Twitter has put President Donald Trump – and other world leaders – on notice with a clarification of its rules.
Twitter clarified its rules concerning powerful political leaders in a blog post on Tuesday, while never mentioning Donald Trump by name clearly CEO Jack Dorsey had the President in mind.
The new guidelines seem tame enough on the surface, but Twitter left open the potential for deplatforming the #Resistance’s favorite target.
While “direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules” at the moment, they can get a belligerent world leader’s tweets placed in a no-man’s-land where they cannot be replied to, liked, or shared, Twitter warned.
Twitter Clarifies Their Rules
Everything we do starts with an understanding of our purpose and of the service we provide: a place where people can participate in public conversation and get informed about the world around them.
We assess reported Tweets from world leaders against the Twitter Rules, which are designed to ensure people can participate in the public conversation freely and safely.
We focus on the language of reported Tweets and do not attempt to determine all potential interpretations of the content or its intent.
Presently, direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues are generally not in violation of the Twitter Rules.
However, if a Tweet from a world leader does violate the Twitter Rules but there is a clear public interest value to keeping the Tweet on the service, we may place it behind a notice that provides context about the violation and allows people to click through should they wish to see the content. We announced this in June.
Twitter Threatened Enforcement
We want to make it clear today that the accounts of world leaders are not above our policies entirely.
The below areas will result in enforcement action for any account on our service (without consideration of the potential public interest value in allowing the Tweet to remain visible behind a notice):
Promotion of terrorism;
Clear and direct threats of violence against an individual (context matters: as noted above, direct interactions with fellow public figures and/or commentary on political and foreign policy issues would likely not result in enforcement);
Posting private information, such as a home address or non-public personal phone number;
Posting or sharing intimate photos or videos of someone that were produced or distributed without their consent;
Engaging in behaviors relating to child sexual exploitation; and
Encouraging or promoting self-harm.
Twitter stated that as far as cases involving a world leader, they will err on the side of caution and leave the content up if there is a clear public interest in doing so.
While Twitter hasn't used its 'quarantine' option yet.
The social media giant seemed to be warning any potential tweet-happy world leaders out there that it’s on the table.
Not that @Jack had any particular leader in mind, or anything.
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