Victims of censorship on X, ep. 6
Today’s featured victim of persecution and censorship on X is julie4butte5. This is the first documented case of X’s censorship systems being used against a paying customer.
julie4butte5’s account is in a secret censorship mode that automatically sends all the replies she makes to the “offensive content” area at the bottom of the thread, an area that requires multiple additional clicks to see, without regard for what her comments contain.
To prevent julie4butte5 from realizing that she’s being persecuted and censored, X displays misleading representations of the threads she participates in to her and her followers, so she and those who are most interested in what she has to say will not realize anything is amiss.
To follow along, go to julie4butte5’s replies and look for replies she’s made to threads that don’t have too many replies. Open the thread, not her reply, in a background tab. Now, try to find where her comment ended up in that thread. Was it in the main section, “more replies”, or the “offensive content” area? Or is her comment just completely gone?
If you want to verify this yourself, please remember, it’s important to inspect other users’ replies from an account with no follow relationship to the other user. When you follow another user on X, it’s like saying “X, please hide your persecution of this user from me”.
Other note: being placed in a censorship mode seems to last about a week. After that, the concealment effect may go away. I think of this as automatically cleaning up the evidence that persecution/censorship occurred.
Of ten recent julie4butte5 replies I just checked, 100% were suppressed in some way. Eight were wrongly sent to “offensive content”, and the other two were missing from the threads entirely.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
This reply was completely missing from the thread.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
This reply was completely missing from the thread.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
Did this belong in the “offensive content” area? That’s where I found it.
😊🙏🏻 Special thanks to fellow persecuted user kalashnikity for spotting this. I think we’re making progress.