I am back. But to get my account
@Lavrovskyi unlocked, I was forced into a bureaucratic surrender: I had to delete my post documenting Russian war crimes in Kherson and my experience with body recovery in Avdiivka.
This single forced deletion triggered a chain reaction, wiping out the video across every other post and account where it was shared.
Letโs talk about how the moderation on X is an absolute, fuking joke.
Elon Musk constantly brags that X is a โhaven for free speechโ and the premier global network for "citizen journalism." We are told that raw, unfiltered truth belongs here. But my case proves that the reality is the exact opposite. Xโs moderation doesnโt care about truth; it cares about automated algorithms being manipulated by malicious mass-reporting.
Here is the ultimate proof of how ridiculous and broken this system is:
While my main account was locked, I re-uploaded the exact same documentary video on my alternative backup account. I didn't add the text. And guess what? X had absolutely zero issues with it. It didnโt get flagged, it didnโt get banned. It sat there perfectly fine.
Why? Because the video itself DOES NOT violate Xโs policy on violent content. There is no gratuitous gore or blood. Itโs a historical, tragic record of a missile strike's aftermath. Even Meta's Instagram - notorious for strict censorship - has kept the original video up for weeks without touching it.
The only reason I was banned is because a coordinated Russian bot farm targeted my text and my profile with thousands of fake reports, and X's automated, brainless AI moderation blindly capitulated to them.
When you allow hostile, state-sponsored bot networks to weaponize your reporting system to silence frontline veterans and eye-witness accounts, you don't have a "free speech platform." You have a platform where censorship is bought by the highest volume of automated clicks.
According to Xโs own guidelines, if media is deemed sensitive, you apply a content warning label. You don't hold an account hostage and force the erasure of history.
This is systematic censorship of Ukrainian voices. It is a direct betrayal of everything this platform publicly claims to stand for.
Fix your broken system. Stop letting bots control the narrative.
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