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The tech companies have decades of experience fighting spam. Your comment is like saying "Gmail blocked billions of spam messages but they don't offer proof tha
by cromwellian 8y ago
The tech companies have decades of experience fighting spam. Your comment is like saying "Gmail blocked billions of spam messages but they don't offer proof that they're not just banning libertarian and conservative emails!"
The mechanisms by which they've fought spam and fraud have been documented and there are numerous academic studies on the bot networks, actively tracing Twitter bot accounts back to their country of origin, and tracing by traffic analysis all of the reposts and reshares. You can find lots of papers written on publicly available data on pre-print services, like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04291.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04291.pdf
It wouldn't take you more than a few minutes to Google for this and read some of the papers instead of speculating in ignorance. The idea that they're somehow detecting libertarian messages and banning them is paranoid conspiracy theory nonsense.
- syshum 8y agoWhen it has happened to me first hand, and people I know personally first hand is not conspiracy theory nonsense. While I do not dispute there are bots out in the world, bots are a convenient excuse for censorship allowing them to also suppress opinions they dislike under the guise of suppressing "bots and spam" Your assertation that "Google has been fighting spam" as proof is an ironic example of that because Google fights hard to prevent what they call "bad advertisements" which more or less equates to any ads not shown through one of googles many ads networks. Google Spam == Good non-google spam == BAD. Likewise to these tech companies Liberal Opinions == Good non-liberal Opinions == Bots While there is no doubt they are purging actual bots, they are selective about which bots they purge and they often sweep up human accounts in their purge as well