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2022-04-27 -Land of the Free
Roundup of responses: Here’s an idea for ⁦@elonmusk. Open the books on who Twitter has shadow banned
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A familiar voice:
Posted by badanov 2022-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 

I have to admit knowing more would be interesting news.

But since MUSK is the new owner now and it would open the doors for Billions in Lawsuits he would have to pay.

I expect to see MSM go APE sh@t doxing Twitter in the coming days.

It would not surprise me if the LSD congress suddenly decided to address the Social Media Freedom of Speech issue with regulations.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-04-27 08:29||   2022-04-27 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Pretty much no legislation is going to move from now to the mid-terms. Cocaine Mitch will go into dems are lame ducks mode and wait them out.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-27 08:32||   2022-04-27 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 A lot of formerly banned or shadow banned conservatives of various stripes are reporting huge increases of followers following the first day after Musk's purchase.

It appears their charges of shadow banner were true, and if so, those on the staff of Twitter should answer.
Posted by badanov 2022-04-27 09:12||   2022-04-27 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 The actual sale isn't supposed to close for over 6 months. If these miraculous changes are occurring already, it means some people at Twitter are running very scared and emptying the lists that drive the banning / suppressing / censoring code.

I'm somewhat skeptical anything actually happened that fast.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-27 09:19||   2022-04-27 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 They put a moratorium on new software changes, but no mention of configuration changes...
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-27 09:45||   2022-04-27 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 What does that mean in less technical language, Rob?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-27 10:33||   2022-04-27 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Most software that's useful puts user-adjustable parameters in humanly understandable tables or databases that can be edited. That way, the underlying software does not need to be edited and re-compiled every time you just want to tweak the behavior.

The software would be your car radio and the configuration files would be the station selector, volume, bass, treble and so on. You would not want to have to change out the entire radio just to change the volume or station.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-27 10:49||   2022-04-27 10:49|| Front Page Top

#8 What Murcek said -- there are typically settings that can be changed outside the software. Depending on the development strategy, whole features can be turned off and on -- and in some cases that can be done on a per-user basis.

The honest use is so you can test a feature in a limited way, remove it if it doesn't work as expected, etc.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-27 11:49||   2022-04-27 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 I forgot to mention, TW, as a mod, you touch some of that all the time..
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-27 11:53||   2022-04-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#10 From the Democrat dictionary...

Hate speech: Speech with which Democrats disagree.

Racist: Anyone who engages in hate speech as defined by Democrats.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-27 12:15||   2022-04-27 12:15|| Front Page Top

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