Comment by floatingatoll
5 years ago
They made clear when they introduced this that the “view tweet anyways” approach applies only when the public interest for an account of a public official outweighs the significant harm they consider to be done by allowing what you describe for all users in general. I don’t expect they intend to change their mind on that.
Most websites hide NSFW content behind a click. That's good manners. Why shouldn't Twitter?
Twitter already does hide NSFW ("objectionable") content behind a click, removing it only when it violates the platform rules of conduct.
They evaluated and rejected hiding "violates Twitter policies" content except in the rare cases where they deem it necessary for the public interest to retain that violating content behind a click barrier.
https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/offensive-tw... has more details about the current policy, and you can read their blog posts from the past couple years about these policies to gain more context and background.