It was the great Chinese dietary innovator and river swimmer Mao Zedong who famously said "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend."
Now it seems that social media giant Twitter is attempting to take a leaf out of the Great Helmsman's little red book by removing the shadow bans it has been placing on Right-wing, Right-leaning, and Conservative Twitter accounts.
Has Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey finally "seen the light"?
Or, in fact, has "The Light" taken him down a dark alley and given him a good kicking, as it is no coincidence that the Twitter CEO is going to testify this week before Congress on hearings that could effect Twitter's de facto monopoly hold on social media?
As reported by the Epoch Times:
Twitter appears to have modified its practice of shadow banning—the unannounced suppression of a social-media user’s content—in the leadup to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s scheduled hearing before Congress.
“Flying to DC for 2 hearings Wednesday with the Senate Intel Committee to share Twitter’s work to protect election integrity, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee to show our commitment to impartiality, transparency, and accountability,” Dorsey wrote in an Aug. 31 tweet.
Around the same time, supporters of President Donald Trump began reporting that their Twitter accounts no longer appear to be affected by Twitter’s “quality filter.”
The filter removes affected accounts from search results unless the user manually switches the filter off. The filter then snaps back on after each search.
So, in short, this decision by Dorsey to act like a human being instead of a demented SJW kill bot is purely motivated by fear and greed.
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| Dorsey practising for his Congressional hearing. |
Also, he has more than conclusively revealed his complete contempt for free speech and his deep malice towards the Right by banning and shadow banning tens of thousands -- if not millions -- of accounts in the past. So, this act should fool no one. It is a no brainer that, if he could get away with doing it again, this POS will, and in any way possible.
In fact, he may still be doing it. He could very well have just tweaked Twitter's algorithms to get their malicious shadowbanning back under the radar until the Left can get its jackboot on the throat of the political process in America:
“I’m not celebrating just yet, Jack’s engineers may have found a way to circumvent the latest shadowban detector,” said user Silent Lucidity, in a Sept. 1 tweet.
Other users have pointed out that their accounts still appear to be throttled.
“I’ve been stuck at 246,250 followers for a week now. Including today,” Scott Presler, vice chairman of the Young Republicans of Virginia Beach, Virginia, told The Epoch Times over Twitter. “I gain and lose every single day and seem to even around that number. My impressions are only around 200,000 per day, which is incredibly low for the amount of followers I have and retweets I get.”
Twitter executives previously stated that tweets and search results are “ranked lower” if posted by “bad-faith actors who intend to manipulate or divide the conversation.”
Twitter never clarified what determines “bad faith,” but said it includes “actions you take on Twitter,” such as who one follows or retweets, and even factors beyond one’s control, such as “who mutes you, who follows you, who retweets you, who blocks you.”
Yes, this basically means that Twitter can still slant things and move the goalposts whenever it wants, which means that Dorsey should not be let off the hook ever. While Twitter should be broken up as a massive trust and in the meantime regarded as a terrible investment. In short, Death to Twitter! May it rot in hell.
