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The Twitter Files, Part II: The Shadowban Protocols

Twitter repeatedly claimed they did not "shadowban" users.

Shadowbanning is a technique of banning someone without letting them know they're banned -- it's limiting the number of people who can see them. When they post, they can see their tweets, so it seems to them that they're not banned. A few of the friends they interact with the most can see their tweets.

But no one else can see their tweets. Hence, they've been banned, but stealthily. Under cover of shadow.

Twitter, through its repulsive chief censor and liar Vijaya Gadde, claimed repeatedly that Twitter simply does not shadowban.

It was yet another Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory, she seemed to be implying. After all, the right-wing was accusing her of shadowbanning their accounts, and she was saying Twitter has no such practice as shadowbanning -- must be those Right-Wing Disinformation Peddlers spreading toxic disinformation again.

And Vijaya Gadde also claimed Twitter specifically never shadowbanned based on political viewpoint!

That she had to deny that she shadowbanned at all, and then specify that she did not shadowban based on political viewpoint in particular, should have been a major tip-off.

Another tell of the liar: backsliding away from a definitive, absolute commitment into a more tenuous, limited claim. "I never saw this man before in my life. And furthermore, when I did see him, he was still alive."

So, below: Proof that Twitter has been shadowbanning people, and based on political views that they disapprove of.

Oh wait -- they don't call it "shadowbanning."

They call it: "visbility limitation."

I sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."

This is also why conservatives had their growth frozen for years -- Twitter slapped other types of "visibility limiting" retrictions on them to make sure that few people saw their accounts, so that they could not gain followers. Charlie Kirk, for example, got hit with a "Do Not Amplify" restriction. This is undefined in this article, but from context, one can assume it means that Twitter will not permit him to trend even when the algorithm would naturally, without Twitter's censors' intervention, put him on the trending list.

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss

THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.

TWITTER'S SECRET BLACKLISTS.

1. A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics--all in secret, without informing users.

2. Twitter once had a mission "to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers." Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.

shadowbanfirstwo.jpg

Charlie Kirk was also shadowbanned with a "Do Not Amplify" restriction.


Bari Weiss
@bariweiss

6. Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: "We do not shadow ban." They added: "And we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology."

7. What many people call "shadow banning," Twitter executives and employees call "Visibility Filtering" or "VF." Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.

8. "Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It's a very powerful tool," one senior Twitter employee told us.

9. "VF" refers to Twitter's control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet's discoverability; to block select users' posts from ever appearing on the "trending" page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches.

10. All without users' knowledge.

11. "We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do," one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.

12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day.

13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company's policy on paper. That is the "Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support," known as "SIP-PES."

14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.

15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. "Think high follower account, controversial," another Twitter employee told us. For these "there would be no ticket or anything."

shadowbanlibsoftiktok.jpg

17. The account--which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers--was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week.

18. Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter's policy against "hateful conduct."

19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that "LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy." See here:

twitterruleslibsotiktok.jpg

20. The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of "hospitals and medical providers" by insinuating "that gender-affirming healthcare is equivalent to child abuse or grooming."

21. Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on November 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10,000 likes.

22. When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: "We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules." No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up.

A link to that message, in which Twitter effectively declares that doxxing Raichik is allowed by Twitter because Twitter doesn't like her, is here. It blows the margins, so I won't embed it.

23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here's Yoel Roth, Twitter's then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021:

That image also tests the boundaries of the margins.

24. Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding "non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplification/visibility filtering."

Link, again.

25. Roth wrote: "The hypothesis underlying much of what we've implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/virality of content is a good way to do that."

26. He added: "We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we're going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations -- especially for other policy domains."

She then links a site where she and other reporters will be posting more. That site is currently down, whether due to too much traffic or a DDS attack.

28. The authors have broad and expanding access to Twitter’s files. The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter.

29. We're just getting started on our reporting. Documents cannot tell the whole story here. A big thank you to everyone who has spoken to us so far. If you are a current or former Twitter employee, we'd love to hear from you. Please write to: tips@thefp.com

Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM




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1 Third!

Posted by: portlandon at December 09, 2022 01:40 PM (+oR7L)

2
Twitter thinks they invented shadow banning. Heh.

Posted by: Big Tech at December 09, 2022 01:42 PM (+oR7L)

3 Holy crap look at the libs of tik tok screen grab

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:42 PM (lmM3O)

4 We're not going to get to the FBI, are we?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 09, 2022 01:43 PM (jN9FT)

5 Vajayjay Galore >>>> Vijaya Gadde

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:43 PM (ZGrMX)

6 And all Libs of Tik Tok did was link to posts, right? The user's content spoke for itself.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:43 PM (lmM3O)

7 We're fucking stupid for importing our new overlords.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (rJ48h)

8 Holy crap look at the libs of tik tok screen grab

That account has more warning lights on than a BMW.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (ZGrMX)

9 Perjury charge?.....now that's funny!

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (AwYPR)

10 Just watched Barris commenting on this.

Again. 'From the Shit We All Knew Files'

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (jr/Q9)

11 Would it be wrong to horsewhip repulsive chief censor and liar Vijaya Gadde but tell her she wasn't being horsewhipped?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (qoGsy)

12 I sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."
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This is America and they're on Team Complex. There will be no perjury charges.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (t0OGg)

13 That account has more warning lights on than a BMW.
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hahahaha

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (lmM3O)

14 Elon Musk is a modern day patriot for buying Twitter and exposing all of this.

He's done more for conservatism than any Republican in recent memory.

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (IsxIx)

15 4 We're not going to get to the FBI, are we?
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 09, 2022 01:43 PM (jN9FT)

Honestly, I totally believe that they wouldn’t even need to be told to do this stuff. The progressive left is a hive-mind. They don’t need to be told.

Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (HcAeC)

16 The only surprising thing is that they called it a "blacklist." That isn't consistent with "inclusive language" protocols.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (t0OGg)

17 4 We're not going to get to the FBI, are we?
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 09, 2022 01:43 PM (jN9FT)

I think we are and I'm not an optimist

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (bs+z0)

18 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2022 01:46 PM (T4tVD)

19 I posted some of my thoughts on this on the Morning Report, but I think they're still applicable.

Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.”

I find this interesting for a number of reasons. Aside from Twitter's obviously fraudulent statements that they don't manipulate trends or lists, this sort of defeats the purpose of a social network like Twitter. Twitter, in accordance with how things are *supposed* to work, should not be able to influence how big something gets or fails to get. It is supposed to *reflect,* not manufacture.

How should I interpret "Do Not Amplify?" Is that Kirk is being suppressed? Is that Twitter is synthetically pumping things up routinely, and they will not synthetically pump Kirk but otherwise not interfere? Is it both that they synthetically pump some things and synthetically suppress others?

I'm going with that last one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:46 PM (t0OGg)

20 The only surprising thing is that they called it a "blacklist." That isn't consistent with "inclusive language" protocols.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (t0OGg)


They would have recoiled emotionally from calling it "red lining"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2022 01:46 PM (xhaym)

21 Twitter repeatedly claimed they did not "shadowban" users.
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It wasn't a "shadowban", duh!

They just put a tag on saying "Do not elevate".

All along it was "The Algorithm"

... of Twitter letting their over-indulged employees decide who could be heard and who shouldn't.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 01:46 PM (krQz2)

22 I sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."

Yeah, right. Get back to me when anyone on the left is dinged with perjury or is prosecuted for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 01:46 PM (0hOvj)

23 Blacklist is a really good Exodus tune.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (UQUAY)

24 14 Elon Musk is a modern day patriot for buying Twitter and exposing all of this.

He's done more for conservatism than any Republican in recent memory.
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (IsxIx)

And he votes Democratic - go figure...

Posted by: Nova local at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (exHjb)

25 Elon bought a $44 billion cesspool.

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (v0R5T)

26 So, this is why Twitter had so many employees. They needed that many to make sure only approved subject matter was allowed on their platform.

Posted by: Seth Rich at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (5pTK/)

27 This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.”
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Working without a ticket can have one of four meanings based on my extensive experience in high tech:
1. There is an emergency so catastrophic that there is no time to fill out paperwork. You put the team together and assign someone to create a ticket later to track the effort.
2. The ticketing system is down. You go to paper and create a ticket after the fact to track the effort.
3. The person involved is incompetent or lackadaisical and violates policy. This is the most common, and it can go on until discovered, usually when something goes wrong and there's no paper trail of *how* it went wrong, then the person is usually terminated.
4. There's something nefarious going on.

I wonder which was in play here. I wonder indeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (t0OGg)

28
Conspiracy theorist = realist

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (enJYY)

29 "Honestly, I totally believe that they wouldn’t even need to be told to do this stuff."

But they were being told. Where are those records?

The only hope we have is if the House rolls this into Section 230 hearings and they lose their platform status in court. Which they absolutely ahould.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (jN9FT)

30 I don't think Elon understands Twitter.

Twitter is a place where people go to getting breaking news.

His Twitter files series is just rehashing stuff we've know for 5 years or longer.

This basically just seems like Elon trying to promote his platform to try to get retard conservatives back on it.

Posted by: Guy That Talks About Candidate Quality at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (W8+60)

31 19. But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that "LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy."

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What's so damn difficult to understand? It's Calvinball.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (FVME7)

32 Twitter was asshoe.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (a3Q+t)

33 Everything "far right wing conspiracy theorists" have been saying for years is slowly being proven true.

And yet the left isn't wrong when they call this a nothingburger because nothing will happen.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (lc5cP)

34 the real problem with the twitter thing isn't that twitter was shadowbanning folks, it's that twitter is influential enough to make a difference. we are not a serious people.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (edU/H)

35 Libs will tell you they don't like blacklists.

They also tell you half the truth most of the time, too.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (krQz2)

36 All along it was "The Algorithm"
.......

Al Gore worked for Twitter?

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (v0R5T)

37 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (t0OGg)

Darkly amusing. What other ludicrous politically correct , leftist word would be more appropriate. do you think?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (vH/6k)

38 Since its most recent timeout, while LTT was not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct Policy, the user has continued targeting individuals/allies/supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community for alleged misconduct. ....
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That's a pretty remarkable excerpt in its full context. We are in a world - a world Twitter in no small part helped to build - where allegation is the coin of the realm. If you allege that a white guy did something, you're a hero even if you're lying. If you allege that an Alphabet Person did something, you're "hateful." Beyond that, of course, is the false narrative constructed. LTT doesn't allege much of anything. She just posts the Alphabet People's own *public* statements made on other platforms. She merely cross-posts. She's a megaphone. She gets their message out there to a wider audience. The people she cross-posts incriminate *themselves.* She doesn't do it, her subjects do. Yet *she* is the one who is "hateful" because she chooses to share what *they* say.

What an enormously efficient sentence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (t0OGg)

39 16 The only surprising thing is that they called it a "blacklist." That isn't consistent with "inclusive language" protocols.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:45 PM (t0OGg)

It’s all performative. Almost nobody actually stopped using those terms, and nobody seems to complain about it.

Though it would be so hilarious if the Red Scare-obsessed Hollywood Left started referring to “the Blocklist” from now on.

Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (HcAeC)

40
I'd like to see a screen grab of the Babylon Bee account.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (enJYY)

41 The only surprising thing is that they called it a "blacklist." That isn't consistent with "inclusive language" protocols.

And, that term is universally considered a horrendous evil from the past used against sad, persecuted communists trying to undermine and destroy the United States. I agree, kind of surprising given their other very carefully massaged, Orwellian terms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (0hOvj)

42 How should I interpret "Do Not Amplify?" Is that Kirk is being suppressed? Is that Twitter is synthetically pumping things up routinely, and they will not synthetically pump Kirk but otherwise not interfere? Is it both that they synthetically pump some things and synthetically suppress others?

We know how that went because when Musk bought Twitter, there was shrieking from ex-employees about how the Trending list wouldn't be "curated" anymore by them.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (ZGrMX)

43 For years I would search for @seanmdav on Twitter and a bunch of non-@seanmdav accounts would show up but not the actual @seanmdav. Of course there was shadowbanning. It was super-easy to prove. Took five seconds.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (BJKQV)

44 shadow banning is the Whoopi banning of banning

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2022 01:49 PM (us2H3)

45 He's done more for conservatism than any Republican in recent memory.
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I believe you are overlooking all of our contributions at National Review.

Posted by: Rich Lowry at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (fs1hN)

46 It's not a "blacklist". It's "sensitivity enforcement"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (vH/6k)

47 ... His Twitter files series is just rehashing stuff we've know for 5 years or longer. ...
Posted by: Guy That Talks About Candidate Quality at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (W8+60)
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You know it. I know it. People who are tuned in know it. Millions of people.

Many, many more millions probably don't, and certainly don't know the extent of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (t0OGg)

48 /off murder FBI is singularly uninterested in sock

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (5pTK/)

49 I'd like to see a screen grab of the Babylon Bee account.

Musk said the next major update to Twitter will be to make all of those warning lights visible to everyone, even if you don't have an account. So we'll all be able to see what the Bee is marked as.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (ZGrMX)

50 Darkly amusing. What other ludicrous politically correct , leftist word would be more appropriate. do you think?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (vH/6k)
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The common "inclusive" alternatives are "block list" or "deny list."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (t0OGg)

51 I believe you are overlooking all of our contributions at National Review.
Posted by: Rich Lowry at December 09, 2022 01:50 PM (fs1hN)
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You misspelled, "ignored."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (5pTK/)

52 Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) to “Do Not Amplify.”

I find this interesting for a number of reasons. Aside from Twitter's obviously fraudulent statements that they don't manipulate trends or lists
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Not an editor, though.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (lmM3O)

53 They were shadow banning candidates running for public office.

Direct, criminal, interference with elections.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (KCOCK)

54 One of the worst was the NSFW tags they put on conservatives. Passive aggressive mean girl shit.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (2oHWb)

55 We were talking about Biblical names on the Art Thread. Is Elon a Biblical name?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (zFo/b)

56 Liberals believe the Establishment and media

... who haven't gotten a major thing right since 2016. They get it wrong almost every time.

Conservatives don't even have it be confirmed that their being dealt dirty, and THEY TURN OUT RIGHT.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (krQz2)

57 I sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."
Ace


Bwahahahaha! Comedy Gold, Jerry!
Nobody will pay for anything if they are in the state, of the state or with the state.
However, if they aren't you get 6 years for trespassing.

Posted by: Benito shows the way of party politics at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (FCbAQ)

58 His Twitter files series is just rehashing stuff we've know for 5 years or longer. ...
Posted by: Guy That Talks About Candidate Quality at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (W8+60)
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You misspelled "confirming".

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (krQz2)

59 I sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."
Ace

She's a democratic and left wing, so no charges EVER

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (dO/0d)

60 "OMG!!!! Elon Musk is publishing private internal communications from Twitter!!!!"


He paid over 40 billion for that information. He owns it.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (h1jJh)

61

My loins are heavy with need! Penetrate me with the Anal Intruder 3000 on max revs!

Posted by: Col. Puppythruster at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (p3vh3)

62 From Andy Ngo over at twitchy:

"Exclusive: Bari doesn't name too many names but the head of Twitter's Strategic Response Team when secret actions were taken to stifle conservative accounts happened under Jeff Carlton, who worked for both CIA & FBI.

He just deleted his LinkedIn. But I have an archive. @elonmusk"

Posted by: Turn two at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (LzAIh)

63 So, what is the incoming GOP house going to do about all these revelations?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (mnUzy)

64 One of the worst was the NSFW tags they put on conservatives. Passive aggressive mean girl shit.

Alex the Chick is gonna be disappointed if she doesn't have one.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:52 PM (ZGrMX)

65 Shadow Banning was Andy Gibb's worst song.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (ppBhU)

66 I blame this on H1B visas and Lincoln.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (4vi12)

67 Or "enhanced protection list" which makes it sound like an ad for a new and improved condom. Condoms are supposed after all to keep a lid of things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (vH/6k)

68 Pretty much every one of these scandals

1) Its a right wing lie! Of course if true it would be a big deal...but its not and we have absolute proof!

2) Meh some people did some things, maybe. I mean rogue agents will do stuff you know? Obviously they should be disciplined but its not like it was some broad organized conspiracy like you wingnuts claim!

3) It would be reasonable if they did that thing, even though they didn't. Which is why we didn't punish the people that did it...sorry that didn't do it. Because they totally deserved to even though they didn't.

4) Of course they did the thing, it was really the only choice a moderate, fair, and impartial group could do - as no serious person ever disagreed with. Anyway this is old news so let's move on.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (lc5cP)

69 sure hope Vijaya Gadde didn't claim she didn't shadowban people in front of Congress, or in any legal depositions. Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge

..

Nothing. Will. Happen.

Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (l9X49)

70 I bet Brinton smells of shit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (4vi12)

71 On the Morning Report, "andycanuck" posted a link to the now-deleted LinkedIn page from one of the bigwigs on Twitter's "Strategic Response Team," Jeff Carlton. He was the head of it just before the acquisition. (https://tinyurl.com/4s955cta)

From an excerpt from Carlton's now-deleted LinkedIn:
Twitter certainly has endorsed the FBI as a credible actor, allowing the organization to play a part in regulating global dissemination of information on its platform.

There it is, all pink and naked, hanging out for the world to see. The FBI has no business - because the US government has no business - in "regulating global dissemination of information."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:54 PM (t0OGg)

72 They were shadow banning candidates running for public office.

Direct, criminal, interference with elections.


Not just US elections either.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 01:54 PM (ZGrMX)

73 NSFW: People have a right to free speech

SFW: A tranny with a tail butt plug with three guys in dog/gimp suits

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 01:54 PM (lc5cP)

74 I'm probably guilty of contempt of Congress.

I'll suffer the same fate as vijajay.

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 01:54 PM (Tjnq+)

75 we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/ virality of content is a good way to do that."
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'Virality'? No, I'll never be using that 'word'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2022 01:54 PM (oLF0J)

76 Search Twitter on Google, all kinds of articles, nothing about this shit in the MFM

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (WF/xn)

77 I am going to go out on a limb here and declare that the former Twitter employees are the primary "cause" of the pandemic.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (h1jJh)

78 On that photo of Libs of TikTok, on the left side there is a category "GUANO", like links, videos, etc.

It that shit Twitter has kept on LofTT?

It shows a picture of a phone (? it seems), but still.

Posted by: Scott_T at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (2waQ7)

79 Ace BTW, that Free Press website worked for me just now.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (RFUBT)

80 ... of Twitter letting their over-indulged employees decide who could be heard and who shouldn't.


more of this "stakeholder" nonsense that is destroying the US and making me have to boycott so many damn things it's driving me bananas

Jack let his psycho paperwork-American wunderkind monster babies boss the users around

because they were so EARNEST!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (w0NJk)

81 Three members of Twitter's "Trust and Safety" team just resigned.

One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

Whadda coincidence!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (KCOCK)

82 AND they had/have access to DM's.

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (Tjnq+)

83 Methinks some Parading without Permit is called for here.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (4vi12)

84 We were talking about Biblical names on the Art Thread. Is Elon a Biblical name?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (zFo/b)
.........

Yes. Elon the Repo Man from Jerusalem, NY

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

85 All along it was "The Algorithm"
.......

Al Gore worked for Twitter?

He's got all the rhythm of a warped board.

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (T4tVD)

86 Speaking, there's a really great song by Legendary Pink Dots called Blacklist

https://youtu.be/MNzJll-0w6Q

"Industrial" is probably the closest thing to a genre that I could tell you, but it's not really because LPD is sort of it's own thing. But if you like that sort of thing it's worth a listen. And if you have dogs around the police car sirens near the end will make them howl, too.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled blacklist.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (lmM3O)

87 One thing about over clocking is that one gets directly into the nitty gritty.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (CFSlN)

88 I hope we hear a lot more about the collusion between Twitter and the intel community and the Democrat party. This shadow ban stuff is interesting but I want to see exactly what the people running the place were doing behind the curtain with the help of the government.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (ZLI7S)

89 Dorsey also perjured himself twice--a felony-- during a congressional hearing when asked point blank if Twitter shadow banned conservatives, replying curtly "No."

Posted by: Just reporting at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (YHyeJ)

90 One of them was the niece of John Podesta.
--------------
This guy likes his pizza young.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (4vi12)

91

Young boys in canine gimp suits performing show tunes at Disneyland are the new normal, haters!

Posted by: Col. Puppythruster at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (p3vh3)

92 I want to see ace's account tags
And mine

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (xvMxO)

93 I wonder which was in play here. I wonder indeed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:47 PM (t0OGg)
------------

Or, there's a tech issue which is pervasive to the point it is taken care of, regardless of whether or not a ticket has been created.

I'm leaning toward this: The ticketing system was not used, because it was accepted, by Twitter employees, certain things were not allowed and, since it's a pervasive issue, it was just addressed. Call it a "shadow ticket."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (5pTK/)

94 Other relevant posts from the Morning Report, but then I'll quit quoting:

@elonmusk · 11h
Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 09, 2022 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)
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disclosetv · 5h
JUST IN - Elon Musk confirms that political candidates were shadowbanned on Twitter while they were running for office or seeking re-election.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 09, 2022 08:40 AM (Vwz3I)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (t0OGg)

95 77 I am going to go out on a limb here and declare that the former Twitter employees are the primary "cause" of the pandemic.


they were

they likely amplified those early weird videos out of China that were likely fake

they suppressed any voices against the CCP narrative (led by Fauci)

twitter built a lot of it

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (w0NJk)

96 Those screenshots are interesting and telling.

Fucking Twitter...I'd love to see the Facebook UI in the same way. Or see Facebook burning, either/or...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (XvPQV)

97 Not surprised at all

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (tiLrF)

98 Search Twitter on Google, all kinds of articles, nothing about this shit in the MFM
----------------------

It's the algorithms, dummy. You just don't understand computers.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (lmM3O)

99 I am going to go out on a limb here and declare that the former Twitter employees are the primary "cause" of the pandemic.

If there was ever a fair analysis of the COVID deaths, I suspect you'd find them inline with the deaths from the Hong Kong and Asian flus.

Note, the US did *nothing* when those diseases came here.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (lc5cP)

100 With all the women he’s nailed and children he’s fathered, no one will ever question Musk’s virality.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (zFo/b)

101 We are digging our own mass graves. It must be a new dance, everybody is doing it.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (z5I/l)

102

Inna Gadde Vijaya, honey. Don't you know that I'll always be true.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (63Dwl)

103 I am going to go out on a limb here and declare that the former Twitter employees are the primary "cause" of the pandemic
-----

There was a pandemic, but twitters efforts to censor any dissenting opinions regarding COVID absolutely contributed to trumps loss. They helped reinforce the establishment narrative, which was then used to attack Trump.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (A6kLH)

104 this is like the old saw that "eskimos have no word for snow," because it is so important in their world that they have dozens of words.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (DdN0+)

105 I am going to go out on a limb here and declare that the former Twitter employees are the primary "cause" of the pandemic.

If there was ever a fair analysis of the COVID deaths, I suspect you'd find them inline with the deaths from the Hong Kong and Asian flus.
---------------

I'm betting well under 40K total since 2020.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (lmM3O)

106 AND they had/have access to DM's.
Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (Tjnq+)
++++
Obviously.

Regardless of your political leanings or level of agreement with what was going on at Twitter (or Facebook, or whatever other platform), anyone who assumes that DMs, instant messages, E-Mails, etc. on any of those platforms are actually private is a fool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (t0OGg)

107 The name Elon is a Hebrew name. It means something like "oak tree."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (vH/6k)

108 82 AND they had/have access to DM's.


there has already been some very nasty stuff from twitLord DMs shared

twitter right now is quite interesting

that's the place to go to really find out what is coming out

soon - tonight? - the stuff about why the IC and other TwitTools didn't ban child porn. even when identified. it's like they ... protected it.

should be quite interesting

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (w0NJk)

109 With all the women he’s nailed and children he’s fathered, no one will ever question Musk’s virality.

When other's pull out...I pull in.

Posted by: Elon Musk, thinking differently unlike those guys at Apple at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (lc5cP)

110 Is there such as a thing as shadowbarrelling?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (zFo/b)

111 The policy of merited impossibility:

"That is not happening to you, and you completely deserve it."

That's the left's M.O. "It isn't happening" ad nauseum until it can't be lied about, and then:

"Yeah, that's old news. And you deserve it anyway."

They lie as their native tongue, because they are of their father, the Devil.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (JMAcK)

112 You mean they lied? Who would’ve guessed? They look like such nice normal people.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (9X60i)

113 54 One of the worst was the NSFW tags they put on conservatives. Passive aggressive mean girl shit.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 01:51 PM (2oHWb)

More like aggressive aggressive, I think. At least with YouTube those tags mean that the content is blocked in schools, libraries and other places with web filters. Not sure with Twitter, but I bet it's the same deal.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (BJKQV)

114 >>> I hope we hear a lot more about the collusion between Twitter and the intel community and the Democrat party. This shadow ban stuff is interesting but I want to see exactly what the people running the place were doing behind the curtain with the help of the government.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (ZLI7S)


Members of the regime were installed directly into the company as paid employees to do all the work. These social media companies are crafted operations. They'll have plausible deniability all the way down.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (2oHWb)

115 Former twitter employees were also the source of all STDs

Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (gmo/4)

116 Elton John has announced that he's leaving Twitter.

Goodbye Yellow Bitch Road.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 01:59 PM (FVME7)

117 One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

There was no pizza on the Twatter campus?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:00 PM (Xrfse)

118 I don't have a Twitter account, however I use YouTube and I have personally seen some of my comments under YouTube videos either disappeared entirely, or not appearing to a logged-out viewing. I'm guessing its automatic, containing keywords or phrases like "obese purple-hared Google censor", "mentally ill homosexual", "groomer", "pedophile", "satanically influenced liberal NPC", etc. Nothing dirty or illegal, and certainly not anything the vid uploader might remove themselves. Just the kind of things that an obese purple-haired Google censor might find "problematic".

Posted by: Douglas Yancey Funnie at December 09, 2022 02:00 PM (2gboT)

119
I'd like just one honest Facebook employee to show a screen grab of their system of control. I'd bet it's a near duplicate.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:00 PM (enJYY)

120 Elon is from the Hebrew El-On, loosely translated to "God of Grifters".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (W8+60)

121 Elton John is still alive?

Posted by: wth at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (v0R5T)

122 81 Three members of Twitter's "Trust and Safety" team just resigned.

One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

Whadda coincidence!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (KCOCK)

Hope y'all and I are right with the Lord.

Trust, safety and Podesta in one tweet.

#soon

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (Tjnq+)

123 Gee, it would be a real shame if all those big twitter payouts to Javayjay et al all got consumed by lawyer fees.

Charge her double.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (JOtiF)

124 I wonder if Twitter knows if others have a strike count for them? Or better yet a countdown clock? Or perhaps a (insert ominous sounding thing here) going on?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (anj39)

125 You guys have pissed me off lately so take this!

https://bit.ly/3uDXJiQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (FVME7)

126 The walls... they are closing

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (Q4IgG)

127 Facebook definitely does this omg

I am not suppressed but my poor husband is. even I never see his posts!!! I'm linked to him and I tagged him as "close contact" and all that and I never see his posts unless I go directly to his FB page

we find it funny actually - I never post anything political to FB and he rarely does but I guess he did enough!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (w0NJk)

128 soon - tonight? - the stuff about why the IC and other TwitTools didn't ban XXXXXXXX even when identified. it's like they ... protected it.
------------------------------------

Holy.
Crap.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (lmM3O)

129 Regardless of your political leanings or level of agreement with what was going on at Twitter (or Facebook, or whatever other platform), anyone who assumes that DMs, instant messages, E-Mails, etc. on any of those platforms are actually private is a fool.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (t0OGg)
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Plus if somebody just needs to DM you to threaten your life or harass you, it kind of lessons the claims of "safety".

So, of course they have access to your DMs.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (krQz2)

130

Former Twitter employees turned me into a newt!

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (p3vh3)

131 A bunch of overeducated yet ignorant, hypersensitive, narcissistic experts-at-everything middle manager types have been in charge of a vital part of our national dialog for years now. And the nation has gone in the exact direction that you'd expect it to. It's become a reflection of these people.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (BJKQV)

132 If there was ever a fair analysis of the COVID deaths, I suspect you'd find them inline with the deaths from the Hong Kong and Asian flus.

Note, the US did *nothing* when those diseases came here.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 01:57 PM (lc5cP)


Not true! They held Woodstock during one of them, and you know that event's peace, love, and understanding certainly reduced transmission.

Posted by: Wally at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (FJYfm)

133 I think another series of posts and reports on DMs from key figures is a good idea. FULL TRANSPARENCY.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (0hOvj)

134 One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

Being a relative of a Podesta

Pluses: Connections to every industry, complete protection from law enforcement, politicians will return your calls

Minus: You have to share leftover cheese pizza

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (lc5cP)

135 121 Elton John is still alive?
----------------
Antibiotics work.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (4vi12)

136 121 Elton John is still alive?
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2022 02:01 PM (v0R5T)

Who's gonna miss that pathetic old Queen ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2022 02:03 PM (bs+z0)

137 Members of the regime were installed directly into the company as paid employees to do all the work. These social media companies are crafted operations. They'll have plausible deniability all the way down.

Posted by: CHuc at December 09, 2022 02:03 PM (fs1hN)

138 Dorsey also perjured himself twice--a felony-- during a congressional hearing when asked point blank if Twitter shadow banned conservatives, replying curtly "No."
Posted by: Just reporting at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (YHyeJ)

Perjury is a club, not a law.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 09, 2022 02:03 PM (FCbAQ)

139 Three members of Twitter's "Trust and Safety" team just resigned.

One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

Whadda coincidence!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (KCOCK)
++++
2022 keeps outdoing itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:03 PM (t0OGg)

140 123 Charge her double.

$20, same as in town?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:03 PM (zFo/b)

141 You want perjury.

You'll settle for financial ruin.

You'll get LOLGF

Posted by: Garland at December 09, 2022 02:04 PM (l9X49)

142 I've never had a social media account, except for YouTube. I didn't use my channel like a show channel (Mark Dice, Zeducation, etc) but just a place to store my videos to embed at my website.

As a tiny little fish in the mighty ocean, I was genuinely surprised when YouTube suspended my account at the end of September, and surprised again when, after my 2nd appeal, my channel got reinstated at the end of November. No specific reason given for either action.

So, I have a theory now. My YouTube account was caught up in some mad purge of last-ditch banning, but by the force of Elon on Twitter, my account was caught up in a great reaction wave. Something like that.

Simply put, the cancellation and reinstatement of the Mindful Webworks YouTube channel is symbol and example of the corner turned in information manipulation. Yay me and my powerful 25 subscribers!

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a terrible Christmas video at December 09, 2022 02:04 PM (kfkXh)

143 133 I think another series of posts and reports on DMs from key figures is a good idea. FULL TRANSPARENCY.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (0hOvj)

I agree... How you doing ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2022 02:04 PM (bs+z0)

144 btw the "show recent tweets first" thing actually works on Twitter now. it's kind of nice!

seems to get better every day. and now Elton flounced! better still

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:04 PM (w0NJk)

145 "Private companies should be free to commit fraud -- REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:05 PM (g4gHR)

146 seems to get better every day. and now Elton flounced! better still
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Elton has been flouncing for quite some time. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2022 02:05 PM (qoGsy)

147 Would it be wrong to horsewhip repulsive chief censor and liar Vijaya Gadde but tell her she wasn't being horsewhipped?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM (qoGsy)


I was thinking floating face down in a pond somewhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:05 PM (anj39)

148 2022 keeps outdoing itself.

Piker.

Posted by: 2023 at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (Xrfse)

149 A girl friend dragged me to a concert. I forget who the other performers with, but Elton John was one. And I...feel asleep when he performed.

Its the only time I've ever fallen asleep in a concert.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (lc5cP)

150 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (7Q7Ca)

151 JUST IN - Elon Musk confirms that political candidates were shadowbanned on Twitter while they were running for office or seeking re-election.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 09, 2022 08:40 AM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:56 PM (t0OGg)
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The FEC needs to take a look at this crap...but it's "Biden's" FEC, so they aren't doing shit.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (krQz2)

152 Twatter. Digital shithole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (7Q7Ca)

153 150 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (7Q7Ca)


We certify this results and free and fair.

Posted by: The state of AZ at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (lc5cP)

154 A girl friend dragged me to a concert. I forget who the other performers with, but Elton John was one. And I...feel asleep when he performed.

Its the only time I've ever fallen asleep in a concert.


You were out like a candle in the wind?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (Bd6X8)

155 Old and busted: The Bitch Is Back!

New and cool: The Bitch Is Gone!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (FVME7)

156 Conservatives don't even have it be confirmed that their being dealt dirty, and THEY TURN OUT RIGHT.
Posted by: Axeman

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If you are shadowbanning Kirk because you think he is 'dangerous' to the system, then your system is failing already. Kirk is a perfect Uniparty controlled op person--this is simply what the lunatic left fails to recognize--most of the thinking people on the right actually despise their 'leaders' and Conservative Media TM types because they recognize their gatekeeping charades and pathetic always making the Conservative case for pleasuring the left.

Those folks are HELPING them but are still shadowbanned as icky.

Makes me laugh.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (bDjBG)

157 137 Members of the regime were installed directly into the company as paid employees to do all the work. These social media companies are crafted operations. They'll have plausible deniability all the way down.
____

post fail - meant to add comment on absurdity of plausible deniability. especially if mainstream news runs with it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (fs1hN)

158 "Private companies should be free to commit fraud -- REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:05 PM (g4gHR)
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David French, is that you?

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (krQz2)

159
we find it funny actually - I never post anything political to FB and he rarely does but I guess he did enough!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM


My wife has a very conservative friend in Florida who posts political stuff on FB all the time. When we don't hear from her for a few days we know she's been shadow-banned again. Sure enough, go directly to her page and there's an LOL criticism of the O'Biden administration.

The left will not permit mockery of any sort to spread.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (enJYY)

160 soon - tonight? - the stuff about why the IC and other TwitTools didn't ban XXXXXXXX even when identified. it's like they ... protected it.
------------------------------------

Holy.
Crap.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (lmM3O)

Oh no.

We will just be labeled as transphobes.

Once the US acceded to the gay lifestyle, it was just a matter of time.

When one deviant behavior is accepted, why are we shocked when the next is presented?

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (Tjnq+)

161 Holy crap look at the libs of tik tok screen grab
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 01:42 PM (lmM3O)



"Do not take action on user account without PIPPING - PENIS."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:07 PM (7Q7Ca)

162 Former Twitter Executives: Doing the work Americans won't do.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2022 02:08 PM (a3Q+t)

163 Old and busted: The Bitch Is Back!

New and cool: The Bitch Is Gone!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:06 PM (FVME7)
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Nope. Whitmer got re-elected.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:08 PM (krQz2)

164 Why do so called celebrities announce they are leaving Twitter or Facebook or whatever? Are they hoping fans would cry and beg them to stay? Is it all just to inflate their ego?

Posted by: IC at December 09, 2022 02:08 PM (oX3MH)

165 >>Its the only time I've ever fallen asleep in a concert.

>You were out

He was at an Elton John Concert. He was out, alright.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:08 PM (jr/Q9)

166 Yep, whenever leftists take over anything, they first make little groups to keep out and/or limit whomever is in the organization to eventually purge said organization from all kinds of WrongThink.

What's going on at Twatter is obviously going on in Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM (Rl7KJ)

167 soon - tonight? - the stuff about why the IC and other TwitTools didn't ban XXXXXXXX even when identified. it's like they ... protected it.

Its pretty clear that they would act on CP but only eventually and reluctantly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM (0hOvj)

168 Conspiracy Theorists!

You are all Crazy QAnon Conspiracy Theorists!!!

Posted by: rd at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM (Z32m1)

169 Occasionally I see people on the left slamming THE BEN SHAPIRO and...I have to laugh.

You aren't wrong in calling him a self righteous prick you just don't get why you are right...

Also I hear ShoeOnHead got cancelled again? Did she find another Chad boyfriend that um, set her straight?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM (lc5cP)

170 A girl friend dragged me to a concert. I forget
You were out like a candle in the wind?
Posted by: Blanco Basura
---------------------------
Golf clap.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM (bDjBG)

171 >>Three members of Twitter's "Trust and Safety" team just resigned.

>>One of them was the niece of John Podesta.

>>Whadda coincidence!

And supposedly a bunch of information on child sexual abuse that was apparently being spread on Twitter for years with almost no interference is about to hit the fan.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (ZLI7S)

172 "Shadowbanning's not happening, and it's good that it is!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (g4gHR)

173 Methinks Yoel Roth was a founding member of the SIPPING PENIS committee.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (UuD2k)

174 You were out like a candle in the wind?
Posted by: Blanco Basura


You are the wing beneath my wings Blanco.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (lc5cP)

175
Shadow dancing > shadow banning

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (Q4IgG)

176 And I can see Elton wavin’ goodbye.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:11 PM (zFo/b)

177 Conspiracy Theorists!
You are all Crazy QAnon Conspiracy Theorists!!!
Posted by: rd at December 09, 2022 02:09 PM


You are too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2022 02:11 PM (a3Q+t)

178 "Shadowbanning's not happening, and it's good that it is!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (g4gHR)
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The two prongs of lib "logic".

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:11 PM (krQz2)

179 Remember Sen Menendez? And how after he publicly disagreed with Obama on the Iran deal we found out he was banging underage prostitutes in DR?

Weird how that works isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:11 PM (lc5cP)

180 You were out like a candle in the wind?
Posted by: Blanco Basura

You are the wing beneath my wings Blanco.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (lc5cP)
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Hold me closer, Tony Danza.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:12 PM (krQz2)

181 Why do so called celebrities announce they are leaving Twitter or Facebook or whatever?

I think the biggest part of it is to try to start a Movement, to create a Thing: they left, we should too!

Another part is ego: Twitter will change if they find out I am leaving!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:12 PM (0hOvj)

182 >>> SFW: A tranny with a tail butt plug with three guys in dog/gimp suits
Posted by: 18-1
---------------------

Basic health ed., it's taught in the finest of schools.
Something all youngsters need to learn.



Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (CFSlN)

183 167 soon - tonight? - the stuff about why the IC and other TwitTools didn't ban XXXXXXXX even when identified. it's like they ... protected it.

Its pretty clear that they would act on CP but only eventually and reluctantly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
----------------------------
These people are the IC's friends, informants, assets, direct action types like Antifa, employees, and the officials over them.

Of course, any sweep of these would be reluctant. Recall the reports back in the days by IGs that had fed employees watching porn at prodigious rates on government computers. And almost none of them were ever punished for it.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (bDjBG)

184 Libs of TikTok should sue former management at Twitter for their actions. They all got golden parachutes, so, why not see if she can turn the golden parachute into brass?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (5pTK/)

185 Leftists argue that this is old news or no big deal. The silencing if Dr Jay had real world impact in that it let Fauci, CDC and WHO control the treatment of COVID and the lockdowns which the economy and children. These people must pay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (mP+mW)

186 El-On cousin of Kal-El.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (63Dwl)

187 Shadow Banning was Andy Gibb's worst song.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (ppBhU)

Nobody ever heard it because it wasn't played on AM radio

Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (eoQWY)

188 I think Elton was against boycotting Israel, and did a concert there.

So, he’s not totally useless.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (zFo/b)

189 ... one can assume it means that Twitter will not permit him to trend even when the algorithm would naturally, without Twitter's censors' intervention, put him on the trending list.

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"DISINFORMATION: There are NO human censors, it's all an AI Algorithm created by AI Robots who program themselves, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (QYppa)

190 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (0om5x)

191 And I can see Elton wavin’ goodbye.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:11 PM (zFo/b)

God it looks like Elton.
Must be the glitter in my eyes.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (FCbAQ)

192 Misinformation=shut up conservative. Next way they will shut us up will by trying to shoot us.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (ytSiK)

193 The left will not permit mockery of any sort to spread.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Stan trait btw. Stan hates to be mocked and his minions share that pride and ego making mockery painful to them.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (bDjBG)

194 As much as Obama hates white peepo, he is seething with jealousy of actual minorities.

He's a Racist Bigot without a home.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (jr/Q9)

195 It blows the margins, so I won't embed it.

23. In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects. Here's Yoel Roth, Twitter's then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021:
That image also tests the boundaries of the margins.


Hey! What's a margin have to do to get blown around here?

Posted by: The Margins at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (Wnv9h)

196 I'm trying to imagine being the only conservative working at Twitter, and, well, I honestly don't know how one could survive that much insanity.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (5pTK/)

197 Something has started irking me.... not quite galling, but close. It's the idea of "Biden's" this or "Biden's" that. Biden's DOJ. Biden's FBI.

It isn't. There is no Biden's DOJ or Trump's DOJ or Obama's DOJ.

They do what they want to do regardless of who their boss is. Sometimes the boss is on the same page, sometimes not. But the various agencies and departments will do what they will do regardless of which idiot wins a meaningless popularity contest.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (9UlRk)

198 >>> Regardless of your political leanings or level of agreement with what was going on at Twitter (or Facebook, or whatever other platform), anyone who assumes that DMs, instant messages, E-Mails, etc. on any of those platforms are actually private is a fool.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 01:58 PM (t0OGg)


Any communication is necessarily not private. That's something that irked me back when people knocked proton email for giving info to the regime. They did not give any email content info away because they couldn't it's all encrypted and they have no keys. They gave away addresses that they are required to keep in order to function. It was the email recipient that provided the contents of the email to a government. The status of privacy in communication is shared by all the people involved from beginning to end. If you don't trust at least one of the people involved then the whole thing is no longer private.

In one of my first posts on the HQ many years ago I put my full email into the comment box instead of the email box like a dummy. Morale of this story? Don't be a dumb banana.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (2oHWb)

199 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.
Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (0om5x)

Me too. It feels better than admitting I've nothing of value to add (and yet that don't stop me)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (FCbAQ)

200 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.

I blame it on the sheer mediocrity of my posts.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (Xrfse)

201 Would it be wrong to horsewhip repulsive chief censor and liar Vijaya Gadde but tell her she wasn't being horsewhipped?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2022 01:44 PM

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Just call it "Honesty Re-inforcement". Totally different thing now.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (zL564)

202 190 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.
Posted by: polynikes

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I always check to see if my deodorant has failed in that circumstance.

A quick sniff under each arm should do the trick.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (bDjBG)

203 They can access your phone number, IP address and your direct messages, that's some scary stuff

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (dKiJG)

204 Shadow dancing > shadow banning
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2022 02:10 PM (Q4IgG)



You asked for it........


https://youtu.be/FG1NrQYXjLU

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (7Q7Ca)

205 Stan trait btw. Stan hates to be mocked and his minions share that pride and ego making mockery painful to them.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:15 PM (bDjBG)

Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (9UlRk)

206 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.

I blame it on the sheer mediocrity of my posts.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (Xrfse)
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Heh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (5pTK/)

207 This joint can't even keep the damn colors and fonts straight, how they gonna implement a shadow-banning system?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:18 PM (9UlRk)

208 Glad I never joined Twitter before

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 09, 2022 02:18 PM (5IE+1)

209 ---
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:12 PM (krQz2)



LMFAO

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:18 PM (7Q7Ca)

210 I didn't murder him, your honor, I gave him a wellness deferment.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:18 PM (UuD2k)

211 You guys have pissed me off lately so take this!

https://bit.ly/3uDXJiQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (FVME7)
***

Damn.
And here I am out of everclear.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:18 PM (anj39)

212 187 Shadow Banning was Andy Gibb's worst song.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (ppBhU)

Nobody ever heard it because it wasn't played on AM radio
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (eoQWY)


Did anyone ever wonder what the Bee Gees would sound like if they took hits of helium before they sang?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Banned Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (PiwSw)

213 Shadow Banning was Andy Gibb's worst song.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (ppBhU)


I think "That's An Absolutely Gorgeous Pile of Cocaine" would have been his worst song, but he wasn't able to finish it.

Posted by: Wally at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (FJYfm)

214 >>>IGs that had fed employees watching porn at prodigious rates on government computers. And almost none of them were ever punished for it.
Posted by: whig
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They stopped?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (CFSlN)

215
Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (9UlRk)



HEY!!!!

Posted by: Horny Mike at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (7Q7Ca)

216 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.

I blame it on the sheer mediocrity of my posts.


Sort of a self-shadowbanning, then?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (Bd6X8)

217 I hope we hear a lot more about the collusion between Twitter and the intel community and the Democrat party. This shadow ban stuff is interesting but I want to see exactly what the people running the place were doing behind the curtain with the help of the government.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2022 01:55 PM (ZLI7S)

I'm only hoping for this. If it happens, we're going to find that the RNC is just as culpable in all this censorship as the rest of the deep state/dem players.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (BdMk6)

218 Was Andy Gibb actually related to The Brothers Gibb? Like a cousin or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (9UlRk)

219 If someone felt so inclined to sue who'd they sue? The previous staff? Musk?

I think no matter what it'd be a mess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (Q4IgG)

220 211 You guys have pissed me off lately so take this!

https://bit.ly/3uDXJiQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (FVME7)


Whoa, that is bad.

Posted by: Yoko Ono at December 09, 2022 02:20 PM (PiwSw)

221 From yesterday:
Don't disagree. But we are stuck in a world where crimes are not punished.

I say this over and over and it's not a dodge, I really mean it. I want to see all of the guilty charged and put through the legal wringer as much as anyone. Maybe more.

But what I want more than anything is my country back. Some soy boy at Twitter going to prison won't make my life appreciably better but getting back to running the country on Constitutional principles will and the only way that happens is if everything is exposed and we tear down the infrastructure they have built to oppress us. Taking back the ability to freely communicate is the single most important thing we can do and it's happening right in front of us and no amount of lies from the left will change this.

The truth will set us free once everyone knows it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2022 09:26 PM (ZLI7S)



#twoweeks
Phrasing.

Too many people are getting too much money the way it is now for anything to change til the well runs dry.

And until there's a wall of shamed names in the 3 letter agencies lobby to go with the unknown stars they'll keep lying while talking about the truth.

Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2022 02:20 PM (FhXTo)

222 Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Heh. That would earn you a shadowban or suspension on social media as hatespeech.

You get rewarded for that post at AOS which shows what a depraved h8r site this is according the left.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:20 PM (bDjBG)

223 Nothing will happen to any of these people. Oh, the useless House GOP will hold "hearings" and "commissions" and all that nonsense with endless chest-beatings and the like. Nothing will come from any of it though. As always.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 09, 2022 02:20 PM (PWI4f)

224 When celebs leave Twitter, they should be asked why. Elon, preferably.

"Too much xxxxxx, xxx, whatever."

Let Twitter investigate.

Have them document why.

Like Elon busting Schiff's balls for saying harassment is up 300%

They are leaving because they are no longer in charge. Hang that around their necks. Plaster it everywhere.

Make them own it.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (tVFvW)

225 184 Libs of TikTok should sue former management at Twitter for their actions. They all got golden parachutes, so, why not see if she can turn the golden parachute into brass?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (5pTK/)

The CEO AND TWITTER safety head were fired for cause. No bonus for them

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (dKiJG)

226 I bought that Andy Gibb album in HS. Shadow Dancing was the least best song on the album IMHO.



Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (0om5x)

227 I blame it on the sheer mediocrity of my posts.

Sort of a self-shadowbanning, then?


Not every dick joke is hard enough.

Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (FhXTo)

228 131 A bunch of overeducated yet ignorant, hypersensitive, narcissistic experts-at-everything middle manager types have been in charge of a vital part of our national dialog for years now. And the nation has gone in the exact direction that you'd expect it to. It's become a reflection of these people.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (BJKQV)


Comment of the week.

Posted by: CppThis at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (UewuT)

229 You guys have pissed me off lately so take this!

https://bit.ly/3uDXJiQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (FVME7)


Whoa, that is bad.
Posted by: Yoko Ono at December 09, 2022 02:20 PM (PiwSw)
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Yeah, but it's not autoplay-bad.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (krQz2)

230 ace said Vijaya.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (t4fCu)

231 There is no shadowbanning. There is no shadowbanning. There is no shadowbanning.

Here is proof of shadow banning

Look, we have discussed shadowbanning to death. I answered all of your questions about it a long time ago. It is time to move on to more important things.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (pVKYX)

232 "The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter."


Musk News is going to be lit AF. kiss your worn out asshole goodbye, MSM. he's miles ahead of you.

Posted by: x at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (VqdMc)

233 They stopped?

Posted by: Braenyard
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Well, yes in the sense that the IGs apparently don't issue such reports any more. That means it must have stopped, at least to teh government's satisfaction. Kind of like your refrigerator light. Don't open the refrigerator and it cannot be on.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (bDjBG)

234 Sort of a self-shadowbanning, then?

Yes. I am always confident that when I've typed in my mediocre musings and hit post that they will forever be lost to posterity.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

235 Fauci says heed the advice of ‘Dr. Biden’ about ‘most important thing’ you can do for the holidays [get vaxed]

-
Well, they're both doctors.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (FVME7)

236 It's become a reflection of these people.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2022 02:02 PM (BJKQV)

Comment of the week.
Posted by: CppThis at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (UewuT)

Seconded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (9UlRk)

237 SFW: A tranny with a tail butt plug with three guys in dog/gimp suits
Posted by: 18-1
---------------------

Basic health ed., it's taught in the finest of schools.
Something all youngsters need to learn.


Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (CFSlN)
***

Giggle...giggle...giggle...
Teacher, Little Johnny just farted out his butt plug!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (anj39)

238 There is no shadowbanning. There is no shadowbanning. There is no shadowbanning.

Here is proof of shadow banning

Look, we have discussed shadowbanning to death. I answered all of your questions about it a long time ago. It is time to move on to more important things.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:21 PM (pVKYX)



It's the "What difference, at this point, does it make" defense.

BRILLIANT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (7Q7Ca)

239 Was Andy Gibb actually related to The Brothers Gibb? Like a cousin or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (9UlRk)

Don't know if that was serious. Baby Brother .

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (0om5x)

240 Andy Gibb was banging Victoria Principal in her prime, but was more into his drugs instead.

That’s some f***ed up shit, right there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (zFo/b)

241 Shadow Banning was Andy Gibb's worst song.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 09, 2022 01:53 PM (ppBhU)
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You wanna know what Hell is, folks? It's Andy Gibb, singing "Shadow Dancing" for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange plaid bell-bottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers.

How you guys doing? This is gonna SUCK!

Posted by: Denis Leary, approximately at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (t0OGg)

242 I DID NOT STEAL FOUR SNICKERS BARS, TWO TWIXES AND A PACK OF CAMEL TURKISH GOLDS, BOXED OF COURSE, FROM THE KING KWIK ON MAIN STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THREE FIFTY FOUR!

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (6BKWh)

243 And Twitter and the left, when they say "cause harm" they really mean "cause harm to our side."

Totalitarians!

Posted by: Ultra pj at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (G1dq6)

244 Was Andy Gibb actually related to The Brothers Gibb? Like a cousin or something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (9UlRk)
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Younger brother.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (krQz2)

245 There was no *widespread* shadowbanning.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (jhijN)

246 But what I want more than anything is my country back. Some soy boy at Twitter going to prison won't make my life appreciably better but getting back to running the country on Constitutional principles will and the only way that happens is if everything is exposed and we tear down the infrastructure they have built to oppress us. Taking back the ability to freely communicate is the single most important thing we can do and it's happening right in front of us and no amount of lies from the left will change this.

The truth will set us free once everyone knows it.
Posted by: JackStraw
---------------

(raises glass)

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (lmM3O)

247 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 09, 2022 02:17 PM (7Q7Ca)

Will not click!
But damn, what virulent ear worm. Kinda like Unskinny Bop.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (UQUAY)

248 Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Heh. That would earn you a shadowban or suspension on social media as hatespeech.

You get rewarded for that post at AOS which shows what a depraved h8r site this is according the left.


That's why I'm glad we don't have upvotes and such here. It is better to be ignored than downvoted and have comments slowly morph into that which gets upvotes and nothing else.
Small echo chamber then come the bans, which leads to kilgore trout and lfg.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (FCbAQ)

249 >>>110 Is there such as a thing as shadowbarrelling?


There SHOULD be

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (C1Zwz)

250 Dan Bongino has a commercial presense on Twitter so

15 USC 1:
Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

and 15 USC 15 allows lawsuits against companies who violate the above law.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (CecP5)

251 Don't know if that was serious. Baby Brother .
Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:23 PM (0om5x)

Ah. Thanks.

One might say I am not old enough to be on the lawns of many here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (9UlRk)

252 They didn't shadowban you guys! They merely enjoined under a penumbra.

Posted by: Ken in NH at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (U7jHh)

253 And several members of the Twitter Trust and Safety council flounced.

There is always a Podesta.

annecollier

@annecollier
·
Dec 8
Three of us resigned from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today: @eirliani @podesta_lesley and me. Here’s why...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (pVKYX)

254 Giggle...giggle...giggle...
Teacher, Little Johnny just farted out his butt plug!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (anj39)
---------------

Little boys would probably be having contests to see who could fart the butt plug the farthest.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (5pTK/)

255 Nothing will come from any of it though. As always.
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock
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The point is that protection money, ahem, campaign donations will flow into GOP coffers. In every dung heap, there is a bit of sunshine--eh?

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (bDjBG)

256 There was no *widespread* shadowbanning.
-----------------

I'd like to nominate this for threadwinner.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (lmM3O)

257 Oh man...

Grown damned men are emailing back and forth to each other like bitchy little girls, on a Friday, a few weeks before the break on a work email thread. "I have taken offense to this" followed by paragraphs of crimes detailed and enumerated. SMH... Damn son. Stand up. Wipe the tears outa your eyes and get back to work. Luckily, I'm not involved. Somebody just cc'd me to see if I have any input.


Nope.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (2oHWb)

258 OT: https://youtu.be/rUUWMK9FBko

The fifteen minute city, from sky News australia
Portland is mentioned...

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (Rbu5d)

259 Will Kevin McCarthy call Vajaja before Congress? Magic 8-ball says: don’t count on it

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (YTBIQ)

260 Basic health ed., it's taught in the finest of schools.
Something all youngsters need to learn.


Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:13 PM (CFSlN)
***

Great way to rile up parents.
Hack into the school's list of things kids need before school that always comes out in August. Add Butt Plugs, sado masks, and handcuffs.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (anj39)

261 if I have any input.

Nope.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (2oHWb)

Tactfully suggest they settle their differences in a Feats of Strength.

Sell tickets. Use the proceeds to buy something neat for the breakroom.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (9UlRk)

262
The Jack Dorsey lie to Congress is upsetting to me. Don't we have anyone there who can create a question in such a way to catch the lie?

Like: "Mr. Dorsey, are you being 100% honest with your answer? We used the term 'shadow-banning' - is there any other internal Twitter term that would describe the practice of limiting the audience of certain individuals?"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (enJYY)

263 A perjury charge? For the Untouchables?

How quaint.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (0dBWD)

264 Damn son. Stand up. Wipe the tears outa your eyes and get back to work. Luckily, I'm not involved. Somebody just cc'd me to see if I have any input.

Nope.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:25 PM (2oHWb)


Tell them to name their seconds and settle this on the front lawn at sunrise tomorrow. Pistols at twenty paces.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Banned Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (PiwSw)

265 Nevertheless, I endeavor to persevere here. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (Xrfse)

266 and 15 USC 15 allows lawsuits against companies who violate the above law.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (CecP5)
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We're post-law. Abusive monopoly is the norm. So is cartel behavior.

None of these people will be punished and the behavior of the US government or the wider establishment - the manipulation of media, the censorship, the spying, the selective prosecution, the lack of accountability, the opacity of operations, the strangulation of capital, etc. - will ever be punished. The system is not only too rotten, it's too complete.

Things will continue until they can't, then there will be a collapse. It won't be soon - there's a lot of ruin in a country, especially this one - but the course is set.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (t0OGg)

267 I'm off to visit an old man who is dying. A treasure of a man who made it through the forgotten war.

Hug your friends and family while you've got them.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (lmM3O)

268 The Gibbs were really close.

Sad how things went down.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (t4fCu)

269 I'm only hoping for this. If it happens, we're going to find that the RNC is just as culpable in all this censorship as the rest of the deep state/dem players.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2022 02:19 PM (BdMk6)

Yep

It's all been an op against the regular American people and then in 2015 amplified against PDT.

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (Tjnq+)

270 I think one of the biggest cons the left ever pulled was fooling people that they were for free speech, especially on the Internet. Remember “the free speech wing of the free speech party”? Remember their talking points on net neutrality/SOPA/etc. that “a handful of big corporations will control what you see on the Internet”? But once they had accomplished all the battlespace prep, and they had taken the field, guess what they do?

At this point, I’m honestly wondering if even Mario Savio himself secretly envisioned the endgame of the left controlling speech and muzzling the big bad right?

Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (HcAeC)

271 This really is a big deal. Rescuing Western civilization from the excesses of its own managerial elite requires airing the dirty laundry such that people who get their news from TV or radio start to hear about what's really going on. It doesn't matter that "we knew about this years ago" on right wing blogs, it matters that it exits the realm of niche speculation and enters the realm of mainstream discourse. That is what this is about.

Posted by: CppThis at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (UewuT)

272 Tell them to name their seconds and settle this on the front lawn at sunrise tomorrow. Pistols at twenty paces.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Banned Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (PiwSw)
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We're talking soi infused, here. No way i would trust these lackwits with firearms. Swords or knives and have them go at it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (5pTK/)

273 L Oh fucking L. From one of the flouncing Trust and Safety Nazis:

We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard, regardless of the number of their followers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (pVKYX)

274 Wonder what the soap floozies are wearing today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (zFo/b)

275 Giggle...giggle...giggle...
Teacher, Little Johnny just farted out his butt plug!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:22 PM (anj39)
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Little boys would probably be having contests to see who could fart the butt plug the farthest.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:24 PM (5pTK/)
***

Of course they would. And the girls would pretend to be embarrassed.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (anj39)

276 Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

He's an austere religious scholar!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (FVME7)

277 Shadowbarreling will never work. What's the point of being in the barrel if you don't know you're in the barrel? The whole point of the barrel is you knowing you're in there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (Y5qcH)

278 Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (lmM3O)

God bless you and him.

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (Tjnq+)

279 The Gibbs were really close.

Sad how things went down.
Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (t4fCu)

At least Andy got to have his way with Victoria Principal before he decided to end it.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (0om5x)

280 As to responding to other posts, I read lots of comments, sometimes almost the whole thread but only respond if something strikes me to make a point or something I know of.

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (xhxe8)

281 That's why I'm glad we don't have upvotes and such here. It is better to be ignored than downvoted and have comments slowly morph into that which gets upvotes and nothing else.
Small echo chamber then come the bans, which leads to kilgore trout and lfg.

Posted by: OneEyedJack
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Operant conditioning technique. Don't worry about no dialogue as AOS is kind of a herd of autistic cats doing their own thing.

Then you get the lurkers afraid to come out into the heart of AOS darkness lurking in the boxes. That is about a ten to one or higher ratio of lurkers to commenters.

So, you are as likely to be read as I am and a lot of lurkers prefer reading commenters like you quite actually.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (bDjBG)

282 I kept thinking that Bari Weiss wrote a novel about a woman with a deadly psi power, The Killing Gift, from 1975. Which would make her as old or older than I am. I could not imagine the New York Slimes hiring a "reporter" who could remember Watergate.

Nope. The novel was written by one Bari Wood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (J2vNu)

283 Like: "Mr. Dorsey, are you being 100% honest with your answer? We used the term 'shadow-banning' - is there any other internal Twitter term that would describe the practice of limiting the audience of certain individuals?"
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (enJYY)
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There is a reason that oaths contain the phrase "the whole truth". The oath really doesn't allow for evasion.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (krQz2)

284 Shadowbarreling will never work. What's the point of being in the barrel if you don't know you're in the barrel? The whole point of the barrel is you knowing you're in there.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (Y5qcH)
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So the shame is part of the kink?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:29 PM (t0OGg)

285 Is this Dorcus Blimeline a Male, Female, or Other type of biological creature not identified yet by science ????

What is the deal with this creature and trump's breath ???? I do not get it ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (R+nZe)

286 The Gibbs were never the same after Joe’s 2d stink as head coach of the Redskins.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (zFo/b)

287 I'm off to visit an old man who is dying. A treasure of a man who made it through the forgotten war.

Hug your friends and family while you've got them.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 09, 2022 02:26 PM (lmM3O)
***

Prayers.
Tell him he will be at home on Fiddler's Green.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (anj39)

288 199 When no one responds to my posts at aos I blame it on ace shadowbanning me.
Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:14 PM (0om5x)

Me too. It feels better than admitting I've nothing of value to add (and yet that don't stop me)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 09, 2022 02:16 PM (FCbAQ)

Most responses to my posts are people correcting my mistakes.

Posted by: Javems at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (AmoqO)

289 Perjury is a required character trait for Demokkkrats. The propagandists rejoice at such events in hearings. The D lies openly and blatantly. Then the R questioner is portrayed as a mean bully for daring to question the veracity of the answer. That's the formula.

Posted by: FINGERS at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (Yr9Y8)

290 Vijayjay Eegadds. That reminds me- i need to preheat the oven for my Devil's Food cake.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (3Or4S)

291 The Foo Fighters cover of Shadow Dancing (as "The Dee Gees") is better, although dying of cocaine (Andy Gibb) is cooler than dying of the vaxx (Taylor Hawkins).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (ZGrMX)

292 The Communists will attempt to kill us this winter. Besides stocking up on food, water and ammo, BUY A SLEEPING BAG FOR EVERY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY FOR WHEN THEY CUT OFF YOUR HEAT, AND POWER.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (CecP5)

293 I'm off to visit an old man who is dying. A treasure of a man who made it through the forgotten war.

Hug your friends and family while you've got them.


Please give that gentleman a hug from us.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (Xrfse)

294 >>The Gibbs were really close.

Sad how things went down.


My babysitter growing up was one of three sisters who adored the Brothers Gibb. They each were in the fan club and all of that...one christmas they sent them each a sweater that they had knit and received a huge gift basket, letter and full glossy photo of the brothers wearing their respective sweaters and standing in front of the tree.

Happiest girls on earth that year.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (jr/Q9)

295 And it always passes me off a Christian doesn't follow the Leftists tactics it's screaming and court case, yet the Leftists do screw whoever they want and not a perp out of anyone

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 09, 2022 02:31 PM (xhxe8)

296 Satan's a bitch and his horns are faggy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Not to mention his shit was all retarded.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:31 PM (krQz2)

297 2d stint

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:31 PM (zFo/b)

298 Shadowbarreling will never work. What's the point of being in the barrel if you don't know you're in the barrel? The whole point of the barrel is you knowing you're in there.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:28 PM (Y5qcH)


Hey...what's this ooze coming out of my USB port?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (anj39)

299 286 The Gibbs were never the same after Joe’s 2d stink as head coach of the Redskins.
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I will never forgive Belichick for running up the score needlessly against Gibbs in his second go round. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (4vi12)

300 Oh man...

Grown damned men are emailing back and forth to each other like bitchy little girls, on a Friday, a few weeks before the break on a work email thread. "I have taken offense to this" followed by paragraphs of crimes detailed and enumerated. SMH... Damn son. Stand up. Wipe the tears outa your eyes and get back to work. Luckily, I'm not involved. Somebody just cc'd me to see if I have any input.


Nope.


You could at least congratulate them on how well their transitions are going.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (Bd6X8)

301 Noble Lie is alive at Twitter and Elon so far isn't going to stop shadow banning.

Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (yblcq)

302 Most responses to my posts are people correcting my mistakes.
Posted by: Javems at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (AmoqO)

I think that should read ' The majority ' instead of most.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (0om5x)

303 Most responses to my posts are people correcting my mistakes.

Posted by: Javems at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (AmoqO)
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You're wrong.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (krQz2)

304 My babysitter growing up was one of three sisters who adored the Brothers Gibb. They each were in the fan club and all of that...one christmas they sent them each a sweater that they had knit and received a huge gift basket, letter and full glossy photo of the brothers wearing their respective sweaters and standing in front of the tree.

Happiest girls on earth that year.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (jr/Q9)
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That is a really cool story.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (5pTK/)

305 273 L Oh fucking L. From one of the flouncing Trust and Safety Nazis:

We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard, regardless of the number of their followers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (pVKYX)

The daughter of John podesta was also part of that group that just resigned you can't make this crap up.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (dKiJG)

306 Continuing from 270, even Mozilla, champions of an “open Internet”, ejected their own founder for crimethink, and went all on board with “disinfo” control, while continuing to wear free speech as a skin suit and insisting that this was all in its service. Same with Internet Archive, same with EFF, same with all of them. None of them are actually for actual free speech, IMO. It was always a cudgel until the left got control, they just need to keep parroting the line to keep the gaslight burning.

Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (HcAeC)

307 Has Griner made any dumb comments about how America sucks after her release from the Gay Pride loving Russia ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (R+nZe)

308 >>That is a really cool story.


They were some really cute sisters.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (jr/Q9)

309 Oh man...

Grown damned men are emailing back and forth to each other like bitchy little girls, on a Friday, a few weeks before the break on a work email thread. "I have taken offense to this" followed by paragraphs of crimes detailed and enumerated. SMH... Damn son. Stand up. Wipe the tears outa your eyes and get back to work. Luckily, I'm not involved. Somebody just cc'd me to see if I have any input.
***

Don't respond.
Its a trap by HR.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (anj39)

310 271 This really is a big deal. Rescuing Western civilization from the excesses of its own managerial elite requires airing the dirty laundry such that people who get their news from TV or radio start to hear about what's really going on. It doesn't matter that "we knew about this years ago" on right wing blogs, it matters that it exits the realm of niche speculation and enters the realm of mainstream discourse. That is what this is about.
Posted by: CppThis
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Not to be crude but the people that get their info from TV or radio will not hear it because simply neither will cover it and people that use those sources are looking for confirmation that everything is just fine while the boat is sinking.

Pretty much a generational thing involving trust and not wanting to reflect on personal vulnerability if things go pear shaped as it appears likely in the near future.

Two generations will probably notice it more-Gen X and Gen Z for different reasons. Gen X has no trust in govt and Gen Z are marinated in dystopia.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (bDjBG)

311 We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard, regardless of the number of their followers.

Hahahahahahasnorthahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (bs+z0)

312 One might think. 'yeah twitter should limit visibility in some cases, like jihadi recruitment'

But I suspect they only bothered to ban or limit jihadi stuff if a huge number of normies complained about a specific account that was directly promoting violence.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (3cGpq)

313 Happiest girls on earth that year.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022 02:30 PM (jr/Q9)

That is a great story. I like the brothers even more now.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (0om5x)

314 309 Oh man...

Grown damned men are emailing back and forth to each other like bitchy little girls, on a Friday, a few weeks before the break on a work email thread. "I have taken offense to this" followed by paragraphs of crimes detailed and enumerated. SMH... Damn son. Stand up. Wipe the tears outa your eyes and get back to work. Luckily, I'm not involved. Somebody just cc'd me to see if I have any input.
***

Don't respond.
Its a trap by HR.
Posted by: Diogenes
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The only way to win the email game is not to play. Tell them it got caught up in spam filters somehow if pressed and respond orally.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (bDjBG)

315 We’re at the “old news” point of the scandal.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (cMXNt)

316 Goal Argentina

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 09, 2022 02:35 PM (dKiJG)

317 One might think. 'yeah twitter should limit visibility in some cases, like jihadi recruitment'

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (3cGpq)
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They just rid of pedo recruitment. One thing at a time.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:35 PM (krQz2)

318 Noble Lie is alive at Twitter and Elon so far isn't going to stop shadow banning.
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2022 02:32 PM (yblcq)
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Yup, which is why I am actually kind of excited about Musk's statement that they're going to expose the status to the account owners. When you sign in to your account, if you see that you're limited or whatever, you'll know (automatically) and be able to appeal it and cry foul. To bypass that would require back-end changes (because I am assuming that they're just going to expose the internal flags) and those would be likely to be caught.

So Musk is essentially crowd-sourcing the problem. They can still use their suppression toolkit, but now the people being suppressed will know it automatically and can object. That's a pretty big change and I hope he actually does it. The people being targeted will announce it to the world themselves and give us an indication of scope *and* ongoing bad behavior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:35 PM (t0OGg)

319 We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard, regardless of the number of their followers.*

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 09, 2022 02:27 PM (pVKYX)
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* Except when we implement visibility limitation, trend blacklist or search blacklist. But that's not important now.

Posted by: bluebell at December 09, 2022 02:35 PM (pTb/Z)

320 Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard,
____

Was there any fine print to go along with the above quote from the Twitter "Trust & Safety" flouncers?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2022 02:35 PM (fs1hN)

321 My babysitter growing up was one of three sisters who adored the Brothers Gibb. They each were in the fan club and all of that...one christmas they sent them each a sweater that they had knit and received a huge gift basket, letter and full glossy photo of the brothers wearing their respective sweaters and standing in front of the tree.

Happiest girls on earth that year.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2022


***
Nice to hear that the Bee Gees were a class act.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (J2vNu)

322 Hah, thank you bluebell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (fs1hN)

323 With Walker's lose in Georgia VP Harris is now VP Dunsel.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (R+nZe)

324 We’re at the “old news” point of the scandal.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2022 02:34 PM (cMXNt)
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That's because conservatives weren't implicated.

When progs are implicated it goes right from: "What kind of conspiracy nut are you?!" to "Old news, can't you move on?"

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (krQz2)

325 But what I want more than anything is my country back. Some soy boy at Twitter going to prison won't make my life appreciably better but getting back to running the country on Constitutional principles will and the only way that happens is if everything is exposed and we tear down the infrastructure they have built to oppress us.

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Every Broken Windows Theory Journey begins with a first perp.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (2qkdA)

326 Goal Argentina

They finally locked Kirchner up?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (Bd6X8)

327 It's no longer shadow banning if you know it. It's just regular banning.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (0om5x)

328 2d stint
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:31 PM (zFo/b)

If one has frequented the HQ for long enough, they translate Moron instinctively.

Posted by: Golfman at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (Tjnq+)

329 It’s a trap by HR.


Oh, I don’t think Pufnstuf would do that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (zFo/b)

330 None of these people will be punished and the behavior of the US government or the wider establishment - the manipulation of media, the censorship, the spying, the selective prosecution, the lack of accountability, the opacity of operations, the strangulation of capital, etc. - will ever be punished. The system is not only too rotten, it's too complete.

I didn't say they would be punished, I included the text of the law to show what they could be sued for. Remember in a lawsuit all you need is the preponderance of the evidence to win, you don't have to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (CecP5)

331
That's why I'm glad we don't have upvotes and such here. It is better to be ignored than downvoted and have comments slowly morph into that which gets upvotes and nothing else.
Small echo chamber then come the bans, which leads to kilgore trout and lfg.

Posted by: OneEyedJack


Remember 'karma votes' there? MamaWinger (then) and I ran neck and neck. I even got hat tip for an international story that got Chuck mention in the NYT's - and I may have been involved in that happening. That rat fvck even banned me in the end. I have my $uspicion$ about why Chuck went the way he did. $oros, maybe?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (enJYY)

332 307 Has Griner made any dumb comments about how America sucks after her release from the Gay Pride loving Russia ????


he's not saying a damn word until he gets back on estrogen!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (w0NJk)

333 Cynthia Gibb (Youngblood, Fame, Salvador, etc) was such a cutie in the 80s but she was not related as far as I know.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (0hOvj)

334 329 It’s a trap by HR.


Oh, I don’t think Pufnstuf would do that.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (zFo/b)

You don’t know what he did to Mayor McCheese for plagiarizing him?

Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (HcAeC)

335 Who was chuck?

I remember when Mabe Galor flounced off was Chuck before that?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (lc5cP)

336 Because I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."

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I'll bet you the keys to the blog against the deed to my house, ace. This subversive foreign cunt never gets charged with so much as jaywalking.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (IXtLx)

337 Remember 'karma votes' there? MamaWinger (then) and I ran neck and neck. I even got hat tip for an international story that got Chuck mention in the NYT's

waittttt ... was this still your nic back then?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM (w0NJk)

338 We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter, the platform where anyone could be heard, regardless of the number of their followers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Let's use Captain Subtext to decipher this message.

"We fear that our child porn service providers and Antifa buddies will be hurt by these Twitter actions as while they are lowlifes we would not invite into our homes, they provide us with excellent streaming entertainment, access to pizza and hotdogs, and violent performance art conducted upon our enemies."

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:39 PM (bDjBG)

339 I remember when Mabe Galor flounced off was Chuck before that?


LFG zero is talking about LFG

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:39 PM (w0NJk)

340 242 I DID NOT STEAL FOUR SNICKERS BARS, TWO TWIXES AND A PACK OF CAMEL TURKISH GOLDS, BOXED OF COURSE, FROM THE KING KWIK ON MAIN STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THREE FIFTY FOUR!
Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete T
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Penalty declined

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:39 PM (CFSlN)

341 >>> Don't respond.
Its a trap by HR.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2022 02:33 PM (anj39)


Often I survey all of my potential responses to something and conclude that 100% of them would get me written up. This is exacerbated by the fact that I'm a severe smartass. So I say a lot of nothing. Being married for twenty years was good training for this.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:40 PM (2oHWb)

342 the day before Elon took over Twitter my feed suddenly had a downvote button!

that was so weird!

then it was gone. did anyone else see that?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:40 PM (w0NJk)

343 I didn't say they would be punished, I included the text of the law to show what they could be sued for. Remember in a lawsuit all you need is the preponderance of the evidence to win, you don't have to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:37 PM (CecP5)
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Civil actions are likely, yeah. Those civil actions will probably fail. They'll see to it. Judges will be grossly partisan and the juries will be lined up carefully.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:40 PM (t0OGg)

344 LFG zero is talking about LFG

OH Chuckles Johnson.

Yeah that was a pretty fast flip. He went from "nuke all the jihadis and let Gaia sort them out" to...YOU GET A BAN and YOU GET A BAN it seems within about 2 weeks.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (lc5cP)

345 Who was chuck?

I remember when Mabe Galor flounced off was Chuck before that?


A different blog from a different time. Way before Mabe flamed out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (Bd6X8)

346 the commie replies on twatter to this drop are hilarious. "Nothing burger" "Twitter is privately owned" "Just looking out for the public best interest. It's a good thing."

Sidebar "15 minute city". I think MEGA CITY ONE has a better, truer ring to it.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (DB16e)

347 ah f-ck me Bam is in the ICU with covid now

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (w0NJk)

348 Yeah that was a pretty fast flip. He went from "nuke all the jihadis and let Gaia sort them out" to...YOU GET A BAN and YOU GET A BAN it seems within about 2 weeks.


we were bad bad children

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:42 PM (w0NJk)

349 Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democrat party to become an independent.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:42 PM (CecP5)

350 I actually cannot remember what turned Chuckles around. Usually there's one event where they go nuts, like Malor's freakout over homosexual "marriage" which before the discussion about it HE NEVER SAID A SINGLE SYLLABLE ABOUT.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:42 PM (0hOvj)

351 Most responses to my posts are people correcting my mistakes.
Posted by: Javems

Have you considered working from home and earning boocoo bux?
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Just kidding, hope you are yours are doing well Javems.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:43 PM (bDjBG)

352 the commie replies on twatter to this drop are hilarious. "Nothing burger" "Twitter is privately owned"

Sidebar "15 minute city". I think MEGA CITY ONE has a better, truer ring to it.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (DB16e)
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Yes! By fucking ELON! Who owns it in a way that Jack hasn't ever--or at least for a long time.

This is not how they act when Elon wanted to change polices it was his to change!

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:43 PM (krQz2)

353 I shouldn't call the cunt "foreign," I suppose... She's a lot more "American" than I am, anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2022 02:43 PM (IXtLx)

354 Trannies and gays are stunning and brave yet need an army of busybodies laboring to prevent them from reading something that hurts their feelz on the internet from people they don't even know.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (Y5qcH)

355 Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democrat party to become an independent.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:42 PM (CecP5)
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Non-binary.

Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (krQz2)

356 Sidebar "15 minute city". I think MEGA CITY ONE has a better, truer ring to it.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 09, 2022 02:41 PM (DB16e)
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HAHAHA.

More evidence that Ace doesn't read his own blog. The Wednesday Rant was about this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (t0OGg)

357 I actually cannot remember what turned Chuckles around. Usually there's one event where they go nuts, like Malor's freakout over homosexual "marriage" which before the discussion about it HE NEVER SAID A SINGLE SYLLABLE ABOUT.

Chuckles was a lefty mugged by reality on 9/11. Once he felt it was safe and no more airplanes were going to crash into buildings he reverted to type.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (Bd6X8)

358 Nice to hear that the Bee Gees were a class act.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2022 02:36 PM (J2vNu)

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The recent documentary movie about them was well done, enjoyable, & interesting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (3JG7N)

359 Where does the “YOU get a —-, and YOU get a ——, and YOU get a —-“ thing come from?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (zFo/b)

360 354 Trannies and gays are stunning and brave yet need an army of busybodies laboring to prevent them from reading something that hurts their feelz on the internet from people they don't even know.


yeah apparently the block feature is really difficult to master

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (w0NJk)

361 More evidence that Ace doesn't read his own blog. The Wednesday Rant was about this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:44 PM (t0OGg)
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Maybe he shadowbarrelled you and he doesn't see your posts.

Posted by: bluebell at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (pTb/Z)

362 Malor's freakout over homosexual "marriage" which before the discussion about it HE NEVER SAID A SINGLE SYLLABLE ABOUT.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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He knew he would get pushback in a rather explicit manner. So, a lot of people with personal problems like to gravitate to positions of power to make sure that they cannot be challenged.

Moderating is more or less like taking out the garbage for most people, not trying to herd cats.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (bDjBG)

363 . Usually there's one event where they go nuts, like Malor's freakout over homosexual "marriage" which before the discussion about it HE NEVER SAID A SINGLE SYLLABLE ABOUT.

IN fairness pretty much every out homo-activist in America did the same thing.

From "we don't want your stupid breeder marriage to one person thing" to "marriage to another dude I'll cheat on is a fundamental right! in the space of 2 years.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (lc5cP)

364
waittttt ... was this still your nic back then?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:38 PM


Hell no. I change my nic here constantly. But my nic back then has supplanted in search results a character in a fairly famous authors story. Buried so deep you can't find it in the first six pages of results. I'm certain I'm on some list somewhere for my nefarious deeds like supporting Israel and 'outing' Iran as extremely poor Photoshoppers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (enJYY)

365 Where does the “YOU get a —-, and YOU get a ——, and YOU get a —-“ thing come from?

Oprah. She one show gave every single member of her audience cars.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (0hOvj)

366 359 Where does the “YOU get a —-, and YOU get a ——, and YOU get a —-“ thing come from?


Oprah when she does a giveaway on her show (to the audience)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (w0NJk)

367 Often I survey all of my potential responses to something and conclude that 100%

I typed the intro as "Ok,"
but they still read it as "Dear DumbAss,"

Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2022 02:46 PM (FhXTo)

368 Barry Gibbs wrote a number of hit songs for other people. Including a few country songs.

Posted by: polynikes at December 09, 2022 02:46 PM (0om5x)

369 Civil actions are likely, yeah. Those civil actions will probably fail. They'll see to it. Judges will be grossly partisan and the juries will be lined up carefully.

Bongino lives in the free state of FL. He asked for grounds to sue them on his show today, and that is what I wrote to him. He can sue them in FL.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:46 PM (CecP5)

370 Maybe he shadowbarrelled you and he doesn't see your posts.
Posted by: bluebell at December 09, 2022 02:45 PM (pTb/Z)
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That would probably be for the best.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (t0OGg)

371 everyone got a shitbox

Posted by: x at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (VqdMc)

372 Chuckles was a lefty mugged by reality on 9/11. Once he felt it was safe and no more airplanes were going to crash into buildings he reverted to type.

Amusingly if Shrub had done a worse job at clamping down on domestic jihadis he would likely have been more successful politically.

By the way the core think that enabled that? They just mass deported all of the muslim illegals in America. Yes it we literally trivial for them to find and get rid of illegals when they wanted to...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (lc5cP)

373 Civil actions are likely, yeah. Those civil actions will probably fail. They'll see to it. Judges will be grossly partisan and the juries will be lined up carefully.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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If I heard the radio correctly

Biden has appointed and been confirmed more judges than Trump.


Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (CFSlN)

374 Oprah on her show started once in a while putting a tag under seats where it indicated you won something extravagant (they spun it as "she's generous" but really it was "people aren't filling my stands any more and I need a live audience to cut to"). Then one day she just gave them all a car yelling out YOU GET A CAR AND YOU GET A CAR and so on.

It became a thing.

Oprah Winfrey did more damage to American culture and women than nearly any other force in history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (0hOvj)

375 Continuing from 270, even Mozilla, champions of an “open Internet”, ejected their own founder for crimethink, and went all on board with “disinfo” control, while continuing to wear free speech as a skin suit and insisting that this was all in its service. Same with Internet Archive, same with EFF, same with all of them. None of them are actually for actual free speech, IMO. It was always a cudgel until the left got control, they just need to keep parroting the line to keep the gaslight burning.
Posted by: Pseudonymous Bosch

This is where we are. "Big Tech" has not and will not be a positive tool for "democracy" or freedom. It has been and will be a tool to suppress "wrong think". Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, it has likely been colored by what you have seen in the Media, no matter how skeptical you may be personally.
A starting premise to the rest of your life, may be..."Everything you know is wrong!".

Posted by: A face in the crowd...... at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (vcOmj)

376 Bongino lives in the free state of FL. He asked for grounds to sue them on his show today, and that is what I wrote to him. He can sue them in FL.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 02:46 PM (CecP5)
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Yes, the Free State of Florida. The same place where a federal magistrate signed off on the baseless raid of a former's president's home.

If any action involves a fed at any level, it's over before it starts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (t0OGg)

377 LFG zero is talking about LFG
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Way back at that time, I spent my time on specialty forums involving bangsticks primarily.

Early AOS was frankly a bit too much like flame wars that used to disrupt Usenet forums for my taste. Ace was funny to read but I avoided the comments by and large for years.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (bDjBG)

378 Thanks, CRT and BlackOrchid.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (zFo/b)

379 I would guess the Hard Leftists still at Twitter are doing everything they can to do what they can to keep old Twitter alive

Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (xhxe8)

380 A starting premise to the rest of your life, may be..."Everything you know is wrong!".
Posted by: A face in the crowd...... at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (vcOmj)

That would explain some things.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (Y5qcH)

381 Elon Musk Twitter about an hour ago:

"Absolutely! The real CEO was the head of "Trust & Safety".

In response to a post that the "Trust & Safety" team was effectively running the entire (Twitter) company.

So Twitter was effectively that weasel, Yoel Roth.
Explains soooo much.

Posted by: DaisyB at December 09, 2022 02:49 PM (AbL8c)

382 A different blog from a different time. Way before Mabe flamed out.

Seems like eons ago. So glad I bailed when I did and found this place.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:49 PM (Xrfse)

383 Ace was funny to read but I avoided the comments by and large for years.

Most of them have left (maybe all?) but there was a fair percentage of fiscal/chamber of commerce conservative types in here that were almost violently opposed to the idea of social conservatism. Any time something came up like Terry Schiavo or homosexual "marriage" or what have you, they'd go ballistic trying to destroy and silence anyone who dared bring up a problem with the issue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:49 PM (0hOvj)

384 "and respond orally."

It's always worked for me!

Posted by: Kneepads Harris at December 09, 2022 02:49 PM (ZVuYy)

385
I actually cannot remember what turned Chuckles around.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:42 PM


I think he was going through a divorce around the time. Money may not be the root of all evil, it's the lack of money that starts the evil.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:50 PM (enJYY)

386 I would guess the Hard Leftists still at Twitter are doing everything they can to do what they can to keep old Twitter alive

Yeah. Shutting down the crazy departments was a good first step but there are a lot of those people burrowed in like ticks and they will take a while to dig and burn out of the system. Assuming Elon wants to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:50 PM (0hOvj)

387 nood



Mouse

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2022 02:51 PM (2oHWb)

388 Posted by: whig

I, along with the majority I'm sure, are glad you post.
I look forward to them.

Posted by: Bosk at December 09, 2022 02:51 PM (ZVuYy)

389 ...And you get Shadowbanned! and you get shadowbanned! And you, you've been very bad, and you get a lifetime ban!
And you get shadowbanned!.....

Posted by: Oprah Winfrey, TV Icon and vey rich nitwit at December 09, 2022 02:51 PM (vcOmj)

390 I remember Oprah when she first started out in Chicago. She drove Phil Donahue to leave town and move to NYC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 09, 2022 02:52 PM (zFo/b)

391 I, along with the majority I'm sure, are glad you post.

indeed

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:52 PM (0hOvj)

392 So Twitter was effectively that weasel, Yoel Roth.
Explains soooo much.
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He might have been the hand puppet for the "former" CIA/FBI operative working in Trust & Safety that someone mentioned in a previous thread (not Baker, some other operative)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2022 02:53 PM (fs1hN)

393 If any action involves a fed at any level, it's over before it starts.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM (t0OGg)
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We need a separation of DC and States.
_ . it's up to our governors

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 09, 2022 02:53 PM (CFSlN)

394 they'd go ballistic trying to destroy and silence anyone who dared bring up a problem with the issue.

If you go to lefty boards moderate lefties (to the extend that there are any) always genuflect to extreme leftists. Always. For example I've never seen someone even really try to argue there should be any limits on abortion if an abortion extremist shows up.

But yeah on way to many "conservative" forums if you advance a normal conservative position you get slammed.

And here's the stupid part of all this. Let's suppose you are a moderate. You want the "extremists" on your side to equal out the extremists on the other side. That's how you get some in between decision. If you cancel your "extremists" you are just going to get the extreme from the other side.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2022 02:53 PM (lc5cP)

395
Ace was funny to read but I avoided the comments by and large for years.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:48 PM


OMG - I did the opposite. Ace was ok but what a bunch of funny knuckleheads in the comments who knew their stuff and made me lol.

Ace has evolved and now is must read for the delicious cruelty our opponents so richly deserve.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 09, 2022 02:54 PM (enJYY)

396 Just kidding, hope you are yours are doing well Javems.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2022 02:43 PM (bDjBG)

Doing well whig, thanks, means a lot. Hope your are as well as you seem.

Posted by: Javems at December 09, 2022 02:54 PM (AmoqO)

397 He might have been the hand puppet for the "former" CIA/FBI operative working in Trust & Safety that someone mentioned in a previous thread (not Baker, some other operative)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2022 02:53 PM (fs1hN)

Ah right, Jeff Carlton.

Posted by: DaisyB at December 09, 2022 02:55 PM (AbL8c)

398 Oprah Winfrey did more damage to American culture and women than nearly any other force in history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2022 02:47 PM (0hOvj)

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"Here, hold my attention span." -- MTV

/Of course, I agree with you Christopher.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 09, 2022 02:58 PM (4qAma)

399
Oprah Winfrey did more damage to American culture and women than nearly any other force in history.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Ha! I made sex risk free and unleashed Gomorrah!"

Posted by: Penicillin at December 09, 2022 02:58 PM (DdN0+)

400
If any action involves a fed at any level, it's over before it starts.


Just because it is a federal law, that does not restrict it to federal courts. Maybe they could xfer it to one, but I don't think so, since the harm took place in his home state.

But then IANAL.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 03:01 PM (CecP5)

401 Seems like eons ago. So glad I bailed when I did and found this place.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 09, 2022 02:49 PM (Xrfse)

Same here.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2022 03:02 PM (BdMk6)

402 29 "Honestly, I totally believe that they wouldn’t even need to be told to do this stuff."

But they were being told. Where are those records?

The only hope we have is if the House rolls this into Section 230 hearings and they lose their platform status in court. Which they absolutely ahould.
Posted by: squid_hunt at December 09, 2022 01:48 PM (jN9FT)

Wouldn't that result in liability for Musk and not the people who were in charge when these decisions were made?

Seems like Musk has a claim against the previous directors and CEOs for failing to disclose prospective liabilities in the course of the sale.

But they would argue that Musk is creating the liability for himself by disclosing everything.

I'm not sure I care. All of social media can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2022 03:03 PM (GD2xa)

403 Besides all of you are whiners, women have been shadow banning me for almost 75 years now.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 03:07 PM (CecP5)

404 Pikers, until you've heard: "I'd like to go out with you, but I always wash my pet goldfish on Friday evenings." You don't know what a shadow ban is.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 09, 2022 03:12 PM (CecP5)

405 "I don't think that defense of "We don't call it 'shadowbanning,' we call it 'visibility limiting'" is going to hold up as a defense against a perjury charge."

Did it work? - Asking for Harry Reid.

Remember 13 years ago when the IRS "visilibity limited" the Tea Party? This has been going on for decades. They just come up with new ways each time their last way blows up.

They're already in meetings to discuss the next way.

You are not invited to attend.

Posted by: JamesTCarville at December 09, 2022 04:09 PM (wj4wL)

406 You cannot defeat them through conventional means (politics, voting, etc.)

They are not fighting YOU with conventional means. Why would you think you can defeat THEM via conventional means?

Our forefathers resorted to capping asses and you will have to do the same or else keep bitching about how you lost the country.

Posted by: JamesTCarville at December 09, 2022 04:11 PM (wj4wL)

407 "26 So, this is why Twitter had so many employees. They needed that many to make sure only approved subject matter was allowed on their platform."

I told you all years ago thousands of staff were working on human driven moderation; the "algorithms" were a mechanical turk. I've been on teams doing this, and in offices dedicated to it, and bailed when it turned political years ago.

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