Posted on 10/19/2016 3:03:42 PM PDT by nerdgirl
We've all heard rumors of this, but I wanted you to know that this is actually happening, and it's being done in order to affect the social media conversation about the debate tonight. I'm an active but careful Twitter poster. Since suffering a "shadow ban" a couple of weeks ago, I have stopped using all Trump related hashtags. That means I don't include things like #NeverHillary, #VoteTrump, and #Maga in my tweets. I don't post too much, or use too many "@" tags for famous people.
I just post about Hillary and her corruption, as well as ardent support for Julian Assange and Wikileaks. But most posts are visual. I'm an app developer with a custom app that I use to create fun cartoonish artwork to express my points. And despite my tiny following (just 300, I've only been active a month or so) - Hillary's campaign, with the help of Twitter, has silenced me completely for this debate. I'm not alone! How many others have been censored today?
Please visit my profile @mspanish to see my tweets about Hillary. You cannot RT today, my tweets will not show up to your followers. But you can right click to save ANY of my images from Instagram or One Drive and re-post them yourself! My instagram is HERE. and my One Drive where you can view and download is HERE.
Good work
Hang tough ma’am, you aren’t alone.
Fight the good fight, and finish your race.
The Truth will triumph eventually.
But don’t ever give up!
@Jack, and his radical leftist politics, has chased off acquisition buyers and has the stock headed to $10 a share (that’s when I’ll buy).
You mean a “Public Accomodation” company is Censoring and Refusing to do Business as Usual because they Disagree with your Personal Lifestyle Choices???
CALL THE POLICE and Then File a LAWSUIT
And Breitbarts Milo. His Twitter acct @nero has been suspended.
If you haven’t done so you may wish to put in a request to join gab.ai. Still ramping up, thus no open sign up but IMO worthy of attention.
Wow.
I read a couple of tweets from Scott Adams (Dilbert) talking about this happening to him as well.
Supression of free expression- the new normal.
Following ;)
Social media is how liberals are striking back.
Speak’in truth to power ‘bout corrupt killer Clinton and Co.
The Empire strikes back.
thanks sorry for the vanity but it is really undemocratic and crappy that Twitter allows Hillary’s campaign to do this. They probably reported as offensive enough of my posts to get me banned - but Twitter should be aware of this and take measures to prevent it!
I appreciate the kind words of support! The pain is that this artwork and all those tweets have taken a lot of time and energy, and to have Twitter allow themselves to be used to suppress all my stuff is really hideous. Not the America I grew up in.... Thanks again guys - been a freeper a long time :)
Twitter novice here - how do you know if you’ve been shadow-banned? Is it obvious?
Twitter novice here - how do you know if you’ve been shadow-banned? Is it obvious?
Generally you don’t know. That’s why it is such a dirty trick.
NO - it’s quite deceptive actually. To the user, it looks like all is A OK. Like your tweets are just not very good. Few to no “likes” or “retweets”. Then if you check your stats, you see that a tweet that should have gotten maybe 150 views, got 15. I’m pretty data centric so I always look at stats :) But if you click on a hashtag = like #DrainTheSwamp - and you’ve posted there, you see your own stuff, and think “huh it posted ok, maybe nobody liked it.” = then if you LOG OUT - you see that your stuff isn’t even showing. And from what I can gather, very few of your followers see it either. It’s a very shadowy, murky silencing that my lawyer husband thinks violates their user agreement.
NO - it’s quite deceptive actually. To the user, it looks like all is A OK. Like your tweets are just not very good. Few to no “likes” or “retweets”. Then if you check your stats, you see that a tweet that should have gotten maybe 150 views, got 15. I’m pretty data centric so I always look at stats :) But if you click on a hashtag = like #DrainTheSwamp - and you’ve posted there, you see your own stuff, and think “huh it posted ok, maybe nobody liked it.” = then if you LOG OUT - you see that your stuff isn’t even showing. And from what I can gather, very few of your followers see it either. It’s a very shadowy, murky silencing that my lawyer husband thinks violates their user agreement.
“Social media is how liberals are striking back. “
Yep ... With all of the hell Google gets, YouTube seems to be decent (though Google gets piles of money to promote leftist causes via YouTube).
Facebook is obviously a joke with all of the reports of pages being blocked while leftist causes seem to never suffer any bans.
Twitter would probably be more fascist if it weren’t in trouble. They should thank Trump for making Twitter relevant this election.
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