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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] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

it’s the government that can’t limit your speech like this

Not all countries are free speech absolutists. If you unironically say "Heil Hitler" in modern-day Germany, that's prison time for you. And rightfully so. Hate speech in public should not be allowed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you just get beat up, and nobody on the street has seen anything: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/14/drunken-american-beaten-up-for-giving-nazi-salute-in-germany

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vigilantism isn't a solution... But I wouldn't have seen a thing either.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EDIT: Ignore this post; I was running on 6 hours of sleep and no caffeine and this is why, we stay off of Lemmy early in the morning. I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings.

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