A day after Women Boycott Twitter trended across the world on social media, the micro blogging site’s CEO Jack Dorsey put out a series of tweets regarding abuse and how Twitter plans on tackling it in future.
The threat that comprises eight tweets said, “We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We’ve been working to counteract this for the past 2 years. We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn’t enough. In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress. Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re *still* not doing enough. We’ve been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions. We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week. (sic),” he tweeted.
In addition, Dorsey also added that the Twitter team is also reconsidering its verification procedure i.e. putting out a blue tick. He, however, said that it’s not as high a priority as enforcing rules on trolls and people putting out abusive tweets, it’s there on the company’s guidelines.
Twitter has been at the centre of a massive boycott campaign which started after the popular social media site suspended Hollywood actress Rose McGowan's account.
McGowab's account was shut down following her comments about the Harvey Weinstein controversy.
Every now and then, women on Twitter are subjected to vile abuses that forces them to either make their accounts private or delete their accounts. As history suggests, women have always been the victims of oppression.
So now when Twitter shuts down McGowan to raise her voice against alleged rape, the Twitter users seems disappointed. In solidarity with the actress and for all those women who were victims of harassment and oppression, the Twitterati have started the protest via the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter.
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