PS. I wonder why both Steem accounts got suspended recently on Twitter. Hmm. (Are now back though, but still)

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The Bitcoin Twitter account does raise issues on who can be who.
Twitter could of just deleted the bitcoin Twitter account and since it promotes BCH it could of very well be justified to do it in the case aka taking someone identity rule...
But amazingly the fact the account stayed but shadowbanned is pretty bad...
But I won't talk about what exactly going on but something that makes me wonder...
How can blockchain/decentralized social networks deal with stolen identity. Who decides what?
Love to have your viewpoint

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Pfft, I go to Twitter and Facebook regularly to either meet chicks or bring people to steemit. They talk about "freedom of speech" then end the sentence with a "but" clause. They work in the background, manipulating shit and playing all that sneaky politics, we know all they care about is their profit at the end of the day. 

I talk to my grandma on Facebook and my other grandma on Twitter. That's all.

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I know the bitcoin account was banned or shadow banned once before. 

This was because what's his name that started bitcoincash was running the bitcoin account and kept saying things like bcash was bitcoin and trying to trick people to purchase bcash thinking it was bitcoin.

I could see banning the account for the shady crap he was doing.

Advertisers are not giving them incentives. Most platforms are bound by *fiduciary duties*, which more often than not means the boardroom requires maximization strategy.

Twitter for example, particularly Jack, has stood up longest for freedom of speech. Pretty much until he couldn’t else anymore. He is after all an advisor of Stellar too.

I’m not saying these platforms aren’t wrong. I, with a steem related account — an account which had been in good standing for many years and was just restarted contentwise — have also been banned from Twitter. Overzealous mods enjoy the power, too often sadly enough.

But being publicly traded companies they are sort of *obliged* to. We first would have to change the focus and expectations of shareholders from maximizing to building the future.

Which would be ironic considering all the manipulation happening in this part of the internet  we participate to.

A reputation system built on slightly more sophistication than Steem has now would be brilliant.

There’s one thing rather *funny* in the story of the account this post was contextually created on: it *always* happens to the same people. Funnily enough, that exact person is one of the biggest “oligarchs” in the world of crypto.

Ehh...it's bullshit double speak and everyone knows it.

First of all, shadow banning doesn't really exist...because that's not what they're doing. They're doing a number of things to decrease visibility of profiles due to a whole host of reasons. You could call all of these things together shadow banning...but individual accounts might be subject to lowered visibility in a number of ways and not others. It's not really likely due to some political reason as far as I'm aware...though I'm sure they're dumb enough to give the power to individual employees, allowing a whole mess of abuse.

There are various terms that are outright banned from search. That's utter bullshit if you ask me. So if you search for a number of things, like adult related things for example, or things that could be adult related, you won't see jack shit, or you'll see a severely limited set of results. When you look at the results though, and what is censored, it's pretty obvious that their code is shit. Now, having an adult filter of some sort is understandable...but a user should be allowed to disable it. Twitter is, after all, by their own TOS supposed to be only for 18+. They don't just censor adult related things from search though. They don't publish anything about how their search is censored either, so people don't really have any clue what is censored. Unless there's a list out there someone has compiled of banned search words. Not everything is outright banned though. Some things just have somewhat censored results.

There are also a number of activities that set off things in their code to sort of bury accounts in various different ways. Of course they don't tell you any of the things that might set off their code to censor your account from feeds or search or have somewhat limited visibility. But, they are censoring or "shadow banning" accounts.

This is kind of understandable, because there are tons of idiots out there pushing for these sites to censor in certain ways. They want them to get rid of supposed terrorist accounts that spam bullshit for example, because to those idiots, their hundreds or thousands of followers sounds like a lot. Likely the majority of them are bots being followed by bots though. The irony is that if they weren't idiots, they could actually use such activity to be able to find wannabe terrorists and actual terrorists easier. Hell, they could even actually load up spyware onto terrorist machines, if they don't already.

They have a massive platform and they have quite a number of things that they want to censor for quite a number of reason. Maybe bot spam. Maybe russian spam bots. Maybe porn spam bots. Maybe just normal porn. Often the adult content is one of the first to suffer the censorship. It's amazing we're still reproducing at all considering how much we wanna deny that we use sexual reproduction.

I know enough from looking at what they do and do not block in different ways to know their code is absolute shit. The activity people are calling shadow banning is actually a number of different things and different levels and they pretty much completely ignore the massive number of accounts that are completely missed or are falsely tagged, unless it catches major press, then they deny it at the same time as reversing it.

Basically they got really shit code and some kind of flags that go off to make accounts less visible. The reason for the controversy is because the code is shit. But, it should be controversial regardless, because they are censoring accounts, not just spam bots. Hell, they do a horrible job of actually catching the spam bots. It wouldn't even be that hard. They musta spent all their money on server admins and code optimizers and not hired a single regex expert.

Well, at least the twitter ceo isn't a massive proponent for XVG / DOGE / equivialant shitcoin 😂 also, I was wondering how I'd go about getting whitelisted for ocdb? Not really a bot user but would be nice to be on the list. 

It should never surprise us at this point as it is clear that we are the products for these platforms.  We all know that in business, bad products can destroy a brand and that is how we are being treated; a product.  No surprise the bans are active and “shoot first, ask questions later!”

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no1 . if an account is banned 99% of the time it is bots 

no2. the bitcoin handle on twitter is  run by bitcoincash 

so a ban on this account to stop the spread of misinformation and investors miss allocating funds to a scam if of benefit to everyone as a whole 

one of the biggest problems other platforms have is misinformation cant be discerned from accurate information more so on paid promotion sites

> All I'm saying is, there's no end to know what is going on on current centralized platforms, 
@acidyo

The one to watch is the Google _[good censor](https://steemit.com/religion/@nigelmarkdias/google-s-template-for-our-tomorrow) project._
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