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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] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cool thought-terminating cliche. So you really don't give a single shit for minorities in a hard situation if they don't sacrifice their livelihood out of your weird sense of moral purity. I hope you pay Fediverse artists pretty well at the very least.

Calling a platform of hundred millions of users a "nazi bar" as if they could pick a different venue the next street is a massive understatement. You also don't seem to realize that even if all these small artists move, those nazis can still have a lot of influence over clueless people who remain there because they haven't realized what's happening. But rather than seeing the risks of widespread radicalization and the value of challenging it, you'd rather call everyone a nazi and not think about it.

If you want to blame anyone, you should point your outrage towards large media organizations and celebrities who keep posting there business as usual as if nothing changed. They are the ones keeping that place alive and giving it legitimacy. Not small artists and those denouncing the nazi shit.