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by dom96 562 days ago
> Did you miss the fact that X is a platform based on free speech?

How can you say this with a straight face? I am genuinely baffled by people who hold this view.

Just because you say that your platform is all about “free speech” doesn’t mean it is and there are clear actions that X/Elon took which go against that claim.

The primary of which being that posting “cisgender” gets your post flagged and demoted in the algorithm and that Elonjet was banned. How can you seriously claim free speech absolutism when there are direct examples showing the very opposite.

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The algorithm is open source, so you should be able to point out to me where in the code this trick is being done.

Of course you can’t, since you’re just a conspiracy theorist.

The algorithm that has been open sourced hasn’t been updated in over a year https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commits/main/

You’re the conspiracy theorist. Conspiracies go hand in hand with your ideologies.

They don't owe the repo any updates, if there are none. As long as you have no evidence of foul play, you're just a run of the mill conspiracy theorist.