It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back.
It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back.
Our mission at Twitter 2.0 is to promote and protect the public conversation. We believe Twitter users have the right to express their opinions and ideas without fear of censorship.
“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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So originally, it was that he was a "free speech absolutist," then it was that he was in favor of free speech "within the bounds of the law," and now he's not even in favor of that.
He never was, that was just an excuse to amplify the voice of his far-right buddies.
I know. It was more about what he said.
Freedom of (my) speech.
I wish I was free from his speech, specifically.
I don't believe this because it gives Elon Musk too much credit and honestly I think he's just a big loser who will latch on to whoever likes him at the time.
A series of stupid events led to Twitter being full of stupid far right nutjobs and stupid Elon decided they're his people now because they use his stupid platform.
I'm not so sure about that. The big tell is that whenever a far-right user complained to him about getting a tweet removed or the account getting banned or something like that, he'd respond that he'll personally take care of it. Just imagine, a billionare running a platform with millions of users personally taking care of a single one. This never happened with other people.
I personally haven't heard of this, but if it's true it's probably just because he's latched on to them like I was saying. He didn't buy Twitter with some nefarious conservative intent to unblock far right accounts, he bought it because he's an idiot who got into a pissing match on social media. He even tried to get out of the sale claiming "bots" and the owners threatened to sue the shit out of him.
Edit: Lol people downvoting because I haven't heard of this? Never said it's not true, I just haven't heard of it.
Example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgKSQUrXoAABPWi.jpg
I agree with your assessment. I'm not claiming that he has a plan of any sorts, things just happen in a spur of the moment. However, that's also the appeal of the far-right. It doesn't need research or having a solid base of knowledge to base their opinions on, it's just random stuff these people read on the Internet that feels good to them.
He didn’t buy Twitter with some nefarious conservative intent to unblock far right accounts
Yet less than a month after he finished the acquisition he unblocked the orange excrescence. That's the fastest he could get to it, because the first week he was firing execs, the second week he was laying off half the workforce, and the third week he was already dicking around with Twitter Blue and charging for the checkmark.
Admittedly, the sink in the lobby was a higher priority timewise, but he got around to unblocking Donald Trump as quickly as he could, AND while janitorial staff were still available to clean the Twitter HQ bathrooms.
Coincidence? I think not.
This seems more accurate somehow
I know, it was more a rhetorical question.
By free speech absolutist he really meant he thinks fascists should be able to say whatever they want.
By free speech absolutist he really meant he thinks fascists should be able to force you to listen to them say whatever they want.
"Down with fascism! No more free political speech!"
Non sequitur
No, he's a free speech absolutist!
Aka
A fuckin liar who would piss himself to death if people actually told him what they think about him.
Freedom for me but not for thee
I guess it's all about his political ambition.
Oh god, I just had a flash of a near future where he's on the US ballot somehow. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if he found a way. He could change the name of the States to X too!
Please, I beg you, don't scare me.
X party. Yikes.
For any office except president (possibly not VP either, but that would be a technical issue for constitutional scholars to debate). You have to be native-born to be president.
I am better choice would be the poop emoji.
I mean freedom of speech, not reach describes one boundary of the law in that nobody is required to give you a platform as far as i know.
However it does absolutely not fit to the free speech absolutism purported last year.
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"No one can act as a moderator to remove my content" This claim does align with with the principle of freedom of speech, but we have to admit that for now, complete freedom without any control can be unsafe. It could potentially lead to spams and political issues. However, the feature of not asking for phone numbers or email addresses sounds interesting, especially considering Elon is planning to introduce government ID verification.
This is blatant advertisement. Doesn't it violate the instance rules?
Yo! I am on WireMin too, I am satisfied for now, even though the the message not working in real-notification, I guess its because of the decentralized structure, and they don't have much users yet, so the network is not as stable as Signal or others, but I mean it is pretty secure right? I saw news about Tucker Carlson said the US National Security Agency hacked into his Signal account and read correspondence.
This WireMin thing has made me confused. I checked out their website, and it looks like they're calling themselves a decentralized Twitter.http://wiremin.org/#/blog/6 So I also did a quick search on Twitter, and apparently WireMin has quite a lot crazy fans promoting it actively. What surprises me is that these fans haven't been shadowbanned by Twitter. Perhaps freedom of speech actually exists on Twitter? Lmao. Just joking, not a fan of Elon Musk's twitter.
This WireMin has made me confused. I checked out their website, and it looks like they're calling themselves a decentralized Twitter. http://wiremin.org/#/blog/6 I also did a quick search on Twitter. Apparently WireMin has quite a lot crazy fans promoting it actively. What surprises me is that these fans haven't been shadowbanned by Twitter. Perhaps freedom of speech actually exists on Twitter? Lmao. Just kidding, not a fan of Elon's Twitter.
Thx
1 month WireMin user. To be honest I don't really care about privacy issue, if they want to use my data for maybe selling them to 3rd-party companies or train their AI whatever. But limiting me to say whatever I want? Nah-ah For now, no one ever remove my content in any chat room on WireMin so far. And I run a NSFW chat room, it did not get banned so far, so I do believe they are decentralized, no one is able to ban my space or my account on there, even the creator or dev team. (Feel free to join, if you want to: https://i.wiremin.com/invite/?g=k48849439784) And all users remain anonymous, so that somehow helps a lot with Freedom of Expression? Cuz we know No Privacy = No Freedom. I am pretty satisfied with WireMin for now, compares to Reddit, Twitter, etc.
