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15 pointsalexis7 comments

Despite this submission being posted by Reddit's cofounder, I don't think Twitter's policy update is related to Reddit's actions. Twitter has had its own very public and very significant moderation failings in recent months. (E.g #GamerGate)

"We suck at dealing with abuse." http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-me...

(Not CEO, Exec Chair) but here's the original reddit announcement: http://redd.it/2x0g9v

And they followed the FAQ that came out of our Buzzfeed interview: http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-tackles-reveng...

> The company also issued a new FAQ regarding stolen nudes and revenge porn, based on a series of 12 questions first posed by BuzzFeed News to reddit.

This has not been an issue in the press for twitter, but our community team at reddit has been doing a great job reaching out to other platforms to try and work together on this -- that's the important thing. We're hoping this is just the start and we'll see more companies join us.

I've been impressed with the decisions your team has made in regards to this and other issues, such as the jailbait subs a couple years back. It's a fine line at a community like Reddit who pride free speech, but I think you've made the right choices and the community has backed you.

Admittedly, I left full-time in 2010 (remained an advisor and then board member when reddit when independent in 2011) but this issue of stolen nudes was something that Ellen and I discussed almost immediately after we were put together in the wake of the our CEO's departure.

We at reddit have always valued privacy (and our userbase has always valued that) and we missed a chance to lead, but with new leadership in place, we as a company decided this was where we wanted to start. Our community team has done an awesome job in the last couple of months since and I hope more companies will follow.

This is something we knew we needed to do in order to go from over 9000 communities on the platform to many, many more.

It's a smaller problem, but:

> Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others.

I hope this finally kills off those Chris Rock and Bill Murray twitter accounts too.

Alexis. We love you. Title changed from "Twitter follows reddit's lead, combats stolen nudes and revenge porn".

As you wish. Twitter even answered questions that only applied to reddit, e.g. "9. Will only certain subreddits be policed for this content or can it come from any subreddit? Twitter: N/A" and our community folks have been working with them, but I'm not the boss here :)

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