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"What Twitter could do is just stop promoting and spreading content people don’t like."

Isn't this censorship?



Yes - a lot of people claim that shadow banning, downranking etc. are censorship. I disagree, they necessary to keep online places as civil as they are.

There's also content that is regarded by mental health experts as harmful in large quantities - downranking that is also important to not cause existential harm to people.




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