X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads

5500 words to say the ad was blocked in error:

'According to X, the account had been labeled as political in 2020 "when political ads were prohibited"'(prior to Musk's takeover)

croes · 2 years ago

5500 words to show how much endurance you need to get behind the auto response until X checks if they made an error.

Your version sounds like they just asked and the ban was lifted because it was an error.

That's not what happened.

tensor · 2 years ago

This really begs the question, when they removed the policy why did they not remove all the existing blocks and labels? Sounds fishy to me.

delecti · 2 years ago

My understanding is that there isn't an abundance of people around at Xitter these days to do that kind of due diligence. "Nobody had time to go through and unblock all the people blocked under the old policy" doesn't sound fishy to me at all.

paulddraper · 2 years ago

Likely not a reason, just a mistake.

I don't see the reason for deliberately doing it.

vuln · 2 years ago

Happened to people still shadow banned by the twitter dick detector

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th0ma5 · 2 years ago

Still very much needs to be discussed. Now that they've opened the can of worms of being a political entity, it most certainly was a political decision not to find cases like this within their own systems that they should know about. Are they really prepared or are they going to further cave to the Saudis?

brookst · 2 years ago

I don’t think we should expect them to cave to the Saudis. There may be higher bidders.

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hawski · 2 years ago

The day I will stop taking it first to mean X11/X.org will be a sad day for me. With this publicity I imagine more people visiting x.org. I wonder what will happen to it in a couple of decades.

raydiatian · 2 years ago

Twitter. Twitter. Twitter.

Not X.

badwolf · 2 years ago

The owner himself is against transitioning, so it only seems right to deadname his company.

timbit42 · 2 years ago

Xitter.

The En-xitification of Xitter

? what do you mean

ta757579 · 2 years ago

They mean that we humans are under no obligation to comply with a corporations branding strategies.

See also: Google/Alphabet, Blackwater/MurderInc/Whatevertheyrecallednow

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CatWChainsaw · 2 years ago

And it just promoted some very 1488 ads too. Hope the simps are happy.

Aw, salty sally got butthurt.

Your lord and xavior is never going to notice you. get the fuck over it.

tracker1 · 2 years ago

They've also announced, they're re-establishing "trust and safety" (censorship) teams under a different name/brand.

locopati · 2 years ago

It is values not censorship to say that you value protecting people from harmful speech in a private company.

bdcravens · 2 years ago

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

alienicecream · 2 years ago

When did everyone become so afraid of what other people might say? Or maybe it's when did it become so fashionable to be afraid of what other people might say?