{"id":49963,"date":"2019-12-05T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49963"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:05:06","slug":"49963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49963","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Censorship: “Shadow Banning” Is Written Into the Platform’s New Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TWITTER CENSORSHIP: \u201cSHADOW BANNING\u201d IS WRITTEN INTO THE PLATFORM\u2019S NEW TERMS<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Twitter has written \u201cshadow banning\u201d aka, censorship, into their new terms.  The platform will now intentionally \u201climit the visibility\u201d of some users. Expect those who dissent from the official narrative to be the ones censored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics have accused Twitter of censorship for quite some time now.  But this time, it\u2019s official. The company has admitted they will attempt to silence those critical of the ruling class. According to RT,<\/em><\/a> the news terms will be taking effect in January of 2020. While the new terms don\u2019t look like much to write home about, some tweaks to the language could have larger repercussions for users, limiting their reach behind the scenes without their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, when I spoke to Twitter reps, they lied and gaslight us about their targeted manipulation of people\u2019s tweets. Now it\u2019s in their new TOS. https:\/\/www.xbiz.com\/news\/248768\/twitters-new-terms-of-service-effective-january-reserves-right-to-shadowban \u2026<\/a> nu, @RubinReport<\/a>, we\u2019re waiting for an alternative<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services<\/strong>, limit distribution or visibility<\/strong> of any Content on the service, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you<\/strong>,\u201d the new terms state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The social media giant is telling users that it reserves the right shadow ban or \u201cthrottle\u201d or censor certain accounts. And it is not clear on what basis will it make those decisions, although we guess (based on their past which is rife with censorship) that accounts that aren\u2019t parroting the government\u2019s official narrative will be on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CENSORSHIP INCREASES: Twitter Suspend More Conservatives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Twitter has previously insisted<\/a> point-blank \u201cwe do not shadow ban,\u201d<\/em> in the pre-2020 terms the company split hairs between shadow banning and \u201c<\/em>ranking\u201d posts to determine their prominence on the site, and acknowledged deliberately down-ranking \u201c<\/em>bad-faith actors\u201d to limit their visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TWITTER CENSORSHIP: \u201cSHADOW BANNING\u201d IS WRITTEN INTO THE PLATFORM\u2019S NEW TERMS Twitter has written \u201cshadow banning\u201d aka, censorship, into their new terms.  The platform will now intentionally \u201climit the visibility\u201d of some users. Expect those who dissent from the official narrative to be the ones censored. Critics have accused Twitter of censorship for quite some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6489,17887,6490],"class_list":["post-49963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shadow-banning","tag-shtfplan-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49968,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49963\/revisions\/49968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}