{"id":83625,"date":"2019-07-11T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83625"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:15:35","slug":"techcrunch-twitter-updates-hate-speech-rules-to-include-dehumanizing-speech-around-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83625","title":{"rendered":"(Techcrunch) Twitter updates hate speech rules to include dehumanizing speech around religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Against a backdrop of rising violence against religious minorities around the world, <a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"twitter\">Twitter <\/a> today said that it would update its hateful conduct rules to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter months of conversations and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2018\/Creating-new-policies-together.html\">feedback<\/a> from the public, external experts and our own teams, we\u2019re expanding our rules against <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rules\">hateful conduct <\/a>to include language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2019\/hatefulconductupdate.html\">wrote on its Twitter Safety blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will require tweets that target specific religious groups to be removed as violations of the company\u2019s code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/07\/09\/twitter-updates-hate-speech-rules-to-include-dehumanizing-speech-around-religion\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter updates hate speech rules to include dehumanizing speech around religion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lfu81laa01\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lfu81laa01<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jshieber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jshieber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zl4yj9DpYt\">pic.twitter.com\/Zl4yj9DpYt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechCrunch\/status\/1148691701063651328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against a backdrop of rising violence against religious minorities around the world, Twitter today said that it would update its hateful conduct rules to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups. \u201cAfter months of conversations and feedback from the public, external<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83625\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,94,582,589,149,168,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83628,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83625\/revisions\/83628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}