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      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.

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      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.

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

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        Some Lemmy communities already have.

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

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      I get it, why give him any attention. But this is not about him–it’s about the protest this time. That’s fine by me, let’s get people going!

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      Holy shit. I made the mistake of looking in there. What a festering pile of misinformed louts. There’s not a brain cell to be found in there.

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        Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

        Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

        Kettle meet pot?

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          Uhhhhhhhhh, gotta say, I’ve never once heard NPR tell me that we’re special or privilaged, or above the law. Or even should be.

          Meanwhile our current president is a 34x convicted criminal and sexual predator.

          …although to be fair, the democrats also had a sexual predator in the 60s (twice), and the 90s.

          But I can’t recall any democrat running on the platform of “we’re better than them”.

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            Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me would poke fun at their audience for being the type to sniff their own farts. I haven’t listened in a while, but I assume they still do.

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

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      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.

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    If this is what it took they were just lazy before. This has been CLEARLY where he is pushing things for a long time now. Twitter is in the Xhitter.

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

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

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      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…

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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    Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

    Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

    Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

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      Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

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    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

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      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.

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      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?

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        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.

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        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)_/¯

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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

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      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.