<story><title>“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I got a 7 day ban for a tweet that included “political suicide pact” as an idiom.&lt;p&gt;I then got permanently banned for including the line, “sending their children to die in Ukraine” in a tweet.&lt;p&gt;The “appeal” button causes me to get a denied email within one minute. This tells me no humans are in the loop on any of this.&lt;p&gt;I don’t think these tweets were controversial or require any diversity of viewpoints. They just require appreciation that you cannot automatically moderate anything accurately unless you are prepared to be very very VERY relaxed about the rules.&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure Elon is even interested in fixing this kind of problem. He seems focused on the politics and “cancel culture” type issues (whether they’re real or imagined).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>On the other hand, I’ve reported posts for using racial slurs (you know the one) and for calling for genocide … and been cheerfully told they didn’t break any rules but that I can block the user if my feelings were hurt. These sites aren’t moderated ideologically, they’re moderated randomly</text></comment>
<story><title>“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I got a 7 day ban for a tweet that included “political suicide pact” as an idiom.&lt;p&gt;I then got permanently banned for including the line, “sending their children to die in Ukraine” in a tweet.&lt;p&gt;The “appeal” button causes me to get a denied email within one minute. This tells me no humans are in the loop on any of this.&lt;p&gt;I don’t think these tweets were controversial or require any diversity of viewpoints. They just require appreciation that you cannot automatically moderate anything accurately unless you are prepared to be very very VERY relaxed about the rules.&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure Elon is even interested in fixing this kind of problem. He seems focused on the politics and “cancel culture” type issues (whether they’re real or imagined).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>I got a 48 hour ban recently for sharing a quote from an article we were discussing. The quote was nothing special, just a statement from a spokesperson for a company. The &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; was that I included the name+title of the person I quoted, and that somehow got flagged as me &amp;quot;doxxing&amp;quot; that person and their place of work. Whose job it was was to be a public spokesperson for this company..&lt;p&gt;It wasn&amp;#x27;t any political or contentious topic, so no idea what set it off. Basically along the lines of &amp;quot;as X working at Y said in the article, they want to do Z soon&amp;quot;.</text></comment>