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Guess leftwingers should've listened to Glenn Greenwald when he told you many times and in no uncertain terms that censorship by the Big Tech won't stop with the so-called "nazis", guess it's time for you to open a Gab account

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Delete the tweet and move on. You won’t win the appeal and Twitter will keep you locked out.

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Hi Asa, this is Q. Anthony Omene. I was hoping to get in contact with you to talk about this, please hit me up via e-mail when you get a moment. qaomene at rznwa dot com

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Now they are behaving and actually doing what they said Nazis did.

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Mar 12, 2022·edited Mar 12, 2022

Rather than 'censorship' as such, this is much more likely to be a result of keyword weighting applied to that tweet, and more generally to your overall feed.

Every time someone tweets about 'sensitive' topics (mainly anything that would flag as not advertiser friendly, but I'd bet you a coke there's some 'problematic' watch-words in there too), it's weighted against various models.

The broader meaning of the tweet is irrelevant, as suggested by the instant flag, and the chance of a human ever having input on this one case, is virtually zero. The algorithm probably shouldn't work like this, but it does, like it or not.

Please don't look for conspiracy when incompetence would suffice, all you end up doing is triggering/reinforcing the false beliefs of everyone else who already believes in nonsense.

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The astute reader may recall Youtube's incidental purge of a great deal of history content when they enabled an algorithm targeting footage from WWII, apparently in an attempt to target "Nazis".

These are the bitter fruits of sweeping censorship implemented by imbeciles. I would not be surprised to learn that Twitter has implemented a blanket ban on that manifesto image.

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image top right reminds me of the writing on the Christchurch weapons --thats another rabbit hole

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I'm not on Twitter but empathise. My most read post, 'Who Controls South Africa?', isn't indexed by Google. It was brought to my attention by a techie smarter than me that Gemini, it's A.I. program, won't analyse the post either. My article is well researched with many supporting links. I guess my crime is mentioning the role the Open Society Foundation and the Oppenheimers are influencing our coming, important and dangerous, elections.

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