X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 14:00
https://lemmy.world/post/12190011

X suspends account of Navalny’s wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia’s wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny’s death as you scroll.

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Candelestine@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 14:08 next collapse

Funny the kind of folks that get suspended on Elon’s twitter.

VeryVito@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 2024 15:51 next collapse

Ha ha. Yeah… funny. … gulp.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 16:25 next collapse

Once again - the US Government shold be giving ZERO money to this chucklefuck. SpaceX, you want taxpayer money? Boot this clown. No? Well, bye.

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 07:42 collapse

Honestly I think there are at least 4 really REALLY good arguments for nationalizing spaceX. Fuckwit Musk is a national security risk.

oDDmON@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 18:10 collapse

Free speech my ass.

lemmylem@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 2024 19:25 collapse

Literally, and I’ve seen people glorifying that Elon’s Xitter is a ‘free speech’ platform. It’s not even the closest thing to that. It’s a proprietary application where Musk can control whatever he wants and push any kind of narrative that he wants.

800XL@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 14:22 next collapse

working lock-step with putin and trump

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 16:23 collapse

Putin’s got his own management interface. He just logged on and did it.

uis@lemm.ee on 21 Feb 2024 09:23 collapse

I want to say yes, but to be honest Putin doesn’t even know how to turn on computer and he never uses internet.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 20 Feb 2024 14:41 next collapse

I kind of understand Reddit, but why do people hang in there with Twatter when there are currently three grown ass alternatives?

davidgro@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 15:11 next collapse

Heh, it took me a minute to think of a third one after Mastodon and Bluesky.

Totally forgot about Meta’s thing.

TORFdot0@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 15:25 next collapse

Smarter than me, I thought of Nostr

THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch on 20 Feb 2024 16:16 collapse

I think they are talking about Nostr because saying threads is better than twitter is like comparing a piece of shit with another piece of shit.

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 08:13 collapse

I mean Nostr is also a piece of shit but for different reasons, it’s basically 4chan but without any moderation at all.

THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch on 21 Feb 2024 11:58 collapse

Are you saying 4chan has moderation ?

Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 16:38 collapse

Well maybe I wouldn’t necessarily call it moderation but it has a site admin that bans people and neighborhoods (IP ranges) for really nasty stuff (like child abuse material). Nostr doesn’t even have that though, some nodes may remove content, but most don’t, and people effectively can’t be banned.

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 2024 15:49 collapse

Meta’s thing is… still a thing?

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works on 21 Feb 2024 12:34 collapse

And they’re sticking with that name? … huh

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 2024 16:12 next collapse

Many big accounts like politicians are slow to adopt it.

superduperenigma@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 17:43 collapse

Many big politicians are also right-wing extremists, at least here in the US, so that makes sense.

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 2024 18:46 collapse

If only. When I ask my friends and relatives it feels like the reach of alternatives to shitty resources is nearly non-existent. We shouldn’t fool ourselves about their current popularity and promote their adoption in our peers ):

xor@infosec.pub on 20 Feb 2024 19:14 collapse

a lot of people use it just because a lot of people use it…

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works on 21 Feb 2024 12:33 collapse

This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.

Deebster@programming.dev on 20 Feb 2024 14:49 next collapse

The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons.

This seems a misleading headline, unless what I’ve quoted was edited in. I’m no fan of Musk, but it could be something like a load of people (or bots) reported the account and an automated system put it into review.

criitz@reddthat.com on 20 Feb 2024 15:21 next collapse

Funny how the automated system always catches musks political opponents and not any of his allies

tyler@programming.dev on 20 Feb 2024 17:55 collapse

Yeah cuz musk is on Russia’s side and Russia is the one flooding the platform with bots. It doesn’t have to be conspiratorial levels of stuff, in another article they literally said it was an automated action due to reports. So Russia bots mass reported, it got removed, then someone at Twitter (probably not musk) reinstated the account after receiving a message about it.

[deleted] on 20 Feb 2024 18:46 next collapse

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uis@lemm.ee on 21 Feb 2024 12:30 collapse

Musk is not on Russia’s side. I’m against such definition. He is on Putin’s side.

tyler@programming.dev on 22 Feb 2024 15:39 collapse

That’s a great point. Sorry for insinuating that all of Russia agrees with putins policies.

[deleted] on 20 Feb 2024 19:37 collapse

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AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com on 20 Feb 2024 18:42 next collapse

GET OFF SHITTER

bartolomeo@suppo.fi on 20 Feb 2024 19:55 next collapse

Imagine a system that literally pushes this guy to the top.

FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 21:26 next collapse

I used to joke that Republicans were Russian sycophants, bought and paid for by Putin himself to destroy America. But it’s not actually, and maybe never was, a joke.

Yeesh

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 17:03 collapse

No they just take trips to Moscow for fun! And that Russian agent that lied about Hunter Biden was totally legitimate!

ben_dover@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 2024 07:56 next collapse

fReE sPeEcH

Mastengwe@lemm.ee on 21 Feb 2024 09:05 next collapse

If you remain on that platform, you support this.

Dra@lemmy.zip on 21 Feb 2024 12:39 next collapse

It literally says in the preview and the article it was restored quickly. There are a myriad of reasons she could have been banned.

I doubt Elon is sitting there with his dick out waiting to ban her, despite what most people here seem to believe?

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz on 21 Feb 2024 13:44 next collapse

Then maybe it speaks about the incompetent tech and process used in the twitter banning system.

Why do so many people get “falsely” (assuming you are right) banned all the time.

Dra@lemmy.zip on 21 Feb 2024 17:24 collapse

I’ve no doubt that twitters banning system is a steaming pile, it has a long history of being terrible. Doesn’t change my point.

frezik@midwest.social on 21 Feb 2024 17:28 collapse

I doubt Elon is sitting there with his dick out waiting to ban her, despite what most people here seem to believe?

Eh, I wouldn’t be too quick to discount that.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2024 18:24 collapse

I’m shocked how many people are still defending a xenophobic, right wing, white nationalist because he opposed Putin.

spujb@lemmy.cafe on 24 Feb 2024 19:10 collapse

it’s kind of a common trope in history that pieces of shit can still represent the idea of a broader good.

ghandi was also pretty much scum irl too. (this comment defends neither of them and implies no further similarities than that they are shitty and represented an oppositional movement.)

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 24 Feb 2024 20:10 collapse

There was no good in Navalny, he was the Russian version of Nick Fuentes. And the US is exploiting his death to overshadow the conversation that people are tired of war.