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It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. (blog.twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”

Surprise! Our great 'X' CEO has brought back one more bad thing that we hated about twitter 1.0: Shadowbanning. And they’ve given it a new name: "Freedom of Speech, Not Reach".

Perhaps the new approach by X is an improvement? At least they would “politely” tell you when you’re being shadow banned.

I think freedom of speech implies that people have the autonomy to decide what they want to see, rather than being manipulated by algorithm codes. Now it feels like they’re saying, “you can still have your microphone... We're just gonna cut the power to it if you say something we don't like”.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Like it or not (I don't), free speech has nothing to do with social media. Platforms are free to do this, it's the government that can't limit your speech like this.

Given those circumstances, I wonder if social media should be treated like infrastructure. That would fuse constitutional rights and the platform itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed. Personally my problem isn't with them limiting the "freedom of speech". It's with them claiming they have it or that it's even relevant there, as you've said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same page club. I think centralized social media is going to die sooner or later anyway*, so I'm thinking it's only a problem in the short term.

*Making money from social media just sounds like some weird shit in a history book to me, like merkins. We'll see I guess.

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