Summary
Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.
Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.
Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.
The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.
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Musk is, in fact, a giant baby.
Of course he did. Come on over people! Haven’t gone on Reddit since I got lemmy.
US Tech need to start relocating. I emailed Warp Shell creators advising I’d reluctantly cancelled my subscription to their actually excellent product; because funding the US economy had become ‘morally incompatible with my workflow’. Hope others can do similar.
Why would they, most of US tech is in on the dystopian dream
A lot of US companies have been happy to relocate to Ireland and enjoy the tax breaks. No reason not to continue, I’d say.
Guys if you haven’t already, I suggest doing what I did a few weeks ago and actually delete your Reddit account, not just stop using it. They need to see their registered account number plummet.
Plummet? Never gonna happen bro, every day there’s thousands of bot accounts being registered on reddit.
That’s dead internet theory for you.
Sadly it was funnier when it was just a theory.
People are prefacing their comments on reddit with “I’m not advocating violence” just to avoid getting banned. The climate there has shifted dramatically recently.
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It’s like posting in a food subreddit with, “Hi, I’m not advocating political violence, but I really enjoy a nice chicken cordon bleu with asparagus.”
when musk complained about whitepeopletwitter for advocating violence, while himself and X is advocating the same thing in a much more aggressive way is when reddit started banning people critical of trump and musk, first they have to look like they are being “fair and both sides” by allowing astroturfing from right wingers and trolls then when comments get baited into arguments they report those comments.
Reddit became such a stooge pit full of obviously skewed moderation. Glad I left.
its also around the same tme they began another purge into early february too.
Shocker.
Paywalled article, don’t click link.
Baby Back Bitch Musk
Wasn’t Elon Musk the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”? Turns out it was the “free speech abolitionist” after all.
Elon is a pussy afraid of words like the rest of the Maga crowd.
It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.
The extreme right wing in the US, has always had things they claim to revere, but don’t actually believe in.
- Free Speech
- Free Markets
- Democracy
- The Constitution
Probably more
- families
- children’s safety
- voting rights
- the economy
- the well-being of working class people
- peace
- morality
- women’s safety
- corruption
- technology
- infrastructure
- religion, in that it is only a tool to further their ends and they will interpret religious scripture at their own discretion and opinion
- education
- healthcare
There’s only two things they do care about, capital and power. They are white supremacists and Christian nationalists second, capitalists and oligarchs first.
It’s about power. They can lie and get away with it, they can break rules and get away with it.
Everything they do should be viewed through the lens of power relations and control through power. They will say whatever is worthwhile for them to say to gain more power. That’s it, that’s all, that’s all it’s ever been. Calling them hypocrites does nothing, they love that we get mad about it. Because it means they have power over us.
To quote a rando from (retch) reddit:
There’s a russian adage about people dumbfounded by how people will baldfaced lie obvious falsehoods: They don’t lie to deceive you, they lie to INSULT you: it’s a statement “I can insult you this way and you can’t do anything about it”
Pro-“life” (actually just pro-“birth”)
Pro forced birth.
They call themselves conservatives, but they’re radicals (the polar opposite) through and through.
Apparently free speech absolutist means “absolutely no free speech” according to fElon.
Technically true /s
Anyone who says they are a “free speech absolutist” is a liar or a fool.
its the same people whoa re anti-woke, they are the wokest people out there.
It still blows my mind that he has this reputation. His OWN damn policy was and still is “Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” Which is blatantly censorship and suppression lol. I cannot grasp how someone could see that and be like “free speech is back!!!”
I mean…fuck both of em.
Ew. No, thanks.
Well, tie them up like Butch and Marcellus Wallace and call Zed. I’ll get the gimp.
Well well well
And that’s how I finally made an account here
Welcome! I came over during the api shutdown, I mained lemmy for a year, waffled back and forth the last few months. Reddit is such garbage, I dont even recognize it anymore. Its just those few niche subs that got me back but its not worth it.
Same but I swapped instances recently to have access to the piracy community.
same here.
Me, too. Welcome! I love the Fediverse. 💕
Spez has always been a alt-right coward.
I am not convinced that the image I recently saw of an extraordinarily strangely shaped human actually WAS Spez, but if it is, he needs to get some plastic surgery so he doesn’t frighten children.
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This is what brought me to lemmy after getting threatened to be banned for up voting anti trump and musk post. Fuck trump, fuck musk and fuck spez. Fucking goofs.
they probably do it with anti-israeli posts too, right now its an all time high. and the noise of anti-dem/biden posts suddenly disappeared over the gaza conflict.
This is what brought me to lemmy
Samsies. Reddit is bending the knee to big money
Same, I started looking for alternatives after getting threatened for upvoting. What actually pushed me to join here though was getting a three day ban. Both times they falsely claimed it was for “violent content”. Apparently wrongthink is violence.
Yeah I refuse to support nazi supporters. Spez has done some dumb shit over the years but this was the final straw. I’ve only been here about a week but it already seems like a much better environment.
Welcome! Lemmy is a breath of fresh air. 💕
Thanks, I’ve really been enjoying it. I was on redd it for about 12 years and it won’t be missed.
14 years invested at Reddit and the latest bans and bs moderation was the last straw for me. Spent a whole day hand deleting all of my comments and posts and subsequently my account. Fuck Spez. Asskisser and right wing sympathetic.
im glad at least the 10years ive been using ublock origin denying them ads at least.
That’s a long time, but we can’t stop someone else from being a spineless fuck so best to move on. With enough of us leaving hopefully they’ll start to feel it.
