On Wednesday (March 11), the site updated its abuse policy and terms of service to explicitly state: “You may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject’s consent.”
Tweeps who violate this will have their accounts locked until they delete the content, and repeat offenders will be suspended from the site. For revenge porn, Twitter will remove reported posts if the person complaining can verify that it’s him or her in the photo.
The move comes just weeks after Reddit said it would be changing its own policies to crack down on nude and explicit photos. Many people applauded that decision, especially after last year’s "The Fappening" fiasco, when a 4Chan poster hacked into celebs’ iCloud accounts and posted their nude photos on the site.
Twitter has been criticized in the past for not doing enough to combat online harassment and cyberbullying, so this is definitely an important and overdue step.
The victim has to first see the content, then report it to Twitter, prove that it’s them, and then wait for it to be taken down, it’ll still be virtually impossible to stop persistent trolls who could simply keep making more accounts.
Well, this is definitely a step in the right direction for Twitter, and hopefully we’ll soon see cleaner timelines. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
