Twitter kastar ut ett av sina värsta troll

Twitter har bannlyst ett av de värsta trollen inom den sociala tjänsten, den konservative skribenten Milo Yiannopoulos som ett direkt svar på en kampanj som riktats mot skådespelaren Leslie Jones, känd från Saturday Night Live och den nyligen lanserade filmen Ghostbusters.

Milo Yiannopoulos har tidigare brutit mot Twitters regler och när reglerna skärptes nyligen så ser det ut som att Twitter fått nog och kastar ut ett av de värsta trollen som huserat på tjänsten i flera år. I ett uttalande till recode säger Twitter:

People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Over the past 48 hours in particular, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts, ranging from warnings that also require the deletion of Tweets violating our policies to permanent suspension. 

We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behavior on Twitter. We agree. We are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to better allow us to identify and take faster action on abuse as it’s happening and prevent repeat offenders. We have been in the process of reviewing our hateful conduct policy to prohibit additional types of abusive behavior and allow more types of reporting, with the goal of reducing the burden on the person being targeted. We’ll provide more details on those changes in the coming weeks.

Milo Yiannopoulos nämns inte i uttalandet specifikt men det är Twitters svar på frågor rörande hans avstängning.