be coming for the social media giant following a day-long boycott by women.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., responded to the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement in a series of tweets on Friday, announcing that the company will ‘take a more aggressive stance” in its rules and how they are enforced.
Twitter came under fire Thursday after actress Rose McGowan’s account was temporarily suspended for violating the site’s terms and conditions. McGowan has been very vocal in condemning Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment and calling out others for their silence. Twitter’s suspension of her account prompted a one-day boycott of the site  in solidarity with the actress and other victims of sexual harassment.
Dorsey told Twitter users and his over 4 million followers that the company would be “making some critical decisions” and that new rules are forthcoming on “unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.”
1/ We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
2/ We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
3/ In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
4/ Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
5/ We’ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
6/ We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
8/ These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week.
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
Responses to Dorsey’s words came in swiftly with some commending that the problem was acknowledged and many others offering advice, opinions and plenty of criticism that Twitter was only making things worse by announcing more censorship.
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You’ve screwed over thousands of lives with empty promises and incompetence, @jack. Get it right and get serious or get out. Stop promising. https://t.co/Rzhp7CwMSe
— Chuq Von Rospach (@chuq) October 14, 2017
When you all suspend someone you need to TELL WHY! None of us understand WHY! It’s like being arrested for “breaking a law.” WHICH LAW?
— Judy CONSERVATIVE (@jstines3) October 14, 2017
Translation: if you are a conservative, defend the #2A or #1A, question the sanity of liberalism, etc… you’ll be censored further.
— Deplorable?Covfefe (@AnnKelly007) October 14, 2017
.@jack, if you don’t create an algorithm to get rid of bots, which we know you can do, this literally won’t change anything.
— Brad Ripka (@bradripka) October 14, 2017
You need to stop “prioritizing” and “rolling things out” and “reconsidering”. You just need to ACT. Employ people locally with common sense.
— Philip King (@philip_king) October 14, 2017
We want to amplify the former and diminish the latter
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2017
Honest question: why did it take this long to start making changes like these?
— MattyScream (@MatthiasBe) October 14, 2017
I’d like to see you do something about the blue check libs who call ppl vile names & threaten to kill POTUS. Blue checks need accountability
— Mel ?? ? (@ImJustAMel) October 14, 2017
Thank you, Jack. Twitter is an important place and the line between free speech and abuse can be blurry. I appreciate your efforts.
— elan gale (@theyearofelan) October 14, 2017
Quit it with the censorship. If something offends you, use your block button and move on.
— Oppressive Shitlord (@NFLisAntiWhite) October 14, 2017
Twitter should be pro free speech. End of story.
Just allow people more options to block things/ppl they don’t like.
— Liz (@SaveWest1) October 14, 2017
There is literally nothing you’re doing that isn’t making things ludicrously worse, is there?
— CC (@canadiancynic) October 14, 2017
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