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But Twitter has decided not to embrace the radical proposal – and President Trump is still on the job. On Saturday, he attacked Democrat Elijah Cummings, whose congressional district includes Baltimore, and criticized the city. He said "no human being" would want to live there and that he was "disgusting, infested with rats and rodents".
Twitter confirmed on Sunday that Trump's tweets did not violate his rules at all.
Last September, Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde and Del Harvey presented a "new policy to eliminate dehumanizing language on Twitter" project.
The proposal defined dehumanizing language as "a language that treats others as inferior to the human," adding, "Dehumanization can occur when other people are deprived of human qualities."
But when Twitter finally rolled out the new rules earlier this month, it took a reduced version of what the company had proposed last September.
Twitter has banned dehumanizing language against religious groups, as well as against other protected categories – including people of color and "marginalized and historically underrepresented communities".
Dehumanizing language against people based on their place of residence would not be prohibited as originally proposed.
Twitter said that they had arrived at the decision after internal and external consultations.
"Interviewees said that" identifiable groups "were too broad and that they should be allowed to engage with political groups, hate groups and other non-marginalized groups using this type of language," said Twitter in a blog.
Many observers argue that Baltimore's criticism by Trump was part of a trend by the president to use language like "infestation" to criticize lawmakers who are people of color.
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