Biometrics
Last week researcher leaked that X is looking to implement a facial recognition login feature that requires the user to provide a selfie to prove that they are the correct user, along with a driver’s license or government-issued ID.
‘These images will be sent to third-party service Au10tix, which will handle face biometrics matching. It is reported that X will store these images for a maximum of 30 days,’ Biometric Update reported.
X News Daily, a publication that reports on everything X, says that this will be optional for Verified users, though a lot of people have assume it will be for everyone.
Blocking Removed
Owner Elon Musk also recently stated that the platform is going to remove the ‘block’ feature. This means users may no longer be able to prohibit select users from seeing their profile and posts.
Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs. Makes no sense.
Musk said in a response to a tweet
People reacted negatively, according to Tech Crunch.
Twitter gives people a variety of tools to control their experience, including blocking. Blocking helps people in restricting specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their Tweets, and following them. If you have been blocked by another account on Twitter, you can still block other accounts (including any that have blocked you).
Twitter writes on its help page.
Blocking helps to ban spam and scam accounts and replies, and the removal of this tool could make the user experience more stressful for some.
More Censorship – CEO Says She Actually Runs Twitter
The newly minted CEO Linda Yaccarino, a former executive for NBC and holds an executive chair at the World Economic Forum since 2019, hired by Elon Musk to takeover the role for him, said in an interview with CNBC over two weeks ago that she is actually the one who runs X and not Musk, and that new censorship policies are being integrated.
She said during the interview that “Mine and Elon’s roles are very clear,” saying Musk has been relegated to “product design” at the head of “a team of extraordinary engineers [focusing] on new technology.”
During this interview X now has a “freedom of speech not freedom of reach” policy that “labels” users for posting things they don’t fit the narrative, and other things they deem as ‘mis- and disinformation,’ and then demonetizes the profile and reduces their exposure.
It goes back to my point about our success with freedom of speech, not reach… If it is lawful but it’s awful, it’s extraordinarily difficult for you to see it.
Yaccarino said
All three parts of the interview can be viewed below:
Some days later Insider reported: “Elon Musk’s X appears to have throttled access to websites he doesn’t like, then removed the delay when people noticed;” noting that some links from certain accounts took longer to load than usual, namely those associated with Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Substack, Reuters, and The New York Times. But this is only minor compared to what Yaccarino has said is going on.
The WinePress has noted that X was already censoring all sorts of posts and profiles not long after Musk took over the company. Musk had also emphasized that Twitter is “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.”
In April Rest of World reported that X, before Yaccarino was brought on board, explained that Twitter (at the time) had not denied any government request to change something they did not like, sharply increasing that number. Rest of World wrote (excerpts):
The data, drawn from Twitter’s reports to the Lumen database, shows that between October 27, 2022 and April 26, 2023, Twitter received a total of 971 requests from governments and courts. These requests included orders to remove controversial posts, as well as demands that Twitter produce private data to identify anonymous accounts. Twitter reported that it fully complied in 808 of those requests, and partially complied in 154 other cases. (For nine requests, it did not report any specific response.)
Most alarmingly, Twitter’s self-reports do not show a single request in which the company refused to comply, as it had done several times before the Musk takeover. Twitter rejected three such requests in the six months before Musk’s takeover, and five in the six months prior to that.
The orders vary widely in scope and subject, but all involve a government asking Twitter to either remove content or reveal information about a user. In one case from January, India’s information ministry ordered Twitter to take down all posts sharing footage from a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dozens of posts were removed, including one from a local member of parliament.
To put the data in context, Rest of World compared Lumen reports from Twitter’s Musk era (October 2022 to April 2023) against the previous two six-month spans. The results show government requests to Twitter more than doubling, from 348 to 971, when we compare Musk’s first six months to the same period a year earlier. There’s no similar increase in the number of resisted requests over that same period.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 20:17
Again, for the umpteenth time now, as I have said, I find it so comical that people actually thought Musk is some kind of bastion of free speech. I mean, at what point did he ever exemplify that? The mainstream propaganda ministry said that, and the people bought it: the Left thinks he’s some fascist dictate, and the Right thinks he’s an anti-woke hero that believes in freedom of liberty.
The evidence is far to the contrary. He’s just ‘some guy’ as far as I am concerned, who probably did not even invent all the stuff that he supposedly did. I mean, again, if Yaccarino is willing to gloat that she runs the show I think that speaks for itself.
At any rate, Musk is not to be trusted. I have never had a Twitter/X account before but I thought about getting one to expand The WP, but after seeing all this that is definitely out for me. My articles readers have shared on there have been censored already, so…
SEE: The Musk Psy-Op: Elon Is Another World Economic Forum Peddler And Globalist
Elon Musk Visits The Vatican And Takes A Picture With Pope Francis
Elon Musk Writes Article For Chinese Censorship Bureau Magazine Praising Their Internet Censorship
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Rule#1 stay off of that crap
Rule#2 see rule #1
My husband & I were laughing (preferable to crying) over the ‘Twitter’ birdbrains speaking past one another & now ‘X’ torture stake & consort Harlot naming. We thought it should be called something more realistic such as ‘Liars Are Us’ or ‘Twist Your Words We Will’, ‘The Primrose Path leading into sin” etc. ‘Accuser of the brethren’ comes in there, too. Never wise to dialogue with the Devil. Genesis 3 KJB.
An excellent article! For several years, I didn’t know if Elon could be trusted or not; recent developments (hiring this witch) has more than confirmed my suspicions. The Holy Spirit forewarned me that Elon was “one of them” and was going to use Twitter / X to lure in the great many who will later be rounded up and “taught a lesson”, shall we say. Like flies to a carcass, Christians and non-Christians alike, set aside all caution and caring, and immediately lunged at this attempt to express themselves “freely”, but to their own peril. “Haste makes waste”, and very soon, they’re going to be “waste”.
InterNET…the key part of that word is “NET”.
Each and everyone of us who has an ISP has been caught in that global net. There’s nothing to do in that regard but to wait for us all to be dragged up before the magistrates that Jesus spoke of in Luke 12: 11. I believe He was looking ahead to our day when He spoke those words. Hopefully, the Rapture will “deliver us from evil”. Maranatha!
I don’t do Twitter and have nothing to do with that occult little Blue Bird. So as far as I’m concerned, “so what”.
. I signed up for Twitter when I installed Windows 10 years ago and ditched both of them at once for not being very user friendly. I don’t think Elon Musk is very user freindly either, and I have no idea to this day why he “matters”.