"You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people. This includes, but is not limited to, threatening or promoting terrorism."
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By Web Desk | January 29, 2018
A journalist on Monday tweeted, without naming them directly, that "they" need to be "killed" before "they kill us". Although interpretations of the tweet may differ from person to person, many saw it as a tweet advocating violence against members of a particular community -- Muslims -- and called it genocidal in its intent. Many also reported the tweet as well as the account as abusive or advocating violence. However, Twitter doesn't find anything wrong with the tweet and replied to many saying that the tweet advocating murder of people doesn't violate its rules.
Update: Twitter briefly suspended the account of the journalist -- Jagrati Shukla -- for a few hours before restoring it. It seems that someone within the company, probably in the US because the account was suspended early morning on Tuesday, decided that the tweet in question was indeed objectionable. However, this was followed by someone else in India deciding that it was not and by 11am, the account was fully restored. Although her tweet was deleted.
In its response to complaint, Twitter notified users. It said, "We have investigated the reported content and could not identify any violations of the Twitter rules or applicable laws."
The tweet was made from a profile that is verified and it is possible that because of the popularity of the account, Twitter decided that exhortations to kill people was probably alright to tweet from this particular account.
The tweet was made by Jagrati Shukla, who calls herself a journalist. She later tweeted the reply that people were getting from Twitter after her tweet was reported. She said, "Sanity Prevails! This is Twitter's Response to objections on my Tweet on combatting Terrorists and ensuring our Security, which is being mass reported by Pseudos. Aj toh Bahut logo ki Jalne wali hai, so go grab your #Burnol before stocks run out. Let the ........Burn."
Earlier in the day she had tweeted that "they" -- alleged to be Muslims in India -- were terrorising us and that "they" needed to be killed. The tweet sparked outrage on Twitter, with some slamming it while many defending it.
Twitter has a mechanism that allows users to report an objectionable tweet. However, the company has repeatedly come under fire for not doing enough to curb abuse on its platform. With pressure on Twitter increasing, it has started taking objectionable tweets seriously in the US but it seems that in the rest of the world, including in India, it still allows people to call for genocides and violence against communities.
In its rule book, Twitter says that it doesn't want its users to make abusive tweets or threaten other users. In its rules, Twitter says: "You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people. This includes, but is not limited to, threatening or promoting terrorism."
However, Twitter's response to the tweet reported today means that tweets that threaten a group of people and say that "Always Carry Lethal Weapons, KILL them, before they KILL us" may not fall under Twitter's definition objectionable content.
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