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The Dissident Writer Podcast (private feed for socialmedia@duttonindustrial.com)

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Sunday Thoughts March 12, 2023

Sunday Thoughts March 12, 2023

2023-03-12
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I was awakened in the middle of the night one day last week to the sound of my old Twitter account being restored to life. Back when Musk took over and was granting amnesty to the damned, I submitted my request, which was promptly rejected. I never knew why my Twitter was suspended in the first place, as I barely used it. This was 2018 or thereabouts. The reason for my banning was the claim that I was encouraging suicide, which was hilarious.

The e-mail notifying me of my pardon stated that my followers would also be restored eventually, which I assumed meant restored to my follower count. Most were probably banned long ago and never bothered to come back. One of the amusing things back when I used Twitter was that my follower count would get about five thousand and then suddenly drop to around one thousand. This coincided with the mass purges of bad people from the system.

Over the last few days, I see the follower count has been ticking up, despite not doing anything or notifying anyone of the restored account. Paul Ramsey has talked about this. His follower count was capped for the longest time, until Musk took over. In weeks he added tens of thousands of followers, because the old limits were scrapped. In the fullness of time, the degree of censorship that has been going on will surprise even the most cynical.

This jumps out to me with Rumble. Lots of people have been moving to Rumble, so I decided to start posting the Friday show there. I was stunned by the traffic. When I used to post on YouTube, I would always get around 1500 views. It is audio only so I just assumed this was the same group of people each week using YouTube to listen rather than an app. It turns out that YouTube was simply blocking access to the channel so it was very hard to find it.

You see this with the video people moving to Rumble. They are noticing that their view counts are much higher than when they were on YouTube. The reason is they were limited by YouTube and most likely, YouTube lied about their view counts. That is another part of the censorship game. They overstate approved contend and understate unapproved content. The idea is to get people thinking that the bad guys are not popular while the good guys are wildly popular.

I think we are just scratching the surface in terms of the fakeness of everything. If they are going to such lengths to fake view counts, what else are they faking? It is not a big leap from there to faking data on the financial statements. It is not as if that is a never before done thing. Maybe that is the reason for the panic surrounding Silicon Valley Bank. Maybe the degree of fraud extends much further than the follower stats of so-called influencers on Twitter.

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* Forever J6 (Link)

* Silicon Valley Bank (Link)

* Winds Change For Ukraine (Link)

* Childless Shrew Update (Link)

* My Rumble (Link)

* My Twitter (Link)



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