Friday, 27 October 2017

Twitter's decision to ban ads from a Russian broadcaster could backfire

Earlier this month, Twitter temporarily suspended the account of actress Rose McGowan after she denounced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for sexual harassment and assault. McGowan, who is among Weinstein’s accusers, had posted a private phone number to the service. In response, Twitter restricted McGowan’s access to her account. Thousands of users protested, complaining that after they experienced harassment on the platform, their reports went unanswered.

Twitter relented, restoring McGowan’s account access ahead of schedule. And not for the first time, the world scratched its head. What are Twitter’s actual policies, and how does it choose when enforce them?

It’s barely two weeks later, and here we are again. Days ahead of its scheduled...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16560012/twitter-rt-ad-ban-policy-congress

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/10/twitters-decision-to-ban-ads-from.html

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