{"id":83517,"date":"2013-08-03T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=83517"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:55:47","slug":"new-twitter-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83517-new-twitter-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"New Twitter rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359584-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> says it&#8217;s handing down new rules to control abusive language after several high-profile British women reported receiving a flood of nasty, harassing, or threatening messages on the microblogging site.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted to its website, Twitter says it is introducing a one-click button to report abuse and updating its rules to clarify that &#8220;we do not tolerate abusive behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week Britain&#8217;s media has been full of stories detailing the angry misogyny and gruesome rape threats directed against female public figures, including journalists, campaigners and lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted to Twitter on Saturday, General Manager <a title=\"Tony Wang\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/548307-Tony-Wang\">Tony Wang<\/a> said he wanted to &#8220;personally apologize to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Twitter articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Twitter\u2019s Internet troll battle\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83319-twitters-internet-troll-battle.html\"><strong>Twitter\u2019s Internet troll battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Twitter challenged to get tough against online abuse\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83159-twitter-challenged-to-get-tough-against-online-abuse.html\"><strong>Twitter challenged to get tough against online abuse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83133-beware-fake-goods-sold-online-in-sa.html\">Beware fake goods sold online in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83103-famous-hacker-barnaby-jack-dies.html\">Famous hacker Barnaby Jack dies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter says it&#8217;s handing down new rules to control abusive language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":82893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-83517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83519,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83517\/revisions\/83519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}