Freedom of Speech, Not Reach: An update on our enforcement philosophy
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Our mission at Twitter 2.0 is to promote and protect the public conversation. We believe Twitter users have the right to express their opinions and ideas without fear of censorship.

“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”.

  • @wmassinghamEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    It’s not, but the top mod also runs a bot that automatically posts content from various news sites, probably based on keywords. And I’d bet that some of those keywords are Twitter and Facebook. So don’t expect them to follow their own rules.

    tech·nol·o·gy
    /tekˈnäləjē/
    noun

    • the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. “advances in computer technology”

    • machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. “it will reduce the industry’s ability to spend money on new technology”

    • the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

    Some bozo changing the rules on his social media site is not scientific knowledge.