Forget new research on Nazis — Twitter should just enforce its existing ban | The Verge

Also see Twitter wants help deciding whether to keep white supremacists or not | MIT Technology Review

"This conflict gets to the heart of the trouble with Twitter. In one interview, an executive will low-key brag about the intellectual rigor with which the company is approaching actually-not-that-difficult questions about what to do with users who favor varying degrees of genocide to achieve their political aims. And in another, the CEO will acknowledge that the question has basically already been resolved, but the company lacks the technical competence to find all the bad actors on its platform.

In the Dorsey interview, he goes on to say that Twitter needs to be more proactive about finding white nationalists. It’s a good idea, now five months old, and we’ve heard nothing about any concrete steps that Twitter might take to implement it. Instead, as ever, the company wants some time to think. And while I understand why the academics quoted in Vice’s article are laughing, I can’t say I find it all that funny.

From time to time, Twitter thinks about things. And then it goes on thinking about them for a very long time."

Forget new research on Nazis — Twitter should just enforce its existing ban | The Verge