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EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source
Breitbart News ^ | February 16, 2016 | Milo Yiannopoulos

Posted on 02/17/2016 6:11:59 AM PST by ManHunter

Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacklist; censorship; shadowbanning; twitter; whitelist
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To: Lazamataz

Right on, bro!


21 posted on 02/17/2016 6:47:39 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

I’ve got mad skillz with computers. If there is someone with resources, they should contact me.


22 posted on 02/17/2016 6:51:33 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Carthego delenda est

And in the Lord of the Rings, the Palantir was first used by the wizards to communicate, and was taken over by the Dark Lord.

Apt name for that company.


23 posted on 02/17/2016 6:56:42 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: driftdiver

So, they couldn’t name it Talkitup, Speaktome or something less sissy sounding than TWITTER?


24 posted on 02/17/2016 6:58:44 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

I think those were taken, believe it or not.


25 posted on 02/17/2016 6:59:44 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Captainpaintball; All

Believable conjecture as to where this will lead to.
All here know, or should know, that Obola created an Executive Order that establishes an massive interagency “Behavioral Health” database of All citizens.
Commercial and government mechanisms are now officially funded and inter-linked.
Happy fishbowl everyone...

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26 posted on 02/17/2016 7:01:38 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz,

Given your other proclivities do you actually have any free time for l33t skillz? ;)


27 posted on 02/17/2016 7:05:50 AM PST by Syntyr (Happiness is two at low eight!)
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To: ManHunter

That’s why I’ve always thought that Twitter is kind of useless spam. It’s just more uncontrollable noise on the line as far as I’m concerned.


28 posted on 02/17/2016 7:06:07 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Redbob
Please don't link to that ad-infested swamp called Breitbart!

If you don't like Breibart don't click on the links to their articles.

29 posted on 02/17/2016 7:10:02 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Syntyr

.NET 4.5, VB.NET, C#.NET, Entity framework and Linq2SQL, MS Enterprise Libraries (including Security Application Block), defensive programming (web-security), SQL back end, JavaScript and JQuery, and so on ad-infinitum.


30 posted on 02/17/2016 7:11:17 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: ManHunter

“Tvitter? Vas ist ‘Tvitter’?”


31 posted on 02/17/2016 7:23:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Why do we give our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast?)
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To: ManHunter

This is not surprising at all!


32 posted on 02/17/2016 7:25:22 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: G Larry
No...it is NOT “too easy to create a substitute”.

Twitter is going down the tubes so pretty soon it will be available at fire sale prices.

33 posted on 02/17/2016 7:34:56 AM PST by gunnut
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To: Lion Den Dan
"Fascist Dictatorship to be correct. Private businesses teamed with or directed by a government agency doing the government's bidding."

You can read it by the content of corporate television commercials, and even commercials from relatively small local businesses. This is a trend that has radically accelerated during the Obama years. I've noticed a large increase in commercials which do one or more of the following:

1. Commercials increasingly use words like "love" and "family" to sell their products. What's wrong with that? It is essentially phony, and phoniness serves deception, fascism with a smiley face, hard-nosed business acumen dressed up as homey-ness.

2. Rather than having a single spokesperson, a commercial's message is divided into brief snippets recited by people of various ethnic groups, ages, and of both sexes. This is a caving-in to political correctness and identity politics.

3. Commercials frequently advertise ways in which the corporation or business is "giving back to the community" by "partnering" with governmental or social-service agencies or charities. It is no longer considered good enough for a business to offer quality products or services - they must prove their SOCIAL CONSCIENCE in ways approved by the Left.

4. Corporations are now frequently aggressively promoting the gay agenda by featuring openly gay people in their commercials. Views considered to be non-supportive of the gay agenda can now threaten your company's bottom-line, its very existence, or your personal career.

5. Corporate lobbying is at an all-time high, and many laws - the details of which are often kept from the public - are written in consultation with favored in-groups and donors.

The free-space between government and the corporate world is shrinking. Billions of dollars are doled out to private companies all too willing to do the government's bidding.
34 posted on 02/17/2016 7:38:01 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: ManHunter

The desktop version of Twitter has a “report abuse” button, but not the mobile app, at least for Windows. No doubt the abuse button is well used by our betters.


35 posted on 02/17/2016 7:44:01 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: driftdiver
It's a very powerful tool being used against us.

It was invented by Liberals specifically TO be used against us. No better way to round up a huge mob and shout down your opposition has ever been invented.


36 posted on 02/17/2016 8:12:58 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It was invented by Liberals specifically TO be used against us. No better way to round up a huge mob and shout down your opposition has ever been invented.

1984's "Two Minutes Hate" made real.

37 posted on 02/17/2016 8:14:22 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: ManHunter

So the de-verification of Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos is not a one time thing, just the highest profile case.


38 posted on 02/17/2016 8:31:12 AM PST by tbw2
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The stock price fell pretty drastically recently.


39 posted on 02/17/2016 8:33:13 AM PST by uncitizen (TRUMP THE SYSTEM)
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To: tbw2

That would appear to be true - at least so far. But how many other users who Tweet and re-Tweet politically inconvenient or objectionable “Tweets” have been blocked without their knowledge?

(I confess to very limited knowledge of Twitter, since I don’t use it, nor Facebook, Snapchat or any number of other, similar tools and apps.)


40 posted on 02/17/2016 8:47:45 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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