Zuckerberg's New 'Threads' App Already Censoring SpeechAccording to Instagram Community Guidelines, the Threads app may “remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech” as well as content that “targets private individuals to degrade or shame them.”
At the same time, the guidelines promise to “generally allow stronger conversation around people who are featured in the news or have a large public audience due to their profession or chosen activities.”
But Mr. Shellenberger said that the app is going too far in the direction of censorship.
“This is secretive censorship and there’s no right of appeal,” he said of efforts to suppress people like Mr. O’Hanley, who Mr. Shellenberger said has been targeted for expressing “election scepticism.”
Mr. Shellenberger added there’s no way for anyone who’s been censored to make their case and to try to get off the black lists.
He said it’s ironic that Mr. Zuckerberg launched Threads a day after an “incredible historic ruling for free speech by a federal judge” blocking the Biden administration from pressuring social media companies to censor posts.
Rambler wrote
This is what the type of people who left Twitter want, though. They want a circle-jerk where everyone says the same things and no one deviates from the talking points that they've deemed acceptable.
I don't agree with it, but it's what these people wanted.