Twitter "mutes really some users," according to an internal source
Following the unfortunate situation where the great Luciano Barra Caracciolo , we publish a Breitbart site article denouncing the drift of the Twitter platform. The widespread application began to use a gag tucked away not only towards users harassing, but also politically uncomfortable profiles. Here's another of the subtle ways in which imposes the single thought, with Italian citizens forced to beg for a foreign multinational company the right to speak in the debate on the net.by Milo, February 16, 2016
Rumors that Twitter has begun to mute secretly politically inconvenient users were confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively with Breitbart Tech. This practice was confirmed by a senior editor at a major publisher.
According to the internal source, Twitter has a "white list" of twitter account privileged and a blacklist of unwelcome users. The accounts on the white list have higher priority in search results, even if they are not the most popular among users. On the other hand, Tweets blacklisted accounts are hidden both in search results both in timelines of other users.
The confirmation came from a senior editor at a major publisher, who told Breitbart that Twitter has confirmed that he deliberately put some users in black list or white list. Added to be frightened by the power of the platform, noting that his tweet might disappear from the timeline of others if they were forced out by the thanks of the company.
The practice of silence (in English "ndVdE", literally, banish shadowbanning), sometimes referred to as a "Stealth Banning" or "Hell Banning", is commonly used by online communities to block the efforts of spammers. Rather than banish them directly (it Bandit, warning you of the fact, with the result that these create a new account), their actions are simply hidden in the eyes of others.
For an ideal sites, silencing takes place when the user doesn't notice ever to have been muted.
However, Twitter doesn't just silence spammers. For
weeks, users have reported that right-wing populist conservatives,
Tweets or, libertarian cultural members and other dissidents have
disappeared from their timeline.Among the people who complain that they have been silenced I am the author of science fiction and the right character alternativa Vox Day, the blogger of Geek culture "Daddy Warpig", and the popular pro account-Trump Ricky Vaughn. Also the creator of League of Gamers and former head of the team of developers of World of Warcraft Mark Kern, as well as the actress ' adult ' and anti-censorship activist Mercedes Carrera, have also complained that their tweets did not appear in the timeline of their followers.
The tendency of these interventions, which seem to be directed towards the right alternative, the populist right and cultural Liberals, will follow the implementation by Twitter a "Jury on trust and security", full of support groups of the left and of the Islamic Research Center Wahid Institute.
Also follows my prediction that Twitter would use his influence to interfere in the presidential election of 2016 by attenuating the voices of conservatives on social media.
For almost a year that Breitbart monitors Twitter's March toward political censorship. In may 2015 Alum Bokhari noted that the site had begun to experience the "Mute", under the guise of protecting users from abuse. Then, as now, was born suspect "protect users from abuse" was an excuse to implement a system that would later be used to political censorship.
Now that the "Mute" has been confirmed by an internal source, there are many doubts that the platform is committed to silence conservatives. Also, demonstrated a complete lack of respect for transparency, disguising his system of "silencing" users and hiding their political leanings behind a cloak of protection against abuse. (In fact, the site closes its eyes to the abuses of leftist activists).
Customers who want a transparent, unbiased political platform will soon have to be – or build – an alternative.
