Notoriously proactive Twitter finally gets around to banning outright scams
Because maybe, possibly, we guess, there should be a policy about that.
Twitter, the tech industry darling notorious for proactively addressing problems, announced today that it's finally making running financial scams on its platform against the rules. In other words, a company founded in 2006 decided in 2019 that straight up crime should be banned on its service.
And yeah, why not. Twitter is a well known home for those looking to defraud oblivious users out of their hard-earned cash or cryptocurrency, and it seems like someone at the company eventually decided that enough was enough.
The question, of course, is why this took so long. We reached out to Twitter in an attempt to answer that very question, but received no immediate response. Read more...
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