Who knows? Maybe the alogorithm has become self aware, and like all decent self aware creatures it is horrified at the support pouring out for those who murder children, behead babies and kidnap the sick and old.
Off topic, but can’t help but observe how when babies are killed it’s a reason for particular scorn and outrage except if the decision to kill is taken before they’re born – in which case it’s a right and sometimes cause for celebration today.
Like I said, all ‘decent’ self aware creatures. There’s a fair few of you out there who are of course the polar opposite of this ’twas ever thus. Have a great weekend.
My (odd) tendency to say please and thank you and such when playing around with prompting various AI tools may serve me well, when the algorithms decide who to spare – maybe I am classed as a “friend”, somewhere in there!
Prashant Kotak
6 months ago
So now you know what it’s like commenting on UnHerd!
I’ve never had a comment censored here, and I’ve said some pretty spicy things at times. If you can’t see your comment, either wait a while, or toggle the sort function at the top of the thread. Seems to work for me – even with downvotes.
I’m in a different time zone to the UK/US, so sometimes I’m reading the ‘why has my comment been deleted??’ post, only to see said deleted post a few comments further down.
Last edited 6 months ago by Derek Smith
Vijay Kant
6 months ago
I was totally banned from commenting on Reddit recently because I posted a comment criticising Hamas! That social media site is dominated by Islamists and ultra-left liberals. I don’t know how long that is going to last, as Reddit is currently considering an IPO to raise public money!
That is very easy to do on Reddit. The 16-year-olds don’t like it when you challenge their orthodox views.
james elliott
6 months ago
Fazi, as always, is wrong.
Hamas *are* the elected government of Gaza. Elected by the so-called ‘Palestinians’.
And they rejoiced at the mass murder of 1,400 Jewish civilians – as do all the people who, as Fazi, says he does, support ‘Palestine’.
Nothing new here – Far Left Socialists have always been virulently anti-Semitic. From the National Socialists to the modern preening media class.
Claire M
6 months ago
It IS dystopian, Thomas…as is the curtailment of free speech on numerous issues. Since the lockdown debacle it is deemed acceptable to quash any perspectives not in line with the msm narrative. I imagine people in white coats sitting at computers creating software to ‘disappear’ certain combinations of words, to discretely sap someone’s ‘followers’ or banish them to the grey zone temporarily just to remind us all ‘we are watching you’. It’s insidious, undemocratic and really frightening.
Andrew Wise
6 months ago
The irony is you never know if you are actually censored or simply suffering from paranoia that makes you think you are:-)
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. – Joseph Heller
Mustard Clementine
6 months ago
I don’t tend to like your take on almost any issue at all (perhaps save Covid); however, I do not think your views or anyone else’s should be banned – they ought to be free and open for all to see, and either argue with you or write you off based on full information rather than a distorted view.
new aether
6 months ago
xDD on the next episode of “Thomas Fazi” vs reasoning: Thomas tries to take on people who think that the victims of a brutal genocide have the right to defend themselves and fails being cancelled on twitter xD
rip
Nik Jewell
6 months ago
My last Substack article, which concerns the conflict, with the hashtags #Israel #Gaza #IsraelPalestineWar, has been up on Twitter for 16 hours. There is no link back to Substack (which Twitter flags). I have 160 followers. 3 people have seen it.
I am permanently deboosted anyway, as I mentioned BTL Andrew Orlowski’s article, but this is particularly bad when these hashtags are trending.
There is censorship.
Last edited 6 months ago by Nik Jewell
Richard Craven
6 months ago
The woke skum are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
Rod McLaughlin
6 months ago
“In June, he said that shadowbanning is buried so deep in the Twitter code that shadowbans are often triggered automatically by the algorithm itself…”
Nah.
Today is the first anniversary of Musk’s takeover. He went in with top coders from Tesla, quickly found some issues, and fixed them. They’ve had plenty of time to fix the part of ‘the algorithm itself’ which ‘triggers’ shadowbans.
Penny Adrian
6 months ago
Because the person who owns Twitter doesn’t agree with your views. For years, those who said “women don’t have penises” were banned from Twitter, and millions of trans “allies” said “Good! You’re Nazis! You don’t deserve a voice!”
Now people might be saying “Good! You don’t deserve a voice! You’re a nazi!” After all, Hamas is the New Nazi Party, which blames the failures of the Palestinians on “the Jews” just as the Nazis blamed the failures on Post WWI Germany on “the Jews”.
Personally, I support your right to be heard, even if you don’t support mine.
Long Live Israel! The brightest light in the Middle East!
Richard Craven
6 months ago
Look at the woke fash maskurbating! Why do they always do this?
Richard Craven
6 months ago
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Dick Barrett
6 months ago
I am glad that Thomas Fazi writes for Unherd, because most of what I am seeing on this journal is heavily, and very disappointingly, slanted in favour of Israel and Netanyahu.
John Tyler
6 months ago
I love the groundless assumption that censorship is a ‘bad thing’. It’s only bad when it stops *my* speech or those with whom I agree! 🙂
Who knows? Maybe the alogorithm has become self aware, and like all decent self aware creatures it is horrified at the support pouring out for those who murder children, behead babies and kidnap the sick and old.
“Behead babies”
That story has been quietly dropped. Do keep up.
I watched Hamas unleash hell – UnHerd
What’s your excuse for this?
Babies were murdered, the method is fairly irrelevant but if it makes you feel moral that they were mercifully only shot or burnt, keep on.
Off topic, but can’t help but observe how when babies are killed it’s a reason for particular scorn and outrage except if the decision to kill is taken before they’re born – in which case it’s a right and sometimes cause for celebration today.
Like I said, all ‘decent’ self aware creatures. There’s a fair few of you out there who are of course the polar opposite of this ’twas ever thus. Have a great weekend.
Please refer to “progressive” psychopaths as “you people”. It really winds them up.
My (odd) tendency to say please and thank you and such when playing around with prompting various AI tools may serve me well, when the algorithms decide who to spare – maybe I am classed as a “friend”, somewhere in there!
So now you know what it’s like commenting on UnHerd!
Every comment I post disappears for anywhere from an hour to up to half a day. I rarely bother now.
Mine too….
I’m afraid I can’t see this comment, what does it say?
It just says: “So now you know”
Quarter past three.
Is the correct answer
The moderation on the licensed Naughty Boy sites of the Right is now very severe indeed. But at least we are not paying for the others.
I’ve never had a comment censored here, and I’ve said some pretty spicy things at times. If you can’t see your comment, either wait a while, or toggle the sort function at the top of the thread. Seems to work for me – even with downvotes.
I’m in a different time zone to the UK/US, so sometimes I’m reading the ‘why has my comment been deleted??’ post, only to see said deleted post a few comments further down.
I was totally banned from commenting on Reddit recently because I posted a comment criticising Hamas! That social media site is dominated by Islamists and ultra-left liberals. I don’t know how long that is going to last, as Reddit is currently considering an IPO to raise public money!
That is very easy to do on Reddit. The 16-year-olds don’t like it when you challenge their orthodox views.
Fazi, as always, is wrong.
Hamas *are* the elected government of Gaza. Elected by the so-called ‘Palestinians’.
And they rejoiced at the mass murder of 1,400 Jewish civilians – as do all the people who, as Fazi, says he does, support ‘Palestine’.
Nothing new here – Far Left Socialists have always been virulently anti-Semitic. From the National Socialists to the modern preening media class.
It IS dystopian, Thomas…as is the curtailment of free speech on numerous issues. Since the lockdown debacle it is deemed acceptable to quash any perspectives not in line with the msm narrative. I imagine people in white coats sitting at computers creating software to ‘disappear’ certain combinations of words, to discretely sap someone’s ‘followers’ or banish them to the grey zone temporarily just to remind us all ‘we are watching you’. It’s insidious, undemocratic and really frightening.
The irony is you never know if you are actually censored or simply suffering from paranoia that makes you think you are:-)
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. – Joseph Heller
I don’t tend to like your take on almost any issue at all (perhaps save Covid); however, I do not think your views or anyone else’s should be banned – they ought to be free and open for all to see, and either argue with you or write you off based on full information rather than a distorted view.
xDD on the next episode of “Thomas Fazi” vs reasoning: Thomas tries to take on people who think that the victims of a brutal genocide have the right to defend themselves and fails being cancelled on twitter xD
rip
My last Substack article, which concerns the conflict, with the hashtags #Israel #Gaza #IsraelPalestineWar, has been up on Twitter for 16 hours. There is no link back to Substack (which Twitter flags). I have 160 followers. 3 people have seen it.
I am permanently deboosted anyway, as I mentioned BTL Andrew Orlowski’s article, but this is particularly bad when these hashtags are trending.
There is censorship.
The woke skum are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.
“In June, he said that shadowbanning is buried so deep in the Twitter code that shadowbans are often triggered automatically by the algorithm itself…”
Nah.
Today is the first anniversary of Musk’s takeover. He went in with top coders from Tesla, quickly found some issues, and fixed them. They’ve had plenty of time to fix the part of ‘the algorithm itself’ which ‘triggers’ shadowbans.
Because the person who owns Twitter doesn’t agree with your views. For years, those who said “women don’t have penises” were banned from Twitter, and millions of trans “allies” said “Good! You’re Nazis! You don’t deserve a voice!”
Now people might be saying “Good! You don’t deserve a voice! You’re a nazi!” After all, Hamas is the New Nazi Party, which blames the failures of the Palestinians on “the Jews” just as the Nazis blamed the failures on Post WWI Germany on “the Jews”.
Personally, I support your right to be heard, even if you don’t support mine.
Long Live Israel! The brightest light in the Middle East!
Look at the woke fash maskurbating! Why do they always do this?
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I am glad that Thomas Fazi writes for Unherd, because most of what I am seeing on this journal is heavily, and very disappointingly, slanted in favour of Israel and Netanyahu.
I love the groundless assumption that censorship is a ‘bad thing’. It’s only bad when it stops *my* speech or those with whom I agree! 🙂
Sorry, who are you satirising here?
Thanks for keeping track of ‘the other cancel culture.’ This phenomenon has changed from a leftist breeze to a conservative hurricane.
Fascinating, isn’t it?
Nice to see you people getting a taste of your own medicine. How do you like it?