Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised to introduce 'aggressive' new rules after women boycotted it (TWTR)

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a series of tweets on October 14 that his company will introduce "aggressive" new rules aimed at protecting users.

The tweets by Dorsey were a response to a movement launched on Friday which saw many women choose to boycott the service.

Women chose to boycott Twitter over its decision to temporarily lock the account of actress Rose McGowan after she spoke out about alleged abuse by Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Dorsey tweeted that "we see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We've been working to counteract this for the past 2 years."

He went on to say that "we decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence."

View the full text of Dorsey's tweets below:

"We see voices being silenced on Twitter every day. We've been working to counteract this for the past 2 years. We prioritized this in 2016. We updated our policies and increased the size of our teams. It wasn't enough.

In 2017 we made it our top priority and made a lot of progress. Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we're *still* not doing enough.

We've been working intensely over the past few months and focused today on making some critical decisions. We decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence. These changes will start rolling out in the next few weeks. More to share next week."

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