New Changes In Twitter: Approach Against Cyber Bullying and Harrasment, Will This Be a Straightforward Solution?

By Mary Lourd - 17 Nov '16 07:20AM

Twitter's changes its policy to fight bullying, harassment, hate speech and trend of people taking advantage of that openness to be abusive to other users. Twitter is an online social networking service where users can create short tweets of about 140-character messages.

Twitter often censors trending hashtags that are abusive or offensive. Trending topics become popular either through a greater rate of the concerted effort by users, or by of an event that prompts people to talk about a specific topic, word, or phrase.

The challenge is keeping up enforcement or monitoring the abusive conduct because this social networking giant happens in public and in real time and another thing, unlike Facebook, users doesn't have to provide real names. So Twitter has to take its step and make a new approach to focus on the most crucial needs in controlling and reporting cases that threaten human dignity and hateful trending topics.

Twitter's hateful conduct policy helps reduce the burden of freedom of expression and it doesn't tolerate behavior that harasses, intimidates, uses fear to silence another person's voice, or targets people on the basis of ethnicity, race, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, or physical appearance of a person.

Mute is one of its features that allow the user to remove an account's Tweets from your timeline without blocking or unfollowing the account. To access the accounts that have been muted, visit muted accounts settings on twitter.com or on app settings on Twitter for iOS and Android.

This will improve the social networking giant's ability to process reports and helps reduce the burden on experiencing abusive behavior and strengthen the culture of collective support to human dignity. Thus, Twitter honors the role of the each user in protecting the right to speak freely but moderate to amplify virtues and respect the users' point of view.