re: #36 Charles Johnson

7/ New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.

Maybe I’m being a pedantic ass but dude has 280 characters and can’t think to include the racist and religiously intolerant ideology that underlie hate symbols. White nationalist groups have been making a mockery of the various loopholes within Twitter’s “rules” for a decade precisely because of the libertarian ethos so endemic within the Silicon Valley mindset. Twitter doesn’t have a substantial violence problem that’s independent of the rampant racism and misogyny so when I hear language like that I can tell it’s both intended to imply there’s some balance on “both sides” and for political purposes will be applied in such a way as to manufacture that balance of perception.