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X Should be Banned

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Parker_Chess

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With new reports that show X's algorithm intentionally pushed pro-Trump and pro-Putin posts. We should take action against this propaganda platform. Most right wing misinformation comes from X posts usually with bad info and not citing sources. We should keep things in the mainstream with sharing links from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Associated Press. X not only is a bastion cesspool of misinformation but it also appeals to the lowest common denominator of political discussion. Elon Musk reportedly did many illegal things and even attempted to buy the election. Our board should not support an anti-American platform like X or allow it's continued propagation.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Just quit X

Tons of advertisers and companies have because they don't want their advertisements right next to Nazi posts.
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Already have. However, it doesn't stop X posts from being shared on here.
 
Glad the country kicked you "Ministry of Truth" types out of office.
 

Hmm… how is someone making a post including a link to an X post (or any other source) any worse than your post with no link(s) at all?
 
Not the role the owner/mods should take. It is up to the posters to decide what sources are valid.
 
Advertisers and users are abandoning them like crazy.

Just let it die a slow death.

Join Bluesky. It's intelligent and uplifting and all the big accounts (media, political or otherwise) are gonna be there.
 
Twitter is now "Ex", who needs to wallow in a cesspool full of nazis and white supremacists?
 
Everyone has the ability to ban any website by not visiting it. I never visit ZeroCred, Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, etc. so they are effectively "banned" by me.

Otherwise, the 1A allows for Xitter to exist, as it should.
 
LOL

When twitter or facebook was punishing right-wingers and pushing Left Wing content, ya'll were fine.

When TikTok pushes CCP propaganda, ya'll are fine.

But when you worry that it might be domestic right wingers....

.....well..... that's a problem...... NOW we need to ban it. "No One Should Be Allowed To See Anything That Might Disagree With My Preferences, Ever!"

...Next on the agenda: Having successfully banned or fled everything that might ever raise a question, or make us think, or uncomfortable, ever,.... Why are we having trouble understanding and communicating with the broad swathe of Americans who voted for Hillary and Biden, but then shifted to Trump in 2024? Are we not self-isolating enough? ​
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Having answered these questions (spoiler alert: yes), we will move on to our third item of business: Is importing the 4B movement TransPhobic, because it also means that women won't be having sex with TransMen? We will have a panel of BIPOC TransFluidGenderQueer Non Binary Spokespyrsyns on to explain how everything is transphobic and racist, and then issue micro-aggression complaints against each other.​




Also, the premise is funny. Up until about 30 seconds ago, I would have bet a solid nickel that at least 75% of the threads started by someone citing an itself-uncited twitter post were started by @CaughtInThe, who is, shall we say, definitely not a right winger .
 
zincwarrior said:
The First Amendment would like to take you around back and provide an attitude adjustment.
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This is not a public square one does not have the right to say whatever they want. We have moderation here. And I'm saying link from X should be banned.
 
Just remember folks, all this could have been avoided if leftists at old twitter had been able to restrain their worst impulses, and not ban the Babylon Bee for thinking there were only two genders
 
Parker_Chess said:
This is not a public square one does not have the right to say whatever they want. We have moderation here. And I'm saying link from X should be banned.
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I really enjoy, periodically, when the same folks who insist that Dissent Not Be Allowed tell me that authoritarianism is a particularly right-wing problem.
 
So do come up with an exhaustive list of acceptable sources for DF, and another list of banned ones and provide it to moderators. Are the standards and list going to change in the 'basement'.

I don't see how quoting the 'wrong sources' and being penalized, does not lead to a refusal to supply sources in the first place.
 
LOL

when it works for Democrats favor its all good and ok but it GOP figures out the rules and plays by them THEN its unfair ?

Go Trump !! Go Elon !!! I love the kettle screaming about the black pot
 
Taylor said:
Glad the country kicked you "Ministry of Truth" types out of office.
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You mean like scientists, physicians, and economists? Yes, we’re finally getting rid of them all and now we can listen to the real truth as administered by Fox News reporters and big corporate CEOs.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Just quit X

Tons of advertisers and companies have because they don't want their advertisements right next to Nazi posts.
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Lefties keep promising they're going to leave [wherever] whenever their tender consciences have been scorched by the terrible experience of anything contrary to their ideological worldview.

Frankly, I find that incredibly discordant with their constant clanging about "democracy" and freedom of speech and, well, everything that is actually neither in their ideology.

Jim Breuer expresses it pretty well here:

 
cpwill said:
I really enjoy, periodically, when the same folks who insist that Dissent Not Be Allowed tell me that authoritarianism is a particularly right-wing problem.
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Touche sir! Touche.
 
Who is "our board"?
 
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