https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-limit-bellingcat-after-elon-musk-called-it-psyop-2023-5
I don't know how Elon acting erratically surprises people he's literally just an idiot
once you realise that he isn't playing some 4d chess game and is in fact just authentically stupid he makes more sense
why capitalism isn't some dastardly plan they've concocted it's an economic system that incentivises certain behaviors
the individual members of the bourgeoise can very well be dumb as a bag of rocks
that won't happen for two reasons one it is in everyone involved's mutual interest to make that go away. and two because they aren't an organisation with meetings and an agenda they are a social class
If they had any desire to rein in their own, they would have kept the state machinery of the new deal intact
Nah, their ability to do anything is degrading like everything else.
We're all the worst versions of whatever we like to imagine we are.
This weaponised de-platforming that Elon does is genuinely bad. It's used against anyone he decides he dislikes.
Obviously we don't care about feds like Bellingcat but he's definitely using this against leftists too.
With any luck the feds will kill him.
:inshallah:
Hopefully they nail him with the tumor gun from Videodrome
They all do that with leftists, libs are just upset they can be in the crosshairs
Nah I beg to differ. Previous management absolutely didn't engage in this.
Reddit does with its suppression of subreddits it decides are a problem for it. But that's because Spez is also a fash.
Previous management absolutely didn’t engage in this.
I've been banned for twitter for quite some time, and Jack Dorsey is just another techbro piece of shit.
I remember some ban waves in 2020 after which I stopped browsing Twitter entirely
For what though? Violence or hate or overtly harassing people, I've nothing against harassing libs but it's pretty simple to see it's not something that exists to specifically target communists. You weren't targeted for existing as an effective commie, which is what's going to come down on any communists as soon as Musk decides to.
I feel like we're getting a bit deep in the chain here, it was posting about the data used to support claims of a Uyghur genocide
To your concern about being "an effective commie", it's a good thing for organisers to be banned from twitter because of twitter's integration with US security services.
Full disclosure though, I am a huge doomer about US workers and the future of that country.
I don't think Elon is cool or good, I just think this specific instance is funny.
Nah I disagree. There's moderation and then there's this, this isn't moderation, it's what fascists do, and they won't hesitate to do it to us if we just sit around and say nothing when they do it to libs first.
It's one of the few cases where we ought to still be against this behaviour. It will hurt us MUCH more than it will hurt the state.
It's also pretty visible that this instance is of anti-right-wing information being pushed down. It should be obvious that we're against hiding identifying nazis no matter who the speaker.
With any luck the feds will kill him.
why would they do that? he's so useful for them and not the most brilliant thinker so he's probably easy to manipulate.
don't you think it's useful for them to have a bunch of right wing nuts howling about people with nazi tattoos being a psyop? his anti-trans rhetoric is also useful because it creates violent extremists they can occasionally frame to look like they're doing something to get more money from the democrats than they already would be getting.
Musk is literally a fascist and has solidarity with his fellow travelers, so ofc he's going to muddy the waters around the Texas neo-nazi.
Eh, I think it's good to normalize chucking Bellingcat reporting in the trash. Critical support.
you can't critically support it when the reason he thinks its an op is to cover up for a nazi shooting. obviously don't take bellingcat's side.
Yeah I actually I can. Having a spook outlet taken seriously is far more important than whether people believe a single shooter was or wasn't a Nazi.
a single shooter
lmao, why are you pretending this isn't a daily occurrence in the fascist hellhole that is the US? Every week one of these freaks kill people and media runs damage control and you think it's better that an outlier that doesn't gets clapped because it ownz da libs? Reactionary brained nonsense
was or wasn’t a Nazi.
very interesting "both sides" phrasing here, as if he isn't 100% confirmed a nazi
you seem very invested in downplaying nazis actions, sus af
Also if the neolib state is weak and collapsing and run by out of touch geriatric boomers why is it still a bigger threat than blood and soil fascists ?The only logical conclusion is because you're a strasserite who thinks those fascists are allies against the liberal state department
I keep hearing people talk about Bellingcat, but I don't know what their deal is. Can anyone give me the deets?
CIA/MI6 cutout and mouthpiece, used to foment color revolts under the guise of “edgy, cutting edge journalism”
They pose as very radical, and twist leftist language into supporting US foreign policy. They are the quintessential example of radlibs or anarcho-bidenists, lots of “anarchist” types working there and who support it vocally online
