Twitter Using ‘Blacklist’ To Secretly ‘ShadowBan’ Conservatives

Twitter maintains that it’s new guidelines are meant solely to keep spammers and harassers off the site, but the way it has been used so far indicates that they have a much wider agenda than just clearing the place of trolls. Indeed, it seems like they are trying to purge the site of conservatives, libertarians and other right-leaning figures who disagree with mainstream liberal thought.

“However, Twitter isn’t merely targeting spammers. For weeks, users have been reporting that tweets from populist conservatives, members of the alternative right, cultural libertarians, and other anti-PC dissidents have disappeared from their timelines.

Among the users complaining of shadowbans are sci-fi author and alt-right figurehead Vox Day, geek culture blogger “Daddy Warpig,” and the popular pro-Trump account Ricky Vaughn. League of Gamers founder and former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, as well as adult actress and anti-censorship activist Mercedes Carrera, have also reported that their tweets are not appearing on the timelines of their followers.

The pattern of shadowban reports, which skews towards the alt-right, the populist right, and cultural libertarians, follows close on the heels of Twitter’s establishment of a ‘Trust and Safety Council’ packed with left-wing advocacy groups, as well as Islamic research centre the Wahid Institute.

It also follows my prediction that Twitter would use its influence to interfere in the 2016 presidential election by muffling conservative voices on the platform.

For close to a year now, Breitbart has covered Twitter’s march towards political censorship. In May 2015 Allum Bokhari reported that the site had begun to experiment with shadowbans, ostensibly to protect users from abuse. Then, as now, it was suspected that ‘protecting users from abuse’ was an excuse to implement a system that would later be used for political censorship.”

Source: Breitbart