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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017, 7:17 am

Twitter Stands for Censorship

Twitter is Censorship

YESTERDAY, after I had written a lot about Vault 7 and Wikileaks, Twitter shadow-banned me. The effect of it can be seen above. I did not insult anyone, I did not link to a dodgy Web site, I was very much on topic, and people showed genuine interest in what I was posting. But Twitter is not interested in free speech. Twitter is a business, so presumably it can just kick-ban, permanently terminate accounts, or even shadow-ban (as in my case) any time it feels like it. No explanations are made available and there’s no point bothering to ask (I tried many times).

A month ago Twitter also banned (for good) JoinDiaspora, a site through which I posted to Twitter. They banned the whole relay, in an act of collective punishment (or collective censorship) against many thousands of legitimate users.

Don’t ever rely on Twitter for free speech. Based on the recent news, things are only getting worse there over time (more restrictions on speech). This is why I call so-called “social media” just social control media. They conquer and dominate (even by omission/deletion) channels of communication between people.

3 Responses to “Twitter Stands for Censorship”

  1. Anders Says:

    Hi.
    What is this graphic about, exactly? Where did you get it?

  2. Roy Schestowitz Says:

    Twitter shows these 24-hour traffic graphs.

  3. Tish Says:

    I think you’ve just captured the answer petfcerly

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