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Elon Musk railed against shadow bans–now he's using them on his critics

• afinlayson 3y ago
  Pricing everyone out of the API allows him a lot of control over proving shadow banning
  • r721 3y ago
    The simple test for classic shadowban is just searching for "from:[username]" while logged in another account. And "search suggestion shadowban" test is kinda obvious - you search for "[username]" (while logged in another account), and account doesn't show up.
• mailund 3y ago
  Who could have possibly seen this one coming....
• FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Elon Musk, the adult billionaire with the attitude of a 9 year old on Xbox live.
• Zigurd 3y ago
  Worth. Every. Penny.
• junofan 3y ago
  Author isn’t shadowbanned though. He shows up in search. Search is just kinda flaky.
  • gwern 3y ago
    > X lifted the shadowban on my account after being contacted for comment on this story.
• rsynnott 3y ago
  He really probably should go back to the imaginary car tunnels.