Negative consequences of the twitter ban hammer: now every nut posting total nonsense is all "I'd post the proof but twitter will ban me." Complete absence of evidence is somehow twice as convincing as baloney, plus not possible to refute. Well played, media overlords.
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@tedu It's always a careful play. Without a doubt, they understand this well. They understand the Streisand effect, but they also control the platform, what surfaces, what people see etc.
So my educated guess is they estimate how effective a ban would be. I wouldn't be surprised if they use ML/AI or something. They already do for curating interests.
Besides, they have a plethora of methods to censor. Shadowbanning, non-chronological manipulated timelines, priming, psychological warning info boxes, link bans, topic bans, temporary bans, intentionally ambiguous ToS.
