Twitter last month updated its rules regarding abuse and hateful conduct as well as violence and physical harm. The changes, however, didn’t go into effect until today. Here’s what you can expect moving forward.

Specific threats of violence or wishing for serious harm, disease or death to an individual has been a violation of Twitter’s policy for a while now. Under the expanded rules crafted using Twitter’s policy development process, more types of “related content” are being added to the mix including:

Accounts that affiliate with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes. Groups included in this policy will be those that identify as such or engage in activity — both on and off the platform — that promotes violence. This policy does not apply to military or government entities and we will consider exceptions for groups that are currently engaging in (or have engaged in) peaceful resolution.

Content that glorifies violence or the perpetrators of a violent act. This includes celebrating any violent act in a manner that may inspire others to replicate it or any violence where people were targeted because of their membership in a protected group. We will require offending Tweets to be removed and repeated violations will result in permanent suspension.

Excluding military and government entities from the above mentioned changes is an interesting exception that shouldn’t be glossed over.

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