Twitter won’t punish Alex Jones for his past Twitter behavior

Last night, amid growing pressure to address Alex Jones’ presence on Twitter, CEO Jack Dorsey tried to explain the company’s position. In a series of five tweets, he made the following case:

Jones hasn’t violated Twitter’s rules.
Twitter won’t ban someone just because other platforms did.
Journalists should “document, validate, and refute” the “unsubstantiated rumors” that “accounts like Jones’” spread.

He then linked to a somewhat confounding new blog post, “The Twitter Rules: A Living Document,” that does little more than say that the Twitter rules are a living document. It was confounding in that no one had accused the Twitter rules of being a dead document, only a weak and erratically enforced one, in any case it seemed to bear…

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/9/17669144/twitter-alex-jones-jack-dorsey-del-harvey