The problem is not unfollowing (and muting/blocking) accounts you don't like. The problem is following accounts that you might do. Twitter started to ban and/or

The problem is not unfollowing (and muting/blocking) accounts you don't like. The problem is following accounts that you might do. Twitter started to ban and/or shadowban (hellban) accounts for political reasons, sometimes for short periods of time, sometimes forever, and also just made your own account unfollow accounts they deemed "offensive", whatever this means. I'm not just talking about true or perceived troll/harasser accounts here, but people like Scott Adams of Dilbert fame who did not harass anybody as far as I have seen, just had the "wrong" opinions regarding Hillary/Donald recently (I follow him since forever and could verify his tweets stopped showing up in my timeline when the shadowban happened)[0] And not just accounts are affected, entire hashtags are hidden from trending and auto complete as a means to limit their spread. At the same time, other accounts who are truly harassing and even trying to incite violence are left alone, e.g. because the target is Trump or a Trump supporter and those are apparently fair game. (No, I am not a Trump supporter, but telling people to self harm or commit suicide because they tweeted #MAGA once is not only against twitter rules, it's against basic human decency) Sure, they are a private company and entitled to censor or not censor as they please. But twitter users are also noticing that the self proclaimed free speech zone of the web and beacon of democracy fails to deliver on their free speech promises. [0] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-a-target http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-...