Forget new research on Nazis — Twitter should just enforce its existing ban
From time to time, Twitter thinks about things. And then it goes on thinking about them for a very long time.
It thought about killing off third-party applications for six years, and when it finally decided to act, only went halfway through with it.
It thought about banning Alex Jones, and then decided not to, and then held a meeting where it debated the nature of “dehumanizing speech,” and then banned Alex Jones, and then asked users for their input.
It thought about changing “the core of how Twitter works,” and discussed this idea on podcasts for the better part of last summer, and then released a beta app that threads replies. (Presumably the core-rethinking continues.)
Anyway, today came the news that Twitter is thinking about…
