Dead platform!
What a coincidence. People critical of israel got banned
The account @Zei_Squirrel, which had 200,000 followers, explained in a Substack post that it was suspended over criticisms of Israel and Bill Ackman but was also not provided with an explanation from X. “If they don’t unban me, it will prove beyond all doubt that Twitter and Elon Musk are just explicitly doing the bidding of the genocidal Israeli regime and its deranged supporters like Bill Ackman.” The post continues, “There is no possibility that anything I have posted rises to the level of being ban-worthy, but nothing that Zionists posts constantly, explicit calls for genocide and mass killing of Palestinians, isn’t.”
Using Twitter and substack? Could they possibly be working any harder against themselves?
Yes, they could limit their reach even further by only using the fediverse.
Can people see now that when people clamour for controls on things like hate speech and disinformation, the question of “who defines what is/is not disinformation” isn’t just sea-lioning?
It’s a fundamentally critical argument against such controls. Sooner or later, people you agree with will be at the receiving end of them.
I mean… Many anti Israel folks are borderline abusive. Denying rapes happened, trying to call Hamas freedom fighters, praising the Oct 7th attack etc. This is the exact shit (and worse) platforms have been demonetizing or removing people for except this time it’s the “other side” doing it.
This is a journalist, not some guy who argues with random people.
Weird that I haven’t seen any of that on lemmy
Oh look, a propaganda mouthpiece
What are you even talking about? There is** zero evidence** for any rapes that is a straight up IDF Zionist story. Most of the rape “testimonies” have been completely debunked and proven to be falsified. Here is an article completely debunking it
I don’t understand how you are so confidently repeated straight up conspiracy theories as if they are cold hard undeniable facts.
The fact that you think it’s okay to ban people for people to questioning an extremely shoddy story full of inconsistencies and many straight up lies is very weird to me.
Quite sh(x)ittery
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It’s vice, people are too smart to click.
I really do wish there was a viable popular alternative to Twitter. Phony Starks has been awful.
While it’s not 1 to 1, mastodon seems to always be getting mentioned with businesses abandoning Twitter and moving there. I use it but it’s just not the same experience
I’ve checked it out, but was never a twitter user anyways, so I’m not the right audience. I think the lack of an algorithm really hurts the experience for many users. Seems like you have to put work in to get your feed right. Also, the network effect Twitter has is strong. Mastodon is probably the least toxic social media I’ve seen though.
You say that like its a bad thing. Every twitter user Ive talked to wont shut up about how shit the twitter experience is.
Blue sky is close. Done by the guy that started Twitter originally.
He’s not Stark, he’s Justin Hammer. Always has been.
“I would like to point out that the social media network survived…” -Elon Hammer
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That’s why I love asking, “Who groomed you to believe ______ as a truth?”
Any explanation they’d try to give would be an obvious lie anyway. It’s already clear what the real explanation is.
“X” permanently banned me when I posted a comment saying that education and progress are good for people. Now I’m banned for life. That was just wayyyyyyy to “leftist” a thing for me to say I guess. Which is why I see my ban from X as a big accomplishment - you know you’ve told the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.
No official, public explanation. We know why…
They’ll claim it was an accident or outage, but those accounts weren’t struck at random.
Internally, is someone curating a list of prominent accounts by political leaning? Are those accounts the target or right wing report bombing? I want to know exactly how those accounts were landed on.
Sounds just like old Twitter. Ban someone who you don’t like politically. If it’s causing to much uproar, day it was an accident/glitch. If it works, repeat. If not, repeat in a few weeks.
For example? Can you actually name 3 accounts this happened to?
Night of the Long Bans.
X it’s the new “Truth Social”
Elon bought it to make it the christofascist heaven on earth.
More like 𝕏 is our generations swastika
Are you sure? Here’s real modern swastika:
Although this is not current generation swastika, this is 1970-ies generation swastika.
The Russia today is the same Russia as yesterday and all days before that.
America, like Germany, will elect their new Fascist regime. Enabled by people like Musk, who makes a good modern stand in for Goebels.
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
When I was young I literally couldn’t comprehend a world where someone like Hitler was elected… by a majority, in a democracy!! It boggled my mind… now, now I get it.
Hitler seized power by forcing the German legislature to pass a series of enabling acts literally at gunpoint. Like armed men locked the doors and said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” It was absolutely not a democratic process.
Yeah. In my childhood we did not get the subtleties of this. It was not taught. We just learned “he was elected”. Another comment set me straight. Can easily see this happening in the states though
Dumb people gonna dumb
Hitler was elected… by a majority, in a democracy!!
He wasn’t. November 32 the NSDAP was down to 33.1% from their previous 37.4% in Juli the same year. Even in the March 33 elections which generally are considered to have been unfree the NSDAP only got 43.9% (widespread voter intimidation). Zentrum (catholic conservatives) offered themselves as stirrup holders, but they still didn’t have the necessary 2/3rd majority to pass the enabling act. So they arrested and intimidated people, the whole KPD (Stalinists) was either in prison or fleeing, 26 out of 120 SPD parliamentarians (Socdems), all other MPs fell in line under threat of violence (and/or the party whip), leaving only 94 SPD MPs to vote against, giving them 68.6%. Just before that vote they changed procedure (with simple majority) so that imprisoned etc. MPs would be counted as present as otherwise the vote would not have passed the quorum.
You can say the whole thing was technically legal. It certainly was not morally legal. Letter vs. spirit of the law and everything. Be that as it may it’s the reason why the current constitution is written way better, the only way in which something like an enabling act could happen nowadays if there was a free referendum – actually free, without voter intimidation and everything, replacing the whole constitution.
What’s also notable is that the Nazis even bothered with that charade. Similarly to other authoritarian regimes they swing about legalities like a thurible to give the impression of legitimacy. Just in case you’re wondering why Russia is going to have presidential elections soon: What they’re saying with that is “we have the power to bend law as we please, thus we’re in charge, deal with it”. In Putin’s case in particular it’s showing that he has enough power over the state apparatus to have the ballots stuffed.
Dude, that was awesome. Thx
Now we just need the Twitter X with the Russian Z overlaid.
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As a wayland user I agree.
That logo really makes me feel like the site is basically Twitter under neo-Nazi occupation
time to follow them on mastodon I guess.
There’s an explanation, we’re just not allowed to say it because for some reason in “ThE lAnD oF tHe FrEe” we’re not allowed to say the thing because the faschie right’s feelings might get hurt.
I don’t trust any of them, all of them seem opposed to federation. Useful idiots.
