“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.

  • ME5SENGER_24
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    Buying Twitter was never about him making money. It was about giving shithead, likeminded assholes, like him, a place to openly spew their vitriol hate speech without fear of bans or repercussions.

    Delete your account if you have one; don’t share links to his site and FFS let’s stop allowing hatred to have an open forum or a place within proper society.

    • mommykink
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      It was disrupting the global left’s only “safe” (quotes because Twitter deserved plenty of criticism for even platforming right-wing voices far before the Musk purchase) platform for discussion. Facebook/Meta made a pretty big showing of aligning themselves with the right in the 2016 elections. Twitter was the only major online space for left-leaning individuals to discuss, except maybe Tumblr or Reddit which had a fraction of the users that Twitter did.

      Do you think it’s a coincidence that the left-wing bloc (in the US, at least) has become so fractured since the Twitter takeover? It was all by design, Musk and the Saudis who bankrolled him never cared about making money off the platform. When you’ve got $220b, you can waste $40b without noticing.

      Not that I ever cared for the site in the first place, but the loss of Twitter in the leftist community and lack of any majorly-adopted replacement will have tremendous impacts on the left’s ability to coordinate action for years to come.

      • @FlexibleToast
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        Do you think it’s a coincidence that the left-wing bloc (in the US, at least) has become so fractured since the Twitter takeover?

        It’s been fractured since long before that. The fracture started around the Occupy Wallstreet movement.

        • @grue
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          Leftist movements have been continuously attacked, suppressed, and fractured since the '60s (see also: the assassinations of MLK Jr. and Fred Hampton), if not earlier.

          Nevertheless, the subversion of Twitter is particularly significant.

          • mo_ztt ✅
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            Almost as if they spend significant time and effort strategizing how to interfere with threats to their dominant position 😕

          • @Eldritch
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            Leftist movements have been kept fractured in the US since the start of the 20th century. The lefts accomplishments peaked in the 1930s and 40s with FDRs new deal. And has been on a steady fractured declined since.

        • @sighofannoyance
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          31 year ago

          Are you familiar with the phrase “divide and conquer”?

          Ask yourself how come there is always these fractures appearing out of nowhere as soon as leftists organize?

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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            Well, a big part of it is that leftists are a coalition not a monolith, unlike Republicans, who all just voted for their team no matter what.

            • Sybil
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              i just made up this phrase that i think democrats could use to become even more like republicans:

              vote blue no matter who

                • Sybil
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                  it’s so catchy, i hope tehy try it out! maybe they can characterize their opposition as traitors to the country, and lock them up, too!

      • @sighofannoyance
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        It was all by design, Musk and the Saudis who bankrolled him never cared

        Their plans failed and backfired on them. Now everybody is on GNUsocial or mastodon. They now created their WORST nightmare: An uncontrollable, distributed and community owned social media.

        • mommykink
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          Now everybody is on GNUsocial or mastodon

          LMFreakinAO my man. Mastodon has less than 2 million monthly users total. There were random animal fact Twitter accounts with 10x that before. I can’t even find any numbers for GNUsocial but I have a hard time imagining it’s any higher that Mastadon.

      • Flying Squid
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        121 year ago

        Imagine making fun of people in defense of a website that happily allows Nazis but bans journalists.