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I remember when Arab Spring was happening and thinking how amazing social media was going to be.
I certainly remember waves of American newscasters declaring Twitter as a force for democracy when regimes were falling in Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia. America again leading the way in global freedom, etc. They weren't as enthusiastic on January 6th, 2021. That was Twitter-led too.
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"Television is more detrimental to humans than telephone ever was." "Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was." "Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."
What if it is, but you can’t tell any more, because you don’t know how the world looked without it?
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Yes, that's what that means. He's upset because a human didn't actually double check it, so Twitter is lying by saying that.
I went through an entire ban appeal process with Electronic Arts over my Apex Legends account and was treated similarly. According to one EA Forum Moderator, there are actual people reviewing appeals, but the fact that they upheld my ban saying it was correct only to revert it 2 weeks after I stopped fighting them tells me their process is flawed. My best guess is bans are handed out automatically based on whatever h…
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that is not political censorship, it is illegal for US businesses to do business with Russia because of sanctions. The sanctions themselves are political, but not following them is not a choice for US businesses.
When they decided to terminate Parler not even giving them time to move hosts, that wasn't political censorship?
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I got my Amazon account deleted. I have old credit card linked to AWS with billing address in one city of Ukraine. Few weeks later after city been occupied I got message from Amazon that my account is locked due to sanctions. They give me ability to comply by removing offending credit card. But I can't do this because account is locked. I've got zero human response only broken scripts from support that I need to logi…
I’ve stopped using Amazon after AWS started political censorship. Actually, saves you a lot of money: much less impulse buying. It appears a lot of my impulse buying was caused by my trust in Amazon return policy :)
> AWS started political censorship
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So what your saying is that if you use twitter in a certain way, bots won't affect you much. I agree, and I do the same as you. But driving in a certain way to avoid pot holes should not be a good reason to avoid fixing the road.
> So what your saying is that if you use twitter in a certain way, bots won't affect you luch. No, I'm saying that I doubt spam has much of an effect on the experience of most Twitter users. Email spam is probably much worse for most people. [EDIT:] 1. I never mentioned ad blocking, so I'm not sure why 2 replies mentioned it. I mentioned blocking trends. 2. Even if you have trends, even if you have the algorithmic ti…
Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.
What are the practical alternatives? I'd imagine this is an issue one would see less often on a Mastodon node, as nodes tend to have fewer users per node so moderators / admins can respond more promptly to system failures, and if one doesn't like how an admin is running affairs, one can switch nodes.
The Joe Rogan podcast with Vijaya Gadde, Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool gives the outside world a good look at how Twitter is run. They should have been able to wipe the floor with every concern that was raised. Instead Jack Dorsey comes off looking lost and Vijaya Gadde comes off looking like a bad lawyer.
Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.
What are the practical alternatives? I'd imagine this is an issue one would see less often on a Mastodon node, as nodes tend to have fewer users per node so moderators / admins can respond more promptly to system failures, and if one doesn't like how an admin is running affairs, one can switch nodes.
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But why do you keep getting suspended?
This is basically unanswerable by anyone except Twitter employees, since nobody else has any insight into their banning algorithm.
So it seems like people should know at least what got them banned.