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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, is trying to implement some changes on the social media giant after today’s #womenboycotttwitter experience. The boycott was in response to the 12 hour ban of actress Rose McGowan after she violated the company’s terms by posting private phone numbers.
The timing of McGowan’s ban was extremely suspect, as it came hot on the heels of the public reports of Harvey Weinstein and his unconscionable alleged actions. The reinstatement of Rose’s account came with her posting a confirmation that yes, she was talking about Weinstein in her posts about being raped.
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918567880865628161
The boycott was called for by Rose’s fans and followers, calling themselves the #RoseArmy, and called for a 24 hour block of silence on twitter.
It seemed to work, though, as Dorsey has now posted this series of tweets in which he talks about a new “set of rules” the company hopes to put into effect:
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
Only time will tell if anything changes though. We’re hopeful it’ll get better before it gets worse.
