I wonder if there are written guidelines that the Twitter censors use.
Is Manhattan Contrarian a conservative site???
I have seen Musk be very quick to fix such situations. There is still a lot of problems with the algorithms.
Whenever I saw something get deleted and brought to Musk’s attention, it gets fixed quickly.....even those things critical of Musk, Tesla or Space X
I can say that I never got blocked or banned on Twitter in the pre-Musk era, but since Musk took over, I have seen automatic warnings several times (of the “most people don’t send tweets that sound like this.. are you sure you want to post?” variety), and now my account was auto-locked by an algorithm instantly after sending a sarcastic tweet. Not reported by butthurt lefties, or the person I was tweeting too, just auto-blocked by an algorithm that was monitoring replies to one particular right wing twitter account, likely because my tweet included a “spicy” (but not profane) word.
Twitter says they’ll unblock my account if I delete the tweet, but since Musk has said “comedy is allowed on Twitter again”, I am not going to delete a clearly comedic tweet that was never reviewed by a human being and judged to be in violation of any rule. So I appealed it. Been a week so far with no action from Twitter, but they have 14 days to process the appeal. We’ll see. I won’t delete the tweet, so if they don’t unblock me, I’ll never use it again.
New data exposes Elon Musk’s free speech charade
If Elon Musk loves free speech, why is he so cozy with dissent-crushing governments?
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made a big show of portraying the site before his takeover as a bastion of government censorship. He has coordinated with journalists to publish information known as the “Twitter Files” that suggest that the company was overly compliant in submitting to demands from governments — especially the U.S. government — to take down posts or limit their visibility.
But new data suggests that, at least by some measures, Twitter has become more compliant with government authorities than before he took over. Musk’s promises to shepherd Twitter into a new era of radical free speech are looking phonier by the day.
According to a report from Rest of World, based on data from Harvard University’s Lumen Database, in the six months since Musk’s arrival, Twitter’s compliance with government demands for censorship or surveillance has risen to over 80%, from around 50%. The information comes via Twitter’s largely automated self-reporting to the Lumen database, which monitors government requests for content removal online. According to Lumen, out of 971 government requests received from last Oct. 27 — when Musk took over — to April 26, Twitter completely complied with 808 requests, partially complied with another 154 cases and did not report a response for 9 cases. Notably, Twitter did not report any outright refusals during this period, as pre-Musk Twitter did from time to time.
Some of the most worrisome requests have come from India, where Narendra Modi’s right-wing government has bombarded Twitter with demands to censor unflattering media portrayals of the governing party. Under Musk, Twitter blocked in India posts sharing a BBC documentary that questioned Modi’s role in a 2002 massacre in the Indian state of Gujarat. (Musk at one point said he hadn’t known that Twitter was complying with India’s requests, and cited being busy with Tesla and SpaceX as distractions.) Twitter also recently complied with the Modi government’s requests to locally block the accounts of over a hundred politicians, activists and journalists as it conducted a manhunt for a Sikh nationalist leader. Before Musk took over, Twitter was complying with about 20 percent of India’s requests; it’s unclear where that number is now.
Another authoritarian democracy, Turkey, has been the most prolific submitter of requests to Twitter during Musk’s tenure, and they’ve been overwhelmingly fulfilled. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country has passed multiple rounds of laws restricting speech in recent years. Experts say the government views regulating Twitter as a key tool for suppressing dissent ahead of this year’s elections.
The reason that Musk/Twitter are being pushed ad nauseum with the free speech badge is precisely because they aid and abet “dissent-crushing governments.” It is to condition the masses into acceptance - by deceiving them. The objective is to point people away from the true purpose of Twitter - now X Corp: to be, along with WeChat, THE tool and control apparatus of the New World Order.
Musk has clearly stated his admiration for China’s WeChat app, and his intent to move Twitter into that mold. It couldn’t be any clearer.