Evolution of Twitter and Content Moderation – Elon Musk podcast
“for the first few years of using twitter no one really worried about being banned or silenced censored shadow band all of that it wasn’t really a thing it really started to ramp up i want to say around 2015 maybe due to the u.s elections and you started to feel the walls closing in not just personally but other people were found finding oh like oh that person got banned yeah oh that person that person that person it’s you know i’d start out with people more on the fringes but then it starts closing in and people start getting temporary i mean i got temporarily suspended for saying okay dude once um that was my one suspension yeah i said okay dude wow in response to in response to somebody and um it’s cool i made a song in some good great merchandise outfit in the end but um yeah i had to delete that tweet it literally just said okay dude um okay so yeah people were getting banned for all these sort of things and then now in the past year it’s it’s opened up again”
