(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Twitter admits to "moderating content."
Most of us want content that is both free and courteous, but what about hateful speech? We don't want that. The trouble is, it's not entirely a black and white distinction.
When Twitter bans or removes content, they say that it's hateful or untruthful. But many of us are convinced that a large part of it is not hateful - just an opinion on the political side that Twitter opposes.
"Shadow banning," one way to moderate content on social media, is described by Wikipedia as "blocking or partially blocking a user or their content . . in such a way that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned." They deny doing this.
An interesting thing happened earlier this week on Twitter. Political commentary on the opposite side from left-leaning Twitter has somehow blown up. One politician saw an amazing hike in the rise of his followers on Tuesday, from a norm of 2-3k to a huge 51k. Politicians on the left saw their numbers fall.
Someone else (not left-leaning) gained 220k followers in two days. He wonders if someone at Twitter "took the shackles off my account. Wonder if they’re burning the evidence before new mgmt comes in?"
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