Bare notice [1] should take zero time to implement. Just show users the true status [2]. Reasons for removal can come later. Right now everyone is still in the dark, and it's a year after acquisition.<p>It is way too easy to shadowban on social media. Some mods are not only brazen about shadowbanning, they also suggest digital IDs would be a substitute [3].<p>However, once we move to digital IDs, I doubt shadowbanning will go anywhere. Just like we pay for ads on cable TV, shadowbanning will always be a thing. Don't fall for the line, "we'll stop when X happens."<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZs-A0ETjY&t=2603s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZs-A0ETjY&t=2603s</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e6BIkKBZpg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e6BIkKBZpg</a><p>[3] <a href="https://twitter.com/rhaksw/status/1689887293002379264" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/rhaksw/status/1689887293002379264</a>
How far have we come from a reductive "they did it to me so it's bad" Musk to "it's so complicated I'll tell you when I can, trust me" Musk.<p>It was always complicated. It's very hard to see how sacking 75% of the workforce made it better.<p>Is there any reason to believe his ground truth problem was rightist libertarian nuts, sexual abusers, trolls and Nazism got shadowbanned and now, he can't escape the "why" part?
> Twitter, however, still stores “a lot of enforcement metadata in free-text notes attached to user accounts,” [Yoel Roth] noted. (This system is called Guano, because everything at Twitter had a cutesy bird name, he mentioned as an aside.)<p>> “A human can understand and act on them, but if you wanted to provide automated user notice of account status, you need them in some structured format.”<p>Do GDPR/CCPA-jurisdictioned users have a right to access their Guano notes? Has anyone submitted a "right of access" request for them?