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by norea-armozel 3508 days ago
The fact the BOD of Twitter has been trying to sell the company for the last few months and the response from potential buyers has been negative (specifically, the user base being untamed and just a mess) means these moves are just part a larger attempt to sanitize the company. The fact people call this some sort of Great Purge or whatever is a joke. Do you really think you're the only ones that're going to be either banned or heavily filtered from the larger public user base? I'll put good money on the next move the Twitter devs do is set all accounts who flag themselves as adult/pornographic content as non-public or at least shadowbanned to non-following users. Why? Because porn may sell but it doesn't sell like Starbucks. So, don't think this some sort of mere hissy fit by SV liberals who lost the election. This is purely driven by the need to make good on investments. And the sooner the alt-right and "non-normie" kids realize that the better they'll be off (i.e. hosting their own damn sites and quit expecting everyone to subsidize them on their platforms).