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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] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

they made a home on a platform once, they should be able to do it again. Staying on xitter or whatever is just kind of nonsense at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, and generally how that goes is from a point where they are just making art as a hobby to one where they rely on their audience to pay the bills. It's not such a trivial thing to start over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

audiences will rarely move from platform to platform. For content creators, we have to go to where our audience is, or provide an incentive to move elsewhere. That's the main reason why there hasn't been a decent competitor to YouTube, Twitter, nor Twitch. The audiences there are entrenched.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure if there was a platform they could jump to that would sustain their career, they would