Posted on 07/31/2018 10:33:48 AM PDT by Starman417
LOL.
I first noticed Twitter was doing this... FOUR years ago.
Their first victim was Sarah Palin.
All the Palinistas’ tweets were shadow banned from one another as well, even in our own timelines.
Palin should sue the stuffing out of them for misrepresenting their “product” and lack of our consent as users.
Totalitarian propagandists.
They probably just call it something else.
I am sure they are technically not lying, they have their own internal term for shadwobanning.
Let’s see what Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has to say when he’s hauled in front of Congress—or even worse the Federal Trade Commission.
it is fraud.
they are lying about their service.
Class action
Once it gets proven, you can talk about a class action suit and their stock price will tumble (today at 32.02). You could be looking at a stock in the $18 range in eight months.
Now, if this were me and I just felt an urge to do it...I’d go and stage a ‘put’ on the stock (betting that it’ll drop in six months). I’m not going out to suggest this, but it wouldn’t take very much to stage a court action and say they invented a fraud out of thin air.
It’s getting more and more ridiculous that the supposedly free-market oriented right has not stood up an alternative to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Instagram/etc.
"...shadow banning..."
Given how Twitter’s stock is performing I would say the shadow banning is Twitter’s revenge upon itself.
[Its getting more and more ridiculous that the supposedly free-market oriented right has not stood up an alternative to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Instagram/etc.]
The free-market oriented right is creating such alternatives. So many of the people I follow on Twitter and YouTube have set up presences on alt-tech platforms (to use during the times they get suspended or banned) that I have to maintain a spreadsheet to keep track of them.
The first problem that alt-tech faces is that when someone gets banned from Twitter or YouTube and has to move to Gab or BitChute, their potential audience drops by a factor of several thousand; and no one will hear them but their die-hard fans. The second problem is that the big-tech companies are natural monopolies and unless they screw up badly enough to kill themselves, they won't be unseated. That, however, may be happening now.
What twitter does not seem to understand is that its revenue will drop to zero the instant Trump chooses something else to tweet on
It would be more of a situation where Twitterers were used as a guinea pigs, without consent, while Twitter capitalized on our data for commercial reasons, and did not disclose that they were purposely politicizing the site for their political biases.
In other words, Twitter sees itself like an interactive Polling service, without giving users the understanding of what they are doing with our data.
Amen.
I’ve tried gab, but it isn’t very user friendly
"...www.Gab.ai..."
I would agree with that, but it doesn’t seem to be in the cards. Barring that we have to get viable alternatives.
That’s great and I have an account there, but this problem probably needs a big high profile solution starting with a massive amount of capital.
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has reported variations of this, such as shadow banning a fraction of his tweets but not to the same people each time. (They say they blasted it by a third to half don’t see it.)
Another tactic is the false notice “this attachment is not available” though you can see the attachment if you click that notice.
They are intentionally setting up hurdles to limit distribution of conservative content.
We either need to break them up as a monopoly or regulate them as a utility.
Big tech is so big that they control the public square and so bigoted that they are systematically oppressing everyone except the far left.
Exactly. We have the numbers and this is all done to prevent us from organizing, even if only in philosophical solidarity on Twitter.
They hate it that we are in the majority and they are in the very small, albeit controlling and deceitful, minority.
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