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Number of take downs increased and X stopped providing exact numbers and copy of the requests. Journalists are banned and cisgender became a filtered curse word

by guax 2y ago

Number of take downs increased and X stopped providing exact numbers and copy of the requests. Journalists are banned and cisgender became a filtered curse word. You're deluded.

wakawaka28 2y ago
Elon Musk enforcing his preferences is totally different from random government officials issuing takedown requests through a designated portal. You may not have been aware of that but now you are. Go and look at the exposé by Matt Taibi.
- guax 2y ago
  X has complied with more government requests than Twitter. And removed the transparency info about them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/#:~:text=Twitter%20has%20fully%20complied%20with,the%20billionaire%27s%20promises%20to%20limit https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...
  - wakawaka28 2y ago
    There was no transparency info about takedowns before. That was the whole point of Matt Taibbi's exposé. Old Twitter absolutely wasn't transparent about their hard/soft censorship so any article from the mainstream claiming there is such a difference is suspect. Furthermore, the old algorithm was extremely biased in favor of extreme liberals, a fact which was common knowledge to many conservatives and independents, yet no liberal seems to have admitted it or complained about it. In fact they only complain now that they occasionally see things that they don't like, stuff that the old Twitter would have buried or banned. I'm not saying X is without fault or free of unwarranted censorship, but it is a hell of a lot better than it used to be in that regard. You can easily tell how free it is by how many people get butthurt about things they read on there. You don't need free speech to run with the crowd. You need it to say unpopular or politically controversial things.
    - guax 2y ago
      I wish you well.

by guax 2y ago

Number of take downs increased and X stopped providing exact numbers and copy of the requests. Journalists are banned and cisgender became a filtered curse word. You're deluded.

wakawaka28 2y ago

Elon Musk enforcing his preferences is totally different from random government officials issuing takedown requests through a designated portal. You may not have been aware of that but now you are. Go and look at the exposé by Matt Taibi.

guax 2y ago
X has complied with more government requests than Twitter. And removed the transparency info about them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/#:~:text=Twitter%20has%20fully%20complied%20with,the%20billionaire%27s%20promises%20to%20limit https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...
- wakawaka28 2y ago
  There was no transparency info about takedowns before. That was the whole point of Matt Taibbi's exposé. Old Twitter absolutely wasn't transparent about their hard/soft censorship so any article from the mainstream claiming there is such a difference is suspect. Furthermore, the old algorithm was extremely biased in favor of extreme liberals, a fact which was common knowledge to many conservatives and independents, yet no liberal seems to have admitted it or complained about it. In fact they only complain now that they occasionally see things that they don't like, stuff that the old Twitter would have buried or banned. I'm not saying X is without fault or free of unwarranted censorship, but it is a hell of a lot better than it used to be in that regard. You can easily tell how free it is by how many people get butthurt about things they read on there. You don't need free speech to run with the crowd. You need it to say unpopular or politically controversial things.
  - guax 2y ago
    I wish you well.