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The BBC reports:
Twitter has widened what constitutes hateful and harmful behaviour on its platform, and says it will begin enforcing stricter rules concerning it. Information contained in a person’s profile, regardless of what they actually tweet, will now be considered.
Those who express an affiliation with groups that use or celebrate violence to achieve their aims will be permanently suspended, Twitter said.
Hateful imagery – such as the Nazi swastika – will now be hidden. A “sensitive media” prompt will be shown to users before they can opt to view it.
But such content will no longer be allowed on a person’s profile page, and users will be asked to remove it. Repeat violators will be banned.
More from Recode:
For Twitter, the two new restrictions are attempts to combat rampant harassment and abuse on the site.
Users affiliated with the alt-right or neo-Nazi movements in particular have seized on the company’s notoriously lax oversight to stoke racial tensions, peddle false news reports and attack their critics, including Democrats. Earlier this year, they organized a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia with the aid of the platform.
To that end, the December 18 enforcement deadline left some of Twitter’s right-leaning users this weekend fearing a full, messy “purge.” Some said they’d be shifting to Gab, an alt-right friendly social media site, and encouraged their supporters to do the same.
Already suspended or banned this morning is white supremacist Jared Taylor.
We’ve updated our rules around abuse and hateful conduct as well as violence and physical harm. These changes will be enforced starting December 18. Read our updated rules here: https://t.co/NGVT3qGFvg
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) November 17, 2017