Comment by kornhole

1 year ago

If you look at the extensive reporting done by racket.news around the Twitter Files and Facebook Files, you can learn about the direct back channels many government agencies had to directly report thousands of people to be banned or shadow banned. A federal court judge concluded that it was the biggest violation of free speech in modern history. He ordered the government to no longer contact the social media companies unless something is found to be illegal. This applied to government agencies but does not apply to these groups that might be organized or funded by a foreign government.

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Yoric  1 year ago

I remember browsing through the Twitter Files and finding nothing interesting in them.

Yes, all social media have open channels with law enforcement. That's because social media have legal obligations and when someone comes to a moderator claiming to be a law enforcement officer working on a kidnapping or preventing a terrorist attack and needing time-sensitive help to save lives, you don't want the moderator to have to guess whether that's a real emergency or a hoax.

It's... not a secret. If you live in a democracy, you can quickly find out the name of these channels, they have websites.

Source: I've been part of a moderation team. Not on something that large, though.

  • kornhole  1 year ago

    You may not have read enough. It went way beyond law enforcement which would have been fine and legal. People were censored for talking about dangers of vaccines, war with Russia, and whatever the administration, FBI, or other government agencies determined to be malinformation. The impact of this censorship is still being felt to this day. People were misinformed about the vaccine and the war causing the deaths of millions of people. If people understood that Ukraine had no chance of defeating Russia or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe, many people could still be alive today.

    • shadowgovt  1 year ago

      > or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe

      At this point, I think enough of us have lived through being vaccinated that this canard fails to hold water.

      (Nothing is 100% safe, and the deaths due to vaccine reaction were tragic. The vaccine was orders of magnitude safer than COVID ripping through the population unchecked).

kergonath  1 year ago

> If you look at the extensive reporting done by racket.news around the Twitter Files and Facebook Files, you can learn about the direct back channels many government agencies had to directly report thousands of people to be banned or shadow banned. A federal court judge concluded that it was the biggest violation of free speech in modern history.

There was no such thing in the Twitter files.