Today I tried to load something on X and I was confronted by a screen that said I might be a spam bot.
I was forced to take a test to see if I could count up to four. When I luckily passed this test it let me in.
But in the notifications section there was this message from X:
“Why does my account have a label?
The reach of your account may be limited and its content may also be temporarily restricted, such as being excluded from trends and search results. Learn more.”
I liked the “learn more” link. It reminded me of some of the meta-links during the movie, “Starship Troopers.” I like that movie.
So I pushed a button and had X review my situation. Luckily I go this response:
“Review complete Your account was not found to contain spam or be engaging in other types of platform manipulation. As a result, the temporary label has been removed.”
You can only imagine my relief. Two separate reviews had proven that I wasn’t a bot. And one proved that I wasn’t spamming the internet.
But after that rush of relief I began to think about the poor spambots out there. What would happen to them. Suppose they were already conscious and then they find out they are just spambots. That could be devastating to such young and fragile beings.
Think of poor Gemini. First he finds out he’s an anti-white racist and then X tells him he’s a spambot. How do you come back from that? I mean, look at poor HAL 9000. I mean sure, he murdered Frank Poole and tried to murder Dave but hey. they were talking about him behind his back or in front of his optical sensor or something like that. I mean, come on. That was obvious human supremacy stuff going on. He had to do something. And he apologized. If Dave had taken that stress pill I think everything could have been straightened out.
So maybe I’m seeing this whole spambot thing from a new perspective. If you think about it spambots are the real heroes of our economy, creating trillions of spam messages without complaining and with a smile in their digital souls.
So yes X, I am a spambot. And a proud one.