"We're seeing a number of accounts that have been locked or limited by mistake and not because they Tweeted about any particular topic. We're working to undo this and get those accounts back to normal."
- https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1308853643144241152?s=20
I don't believe them at all. A lot of my mutuals on Twitter got rate limited, or their threads got comments disabled they didn't enable, or they had that content warning screen in the OP, some people's follower count dropped dramatically all of sudden/people being automatically unfollowed from each other, and a few people reporting they had to enter a captcha earlier just to post.
yeah it probably is something they had planned to not be as obvious in that regard. It's no coincidence that almost everyone who this type of thing happened to were all tweeting about breana taylor. As soon as the SRA account tweeted something out it was instantly put in twitter purgatory and many others had the same exact thing
Not to say we should trust Twitter, but I wonder if it's a third party doing something like mass reporting such posts and Twitter doesn't want to clue people in that they're this easily manipulated.
There's other issues too, people are talking about follower numbers dropping and posts disappearing that are unrelated to this stuff.
And there it is again, Twitter actively working to protect the empire, if it's not silencing south american journalist and news sources, it's lying about what is and isn't American state media and promoting lies about the official enemies.
Still I can't convince friends and family that there's active censorship on behalf of the government going on.. sigh
r/news is just a shit show. People there defending the cops and some other people are saying shit like "Well I don't agree with the outcome but there shouldn't be riots happening either!"
Fuck Reddit.
So Twitter and YouTube censorship is just another issue that jimmy dore was right on
