Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
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Elon Musk takes aim at Reddit
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"Reddit continues to be anti-free speech," Cedric Hohnstadt said on X. "I just got a lifetime ban from the 'comics' subreddit. Yesterday, I posted a humor comic that got over 5,400 upvotes. Then I noticed that there was a pinned post from the moderators saying that comics linked from X could no longer be shared because Musk gave a Nazi salute. I commented saying no he didn't. The moderator accused me of being pro-Nazi, banned me permanently for life, and deleted all my past posts from the 'comics' subreddit. But somehow Elon Musk is the totalitarian?" The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.
Amazing that a blind man can draw comics.
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Truly inspiring
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You can do anything. Except criticising musk. Thats too far.
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The post has been viewed 3.7 million times.
Assuming this is the info box in new Reddit, those stats always felt... wrong
The difference between comments/votes and supposed "views" made it seem like the later was inflated.
Even more obvious was when something got posted at odd hours of the night in a local community. The view count would take off shortly after, while the comments and votes would only show up around when people wake up.
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I think you severely underestimate the amount of people who just browse and don't interact with stuff.
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one X user claimed the website was "anti-free speech" after he said he was banned from the "comics" subreddit for denying that the tech mogul did a Nazi salute
That sounds like pro truth rather than "anti free speech", no?
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Free speech means having to read and hear things you don't like or disagree with every now and again. I personally think bans should be restricted to hate speech or else we'll sleep walk in to an echo chamber.
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I personally think bans should be restricted to hate speech
Nazi salutes are hate speech.
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Free speech means the government can't sanction you for unpopular speech. It says absolutely nothing about private citizens.
You're not entitled to an audience, or to anybody else's platform.
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Nah, you don't have a right to a space; that is, spaces have a right to police themselves. If you don't like it, the cost to start your own community is virtually nill, and you can go ahead and refuse to moderate that community. That's your choice and you're free to make it.
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Free speech protects hate speech in the United States, so you've already got your wish.
But the Constitution restricts the government, it doesn't apply to your peers, and nor should it.
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Freedom of association is important, too. You have the freedom to speak, but people don't have the obligation to listen to you. If they're running a forum and they don't like what you say, they can ban you. It's their forum. You have the freedom to go to a different forum or start your own.
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Absolutely not you dimwit.
I run a security related subreddit (cryptography). A false sense of security from wrong answers can literally kill
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No. You have no right to force me to listen to you.
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I agree why I agree if you defend nazi then that is hate speech and he was rightly banned.
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This place is already an echo chamber. Just try not agreeing with the party line.
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Reddit's about to get shittier. Again. Either they'll kowtow to Musk and make it against the rules to ban X links or they'll give some bland, noncommital, centrist statement about how they respect the hard work their mods put in to keep Reddit going or whatever. I really doubt they'll make any unequivocal statement condemning Musk as the neo-Nazi shitbag he is.
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The second reddit pulls some pro-Elon conservative bullshit, expect Lemmy to be FLOODED.
Reddit is a liberal haven and there will be a mass exodus if they toe the President Musk line.
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If the API price-gouging scandal didn't bring them all over already, then you might be surprised just how many continue to hang on there, even after this one. And the next one. And the next.
It's just how people are. We don't want to change.
It will bring some people over. But I doubt there will be a flood.
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hopefully not just lemmy.world cause
- terrible for lemmy
- terrible for them
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it won't be long before the piggy little fuckboy starts sucking on musk's nipple and issue some sort of ban to that movement. god it's good to be off that site
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Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
"This is insane," Musk responded.
Yep, totally taking aim at Reddit. Definitely not clickbait.
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Today I made a joke about Donni on r/pic, nothing vulgar, just that he never touches his wife and I was instantly banned. Fuck Reddit
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Found my way back to Lemy today as well for something similar. I've noticed just in the past few days the comment threads on even mundane threads have gotten really weird. It could be a post about a picture of a hummingbird and it would devolve into strange politics. Weird pro CCP and North Korea stuff lately too. It's weird.
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Great timing for me to have deleted my account haha
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Me too
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Same as me, lol
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They came after redditors
redditors
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redditors
Anne Frankly, that's when I came to the lemmyverse.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Fuck you Elon musk.
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accused me of being pro-Nazi
Does pro-Nazi thing
Gets called out for doing pro-Nazi thing
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What a thin-skinned little removed of a boy.
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With how active r/fednews has been, no surprise
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Freedom of speech doesn't oblige anybody to publish anything on their own website that they don't want to, any more than they're required to say certain things if they're shouting on a street corner. "But it's not the same thing, a website has a much larger reach!" It doesn't matter. Website operators get to publish what they want.
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Yeah that'll work out well.
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