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> .win domain

lol, you had me going for a moment there.



It's my blog's domain, which I got for $2/year, what's wrong with that? We should turn up our nose at everyone who bought the cheapest domain?

Interesting you bring this up though because tweets mentioning .win domains still get shadow removed, even today with the new owner.

This Tweet [1] only appears when directly linked. It does not appear beneath its parent [2] for anyone but me.

[1] https://twitter.com/rhaksw/status/1594103021407195136

[2] https://twitter.com/TheFIREorg/status/1594078057895063553


That's likely because .win has a terrible reputation due to the number of shitty websites on that TLD. I would personally prefer to spend a few $ more to avoid creating an unnecessary negative impression.


The point is people won't notice this because Twitter doesn't tell you your tweet was hidden.

Does it make sense for Twitter to shadow remove tweets from a whole TLD? The fact that it needs to be done secretly is evidence that most users don't know that using such a TLD will "create a negative impression".


I don't think it 'needs' to be done secretly so much as big companies cannot be bothered to get into fights over every moderation, and find i more economical to avoid legal liability by not saying anything at all. They don't bind themselves with any promises to do so in their user agreement (which is naturally tilted fully in their favor, since their most avid users are not their customers, as such), and a calculated indifference means less overhead than clear communication. Is that infuriating to some people? Sure, but it's how a lot of businesses operate because it's in their economic interest.

Again, you're not a customer. The advertisers and data brokers are the customers. Keeping this in mind is why I lose little sleep over being shadowbanned and having my visibility limited on social media.


> I don't think it 'needs' to be done secretly so much as big companies cannot be bothered to get into fights over every moderation

And then you get into a situation where it can be alleged that a whole political ideology, half the country, has been sidelined by your secretive work.

Short term, that worked for awhile. It is not a long term strategy.

> you're not a customer

Users are part of the product. Lying to them en masse is not a good way to build trust.

> The advertisers and data brokers are the customers. Keeping this in mind is why I lose little sleep over being shadowbanned and having my visibility limited on social media.

I guess you've never tried to say something that the majority didn't want you to say, as has happened many times throughout history, from the Spanish Inquisition to Anthony Comstock to Communism to McCarthy to the Civil Rights Era.

Free expression is held in regard not just when dealing with government, but also when dealing with each other. Shouting over each other isn't considered civil discourse, and neither is censorship wherever it occurs, in private or public places.


I guess you've never tried to say something that the majority didn't want you to say

I've been jailed twice, stabbed, kicked in the head, had my ribs broken, and hit with a wide variety of chemical agents, at the hands of both police and mobs, all while engaged in non-violent political activity. To me, you sound naïve, at best.


Did you really just judge a blog you didn’t read on their TLD? That’s petty.


No. I read it and then I made fun of the TLD.




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