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<p>Twitter announced Tuesday a new policy to combat “dehumanizing
language,” as it continues searching for ways to make its platform more
hospitable.</p>
<p>Users will not be allowed to “dehumanize
anyone” based on their background because “this speech can lead to
offline harm,” the company said in a <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/Creating-new-policies-together.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a>.
If you’re wondering at this point what Twitter’s definition of
“dehumanizing language” is, the company broke it down into two
categories: when users are “denied of human qualities” or “denied of
human nature.” Twitter gave examples of comparing users to animals or
“reducing groups to their genitalia.”</p>
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>