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It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. (blog.twitter.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Jat620DH27 to c/technology
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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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[–] FlyingSquid 203 points 10 months ago (33 children)

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.

[–] Jat620DH27 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I guess it's all about his political ambition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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!

[–] AustralianSimon 4 points 10 months ago

X party. Yikes.

[–] Jat620DH27 4 points 10 months ago

Please, I beg you, don't scare me.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

I am better choice would be the poop emoji.

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