Twitter seeks to ban dehumanizing language on its platform in new policy.

Twitter has long been battling various forms of hate speech on its platform and the company didn't lack for efforts to implement rules meant to combat such behavior. Earlier this year, it introduced new tools designed to analyze the behavior of accounts to gauge the likelihood that they could pose a threat to a healthy conversation.

As part of its efforts to expand the scope of its policies, Twitter is proposing new rules meant to curb the spread of dehumanizing speech across its platform. The social networking site is now soliciting feedback from the public before enforcing the proposed policies.

Here is Twitter's definition of what constitutes dehumanizing language:

Dehumanization: Language that treats others as less than human. Dehumanization can occur when others are denied of human qualities (animalistic dehumanization) or when others are denied of human nature (mechanistic dehumanization). Examples can include comparing groups to animals and viruses (animalistic), or reducing groups to their genitalia (mechanistic).

By Jay Bonggolto.

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