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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] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Raise your hand if you are convinced this will not impact the people who pay for the blue checkmark. Meaning that a lot of Elon Fanbois / Bots / Fascists will be seen with theit shitty takes (since the checkmark pushes your comments up), while voices of reason will be dragged down further.

Twitter is rapidly becomming the new Truth Social and it's sad to watch.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well that was the whole point. His old friend Peter Thiel and others failed to set up a competing service against Twitter, so now they're undermining Twitter. Either Twitter steps into line and becomes what they want it to be, or it dies due to the $13bn debt/tax avoidance scam that Musk performed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

$13bn debt/tax avoidance scam that Musk performed

Since I don't follow Musk, please elaborate. I hope, you don't mean his buying an unprofitable company for $40B was to avoid taxes...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Overpaying and then destroying the value means that eventually, he will be able to claim losses on his taxes. This will allow him to reduce his tax liability for his profitable businesses.

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

Sure but it doesn't make sense to destroy more capital than you're liable in taxes.

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