Posted on 07/26/2018 5:05:59 AM PDT by tellw
Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.
He’s on a roll !!
Attacking all fronts. The left doesn’t know where to put their outrage.
Has anyone made a parody song on this yet, based on an old Andy Gibb hit . . . ?
twitter is a private company. they can ban as they please.
encourage another social media startup.
What is shadow banning?
I agree, private enterprise should be able to operate and associate however and with whomever they see fit. But if the left wants to play the discrimination game, as they have for quite a while now, I won't cry if they're threatened with a dose of their own medicine.
You send a post thinking it went through but it was actually blocked.
Article on shadow banning on vice.com https://news.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/43paqq/twitter-is-shadow-banning-prominent-republicans-like-the-rnc-chair-and-trump-jrs-spokesman?__twitter_impression=truer
Keep it up Twitter and you become an utility.
Kidding.
No they can’t, when it comes to effectively acting as the propaganda, dirty tricks and marketing department of the Democratic Party, while at the same time crippling the RNC, Republican congressmen and conservatives. The are plenty of ways the government can take action aginst them.
Regulate them as a common carrier utility.
What bandwidth is paid by public $$$
Normally most would agree with you, but not here.
No entity should exploit the nations communications using public infrastructure.
Shadow banning (also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting) is the act of blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.
By making a user's contributions invisible or less prominent to other members of the service, a hope may be that in the absence of reactions to their comments, the problematic or otherwise out of favor user will become bored or frustrated and leave the site.
One of my FB friends got shadow banned for posting that satire interview with the Socialist woman in NY
Suppose Twitter was secretly created by our government and then given to inside traders to become the wealthy owners?
Should they have a right to censor then?
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