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Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by NewJazz »

pannSun wrote: post #7
pohl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the connection you're making between Mastodon and BitChute? I'm missing it.

Censoring competition/alternatives.

Was BitChute a significant Twitter competitor? Or just a far-right propaganda and misinformation outlet?

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by p1necone »

saboot wrote: post #6
electric_mayhem wrote: post #4

[flagged]

Even if this specific case existed pre-Musk, it's been clear through his actions that free speech was just a ruse to distract from his censoring of critical opinions of himself.

In my experience this seems to be the case for practically everyone who crows about free speech on the internet.

It's kinda fucked up how the right has managed to "boy who cried wolf" discussion of personal freedom and free speech from important parts of modern democracy into massive red flags in conversation with others.

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by CameronNemo »

EGreg wrote: post #9

Just another reason why we should have OPEN SOURCE platforms that are hosted on thousands of domains. Here you can use this to build your own Twitter, complete with video broadcasts peer to peer: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

I wonder how many instances Twitter will be (soft) censoring? New instances can pop up at any moment, does Twitter plan to deplatform all of them, just ones that host objectionable content, or just those that are big enough to notice? This is a game of whack a mole. Good luck swinging that heavy ban hammer, Elon.

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by CameronNemo »

eindiran wrote: post #10
pohl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the connection you're making between Mastodon and BitChute? I'm missing it.

I think the idea is that BitChute tries to position itself as an alternative to YouTube, and Google (as the owner of YouTube) is doing its damnedest to prevent people from using the alternative. Replace BitChute with Mastodon and Google/YouTube with Twitter and its a similar pattern.

Sure, but the commenter said that this has been operating procedure for Twitter. But that does not seem to be true -- mastodon links have not been (soft) censored up until this point.

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by cronix »

NewJazz wrote: post #8
saboot wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if this specific case existed pre-Musk, it's been clear through his actions that free speech was just a ruse to distract from his censoring of critical opinions of himself.

Just recently an account that tweeted a video of elon musk being booed was suspended.

Yes, it was a DMCA takedown, for showing a copyrighted Dave Chappelle clip from his unreleased new special. Context is good. You can't just walk into a paid performance show, record it with your cellphone and release it willy nilly.

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by wpietri »

pannSun wrote: post #7
pohl wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the connection you're making between Mastodon and BitChute? I'm missing it.

Censoring competition/alternatives.

That is quite a stretch. Bitchute is video hosting, so it's not a Twitter competitor. And you're ignoring that it's well known as a host for hate speech. [1][2]

[1] https://www.adl.org/blog/bitchute-a-hotbed-of-hate [2] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2021/02/24/the...

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by eindiran »

CameronNemo wrote: post #14
eindiran wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the idea is that BitChute tries to position itself as an alternative to YouTube, and Google (as the owner of YouTube) is doing its damnedest to prevent people from using the alternative. Replace BitChute with Mastodon and Google/YouTube with Twitter and its a similar pattern.

Sure, but the commenter said that this has been operating procedure for Twitter. But that does not seem to be true -- mastodon links have not been (soft) censored up until this point.

I was responding to the question about what link OP was trying to draw between BitChute and Mastodon, no idea at all about the second question re censoring Mastodon links on Twitter.

But again, responding to your parallel comment, OP is not saying that BitChute is a competitor to Twitter. It's that entrenched player is (soft) censoring new competitor where , are filled in with (Google/YT, BitChute) and (Twitter, Mastodon).

Re: Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?

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Post by kgwxd »

pannSun wrote: post #2

This has been standard operating procedure at Twitter long before Musk: https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-censors-all-links-to-bitch... And at Google as well: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-bans-bitchute-app/ Edit: And at reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/comments/ktwypc/warning_re...

Sounds like another bias Musk should look into removing.
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