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Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:42 pm**

... is now making itself literally impossible to read unless you sign in, and you cannot sign in or re-join if you've been "suspended" [sic-- this euphemism means you're permanently barred from the joint.]

For the last three days, I've been unable to even read a tweet without an obnoxious giant message completely blocking the screen:

Twitler wrote:"See more tweets by [e.g., @jeffwellsrigint].
When you sign in, you can see more tweets by [@jeffwellsrigint"].

Is anyone else here experiencing the same thing? Or is this treatment restricted to certain IP addresses?

For all its spooky awfulness as a platform, and despite all the purges of the last two years, Twitler is still an essential source of news and analysis and sane comment. Imagine it's the year 1962 and you're forbidden to own a telephone or a TV or a radio.

Global corporations now own essential national and local utilities. They decide who you can talk to or even hear from. They are entirely unaccountable. You have no legal or political redress.

They will very soon be deciding who gets to eat and who doesn't. And when they do, you'll be unable to tell anyone beyond your immediate neighborhood.

edit: typos

Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:18 pm**

I was getting that message after I blocked cookies from twatter... which browser are you using?

These are the cookies I have to permit (using chrome/chromium & derivatives):

If the cookies bother you (in that they make it easier to track your viewing habits across sessions, but are by no means the only way of doing that), you can use various browser extensions to automatically delete the cookies on restarting the browser, such as 'Cookie Auto Delete'.

If you're getting that fucking annoying blue 'Don’t miss what’s happening - People on Twitter are the first to know.' banner across the bottom (and you're on a chrome-derived browser), let me know and I'll sort you out with an extension to get rid of it. This one's no longer available anywhere else I can see (deleted from github), likely because the chap who wrote it finds it so useful that he's (rightly) worried that if it became too popular, twatter would take measures to stop it working. Again. Because they're cunts.

Posted: **Fri Jan 28, 2022 9:43 pm**

Many thanks for the tips. I just found a quick & simple solution: When the obnoxious message appears, just click on "sign in" or "register" and then immediately click on X (i.e.. close the box) without registering or signing in. You can then follow whatever account you're currently reading.

Posted: **Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:32 pm**

Take the url, remove the question mark and anything after it, and change twitter.com to nitter.net.

Enjoy while you can.

Posted: **Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:15 am**

I find that just clicking 'sign in' and closing the box makes that damned blue bar reappear at the bottom.

I just found chrome extension that gets rid of the twatter 'sign in' overlay box without the blue thing reappearing:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... me/related

Alternatively, this one:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... mcfglamnaa

can be used to replace 'twitter.com' with 'nitter.net' at the click of a button.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2022 4:26 pm**

The censorship is ferocious now. Twitler has just banned Vanessa Beeley:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNlInmUXwAc ... name=large

How many of us at RI have been un-personed by Twitler in the two years since COUPVID was launched? I know of:

me
Harvey
Belligerent Savant

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:10 pm**

Vanessa Beeley's account was restored about one day later, after many people protested. Twitler claimed her ban had been the result of "a technical error" (something about a malfunctioning "spam filter").

They are noticeably hesitant to nuke big accounts that have long been in existence. It would make the censorship too crassly obvious.

The brand must survive. The net must remain functional. The algorithms must keep "learning" from sentient beings. The war on humankind has not yet been won.

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:43 am**

Twitler have just nuked Michael P. Senger's account. Thread:

Slothrop@gnocchiwizard

i'm still very upset about this. we didn't agree on everything but we agreed on everything that mattered. the notion that there could be any public benefit in censoring someone like him is transparently absurd, they just shut dissidents down when too many people start listening.

https://twitter.com/gnocchiwizard/statu ... 8802565120

Senger is an attorney in San Francisco. See his two highly informative articles in Tablet: https://www.tabletmag.com/contributors/michael-p-senger

Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2022 7:51 am**

Richard Medhurst@richimedhurst 15 hrs ago

Twitter banned former Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Here’s their reasoning:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPr61GfXMAQ ... name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPr61GkXMAI ... name=small

https://twitter.com/velocirapture23/sta ... 7y4_opAAAA

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:27 am**

...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQN9nTIVkAA ... name=small

Posted: **Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:40 pm**

https://www.reuters.com/technology/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-rejects-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-bid-tweet-2022-04-14/

Fuck the House of Saud ...

https://twitter.com/TNdiya/status/1514641966130208771

Posted: **Fri Apr 15, 2022 3:42 pm**

@neontaster

I'll keep saying this: Elon Musk isn't a hero or a savior and he's not even necessarily one of "the good guys." But he is, as the tech world loves to say, a true Disruptor, and he happens to be disrupting something that's desperately needs some serious disruption.

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1 ... M47G8MqOAg

Whatever the motive, I'm enjoying current developments.

“I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech,” Musk said during the event. “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”

Musk said that Twitter needed to make its algorithm open sourced and that any action the company takes against tweets needs to be thoroughly explained to the public to stop “behind the scenes manipulation” on the platform by the company.

“It’s important to the function of democracy, it’s important to the function of the United States as a free country and many other countries, and to help freedom in the world more broadly than in the U.S.,” Musk said. “Civilizational risk is decreased the more we can increase the trust of Twitter as a public platform, and so I do think this will be somewhat painful.”

“My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said. “I don’t care about the economics at all.”

According to Musk, Twitter’s secret algorithms, which he said promote some tweets while not promoting others, can be “quite dangerous.”

From: https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter- ... ver-report

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:14 pm**

Introducing
Snitchworld™:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQqLpKVXIAs ... name=large}

Naturally, the snitches will turn out in force, toadying to Big Brother, devotedly helping The Algorithm to "make Twitter better" (sic), safe in the knowledge that they'll never have to come up with a rational argument, present compelling counter-evidence, explain themselves to anyone they "downvote", or ever show their faces.

But in fact Twitler doesn't even need those snitches and toadies. It can make up anything it wants. It can conjure up 10,000 "downvotes" whenever it chooses. The whole process is completely secret. Twitler can lie at will, with impunity.

The real usefulness to them ("them" being the CIA & NSA) is in seeing exactly who downvotes exactly what. That could come in very handy indeed.

Apropos, does Homeland Security still require all foreigners visiting the USA to list any "social media" accounts they have and reveal any pseudonyms they use? Serious question. (Asking for a fiend.)

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:45 am**

Ash Mahmood@AshTFE 24. Apr. 2022

It's with great disappointment that I announce Twitter have blocked Dr Corbett's account @KPCResearch for speaking truth. The awful thing is Twitter are trying to get him to delete the Tweet and admit he's spreading disinformation even though the opposite is true. Please help.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRHdsd5WYAA ... name=small

https://twitter.com/AshTFE/status/1518238530077696005

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:01 am**

oh come on Mac - not like they're being extradited to a lifetimes solitary confinement in a Supermax prison or anything :scared:

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