"They’re not Marxists,they’re Maoists. Big, big difference."
It does not matter whose name is above the gates to the prison..............
Posted on 06/01/2023 6:37:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Elon Musk Reveals Line of Code Used to Censor Tweets Containing Certain Key Words
Twitter owner Elon Musk revealed that engineers at the social media company discovered a line of code, which was more than ten years old, which appeared to suppress tweets containing specific words.
During an interview with The Babylon Bee, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann asked Musk:
“One of the craziest things you did when you took over Twitter was start releasing the Twitter files,” he began.
“Who takes over a company and then says, ‘Look, how horrible all this stuff is that’s going on’?”
“If we’re not going to expose the things that were done wrong, why should people believe us in the future? That’s why we’re trying to be as transparent as possible,” Musk responded.
“Don’t take my word for it – literally look at the algorithm; you should be able to recreate the results that you see on Twitter using that algorithm.”
“So we’re trying to make sure that everything is brought to light, not just so there’s no hidden layers or anything,” Musk added.
“We just discovered last week some hidden layer of censorship that was written in 2012.”
The Twitter owner said that “‘censorship’ is probably the wrong word” to describe the code; Twitter had a list of words it would use to evaluate Tweets.
“If you put ‘suck’ in a tweet, then it does not get amplified on the platform,” he explained.
“And that was literally code from, like 2012. We found this relic of code last week.”
Musk later confirmed the line of code was being applied to all tweets, with a thousand words on the list used to suppress tweets.
Watch: VIDEOS AT LINK.................
The news comes just days after Musk pulled his platform out of the EU bloc’s online censorship project, angering EU officials.
Musk pulled Twitter out of the EU’s “Code of Practice,” a pro-censorship project aimed at tackling so-called “disinformation” online,
The move comes after months of mixed messages from Elon Musk, who stated that he wanted to support free speech while insisting that Twitter would support the EU in its censorship program.
In the current environment, you are right. Many are afraid to engage on, or be associated with in any way with, certain topics.
But ideally, sunlight is the best anticeptic. As hokey as it sounds.
It boils down to it’s a business decision in the end. You’ll never have a truly free forum.
They’re not Marxists,they’re Maoists.
Big, big difference.
Just look at their tactics...straight out of Mao’s Little Red Book, and the Red Guards!
#3 posted on 5/31/2023, 11:21:13 AM by Gay State Conservative
Yeah, like Twitter, the government could use a little trimming. Pruning. Lopping.
Uh, can we see the line of code?
It’s probably quite long......................😉
"They’re not Marxists,they’re Maoists. Big, big difference."
It does not matter whose name is above the gates to the prison..............
I wonder what language this was written in.
German..........................
“You were ‘shadow banned’............No one saw your tweets..................”
A way to check if you were shadow-banned is to check the web page you posted to by subsequently accessing the page by another device (which is not logged into google).
IF (boolHasMarkOfBeast == false){set decVisibilityRank=0.0000001;}
“If we allowed, say Stormfront articles here, how many people would just go away and never come back?”
Well, if we only had an “ignore poster” button then probably close to zero. Let people police their own feed (without censoring what others can see) and the problem disappears.
Or call a friend.......................
Most people are too lazy to do that, they just choose to go elsewhere.
Not if you have a good platform.
Congratulations on the broad exposure!
The article doesn’t mention if they ran ‘git blame’ on that code and made sure whoever added that code no longer works at the company.
“The words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’, ‘Work Will Free You’, is a word play on the phrase taken from the Bible which says ‘Wahrheit macht frei’ (Truth will free you). In early 30s the slogan ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ was very popular because of high unemployment level in Germany. Later it became a favorite motto of Nazi officers who forced prisoners to work in inhuman conditions.”
https://www.escape2poland.co.uk/poland-guide/arbeit-macht-frei
From Wikipedia:
Whatever the publicly stated purpose of the camp, the SS men who arrived there on 11 May 1933 were left in no illusion as to its real purpose by the speech given on that day by Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau
Comrades of the SS!
....now we are in power. If those pigs had come to power, they would have cut off all our heads. Therefore we have no room for sentimentalism. If anyone here cannot bear to see the blood of comrades, he does not belong and had better leave. The more of these pig dogs we strike down, the fewer we need to feed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp
(sarcastic OP YouTube reply)
"thanks for watching"
in other words...
...you got rolled, and will continue to get rolled.
Until YOU can figure out how to out-crook US.
(or kill us)
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