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by etchalon 4y ago
You can look up the Wikipedia article on the practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning It has a fairly rich history, and evolution, as well as counter-measures, and counter-counter-measures and counter-cou
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by etchalon 4y ago
Shadow banning was not built to deal with bots. The practice was popularized in various communities long before bots were a serious problem. It was built to deal with jerks who, when moderated, would sign up under a new account, or would re
903.
by etchalon 4y ago
People sometimes speak in hyperbole as a point of emphasis. Behold, humanity.
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by etchalon 4y ago
They will 100% eventually, if not soon after, have a special status, that isn't visible to the end user, and isn't appealable, because moderation at scale requires it. It'll be called something different, or framed in some di
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by etchalon 4y ago
Musk will now speed run the reasons shadow banning became a popular practice.
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by etchalon 4y ago
There was data to suggest that. The data that suggested that was linked in the article you posted: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e3.htm?s_cid=mm...
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by etchalon 4y ago
He'll end with the exact same practices, but with a different set of enemies.
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by etchalon 4y ago
When Musk announced his new policy towards moderation (speech, not reach), I pointed out it sounded no different in practice than "shadow banning", which was already something that certain segments of people considered censorship.
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by etchalon 4y ago
EVERY social network has a "secret" blacklist. Every. single. one.
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by etchalon 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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by etchalon 4y ago
Hope and love make people do wacky things.
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by etchalon 4y ago
This looks to be a completely different case.
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by etchalon 4y ago
By that logic, you're "forced" to work a job, where you're "forced" to come in on time and "forced" not to call your manager an idiot.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It seems like the author's experience at Google and Microsoft was a fairly long time ago. I'm sure a lot has changed.
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by etchalon 4y ago
What vaccines will you be arrested and jailed for not receiving? We didn’t wait until the studies could be completed because we had enough data.
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by etchalon 4y ago
We don’t “force” any vaccine. And guidance hasn’t changed because the benefits still outweighed the risks, though more studies are warranted and are in process in light of updated vaccines and mutating variants.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Because there's nothing new to the story yet, beyond a Twitter thread, some speculative accusations unsupported by the evidence posted, and some massive misunderstandings of the first amendment, and who was in power when. "Moderat
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by etchalon 4y ago
Caught.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Every vaccine has side effects in a limited number of people. Even the flu vaccine has known potential side effects
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by etchalon 4y ago
And you wanted a preemptive apology before they'd done it, or people were mad about it?
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by etchalon 4y ago
It sounds like what he has is a dump of emails, not necessarily a database of moderation actions. Even if he had a database like that, it's unlikely it's easily classified in a way you could actually correlate individual actions t
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by etchalon 4y ago
There's no data in the thread which points to any internal metrics at Twitter which shows outsized influence by Democrats. There's an implication based on the political donations of Twitter employees that that was likely the case.
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by etchalon 4y ago
They got caught doing something that it was public knowledge they were doing and the whole point of them doing it was immediately acknowledged in public?
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by etchalon 4y ago
This is not an abuse of power. It's literally what the job entails. This is why companies have leadership, with diversified duties. So the CEO doesn't have to have knowledge. You can absolutely, and fairly, argue that is the wrong
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by etchalon 4y ago
The most interesting thing to me, reading the story, and the materials provided, is that you do not see a nefarious, explicitly partisan, ruthless campaign to censor information with the specific and stated goal of influencing an election.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Twitter's policy against "revenge porn" was likely the controlling factor. Also, in general, posting private photos of someone, without their consent, is disallowed on most/all platforms.
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by etchalon 4y ago
All of those actions are replies.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I have a lot of respect for FIRE. Hell, I designed and built their website over a decade ago, when the organization was primarily focused on speech codes on college campuses. They were doing great and important work then, and continue to do
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by etchalon 4y ago
Apple has always taken the exact same percentage from developers, since the launch of the App Store, and long before the iPhone was one of the dominant phones purchased.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Twitter was already trying this with Twitter Blue. It was not wildly successful. Certainly not successful enough to replace advertising. As for the network effect … that's the point of "the value comes from the users."

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