[ExI] elon on twitter

[Darin Sunley]

I think I'm in love with how the Wikipedia article for shadowbanning
describes accusations of Twitter engaging in shadowbanning as a conspiracy
theory, then in the very next paragraph goes on to soberly describe Twitter
engaging in precisely this behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 11:37 AM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> The entire point of shadowbanning is that it's /shadowed/.  The plausible
> deniability is the most important part. If it's done properly, the victim
> doesn't know it's happening, and it can be done or undone as necessary and
> convenient.
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> The beginning of the end for the current media regime was when the term
> "shadowbanning" entered the popular lexicon. Once people know about it and
> can recognize it, it's just censorship. Meet the new Party media officer,
> saem as the old Party media officer.
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 11:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] elon on twitter
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>> >…That's my point. Twitter's moderation already is and has been
>> extensively automated…
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>> Good, then we don’t need all those humans in the loop.  They can be
>> released into other industries where they can develop automation to do
>> those jobs too.
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>> >…Libertarianism, unfortunately, is as intrinsically political in one
>> direction as "censorship is awesome as long as it's the good guys doing it"
>> is in the other. Power may flow from the barrel of a gun ultimately, but
>> downstream of that, it flows from control of communication. It is
>> /absolutely/ partisan, indeed even counterrevolutionary, to let everyone
>> have their say. At least where any significant number of people can hear
>> them. And that's where shadowbanning comes in…  Darin
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>> OK so how about this: make everything open to scrutiny.  If the software
>> wants to shadow ban someone, then that person’s posts drop into a public
>> domain folder where the public can see what these big lies were that got
>> the silly prole banned.
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>> Reason: rumor has it that a lot of shadow banning in the USA were from
>> posting three years ago that the Steele dossier is fake and Hunter’s laptop
>> is real.
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>> OK then.  What about all that, Twitter?  Can we go back and look at who
>> was shadow banned and why?  Did those two notions get people shadow
>> banned?  If so, what now?
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