Twitter's shadowban filter weighs blocks in the algorithm. This likely means that putting someone on a major shared list puts them at risk.
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It's not enough by itself (I've been on Arthur Chu's blocklist for probably at least a year) but combine it with brigade-reporting and...
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...you get an exploitable tool for fucking with people, if you own one of the big lists and can coordinate a brigade through backchannels.
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If this is practical, it's probably being done. I've seen hints that Saudis are doing something like this against critics of Islamism.
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nb: I have no particular expertise or access to non-public information, I'm just trying to pay attention.
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It's a shame about Gerry Reith. He'd know just how to play this.
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I can't stop thinking about what Hitchens would say about this election.
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I have that tic, too -- and it's vaguely troubling. Editing Reith means the "what if's" buzz with every new trick. He was prescient.
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