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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
(www.vice.com)
It’s Twitter. Just say no to X
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.
Generally commendable advice to say no to exes
coming from the self-proclaimed "free-speech absolutist"
Well, the fine print on the FREEZED PEACH types is: "offer only good for cons."
What were they even doing on a Nazi platform? Are they going to move to Truth Social now?
Journalism.
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.
Free speech hurr durr
So? For 40 years X has been what you click on when you DON'T want to see something. Why would anyone go there?
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!
It will always be Twitter, and most of the accounts affected have been reinstated
Woah. Based.
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
Xitter is a Nazi hang out, taken over by a sympathizer. No explanation needed.
Maybe Elon did it during a drug binge and just forgot about who he banned the next day.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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