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Fascist speech absolutism at work
To Der Elon that's the same thing.
It’s frustrating that we knew he was full of shit when he was saying it. And now the evidence is showing it is bullshit. And it’s like it doesn’t even matter.
But Elon has no clue why everyone thinks he's a nazi
Nazi platform.
Make sure to stop clicking on Nazi links when people post them. No matter how bad you want to see someone "prank" someone or cry about their perceived persecution.
We need to stop making a Nazi platform important enough that it hurts democratic politicians when they lose access because of the Nazi in charge of said platform.
and if you absolutely must see something on twitter, use xcancel instead.
its a frontend for the same content, that doesn't add views or ad revenue to twitter.
Reason # 3,487 to get off/stop paying attention to X, the 'everything app'.
Just a friendly gesture among right-wing autocrats.
Anyone still on Xitter is part of the problem.
Delete it.
No one on X should expect anything better
If they're still on Xitter it means they approve of this
Expecting Bluesky to do the same in a short while.
Why?
There needs to be some sort of unblockable self-hosted broadcast system where users can spin up their own cloud hosted instance by entering a username and password and choosing one of hundreds of providers for a small fee, or self hosted instance as quickly and easily as installing a single app on an android phone. These with act just like websites, but with a common protocol and API so they can communicate with each other and with clients with no specific add-on. Then, Turkey or whoever could block Turkish ISPs from fulfilling that request, but anyone else could still access the instance in their client as long as their own instance doesn't block it.
Hostable on a phone, a windows PC, Linux PC, self-hosted VM, cloud rented VM, whatever. And easily portable from one place to another.
Sure, uptime and reliability would suffer, EG when PC is turned off, but that's acceptable to gain resilience against ISP, central services like google and Facebook and twitter, and government interference.
I have designed a system to do this, using very reliable existing protocols and programming frameworks, I just don't have the time or money to invest to make it happen.
Is it called the fediverse?
Free-speech absolutists gonna free-speech.
Well, that is one way to get off the Nazi platform.
Just do like I do. I blocked x.com quite a while back now. Along with several other trash sites like it.
I used to use it to find out information on local emergencies and stuff but now you have to log in and they don’t allow search or whatever so I never use it… I have a few accounts there but haven’t used them since at least x if not before I should probably mass delete my accounts there next time something happens
he has blocked before at the request of erdogan multiple times.
Xitler.
I thought they didn't block political figures... Guess the muskrat just meant the figures he agrees with...
One more reason to not put all of your social media eggs in the same basket.
Elon following Turkish censorship
Memba when Elon Fuck said it would be a town square where everyone can speak out?