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How Elon Musk allowed X to become a stalwart platform for Trump supporters.
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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Not to deflect blame from Musk, but Jack was just as bad. He openly let Trump ignore the rules and TOS of the website because it got more ad revenue into the site. Trump said the most asinine, racist, sexist, queerphobic, ablest bullshit, but who gives a shit when he's the President?! He got suspended when he made Jan 6th happen. Everything before then was cool because it never got enough bad press.
Musk made it worse, but Jack is why it was possible in the first place. Jack banned leftists saying queer rights are more important than cishet feelings. Jack banned BIPOC from commenting on white people being openly racist and using slurs, but you called them a cracker once, you get perma-banned.
Fuck Twitter, Fuck Musk, Fuck Jack.
yup, and both bluesky and threads will be/are exactly as bad, too.