People are still getting banned, post Musk, for seemingly no reason (at least they aren’t being told). A friend got banned 10 days after creating an account in November - she showed me her timeline thingie. The same people still run Twitter, albeit fewer.
Musk and Theil started PayPal and look what it has become. While I wish Musk well, I won’t be using Twitter. I won’t add to its power. Anything that powerful can and will be corrupted. Musk isn’t immortal. I do hope Twitter improves but it’s dangerous to make it any more powerful than it already is.
I just commented the other day on a hopium-filled thread about Twitter 2.0 that OP's account, a most undeserved ban in the first place, hadn't been reinstated yet. Then it did.
It's hard not to wonder if these slow and controlled releases of information most of us knew a year ago or more have ulterior motives but I'll take this one on the chin. While not particularly hopeful about the endgame of someone like Elon Musk, I don't hate that Twitter will at least muddle the "consensus" some.
I won't be going back but super duper glad to see all of your accounts restated. I hope you'll continue to post at least some of them here. Congratulations!
At least they told you which tweet violated their arbitrary rules. I only had 2 pointed out, but, others just caused time-ours then a permanent suspension with no explanation. I’m still on Twitter jail, though at some point shortly after the Musk purchase, I do have access to my account. I scrolled thru my last tweets and nothing stands out.
Hmmm. Just catching up on this now. I discovered your Twitter acct only after it was restored and am very interested in your iatrogenic hypothesis. I think there is a lot to that, and I'm also interested to hear that your Twitter acct is still being throttled. Mine too, though for other reasons.
So, you know who got you and the others sprung from Twitter jail? Hmm again. I am very curious. May I offer a guess? Jay Bhattacharya. You can just say "no" if I'm wrong. I'm especially curious because could also be related to my own treatment by Twitter...
Apr 24, 2023·edited Apr 24, 2023Liked by Jessica Hockett
Aha. Thanks for the reply. My own saga is somewhat complicated and I don’t have time to tell you the tale right now, but will try to do tomw. The prehistory is that starting around the time of the great Twitter purges last summer, I was put under a semi-permanent shadow ban: that is to say, it would come and go and was always very easy to detect, since my non-follower engagement would fall to almost zero, the shadowban test (which worked fine under the old regime) would flash red for “reply deboosting”, and I could easily confirm the finding using a self-test. I just needed to log into Twitter from a non-followers acct and I’d always find my replies hidden behind the “offensive content” barrier. Since the Musk purchase - and after a few days, if memory serves, during which my engagement and hence presumably visibility soared - the throttling of my acct has, if anything, been even worse. But I’ll return to the specific incident I had in mind shortly…
Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Jessica Hockett
Unbelievable. I don't think I've ever witnessed such in-your-face hypocrisy and deceit. It's truly Orwellian. War is peace, freedom is slavery and now freedom-of-speech is censorship. This is why I think not only my account is being throttled, but also my articles published elsewhere: like the latest on precisely this theme. Brownstone republished it yesterday and see, for instance, the Brownstone tweet here: https://twitter.com/brownstoneinst/status/1650501353196736515. A couple of handfuls of likes or retweets and a few thousand views. My earlier Brownstone articles got tons more engagement than that. Anyhow, back to you asap re. the mentioned incident...
Sorry for the delay. Here's a thread that is in a way part of the incident and in which the actual thread that provoked the incident is embedded: https://twitter.com/EdV1694/status/1641437688132927491?s=20. Jay Bhattacharya had posted a tweet praising Kulvinder Kaur for her "heroic" opposition to lockdowns and she herself was posting tweets with the motto "Lockdowns kill, Censorship kills" over and over again. No offense to either of them. But this was a total rewriting of history. She may indeed have opposed lockdowns at some point. I don't know about that. But she made a name for herself on Twitter by opposing *vaccines* and defending natural immunity. I used to follow her.
I understand the motivations of Bhattacharya and Kaur. She's a Canadian MD and she had been subjected to disciplinary proceedings precisely for her public criticism of the supposed vaccines. So, they were obviously trying to rehabilitate her as "merely" a critic of lockdowns. Nonetheless, this is also Orwellian and I said so in so many words in my thread and cited several of her "anti-vax" tweets. If memory serves, that thread was getting some engagement for a few minutes and then stopped cold. But Kaur obviously saw it, since she then proceeded to block me, i.e. for praising her and citing her own tweets!
But what was especially odd was that while that thread was throttled, it was like somebody flipped a switch and suddenly my other reply-tweets were getting substantial engagement: say, dozens of likes or retweets, above all from non-followers, and thousands or tens-of-thousands of views. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed like a sort of "compensation" for the suppressing of the Kaur tweet/threat. Who knows. But then after about a week, the pattern of engagement went back to extremely meagre and almost entirely from followers. I don't recall if there was a particular tweet I did that would have gotten the clamps put back on the acct. Probably. But it is impossible that the degree of variation in engagement and views I experienced could be "natural".
In any case, it's clear that Twitter under Musk is promoting certain, so to say, C19 opposition narratives, but still suppressing others: hence, "lockdown kills" ..., but not you-know-what. That's also why I think your visibility is being throttled. Musk's "prosecute/Fauci" - one of the most heavily promoted opposition narratives - is still based on the assumption that C19 was an especially lethal virus. To suggest or show that much of the death was a consequence of the treatment not the disease spoils the party (and also of course raises the specter of a far greater crime).
Here's what I think is happening, based on our experiences in Twitter 2.0.
There is a kind of "credit system" that operates as centrist censorship. Our agreement with social/political narratives on covid or other topics are approved (i.e., by Musk) effectively earns us points and/or lets us operate without being suppressed. That includes engagement with accounts deemed most beneficial to shaping the narrative.
If you disagree with or challenge the centrist narrative or certain approved accounts in any way, you lose points in the algorithm and are suppressed.
Anything that goes beyond the bounds of the sanctioned Overton Window also subtracts points. For my account, that includes any suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 wasn't novel, isn't/wasn't deadlier than flu, never warranted a vaccine, etc - or that hospital protocols killed people, etc. - goes nowhere, relative he number of followers I have.
It also explains (what I call) the "sudden darling" effect with accounts that are either AI or hired controlled opp like I suspect @RemnantMD @HealthByJames are. People like @kevinnbass also fall into that category. It's a fascinating phenomenon to watch.
I think you are right, and social credit is a great analogy for the Twitter control algorithm. It is mind-boggling to me that anybody could regard this as free speech. It is the antithesis of free speech. It is "managed", manipulated speech. Our own conversations are being managed by the platform. We can participate so long as we say the right thing. It reminds me of a scene from Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" in which the Julie Christie character gets to participate in a televised drama from her living room. The actors ask a question to her, pause for a moment staring out from the screen, she gives the right answer, and then they continue...
I'm really happy you were restored and I loved your first tweet! Of course, I wasn't able to actually like it or comment because I'm still banned myself lol but this gives me encouragement that one day I won't be.
It was probably the FBI or other state dept etc intelligence agency or some general council from other 3letter agency or "analyst" that thought your account needed "silenced." Google Twitter Meta they're revolving doors for these positions which is incredibly odd unless they find value in manipulating the narrative? I seem to recall the CIA admittedly ran(is running) ops like this called "Mockingbird"
Nina has gone from disinfo board to registered foreign agent (she's at some new place where it looks like they're scooping up spooks from all over to form a new disinfo type thing)
Based on David Zweig's report (https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate) @ewoodhouse7 was struck down by either one of the "contractors operating in places like the Philippines"--or by someone in the U.S. Either way, it sounds like no human being with a name ever wrote to give a specific reason for the ban.
People are still getting banned, post Musk, for seemingly no reason (at least they aren’t being told). A friend got banned 10 days after creating an account in November - she showed me her timeline thingie. The same people still run Twitter, albeit fewer.
Musk and Theil started PayPal and look what it has become. While I wish Musk well, I won’t be using Twitter. I won’t add to its power. Anything that powerful can and will be corrupted. Musk isn’t immortal. I do hope Twitter improves but it’s dangerous to make it any more powerful than it already is.
I just commented the other day on a hopium-filled thread about Twitter 2.0 that OP's account, a most undeserved ban in the first place, hadn't been reinstated yet. Then it did.
It's hard not to wonder if these slow and controlled releases of information most of us knew a year ago or more have ulterior motives but I'll take this one on the chin. While not particularly hopeful about the endgame of someone like Elon Musk, I don't hate that Twitter will at least muddle the "consensus" some.
I won't be going back but super duper glad to see all of your accounts restated. I hope you'll continue to post at least some of them here. Congratulations!
At least they told you which tweet violated their arbitrary rules. I only had 2 pointed out, but, others just caused time-ours then a permanent suspension with no explanation. I’m still on Twitter jail, though at some point shortly after the Musk purchase, I do have access to my account. I scrolled thru my last tweets and nothing stands out.
Hmmm. Just catching up on this now. I discovered your Twitter acct only after it was restored and am very interested in your iatrogenic hypothesis. I think there is a lot to that, and I'm also interested to hear that your Twitter acct is still being throttled. Mine too, though for other reasons.
So, you know who got you and the others sprung from Twitter jail? Hmm again. I am very curious. May I offer a guess? Jay Bhattacharya. You can just say "no" if I'm wrong. I'm especially curious because could also be related to my own treatment by Twitter...
Yes
Aha. Thanks for the reply. My own saga is somewhat complicated and I don’t have time to tell you the tale right now, but will try to do tomw. The prehistory is that starting around the time of the great Twitter purges last summer, I was put under a semi-permanent shadow ban: that is to say, it would come and go and was always very easy to detect, since my non-follower engagement would fall to almost zero, the shadowban test (which worked fine under the old regime) would flash red for “reply deboosting”, and I could easily confirm the finding using a self-test. I just needed to log into Twitter from a non-followers acct and I’d always find my replies hidden behind the “offensive content” barrier. Since the Musk purchase - and after a few days, if memory serves, during which my engagement and hence presumably visibility soared - the throttling of my acct has, if anything, been even worse. But I’ll return to the specific incident I had in mind shortly…
🙄 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1650656582785458176?s=46
Unbelievable. I don't think I've ever witnessed such in-your-face hypocrisy and deceit. It's truly Orwellian. War is peace, freedom is slavery and now freedom-of-speech is censorship. This is why I think not only my account is being throttled, but also my articles published elsewhere: like the latest on precisely this theme. Brownstone republished it yesterday and see, for instance, the Brownstone tweet here: https://twitter.com/brownstoneinst/status/1650501353196736515. A couple of handfuls of likes or retweets and a few thousand views. My earlier Brownstone articles got tons more engagement than that. Anyhow, back to you asap re. the mentioned incident...
I look forward to hearing more. Our experiences are comparable
Sorry for the delay. Here's a thread that is in a way part of the incident and in which the actual thread that provoked the incident is embedded: https://twitter.com/EdV1694/status/1641437688132927491?s=20. Jay Bhattacharya had posted a tweet praising Kulvinder Kaur for her "heroic" opposition to lockdowns and she herself was posting tweets with the motto "Lockdowns kill, Censorship kills" over and over again. No offense to either of them. But this was a total rewriting of history. She may indeed have opposed lockdowns at some point. I don't know about that. But she made a name for herself on Twitter by opposing *vaccines* and defending natural immunity. I used to follow her.
I understand the motivations of Bhattacharya and Kaur. She's a Canadian MD and she had been subjected to disciplinary proceedings precisely for her public criticism of the supposed vaccines. So, they were obviously trying to rehabilitate her as "merely" a critic of lockdowns. Nonetheless, this is also Orwellian and I said so in so many words in my thread and cited several of her "anti-vax" tweets. If memory serves, that thread was getting some engagement for a few minutes and then stopped cold. But Kaur obviously saw it, since she then proceeded to block me, i.e. for praising her and citing her own tweets!
But what was especially odd was that while that thread was throttled, it was like somebody flipped a switch and suddenly my other reply-tweets were getting substantial engagement: say, dozens of likes or retweets, above all from non-followers, and thousands or tens-of-thousands of views. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed like a sort of "compensation" for the suppressing of the Kaur tweet/threat. Who knows. But then after about a week, the pattern of engagement went back to extremely meagre and almost entirely from followers. I don't recall if there was a particular tweet I did that would have gotten the clamps put back on the acct. Probably. But it is impossible that the degree of variation in engagement and views I experienced could be "natural".
In any case, it's clear that Twitter under Musk is promoting certain, so to say, C19 opposition narratives, but still suppressing others: hence, "lockdown kills" ..., but not you-know-what. That's also why I think your visibility is being throttled. Musk's "prosecute/Fauci" - one of the most heavily promoted opposition narratives - is still based on the assumption that C19 was an especially lethal virus. To suggest or show that much of the death was a consequence of the treatment not the disease spoils the party (and also of course raises the specter of a far greater crime).
Anyhow, sorry for being so long-winded!
Here's what I think is happening, based on our experiences in Twitter 2.0.
There is a kind of "credit system" that operates as centrist censorship. Our agreement with social/political narratives on covid or other topics are approved (i.e., by Musk) effectively earns us points and/or lets us operate without being suppressed. That includes engagement with accounts deemed most beneficial to shaping the narrative.
If you disagree with or challenge the centrist narrative or certain approved accounts in any way, you lose points in the algorithm and are suppressed.
Anything that goes beyond the bounds of the sanctioned Overton Window also subtracts points. For my account, that includes any suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 wasn't novel, isn't/wasn't deadlier than flu, never warranted a vaccine, etc - or that hospital protocols killed people, etc. - goes nowhere, relative he number of followers I have.
It also explains (what I call) the "sudden darling" effect with accounts that are either AI or hired controlled opp like I suspect @RemnantMD @HealthByJames are. People like @kevinnbass also fall into that category. It's a fascinating phenomenon to watch.
I think you are right, and social credit is a great analogy for the Twitter control algorithm. It is mind-boggling to me that anybody could regard this as free speech. It is the antithesis of free speech. It is "managed", manipulated speech. Our own conversations are being managed by the platform. We can participate so long as we say the right thing. It reminds me of a scene from Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" in which the Julie Christie character gets to participate in a televised drama from her living room. The actors ask a question to her, pause for a moment staring out from the screen, she gives the right answer, and then they continue...
Yes to the real miracle, Jesus! This truth helps keep everything in perspective.
I'm really happy you were restored and I loved your first tweet! Of course, I wasn't able to actually like it or comment because I'm still banned myself lol but this gives me encouragement that one day I won't be.
Never rest. These demons don’t and cannot be given an inch. So glad you’re reinstated but I’m sticking with the stack.
I'm still not restored, banned for posting a scientific journal article on Ivermectin. :( Can you guys help me get reinstated @violanteofnaxos.
just retweeted a request to Elon for your acct reinstatement - OP is the gavel project
Thanks!
It was probably the FBI or other state dept etc intelligence agency or some general council from other 3letter agency or "analyst" that thought your account needed "silenced." Google Twitter Meta they're revolving doors for these positions which is incredibly odd unless they find value in manipulating the narrative? I seem to recall the CIA admittedly ran(is running) ops like this called "Mockingbird"
Nina has gone from disinfo board to registered foreign agent (she's at some new place where it looks like they're scooping up spooks from all over to form a new disinfo type thing)
My twitter account has not been restored??? for denying evidence of viruses- still silenced https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/what-they-really-dont-want-us-talking
Jo
I'm glad to hear that!
Your “offensive” tweets are too intelligent. I don’t know how anyone could read them and not respect you.
Based on David Zweig's report (https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate) @ewoodhouse7 was struck down by either one of the "contractors operating in places like the Philippines"--or by someone in the U.S. Either way, it sounds like no human being with a name ever wrote to give a specific reason for the ban.
Any evidence of a human emailing twitter would come from the city or state level, not federal.