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Re:The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists by bonzini on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:14AM (#33920857)
They explicitly say they don't shadowban people. Pattern matching for moderation is a completely different thing.
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Re:The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists by rhaksw on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:32AM (#33921015)
The public is still going to interpret that as shadow moderation of people's content.
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Re:The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists by bonzini on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:58PM (#33924387)
Shadowbanning people means banning people, it's obviously separate from moderation of individual tweets. AFAIK the only subreddit that has banned me was the_donald, but I can obviously have my content removed if I post to a news subreddit from domains they consider unacceptable.

It is honestly silly to be surprised. Any community with just a few thousand users will ban entire domains, it's not surprising that they resort to banning entire TLDs at the billion user level.

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