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Yeah the censorship is overbearing now. I've since deleted my account of a decade but just using the word "cis" got a post of mine immediately auto-moderated.

I think people talking about how new-Twitter is somehow a bastion of free speech or whatever are just telling on themselves about what they think speech is.

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Are you banned? Is your post deleted? No? Then it’s not censorship.

Again, if you don’t match with the vision, don’t use the platform. But you have to accept that the platform exists, is very popular, and allows free speech, and you can’t change that.

I don’t think Elon is particularly principled on the topic of free speech, seeing the way he blocked those outgoing links to competitors a while ago.

Regarding the auto moderation of that word, what does happen when a post gets auto moderated? Does it get like, semi-hidden or something?

They go to the bottom, behind a button you have to press to reveal them.

*allows free speech Elon agrees with

which isn't really all that free after all.

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