The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
    101·
    7 days ago

    I saw it from the monster hunter community, now you can’t post the source of a fanart lol.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      12·
      7 days ago

      You can always leave their @handle if you want to credit them. Most artists also have other channels. If they only have X… Well sucks to be them but it’s thteir choice.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    639·
    7 days 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

    • probably2high@lemm.eeEnglish
      29·
      7 days 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.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days 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.comEnglish
        314·
        7 days ago

        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)_/¯

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      7 days 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.

    • Saryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        12·
        7 days 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.

        • Saryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          I don’t want any followers or believers. Calling it as I see it. That is all.

        • Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 days 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.caEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1761·
    8 days ago

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

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1504·
    8 days ago

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

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days 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.orgEnglish
      107·
      8 days 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.

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      8 days 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”.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Does Reddit have some sort of contract with X with regards to sharing of content? I know they have one with OpenAI.

  • WheelchairArtist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1111·
    8 days ago

    why do they still show these kind of pictures of him. for me there is only one picture of him to show from now on

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      46·
      8 days ago

      Oh yes for the totally unproblematic picture taken at the inauguration, and since it’s so unproblematic he can’t possibly have an issue with it being posted.

      Although a solid second favorite is him in a punk leather jacket. Mostly because he hates it.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    92·
    8 days ago

    Reddit users are about to get reminded that its not their platform to make rules

    • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      8 days ago

      Can’t musk simply state that naziism is wrong and hitler was a very bad guy?

      That’s right of coarse he can!

      HHHMMM!

      • parody@lemmings.worldEnglish
        17·
        8 days ago

        Why?!

        Le epic 14 y/o troll mAStEr mOvE was doing the worst nonverbal political thing one can do and getting away with it without apologizing.

        The centrists accept it might have been inadvertent. He’d never have the lefties anyway and the far right will, of course, absolutely love it. It’s the kind of thing a kid in shoes of power might dream up and run by the team and all have fits of laughter: “they can’t prove anything if you don’t say anything!”

        /fiction /conspiracytheory

        Nice way to commemorate the Jan 6ers’ prison release. And great distraction, as it must be.

        • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          No I mean if you disagree with what nazis did, you will never have a problem saying exactly that. Whether it’s to clear up a misunderstanding or for any other reason. Rejecting nazis has nothing to do with being edgy or being right or wrong in a debate. It’s a simple idea that can be said at anytime.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    8 days ago

    Don’t do it as a “protest.” Do it as the new norm. Xitter has no worth and should be relegated to the porta-potty of time.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    8 days ago

    Aaaand here come the admins to relentlessly bully any mods involved in this into submission. Because the reddit admins are pathetic, greedy little pig boys who don’t give a flying shit about their users or moderators.

      • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        8 days ago

        Some Lemmy communities already have.

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

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      42·
      8 days ago

      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.comEnglish
        9·
        8 days ago

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

    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days 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.

  • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    491·
    8 days ago

    Meta, Twitter, now tiktok. BLATANTLY obvious coordination to propagandize social media.

    Fuck then all, damn then to hell, scourge of modern society.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      I used to spend time on Facebook catching up with friends and family. That was way back in like 2010. I can’t stand that platform now. It’s all AI trash and random reels. I don’t even know why I’m getting some of these reels but I suspect they are sharing data with other platforms like YT. I miss the internet of the 2000s…

      • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        8 days ago

        They all share data or buy it. Talk about some random shit near your phone they know. I do it for giggles now. Not sure what works as a trigger it but I’ve made my own advertising for workout equipment, dj tables, etc without searching any of it.

        • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          8 days ago

          Oh yeah. I get that too. I’m sitting here talking about the most random shit with my cousins and bam! Facebook got an ad for that.

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    423·
    8 days ago

    Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them.

    That projection.

    My first reaction when seeing the salute was ” oh come on, it can’t be that bad… oh it’s way worse than I thought”

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      I mean if you only saw and read Reddit during the last election campaign, you’d be ABSOLUTELY sure at the first half of the campaign that Biden was going to win, might as well don’t have an election at that point

      And then, after Kamala got into the campaign, again, if you only saw and read Reddit, you’d be, again, ABSOLUTELY sure that she would win, it wasn’t even a contest.

      If reality were downvotes, upvotes or massive bans to users posting against the thread zeitgeist, yeah sure, that would be what happened.

      Hard to accept reality after that harsh wakeup call

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      8 days ago

      I laughed when he did it twice as if just to emphasize the first one wasn’t a mistake.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        8 days ago

        Supports far right movement in Germany, says they are the only way to fix Germany.

        Agrees with Jewish people being anti white- "“Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

        The billionaire owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter, responded the same evening: “You have said the actual truth.”"

        Does NAZI salutes on a national platform.

        People in denial: “I’m sure it was a mistake”

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          I don’t think it was a mistake, I think it was more, “lol, let’s see what the media says about that!!” They made a spectacle of him jumping on stage at the campaign trail, so I truly think he did that to troll a bit.

          He’s a real life Bruce Wayne, but without the Batman bit.