People can still freely express their distaste for any and all religion on twitter so long as they don’t dehumanize the people who follow that religion.
haven't we all seen this in practice long enough now to know how this little routine goes?
Rules & regulations should be written, evaluated, and revised the same way code is. Code doesn’t always run as we intended but we (usually) don’t crucify the developer. We learn from the misunderstanding, fix it, and then re-evaluate when the next inevitable misunderstanding comes up. We get feedback and we iterate. That’s exactly what Twitter is doing. Their first policy didn’t work out as planned and this is their next iteration based on the feedback they received on policy v1.0.0
And will Twitter update this policy yet again once they’ve had time to work out some of the kinks? You can bet on it.
That is all in a matter of perspective. To you it might not be.
Dehumanization is a defense mechanism which helps us avoid feeling the pain of realizing that humans sometimes do (subjectively) abhorrent things. It's seductive to define such people outside the bounds of humanity as it allows us to excuse treating them poorly. It is nearly always a mistake to do so, because people are, in fact, people.