Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?(mastodon.online) |
Links mentioning Mastodon flagged as sensitive on Twitter?(mastodon.online) |
I've actually been reasonably pleased with Mastodon. It's got its rough edges for sure, but it's weathered the Twitter expatriation storm better than expected, and lots of folks I follow are mirroring their content there. The Fedifinder tool (fedifinder.glitch.me) is a really quite painless way to update my follow list as people move over.
I don't know whether or not Twitter is going to be "replaced" any time soon, but right now this does have sort of the feel of a Digg moment to me.
Check out for yourself: https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/160230074530237645...
Do you see a warning label or not? I don't.
Comment below if you see or not.
Update: the difference seems to be logged out or not.
If I'm logged in, I don't see the flag. I see it when not logged in.
Here you can use this to build your own Twitter, complete with video broadcasts peer to peer: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange
which is still "Account suspended"
but also new suspensions/bans, e.g. left-wing commentator Garland Nixon:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/z2depd/garlan...
and additional examples.
TBH, I believe that bot activity regulation and censorship of people are two distinct issues. Still, the search-shadowbanning of @ElonJet is quite inappropriate.
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...
But again, responding to your parallel comment, OP is not saying that BitChute is a competitor to Twitter. It's that entrenched player <a> is (soft) censoring new competitor <b> where <a>, <b> are filled in with (Google/YT, BitChute) and (Twitter, Mastodon).
[1] https://www.adl.org/blog/bitchute-a-hotbed-of-hate [2] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2021/02/24/the...
Meanwhile, the ADL is also well known to push an agenda far beyond addressing hate speech, acting as an apologist for crimes against humanity in service to Israel's colonial regime.
Some people in Texas have been known to be outspoken with their hateful views; does that make Texas a host for hate speech too?
I agree with you that the ADL's recent Israel positions are often short-sighted and terrible. But their century of tracking and fighting hate is solid work, and even if you didn't want to listen to them here, plenty of other groups agree with them on Bitchute. I even linked to one of them for you.
As to the rest, I'm not even sure what your point is. If you figure one out, let me know.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/comments/ktwypc/warning_re...
The point of the "hate speech" comment is that there's a plausible reason to suppress Bitchute that doesn't involve stifling competition (especially because, as GP mentioned, Bitchute isn't actually a competitor to Twitter). So it's not even analogous to what's happening here.
I don't view things so narrowly. If you want to limit yourself to only Twitter and Mastodon, you are free to do so, but that does not make similar cases non sequiturs.
> all you’ve shown is that Twitter
And Google, and reddit. Somehow, when shown the gatekeepers of online attention all censoring in concert with each-other, you see only isolated instances.
"It's completely different. They censored Bitchute before, but now it's Mastodon."
If, as you allege, the major social media sites are all in cahoots, why is Twitter the only one making it difficult to share links to Mastodon?