1. Those organizations aren't there to "police" the community. Here are Twitter's actual words about what they're meant to do:
"The Twitter Trust and Safety Council provides input on our safety products, policies, and programs."
Notably not listed there: having any direct power over the Twitter community.
2. The reason why Twitter introduced this thing is that they were getting a lot of flack from people and groups who "lean to the left", for allegedly being a cesspool of the sort of abuse that people and groups who "lean to the left" get most upset about, and not doing anything about it.
I don't know whether those accusations were 100% wrong, 100% right, or somewhere in between. But when a company is attacked for doing or allowing something allegedly bad, it's hardly a surprise if the people it gets onside to try to show it's addressing the problem are the sort of people who most disapprove of whatever it was.
1. Those organizations aren't there to "police" the community. Here are Twitter's actual words about what they're meant to do:
"The Twitter Trust and Safety Council provides input on our safety products, policies, and programs."
Notably not listed there: having any direct power over the Twitter community.
2. The reason why Twitter introduced this thing is that they were getting a lot of flack from people and groups who "lean to the left", for allegedly being a cesspool of the sort of abuse that people and groups who "lean to the left" get most upset about, and not doing anything about it.
I don't know whether those accusations were 100% wrong, 100% right, or somewhere in between. But when a company is attacked for doing or allowing something allegedly bad, it's hardly a surprise if the people it gets onside to try to show it's addressing the problem are the sort of people who most disapprove of whatever it was.