Warning: Elon Musk now has Huffman bending the knee. Whitepeopletwitter, iselondeadyet and loads of other Elon critical subs have been banned or suspended.

Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.

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    The huge amount of NSFW subs that were banned a couple hours ago are coming back now. So those were a potential glitch?

    Crazy coincidence that the Admin responding to it has the Cake Day of the US Election, and no prior post history though…

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    Most have come back, /drugs for example. The admins said its a glitch, I can’t beleive that and glad I’m here. I have no doubt reddit will get on its knees in the name of $$$$$$.

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      This one came out of the blue. the API blackout had notice and time to organize. People were talking about reddit alternatives and protesting for weeks before the API blackout happened

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    When people come here from reddit remember to highlight them on decentralization and open source software. People need to understand why certain platforms and services are better not simply switch side.

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    I’m not even remotely surprised. Anybody who has been following the history of Reddit will know that their senior management are spineless and will change their stance at a whim when it either hurts their public image or it no longer becomes viable from a business perspective.

    We’re forgetting that this is the same site that allowed jailbait, creepshots, racial hatred, right wing propaganda, rampant misogyny, gore videos, terrorist propaganda (if anyone remembers ISIL) and other disgusting content to proliferate until various scandals forced their hand. Spez in particular is a massive snake that will throw people under the bus and lie through his teeth if it benefits him.

    But then again, with a government as volatile as this, maybe you don’t want to piss of Trump or Musk…

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      Jihadin Action wasn’t ISIL/ISIS/DAESH propaganda. They spread other propaganda too!

      The real issue was almost nothing you list was illegal at the time except potentially creepshots as odds are some had to be kids (IDK not my bag- kids or creep stuff). Whereas, specific calls to targeted violence against specific people is an actual crime in the country where reddit is headquartered. I don’t like what they did but it makes sense.

      People should get off of reddit because of reasons other than this

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        I’m referring specifically to the uncut ISIL execution videos that used to be all over r/watchpeopledie years ago.

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    Just as a reminder, r/whitepeopletwitter was suspended for 72 hours over a post calling to specifically dox and murder a list of federal officials’ names.

    It took years for r/chapotraphouse to be banned for pushing calls for violence against police to the front page repeatedly.

    It took one comment deep in a comment chain from a new account vaguely suggesting violence against police to get r/the_donald banned permanently. This was shortly before BLM started and similar comments would become commonplace all over reddit.

    People who’ve been paying any attention at all know what’s up.

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      for pushing calls for violence against police

      You mean those pages are suspended for doing exactly the same as Trump did when he pushed people to attack the Capitol ?

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      Was it a list of federal employees or was it like a fozen Elon employees?

      Calling for death threats is still bad, but this makes a difference.

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        You mean a list of unelected people appointed by an unelected South African billionaire and have been given unprecedented, unfettered access to every US citizens’ personal information and banking information if they have ever done direct deposit with the federal government?

        A list of these guys?

        • Akash Bobba
        • Edward Coristine
        • Luke Farritor
        • Gautier Cole Killian
        • Gavin Kliger
        • Ethan Shaotran

        It is irresponsible not to name this team demolishing democracy. Share their names far and wide. They are breaking the law in plain site and officials whose job it is to prevent this are asleep at the wheel or actively participating.

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        If somebody keeps killing your characters in Minecraft, then how is it bad to threaten them back? In Minecraft.

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        99% same but there’s some subs Lemmy hasn’t been able to replace for me yet. like cptsdmemes. in general mental health communities are very lacking on here, if not completely absent

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          Yeah, I miss a lot of the smaller music communities. Different specific genres or even just artist based communities.

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          Yeah, there are some things lacking here, but it’s only gotten better and better since I joined.

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    Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised

    Lol.

    Lmao even.

    Reddit has never been a safe place for free speech.

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    Sorry to post a reddit thread, but supposedly this was because of death threats to Elon bootlickers. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ihq6ht/whats_going_on_with_whitepeopletwitter_that_got/

    Which is ironic because Elon notoriously promoted project veritas literally catfishing his own employees at Twitter, and also brought back accounts like libsoftiktok that existed to target private individuals. But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.

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      Spez lied about a phone call with one of the third party app devs back in 2023. He’s not fair with us, don’t be fair with him.

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      But to be fair to Spez, maybe he would ban those things too.

      The only consistent rule for the past decade or so at reddit has been “don’t sass the nazis.”

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      Reddit has been Facebook since like 2019-2020. Any social media service that gets too big just becomes a complete shit hole, hence my joining the fediverse.

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    Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.

    That ship sailed years ago.