X Labels My Posts "Sensitive", Unable to Appeal
X is labeling my posts "sensitive" and I can't appeal. Although the notifications say I "can appeal by clicking on each post," every time I've tried the past few days, I'm told "twitter.com” /X “refused to connect."
It began when I shared an old video of trans activist and former Democratic Party electoral candidate, Ashlee Marie Preston. The video was removed by Facebook in 2021. I reshared it on X to mock Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, about Facebook standing for free speech, claiming he told the Biden administration “We’re not going to take down humor, and satire, or true information.” Zuck didn’t just give in to the Biden admin on COVID-19 info during the pandemic, he’s always been happy to take down “humor, satire, and true information” like my “Bigoted Trans Activist Speaks at Netflix / Dave Chappelle Protest” video, composed entirely of Preston quotes.
X put “sensitive content” warnings on my new post reposting the video, my posts sharing the “sensitive content” notifications, and posts sharing the posts sharing sensitive content notifications.
I received warnings for the following four posts.
“Sensitive” Post #1
"We're not going to take down humor and satire"
Facebook removed this humorous video for "hate speech"
“Sensitive” Post #2
Soon after reminding everyone that Facebook removed a hilarious video composed entirely of verifiable quotes of a trans activist & former Democratic Party candidate...X flagged (is suppressing it) as "sensitive content"...Don't be naive. Big Tech's mass censorship continues.
“Sensitive” Post #3
-When I share true quotes of a Democratic Party candidate, X labels and suppresses it as "sensitive"
-When I talk about the X censorship, that too is labeled "sensitive" and suppressed.
-When I click to appeal, X tells me "https://x.com refused to connect"
“Sensitive” Post #4
X is labeling my posts "sensitive" and I can't appeal.
Although the notifications say I "can appeal by clicking on each post," every time I've tried the past few days, I'm told twitter dot com / X "refused to connect."
What's going on here?
I don’t know whether these warnings are the result of something nefarious, an innocent error, or a new X algorithm. Musk posted about an “algorithm tweak coming soon” to reduce “negativity”. I don’t know if Musk’s new tweak is to blame or if it is “a bug” like the one X said caused it to “incorrectly label numerous posts as sensitive media,” last year.
If you have any idea what’s going on or are experiencing similar issues, please let me know!
I happened to read this post as I took a brief pause from Taibbi and Kirn’s dissection of the Rogan/Zuckerberg interview. These tech people are barely human. I am not a social media user, but from the outside, the matrix of control seems to represent a new meaning for the term Worldwide Web, It’s a web all right, and there are a few billionaire spiders catching billions of little flies with no intention of ever letting go. We need a new format, subscriber based, and built from the ground up to be secure forever. Yes, that’s probably delusional.
In the meantime, I value all of my subscriptions here, and your work especially.
Elon hired Winston Smith to run content moderation because of his experience in censorship since 1984.