WEB These future measures would limit hateful content and sexual harassment online by removing posts and punishing their perpetrators more systematically .
The announced will of Twitter officials to put in place stricter rules to fight more effectively against harassment and hate messages seems to materialize. An e-mail sent on Tuesday in-house to the members of the committee responsible for these reflections so that they can express their opinion reveals the measures that could be taken in the weeks to come.
A warning message
In this message from Wired, Twitter's security policy manager says he now intends to match any "hate symbol" with a warning message. As Le Monde notes, a similar procedure is already in place for sensitive content. Sexual harassment via the social network is also in the sights.
While it may be unclear to those responsible to determine whether "unsolicited sexual advances" are really harassment, social network leaders want to make action possible on this type of content even if they are reported by a third party no one. Any posting of a message falling within the "non-consensual nudity" could be worth to its author to be "immediately and definitively" excluded from the platform. Previously, the tweet was first deleted and the user's account suspended temporarily before any other sanction.
The Weinstein case in the background
The study of these new anti-harassment policies follows a series of tweets posted this Friday by social network co-founder Jack Dorsey. He explained that he was aware of the limitations of the regulations so far put in place in this area at the same time that the testimonies of Internet users sexually harassed and assaulted multiplied on the background of Harvey Weinstein scandal. Suspicion of the actress Rose McGowan's account, which accused the rape producer, had shocked the web.
"We see voices all day silenced on Twitter. [...] We decided to be more aggressive in our rules and how to enforce them, "Jack Dorsey tweeted, also acknowledging that the measures put in place to deal with harassment" in the past two years " "Not enough".
SOURCE : 20minutes.fr