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My last 5 or so X accounts got banned. I made a new one and found out you need two emails to make an account because most emails require you to setup a secondary email tied to your new email so you can verify your account with X (or anywhere that needs verification).

When I found a way to get two different anonymous email accounts tied together then made an X account (all done under a VPN of course), I was met with "human verification" that took 4 tries and nearly half an hour or longer just to get through (a punishment system meant to dissuade through hassle/annoyance).

I finally got my account working and in the beginning things were great. Then X somehow got access to my location services through my cell phone (I swear I never turned this on) and it was right around the time X was experimenting with potentially adding your location flag to your posts. My posts for X would show where I was located despite my VPN because of the location services through my phone so I blocked X's access to it through their settings and on my phone. Nearly immediately after I did, all my posts on X got shadowbanned but my account was never banned. When I post on X it just doesn't show up, at all. Not in hidden posts and no record of a post except the post counter goes up but the post disappears. This has gone on for a week.

I googled the problem and found some people posting online saying they believe it's done when an account is anonymous (conclusion other people came to when I had come to a similar conclusion).

I decided to test it out by enabling location services again.

I posted and now my post shows up as "this post is unavailable" rather than just completely not showing up. After a couple minutes my post became visible for the first time and it gained significant views compared to anything before I enabled location services.

I turned off location services and my posts disappear again. It's really blatant. Only my post where I posted with location services on shows up.

It's clear to me X is working to de-internet anyone it cannot trace. I suspect all companies will start doing the same soon as digital IDs work into society. Russia has an AI service for example that requires biometrics to access or an email the government can track the user of.

We're moving into full blown control and everyone on the right is mostly silent about it.