{"id":1764997,"date":"2022-12-06T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764997"},"modified":"2022-12-06T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:47:43","slug":"if-elon-musk-wants-twitter-to-have-freedom-of-speech-he-needs-to-allow-freedom-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-elon-musk-wants-twitter-to-have-freedom-of-speech-he-needs-to-allow-freedom-of-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"If Elon Musk Wants Twitter To Have Freedom Of Speech, He Needs To Allow Freedom Of Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-elon-musk-wants-twitter-to-have-freedom-of-speech-he-needs-to-allow-freedom-of-reach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764997&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It turns out free speech under \u201cfree speech\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1499976967105433600?s=20&#038;t=v1HBgdNo5Y-jERhcq99JWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">absolutist<\/a>\u201d Elon Musk is not so absolute. According to the new Twitter CEO, \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d does not include \u201cfreedom of reach.\u201d Musk said, \u201cNegative\/hate tweets will be max deboosted &#038; demonetized,\u201d meaning users \u201cwon\u2019t find the [offending] tweet unless [they] specifically seek it out.\u201d In other words, Musk is keeping at least some of Twitter\u2019s notorious shadowbanning practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Musk continuing to limit the reach of certain users, but his perpetual ban of Alex Jones and suspension of Kanye West suggest violations of Twitter\u2019s generalized \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hateful conduct policy<\/a>\u201d have nothing to do with federal laws against harassment and threats and don\u2019t care about upholding the First Amendment. Instead, what is and isn\u2019t acceptable speech rests solely in the opinions of one tech billionaire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before Musk took over, Twitter routinely shadowbanned, meaning it limited the influence of posts or entire accounts without notifying the user. For\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ampfluence.com\/twitter-shadowban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">example<\/a>, pre-Musk Twitter could stop users from seeing a particular person\u2019s replies to tweets and finding a particular person\u2019s profile in the search results. Twitter could also stop a user\u2019s tweets from being visible in search results (even when searched word-for-word).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shadowbanning creates a loophole for tech giants to censor a user\u2019s content or entire account without being held accountable because the user doesn\u2019t even know he is being silenced. Free expression being distorted by the higher powers running Twitter\u2019s backend is not really free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Musk will keep Twitter\u2019s old version of shadowbanning or adopt a new one. What we do know is that shadowbanning isn\u2019t going away under Musk and that many accounts are still suffering, such as The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis, who has been heavily shadowbanned since January 2021. If you follow Davis and search for him, his account appears. But if you do not follow him, his account will not show up in search results, even if you type in his username word-for-word.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk has not made any updates to the app\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/using-twitter\/debunking-twitter-myths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunking Twitter myths<\/a>\u201d page, where the company states, \u201cSimply put, we don\u2019t shadow ban! Ever.\u201d This was a lie before Musk owned Twitter and it is still a lie now. The Federalist asked Twitter to specifically outline its shadowbanning policies via its communication team\u2019s account on the app but did not hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The Twitterverse\u2019s New Arbiter of Truth <\/p>\n<p>We know a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/23\/elon-musk-pokes-fun-at-stay-woke-shirts-found-at-twitter-hq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woke<\/a>\u201d coalition of leftists who hated the First Amendment and were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/technology\/twitter-files-out-elon-musk-reveals-how-hunter-biden-story-was-suppressed-tweets-handled-1567159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buddy-buddy<\/a>\u00a0with Democrats ruled pre-Musk Twitter. But who are the arbiters of truth in the Musk-owned Twitterverse?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/10\/28\/elon-musk-twitter-content-moderation-council-restore-banned-users-like-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0two months ago that an intellectually diverse council would decide whether to restore banned users such as Donald Trump (though if free speech is really \u201cabsolute,\u201d the reinstatement of Trump and others would be a given). Yet today, Musk appears to be making many of the censorship decisions unilaterally \u2014 without a council or even Twitter\u2019s policies to back him up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the banning of Alex Jones \u2014 the InfoWars founder who was recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has directed an incredible &#8216;free speech&#8217; campaign, but it&#8217;s all false advertising until he ends the shadowbanning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1765000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}