• Brewchin
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    1782 months ago

    Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness… 🍿

  • Majorllama
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    262 months ago

    Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

    Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

    Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

    • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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      32 months ago

      Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

    • Cousin Mose
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      12 months ago

      And block all their domains/IP ranges too. People really need to understand how third party tracking works.

  • bean
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    142 months ago

    If this is what it took they were just lazy before. This has been CLEARLY where he is pushing things for a long time now. Twitter is in the Xhitter.

    • Skeezix
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      282 months ago

      Holy shit. I made the mistake of looking in there. What a festering pile of misinformed louts. There’s not a brain cell to be found in there.

      • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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        242 months ago

        Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

        Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

        Kettle meet pot?

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          82 months ago

          Uhhhhhhhhh, gotta say, I’ve never once heard NPR tell me that we’re special or privilaged, or above the law. Or even should be.

          Meanwhile our current president is a 34x convicted criminal and sexual predator.

          …although to be fair, the democrats also had a sexual predator in the 60s (twice), and the 90s.

          But I can’t recall any democrat running on the platform of “we’re better than them”.

          • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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            Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me would poke fun at their audience for being the type to sniff their own farts. I haven’t listened in a while, but I assume they still do.

  • @absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    52 months ago

    Wow, leave it to redditors to make change without actually making change. A few of those subs had open discussions on instituting a ban and they discovered x links were in the dozens per year. Musk is definitely gonna feel that. What they should have done is ban all twitter images as well, those fuckers make up 3/4 of posts on /r/popular. Or ban/restrict musk news, because it feels like the remainng 1/4 posts are “news” that cover musk, including dozens of discussions on whether the nazi cheated in fucking videogames or not ( same as here come to think of it ). But no, they’re addicted to those and unable to make meaningful changes, so they’re left with these halfcocked “bans”.

  • @Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    -342 months ago

    Here on Lemmy, people who claim to advocate for freedom of speech and information, demanding for information shared on social networks to be controlled, shutdown and people to be censored based on unknown and ambiguous criteria, without even understanding the implications of it.

    Details at six

    • @kava@lemmy.world
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      162 months ago

      Look, I’m all for freedom of speech. I’m nearly as close to an absolutist as they come.

      This is an example of a protest. Nobody is restricting anybody’s speech. They aren’t banning Musk-supporters. They aren’t censoring Trumpers. They are specifically banning links to a website owned by a billionaire who did a Nazi salute at an event where hundreds of millions if not billions of people would witness him.

    • @probably2high@lemm.ee
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      292 months ago

      What does freedom of speech have to do with independent subreddits deciding they don’t want to serve content from a private company they don’t agree with?

      • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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        22 months ago

        It’s easy if they have no idea what “freedom of speech” actually means and what it actually allows. The phrase at face value is nothing like the constitutionally protected action. They are too ignorant to know that.

      • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        That’s easy, freedom of speech means you can say what I want but not what you want, and it applies everywhere including in my dreams. So if you say something I don’t like in my dreams I can criminally charge you and take you to hell in a cell.

        Edit: Thought this would be obvious satire, but here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @Saryn@lemmy.world
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      Not to worry, you’re simply confusing freedom of speech with obliging private actors to consume content they don’t want to consume or disagree with. The first is a fundemental principle of democratic legal systems and recognized as a perempotry norm under international law. The second is authoritarianism.

      There’s a growing number of legally illiterate people who think freedom of speech is absolute and even affords one the right to oblige others consume their speech through the government. That is fundamentally wrong and a complete misunderstanding of how these key principles of freedom work and have always worked in modern democratic systems.

      Newsflash - freedom of speech is not absolute. Never has been. There are very specific, explicitly codified limitations. Why? Because words are the most powerful weapons and can be used to target and threaten the freedoms of other people, including their freedom to life. Which is why rights and obligations are always balanced against each other, following the principle of proportionality.

      If you feel so strongly about not being able force others to consume content they don’t want to consume, then I have bad news for you - you are opposing democracy. But it seems like you, and many other like you, are just confused, rather than actively promoting anti-democratic standpoints. The truly sad part? The impact is the same regardless of intent.

      Edit: Want to know more? Details at 6.

      • @Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.world
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        -12 months ago

        It’s so typical to see 90% good argument and 10% insult the OP & half the country. If believers stuck to the 90% good argument and left out the insults you’d win a lot of followers.

        • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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          12 months ago

          The sky is blue and I think OP is a moron. The second part doesn’t make the first untrue, it also doesn’t make it an ad hominem argument.

          Half the voters(not country) are a bunch of gullible clowns and calling them out is just an observation.

    • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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      Existence of mods goes against the concept of freedom of speech. People aren’t prevented from directly using Twitter themselves. They’d be on 4chan if they wanted something as close to an unfiltered internet.

      We wouldn’t be on our respective instances that have blocked off entire instances and communities if we wanted to consume unfiltered internet content.

  • @daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    1462 months ago

    Remember last time Redditor’s protested only to cave so they could keep being mods? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • @CluckN@lemmy.world
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      182 months ago

      Yeah let’s see if they keep this up. In a few weeks they’ll cave in and say, “Well we want to keep people informed”.

    • FackCurs
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      12 months ago

      I remember and that’s why I’m here reading your comment 🫡

    • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      This is a bit different from before. They aren’t privating the subs this time, they’re just doing their unpaid full time job by disallowing posts with untrusted sources.

    • @Spezi@feddit.org
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      1102 months ago

      I was the founder of r/TIHI in a past life and u/spez removed all of us moderators because we weren‘t opening the sub as part of our protest.

      I them requested them to take down the subs title picture and logo which I created and they didn‘t even bother.

    • @kazerniel@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      The less its posts are shared, the less its relevance is to the world. I can’t see that as a bad thing. It always baffled me how outsize Twitter’s influence was on world events/news while having 1/5th the active userbase of Facebook.

    • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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      Twitter probably benefits from people being redirected to their site from repostings with how it has become the go to source for news like sports, so it might. Won’t hurt Elon financially but less people being exposed to the content there that Elon wants to push that don’t actively use Twitter is a good thing even if it is only a few.

      Even small moves is a good thing with how over the years sports and game submissions have become increasingly more Twitter submissions.

      • @Rolder@reddthat.com
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        92 months ago

        Twitters value has already been going down the shitter thanks to shit leadership, this is just another nail.

      • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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        Some Lemmy communities already have.

        I’ve seen that the Playstation and Nintendo communities have both banned it recently.

  • magnetosphere
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    I wonder how long their corporate overlords will allow this to continue.

    • Lemminary
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      102 months ago

      I get it, why give him any attention. But this is not about him–it’s about the protest this time. That’s fine by me, let’s get people going!