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Twitter Will Test Autoblocking Abuse

WATCH OUT, TROLLS

And ban all violence promotion.

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Twitter will broaden its punishment against abusive users, according to an update of the site’s rules of user conduct. Whereas before, only direct, specific threats were banned, any promotion of violence against others can now get a user suspended. Accounts may now also be suspended temporarily for a kind of “time out.” The company will also test automatically blocking tweets that match previous patterns of abuse, preventing posts from appearing in their targets’ feeds.

Read it at New York Times