It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back.

Jat620DH27@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 642 points –
Freedom of Speech, Not Reach: An update on our enforcement philosophy
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“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”

Surprise! Our great 'X' CEO has brought back one more bad thing that we hated about twitter 1.0: Shadowbanning. And they’ve given it a new name: "Freedom of Speech, Not Reach".

Perhaps the new approach by X is an improvement? At least they would “politely” tell you when you’re being shadow banned.

I think freedom of speech implies that people have the autonomy to decide what they want to see, rather than being manipulated by algorithm codes. Now it feels like they’re saying, “you can still have your microphone... We're just gonna cut the power to it if you say something we don't like”.

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Can we stop posting musk shit? It’s exhausting.

Have you considered joining "Enough Musk Spam", another such community devoted entirely to posting about the thing they dont like seeing posts about?

You understand that the point of these subs is the exact opposite of that?

Yes I understand that and am criticizing it. Aggregating posts about how a thing is bad is still posting about the thing. Rather than adding anti-XYZ posts to my feed I would rather just filter XYZ from me feed entirely.

You still seen confused, that's the exact opposite purpose of the subs

Hoy shit dude i understand that completely. I am not talking about their purpose. I am talking about their content. their purpose is contradictory. I'm bored with you now, stop replying. it was a one off about how the subs are stupid. either say something substantial or go away

It's doubly exhausting for the hundreds of millions of people who are still there and are affected by this.