X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 06:00
https://lemmy.world/post/10524433

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation::Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.

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alucard@sopuli.xyz on 10 Jan 2024 07:34 next collapse

It’s Twitter. Just say no to X

orgrinrt@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 07:59 next collapse

Generally commendable advice to say no to exes

M500@lemmy.ml on 10 Jan 2024 11:01 collapse

Yeah, I am not going to bother learning its new name. I’m not calling it x to anyone. If anyone calls it x to me in real life I’m going to pretend I don’t know what they are talking about.

guh65@futurology.today on 10 Jan 2024 07:42 next collapse

Woah. Based.

frunch@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 10:51 collapse

Totally based. Instead of eviscerating his “enemies” in front of millions of his adoring followers, he quietly dismissed them from his bot-filled cesspool. Based af

Dio@lemy.lol on 10 Jan 2024 07:51 next collapse

Brilliant.

scarabic@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 08:20 next collapse

I cringe to even think of what passes for a Trust & Safety group over there now, and the kind of people they must have staffing it. They don’t have reasons for what they’re doing or even clear knowledge of what they’re doing. It’s a case of amateur jackass thinks he can run the forum better and just happens to have billions of disposable dollars allowing him to pretend he is. It seems almost inevitable given how many rich and powerful people are obsessed with Twitter that eventually one of them would want to just buy it and crown themselves admin as a power fantasy. That’s literally all that happened here.

ninpnin@sopuli.xyz on 10 Jan 2024 08:31 next collapse

Free speech hurr durr

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 10 Jan 2024 09:25 next collapse

coming from the self-proclaimed “free-speech absolutist”

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2024 21:07 collapse

Well, the fine print on the FREEZED PEACH types is: “offer only good for cons.”

anlumo@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 09:37 next collapse

What were they even doing on a Nazi platform? Are they going to move to Truth Social now?

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 10 Jan 2024 09:42 collapse

Journalism.

Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com on 10 Jan 2024 09:52 next collapse

#fuckingcapitalists #goddamnedfascists <img alt="altered photo showing Elon musk in a shirt that says “i am a little cisgender bitch”" src="https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/7397fd81-373e-40f0-ba46-fb486662a6e6.webp">

WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 10:38 next collapse

So? For 40 years X has been what you click on when you DON’T want to see something. Why would anyone go there?

flicker@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 18:45 collapse

90s… 2000s… 2010s… 2020s…

Oh my God it has been 40 years and I’m so old! When did I get old! Why did no one warn me!

xc2215x@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 12:44 next collapse

Elon wants free speech that agrees with him only.

IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee on 10 Jan 2024 13:23 next collapse

Maybe Elon did it during a drug binge and just forgot about who he banned the next day.

dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 10 Jan 2024 15:46 next collapse

No explanation required. The plan was always to obscure, censor, and otherwise dismantle Twitter. Musk has a team of professional money making C level executives that flank him constantly no matter where he goes and he’s not the sole vote on any of the Boards that he sits on, yet he’s still allowed to be the CEO of a bunch of companies, only one of which is being blatantly mismanaged into the ground. Saudi gave him $22B to buy Twitter. Twitter is tanking and hemorraging money. You’d think the Saudis would have done more due diligence and/or be livid and demanding their money back from the guy that can absolutely pay them back out of his own wealth. Truth is, they’re not doing that because what’s happening at Twitter is exactly what they wanted (Arab Spring was largely coordinated via twitter).

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 19:07 collapse

Yeah, and moon landing was fake too!

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 10 Jan 2024 16:33 next collapse

It will always be Twitter, and most of the accounts affected have been reinstated

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2024 21:05 collapse

Xitter is a Nazi hang out, taken over by a sympathizer. No explanation needed.