Wednesday, March 8th, 2017, 7:17 am
Twitter Stands for Censorship
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ESTERDAY, 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.
April 28th, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Hi.
What is this graphic about, exactly? Where did you get it?
April 29th, 2017 at 12:10 am
Twitter shows these 24-hour traffic graphs.
May 30th, 2017 at 1:53 pm
I think you’ve just captured the answer petfcerly