Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein was suspended from X shortly after sharing a leaked dossier on Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

Free speech hero Elon Musk is yet again silencing his perceived opponents. This time, he is doing J.D. Vance’s dirty work.

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein on Thursday reported on the leaked 271-page dossier on Vance, allegedly from the Trump campaign’s research team, which mainstream media outlets had refused to publish. Just hours later, Klippenstein was banned from X, where he’d shared a link to his reporting and to the dossier

  • @[email protected]
    3•3 months ago

    Lemmy and the fediverse is not about free speech and democratizing a platform, it is about eliminating central authority.

    Lemmy.world can enforce whatever stupid rules they want on their instance and their communities. But none of that stops you from running your own instance and a community on your instance where you can enforce your rules.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      That’s technically all well and good, but I think it’s a bit unreasonable to expect everyone who happens to dislike some mod decisions to spin up their own instance. Not all of us could reliably do that without help, nor should we have to. But I do think it’s reasonable for us to expect mods of large communities to follow their own rules, and moderate in good faith, regardless of the instance they’re on. These platforms need regular participating users like me who can trust mods across the fediverse.

      I recently moved from lemmy.world to lemm.ee because I’m frustrated by what I see on lemmy.world, and I like lemm.ee’s general vibe and philosophy more. So that kind of instance move, and speaking out whenever I see shit that feels wrong, is the most I can do as a regular user.