X's sneaky censorship system
(censorshiponx.substack.com)
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That's a lot of words to describe shadowbanning.
It is, but I think we have to remember that there are people out there who don't know these things or how they work. Having an article like this is actually pretty damn helpful to show and share with people who are out of the loop on the finer details of this stuff. It's important that people know this, and just presuming that they already know it because a lot of us know it isn't beneficial in the long term.
Wikipedia calls shadowbanning a "conspiracy theory". I am not shocked at all that the editors there are in complete and total denial.
i would call it shadowbanning lite
Loli is trending because of Vaush's hentai folder leak.
And yet...
https://i.imgur.com/G7zp4fD.png
I wish I could go back to the person I was before I read that.
It's something that made Twitter pointless when I had an account there (under a pseudonym) and I am subject to the same problem on YouTube for most of my replies (again, under a pseudonym). I find shadowbanning to be a form of psychological coercive abuse.
If this is happening to people paying for X Premium, there could potentially be an argument to be made in court for obtaining money by deception. Might be class action lawsuit time with someone who has the money to test it in court.
The only upside to YouTube is that there are at least euphemisms to get around some of the shadowbanning.
A lot of people replace "Jews" with "Chewies", gays/lesbians/faggots with "alphabet soup", and any number of other terms related to politics or DIE/ESG nonsense with something recognisable but yet isn't easily detectable by the AI.
That doesn't work for me, I could write a completely innocuous post and it will still be shadowbanned. I haven't figured out what determines what gets shadowbanned but I have known comments with no banned terms and yet it won't shown up in a private tab.
Ah, I've had that problem on one of my accounts. Basically it's when your comment P-score sinks too low due to inconvenient truths. And you're right, even something as basic as "Hi" or "Cool" would get hidden.
It took about two months before any comment would show up again.
I read one article some time ago that said it takes 48 hours with zero activity on the account before your account is no longer globally shadowbanned. That only worked for one account, but for the other required much longer before it could post again. I let it sit for a couple of months with zero activity and then tried it again making a seemingly benign positive comment and it showed up again when in incognito mode.
I imagine the lower the account P-score the longer it takes before the account is no longer shadowbanned. Sort of like waiting for the social credit score to reset to default.
Check your opsec. Linking accounts, same browser user agent, cookies, all these are datapoints (clues) that you're up to "naughty speech". Technically IP can also be used but that's the nuclear option because even DEI networking goons understand a big network will NAT you.
I get shadowbanned (or openly banned) from just about every forum, and often for shit far less offensive than I post on this website.
It's the user reports. As the article says, they're being abused-- whether by organizations for political purposes, or there's just enough wokeydokes floating around to cause the exact same effect.
There are very large organizations with very evil political purposes abusing these reporting systems and getting themselves hired on as the contractors to enforce them from the inside.
Disgusting.
Hopefully someone sues Elon in a democrat state for fraud.
no that is gay, elon buying twitter and making it more open for right-leaning viewpoints is arguably the most important act in the quest to preserve western civilization in the last 3/4 of a century
it isn't perfect yet because he took over a giant faggot machine and it will take a long time to unfaggot it but he is moving in the right direction
however everyone should retweet and tag elon on this article
the only thing that is wrong is that this is result of some kind of third party organized activity that misuses report system. It definitely isn't, nu-twatter does it autonomously, algorithmically, and globally