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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (8 children)

What a coincidence. People critical of israel got banned

The account @Zei_Squirrel, which had 200,000 followers, explained in a Substack post that it was suspended over criticisms of Israel and Bill Ackman but was also not provided with an explanation from X. “If they don’t unban me, it will prove beyond all doubt that Twitter and Elon Musk are just explicitly doing the bidding of the genocidal Israeli regime and its deranged supporters like Bill Ackman.” The post continues, “There is no possibility that anything I have posted rises to the level of being ban-worthy, but nothing that Zionists posts constantly, explicit calls for genocide and mass killing of Palestinians, isn’t.”

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

Can people see now that when people clamour for controls on things like hate speech and disinformation, the question of "who defines what is/is not disinformation" isn't just sea-lioning?

It's a fundamentally critical argument against such controls. Sooner or later, people you agree with will be at the receiving end of them.

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