Ability to speak on the internet
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 10:07 pm
I just want to rant a little here.
Back in the day all forums used to be functional forums like this. Today, many times not only has the software been "upgraded" to something non-functional (new visual styles that are very hard to use) but also in many places freedom of speech has gone by the wayside and moderators do their utmost best to micromanage every interaction.
For instance on Quora you are not allowed to give any life advice answers that does not coincide with the views of the moderators. If you tell someone to annoy their mother, your content might be blocked or moderated.
I recently posted on the Huffington a comment about how the article and the commenters were wrong and that a Japanese version of the same story including Japanese language comments showed a different side of the story. The comment was deleted.
Facebook is a place that gets many people in trouble including myself in the past and so I do not use it. People pretend to be your friend but they can any day betray you.
MSN and similar apps are gone. The only things that remain are Whatsapp which needs a mobile number and smart phone, including the mobile number of the one you are talking to. Kik is senseless, Skype is horrid for a chat application, Discord is not all that great I think due to lacking receipt notifications of any kind (will happily let you send a message that will never be received, and Skype does the same), Instagram is not a great chat app and requires a good online presence on that platform.
YouTube, the most important of all here, in this message, routinely censors and blocks comments (without telling you it did that) called shadow-banning or ghost-banning where your comments will simply not show up for anyone but yourself. How do you find out? For each and every freaking comment you have to log in to another account and check there.
I have never excessively spammed YouTube but the problems start if you are on YouTube more than usual and write a larger number of comments in a few days. Then suddenly your account enters a sort of flagged state and almost nothing you write is posted anymore.
Creating a new account alleviates it as long as you do not use the same IP address for both, or I am sure they actually link them together pretty quickly.
So I wake up in the morning and write a very short and simple message. It gets hidden from everyone.
I do the same on the other account. It gets hidden from everyone too.
Completely silenced.
Completely pointless.
It has happened to me before and I had to delete my entire google account (all of them) and recreate a new one, then it was okay for several months.
But that also means re-uploading everything to YouTube etc.
I simply have no place left to speak.
Except here I guess, I don't know.
Back in the day all forums used to be functional forums like this. Today, many times not only has the software been "upgraded" to something non-functional (new visual styles that are very hard to use) but also in many places freedom of speech has gone by the wayside and moderators do their utmost best to micromanage every interaction.
For instance on Quora you are not allowed to give any life advice answers that does not coincide with the views of the moderators. If you tell someone to annoy their mother, your content might be blocked or moderated.
I recently posted on the Huffington a comment about how the article and the commenters were wrong and that a Japanese version of the same story including Japanese language comments showed a different side of the story. The comment was deleted.
Facebook is a place that gets many people in trouble including myself in the past and so I do not use it. People pretend to be your friend but they can any day betray you.
MSN and similar apps are gone. The only things that remain are Whatsapp which needs a mobile number and smart phone, including the mobile number of the one you are talking to. Kik is senseless, Skype is horrid for a chat application, Discord is not all that great I think due to lacking receipt notifications of any kind (will happily let you send a message that will never be received, and Skype does the same), Instagram is not a great chat app and requires a good online presence on that platform.
YouTube, the most important of all here, in this message, routinely censors and blocks comments (without telling you it did that) called shadow-banning or ghost-banning where your comments will simply not show up for anyone but yourself. How do you find out? For each and every freaking comment you have to log in to another account and check there.
I have never excessively spammed YouTube but the problems start if you are on YouTube more than usual and write a larger number of comments in a few days. Then suddenly your account enters a sort of flagged state and almost nothing you write is posted anymore.
Creating a new account alleviates it as long as you do not use the same IP address for both, or I am sure they actually link them together pretty quickly.
So I wake up in the morning and write a very short and simple message. It gets hidden from everyone.
I do the same on the other account. It gets hidden from everyone too.
Completely silenced.
Completely pointless.
It has happened to me before and I had to delete my entire google account (all of them) and recreate a new one, then it was okay for several months.
But that also means re-uploading everything to YouTube etc.
I simply have no place left to speak.
Except here I guess, I don't know.