Posted on 01/11/2018 6:11:10 AM PST by Red Badger
I might add, the same applies to Facebook. I registered at Reddit during the campaign, but didn’t last long before the ban hammer hit me for a post that would have been fine at FR.
I see no practical use for it, except for regurgitating that which is usually already known.......Echo Chamber deluxe.
That and FaceBook are the ‘Gossip Fence’ of the 21st century....................
“You use their site, you play by their rules..............”
Which have to be put into the terms and conditions for the user to acknowledge prior to accessing the account.
Secretly employing algorithms to weed out speech which twitter dissents to is tantamount to violating first amendment rights. Frankly, based on what the engineer said, I see a major class action lawsuit by every conservative with a twitter account.
Both of them?..................
Yahoo does the same. Very Orwellian. Best response is to identify publicly all the Twitter, Yahoo,Facebook and Google executives that make these decisions and post their complete bios and as much personal information as is known on multiple on line sites. These people are anti American and are doing great harm to the country. It is necessary to retaliate in a lawful manner to make them accountable.
Yep, it’s TwitterDU.
Who is the free speech alternative to TwitterDU?
And now I know I’m a shitty deplorable!
I wonder, does the material they don’t approve of not even show up on the feed of the person posting it? I.e. if I already follow someone, or look them up in my browser, do I still see everything they’re posting, or does the “shadow ban” make things invisible to all but the poster?
Second, it will be interesting to see if Trump reacts to this exposure of his most useful tool. Presumably Twitter isn’t shadow-banning him because too many people would notice if something he wanted to post wasn’t visible. But, this would be an excellent excuse for him to excoriate Twitter for their leftist censorship, and to pull up stakes for a more even-handed tool. The only catch would be that he’d have to find a way to do it so they couldn’t launch some kind of legal action for destroying their stock price (which almost certainly would happen if he and Red America abandoned it).
With any luck, this exposure by O’Keefe will tank their stock first, so Trump can get out without being blamed for their collapse.
And by Twitter standards, I’m a Russian bot.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) went thru a phase where his followers weren’t seeing his tweets for no apparent reason - after he started speaking positively (and persuasively!) of Trump and garnering an audience for that pro-Trump content. I’m sure he’ll be talking about it today on his “coffee chats”.
You missed the point. It’s not that they’re afraid to tell you. It’s that shadow censorship is a more effective way to silence the unwanted speech because the speaker doesn’t know his message is not getting out.
Just watched the video.
Boy, what a bunch of degenerate, semiliterate “geniuses.” Conversations filled with “like, y’knows,” broken English and, of course, obscenities.
And the hip hop music in the background. Tells you all you need to know about the “culture” at Twitter.
More like a septic tank.
You will see it on your device but none of your followers will see it on theirs, ergo, you think it’s there but it’s not. It’s just on your device....................
Gee, that sounds a lot like:
ALINSKY’S RULES FOR RADICALS!.....................
There needs to be a mass exodus to Gab.ai. Let twitter die like Myspace.
MySpace is still around....................somewhere...........
Um, like, yeah...they’re really really really, um, like smart, ya know? Affirmative action and H1b, baby!
Yes! Identify, investigate, illuminate, ridicule, retaliate.
I know this can happen and I know it is happening to Donald Trump on Facebook.
He was getting 10s of thousands of likes every day and all of a sudden it just froze to next to nothing.
Yes I know the election was obviously a busy time from that point of view but it seemed to fall off a cliff. His FB presence has hardly grown since this election whereas his Twitter has massively.
I hope someone of importance reads this thread and passes on this information - it is happening and it needs exposing.
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