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It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. (blog.twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Jat620DH27@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is from April. Did something change with it?

[–] DetectiveKakuna@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the most important comment on this thread. I wish lemmy forced you to post the date of the article

[–] TotalCasual@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have to strongly agree here. This needs to be a strongly written and enforced rule for social media. Dates and timestamps need to be extremely clear and a requirement for all sorts of news reporting.

[–] Jat620DH27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The topic is trending on X today so I didn't noticed the date. But I guess there might have been some updates compared to April?

[–] ripcord@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

You are part of the problem.