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.
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 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!!!”
Apparently free speech absolutist means “absolutely no free speech” according to fElon.
Technically true /s
It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.
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.
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
Pro-“life” (actually just pro-“birth”)
Pro forced birth.
- 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.
They call themselves conservatives, but they’re radicals (the polar opposite) through and through.
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”
these two losers deserve each other.
Someone (especially someone in a position of power) calling someone’s actions illegal (whether true and/or justified or not) is advocating state-sponsored violence against that person.
Another solid reason to abandon Reddit.
Reddit, or at least the subs I frequented, is a cesspool of russian trolls and bots. I made the apparent mistake of calling a couple of trolls out in the r/Europe sub and asked why they weren’t in Kursk, and pffft…permanent ban from all of reddit for “inciting violence”. I think my blood pressure has improved since then, tbh.
Good thing there are no Russian bots on Lemmy.
Not sure about bots, but I’ve certainly encountered some trolls. And some people grafted to Elmo’s starfish. At least they aren’t a protected species here…
The Russian troll I used to bully here had disappeared and it looks like mods deleted all his comments. I left a 🌻 for him on my last comment to him. Felt quite poignant, I hope he hadn’t fallen out of a window.
…or into a pink mist wafting gently in the morning breeze…
they seem to invade the political communities more.
That sounds like the_donald applied to the whole site.
I never actually visited that sub, but I heard it alluded to enough to loathe it…
It was legitimately funny, when it was still a joke. The memes were good. There was no way that idiot was going to be a serious contender. It was all in good fun.
At least until someone would say, “you know this is just a joke, right?” Any kind of self-awareness was banned within seconds. Now I don’t know if you’re familiar with volunteer moderators, but it’s pretty rare that they catch that kind of volume 24 hours a day within seconds.
I fully believe there were state-level troll farms operated by a hostile foreign government moderating that subreddit.
… and now they’re applying that to the entire site.
That would not surprise me in the slightest. Drumph had a lot of help, starting with those fucking “actors” who cheered him as he descended the golden elevator. He certainly didn’t get there based on merit LOL.
MSM, SOCIAL media practically made him on the news 24/7 for the last, the only time people had clarity from his madness was when mr luigi shot the CEO, and the MSMs and social media was freaking out that the class war is finally gaining attention against them, then they reorientated themselves and the masses were re-distracted again.
I know the UK sub took a hard right turn shortly before the election and it was almost an overnight change
west coast subs also got astroturfed by the right, the way they act is a goody two shoes type of comments.
Honestly, I don’t think Lemmy, or any other anonymous social media can really counter this. Outside of heavy moderation in the opposite direction, anyway, which doesn’t feel great.
It’s just too easy for hostile governments to spin up as many dozens of accounts as they need to argue against you, argue on your side (but badly), and simply just drown you out. It doesn’t take much of that for real people to retreat. Why would you post an opinion that you know is going to immediately get shit on by a dozen “people”?
hostile govt, mainly russ can steal or just make hundreds of acct at a time, they also easily evade reddit bans to spam.
City and state subs tend to be really bad, I guess because if you’re looking to influence people it’s an obvious place to start. I swore off my city subreddit after a barrage of “this is it, I’m done with the Democrats” after the local George Floyd riots knocked over some statues that were about equality. It was probably astroturfing but beyond frustrating either way.
my west coast one got turned into a conservative subs. when people were asking about things like jury duty and fare evasion/traffic tickets, they all act lik oh you shouldnt done this or that, you should know better.
Russian trolls do take over subs, even buying them if they can’t trick their way in. Its been going on for years, but they used to target the most relevant for their misinformation. They probably widened their goals to any popular subs by now.
conservatives subs being the obvious one. WOrldnews is co-opted by israeli trolls mostly. i see them leak into pics alot so i just report them. r/politics is half and half.
They’re here too. I try to call them out, but it’s easy to see the bias here too - I just got banned for doing so and for complaining that one of them called me dumb. Apparently asking where someone is from is not allowed here either.
So yeah, seems like at least some of the mods here are fine with Russian propaganda.
i think 2 years ago, someone posted that half reddit comments were subs, politics and news probably is made a large percentage of trolls. alot of people were/including me were criticizing some of news/article sources as being from pure russian backed sources.
That makes sense. Spez is such a spineless dweeb, it checks out that a narcissistic blowhard like Musk would be pushing him around.
Hey… That’s hurtful.
he was sucking off musk since the twitter purchase. '22
Liquidate Musk
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.
Baby Back Bitch Musk
Musk is, in fact, a giant baby.
Yeah, we know.
Non paywalled link: https://archive.is/RVmD2
Spez is just finally happy his daddy is talking to him.
Shocker.
Like anyone worth knowing GAF about Reddit.
