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The Underdog's avatar

Twitter is relying on the 'limited hangout' strategy in order to stop people fleeing to places like Gab.com to have freely open discussions. Twitter were bleeding users from all their constant bannings, so now they use shadow bannings - where your post is visible to you, but no-one else.

Twitter are also clearly trying to datamine users' reactions to try to work out 'where the line' is, in terms of censorship the public will accept. At one point Elon was due to ban blocks but got backlash, then he suggested a paywall but got bitchslapped by The Daily Beagle expose that shows he feeds financial data to Shin Bet connected datamining facial recognition firm.

In-fact, Elon is very much egotistical. Every time The Daily Beagle published a critical expose on Elon Mask's inconsistent behaviour, he'd go apeshit bananas. He blocked the *whole* of Substack at one point, just as The Daily Beagle published the ICU investigation, preventing *any* engagement with it.

As soon as he got raked publicly for it, he relented slightly - permitting the links but tanking them in views and prohibiting embeds.

He is evidently vainglorious, and does not care what users think of the platform, only what people think of him, and even then, only up to a certain extent.

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Sally Austin's avatar

Agree 💯! My personal situation, where I have so much more responsibilities, coincided with the decision to bring in a globalist Managing Director. I realized at that time that Twitter is simply a device to hack users brains and feed people’s egos. Whatever it’s former self, it is not that now and I doubt it ever will be again. Since I don’t really have time for sm anyway, it was a great time to exit.

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