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It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. (blog.twitter.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] Ganrokh 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not OP but my mom enters literally every contest she sees and has won a surprising amount.

[–] stevehobbes 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it stuff she actually wants or needs, or is the garage full of junk she won from defunct companies and a years supply of RC Cola?

[–] Ganrokh 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off the top of my head, not counting the plethora of gift cards:

  • A first edition Kindle Fire a month after it released. For being tech-illiterate, she ended up loving it and upgraded a few times through the years.

  • Several Roku boxes and Fire TV sticks, which are just now getting used because my parents are finally cutting the cord.

  • Lots of concert tickets for various bands, including Foo Fighters, Green Day, and Kiss.

  • 1-week all expenses paid trip to Nashville for some big New Year's party that some celebs showed up to.

  • $600 cowboy boots.

  • $300 KitchenAid mixer.

  • A full set of Paula Dean cookware, and she LOVES Paula Dean.

[–] stevehobbes 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s the good stuff. How much bad stuff? Like, sounds awesome, but if she also got 10,000 beer coozies and bad water bottles and whatever other tchotchke nonsense….