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They would ban it if was really bad because it's illegal for that stuff to exist and they will face much more serious issues as a company if they don't remove it, they're not doing it out of the goodness of they're hearts

Also not a good look for a company to be hosting that stuff in general for their PR, which is determined entirely by the general population's reaction to their actions and not a small group of individuals in powerful positions

You know what you make a good point, I suppose if there's been appropriate chance for people to stop it from happening it's fair enough

This is more just that it's customisable, doesn't look like anything except a terminal until you put a desktop environment on it

(more or less all the options look better than windows but I think the reason for that is they're options and people tend to choose the one they like the look of)

My experience is generally it doesn't just work straight away unless it's something I've hammered out myself

I am also using one of the more DIY distros and window managers though, so I wouldn't expect it to without some attention from me to get it hammered out first

That said, once it's hammered out it continues to work exactly the way I want it to, it doesn't spy on me, it doesn't shove ads down my throat every 5 minutes

Would be an interesting experiment to see how non techy windows/mac users would get on if you just put stock mint/pantheon on their systems but I get the feeling it would not be as smooth as if they just had the thing everyone knows all the flaws of already

Is it from a foreign country trying to take over? In which case that does change things, had assumed this was some kind of revolution from within the country

Is this another country using x to recruit people for their takeover or people from inside the country?

I'm going to assume it's from within otherwise it's a moot point and they should obviously be blocked

However I would argue that speaking out against the government is the most important thing to protect, that's kinda the whole point it exists

If they're threatening/planning violent crime out in the open they're pretty dumb and makes it easy for the country to arrest them for it once they have enough evidence they're actually planning to do it, banning them off social media is not the solution imo

Again, as I said I'm not in any way endorsing X or saying it's a freedom fighter, not saying they haven't done terrible anti freedom of speech things, just that this kind of behaviour from governments towards any social media platform would concern me

That's pretty disgusting

Don't have or plan to get twitter, care to enlighten me?

I'm willing to bet the people that government wanted were not infact posting CSAM, I'm pretty sure even x would ban them of its own volition pretty quickly if they were doing that

Absolutely not trying to take the side of musk here, dude's a shitter. Fact of the matter remains the government in this case is using its power to remove people from the public eye, I would dislike that regardless of what platform or who was refusing to do it

I'm by no means defending musk or X. I think they shouldn't have banned those users and also think they shouldn't have revealed info about users who are not actively threatening to hurt someone

My statement was that in general it concerns me that governments are able to silence anybody in this way, which is where federation comes in handy

I think it's just as much a hivemind if not moreso than Reddit. Also, probably way easier to make bots for too