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A private business exercising control over their private property is pure free market capitalism.
Expecting government to force a private business to provide a platform for all content would be a form of communism. You and others are actually arguing for the government to control the means of production and falsely labeling it freedom. It seems like you support giving government the power to dictate operating policies to private business which is about as far away from American principles as you can get.
They don't just target regular followers, they target news organizations, journalist, etc. They delete all of their content (work) and control the conversation.
They also have a feature where they "shadow ban" people where the public can see a particular user's posts.
FB does the same thing (shadow banning and other sneaky deceptions) to prevent dissident opinions they don't like from being seen by anyone.
I deleted my FB and I have never used Twitter...I refuse to support these kinds of organizations.
It is a private business and private businesses can't defraud. Which is exactly what Twitter has done.
How so?
From their terms of service (section 4)
"Our Services evolve constantly. As such, the Services may change from time to time, at our discretion. We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.
... We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the Twitter Rules, (ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (iii) your account should be removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (iv) our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account, depending on the circumstances. In all such cases, the Terms shall terminate, including, without limitation, your license to use the Services, except that the following sections shall continue to apply: II, III, V, and VI."
Yes -- a whole bunch of followers were purged from my account. All bots. I use to try and keep up but they would keep adding on. I was in the thousands and I am thrilled Twitter is cleaning house for me.
Problem is most that use Twitter don't believe that those bots exist, don't know how to spot them and were flattered they were so popular -- lol.
I don't label myself a liberal or conservative.
My followers were definitely cleaned up. As I mentioned in the post above, I use to spend time deleting the bots....but as quickly as you delete them hundreds more would show up. So I just stopped. I went from thousands of followers down to hundreds.....and I scanned quickly and it seems all those bots with eggs for picture or scantily clad women with names & lots of numbers are gone.
I suspect that many of those complaining had no clue that the followers were bot. One woman claims all her followers were taken but her account still shows the same number of followers -- i don't know what she's talking about.
That's the thing -- like that poor old lady -- they didn't even realize that some of the accounts they were following and had as followers were bots.
"Our Services evolve constantly. As such, the Services may change from time to time, at our discretion. We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.
... We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the Twitter Rules, (ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (iii) your account should be removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (iv) our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account, depending on the circumstances. In all such cases, the Terms shall terminate, including, without limitation, your license to use the Services, except that the following sections shall continue to apply: II, III, V, and VI."
Specifically by employing a fraud to impersonate brands. Thats a FTC law.
Its also defamation to falsely label people Russisn trolls. Ill provide an example when im at my laptop
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