The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
  • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    534·
    1 month ago

    Fucking preformative liberals, instead of attacking the systems of exploitation that harm the community they virtue signal for they focus on the temporarily manufactured villains.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      244·
      1 month ago

      If you can’t have everything, you’d prefer nothing? Isn’t that the same logic that got us a second trump term?

      • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        What got us a second Trump term was the Dems acting like they are owed votes, instead of acting like they need to earn votes.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        812·
        1 month ago

        No the logic that got us a second trump term is “we can move as far to the right as we want, and as long as we’re second worst, people will have no choice but to vote for us.”

    • JamesFire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      1 month ago

      So… what?

      In your ideal world nazi sites wouldn’t be blocked?

      What are you even arguing here?

      There is no world in which refusing to use a site run by a nazi is a bad thing.

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        512·
        1 month ago

        I’m arguing liberals have the memory of a goldfish and will forget it the next time something else comes up. This is #resist 2.0, purely performative.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          1 month ago

          Got it, there’s no point in ever fighting them since we might not fight them at some unspecified point in the future, we should just all welcome and embrace Nazis. Thanks for letting us know how to move forward.

          • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            1 month ago

            They are not fighting anything, if they were they would have fought it from the beginning instead of accepting small doses of fascism.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              51·
              1 month ago

              Got it, everyone just give up and walk willingly into the camps. Thanks for letting us know how to move forward.

              • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                1 month ago

                We are currently living in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World where even the mention of breaking free from the chains is met with resistance. Liberals would rather dose their Soma than allow meaningful change to happen.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  41·
                  1 month ago

                  Yes, we already established that you think everyone should give up and walk willingly into the camps. Where do we meet you?

        • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
          61·
          1 month ago

          Still better than nothing. I don’t see how complaining about a good thing gets us anywhere. And also it screams bad mental health. You ok, bro?

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I get it, why give him any attention. But this is not about him–it’s about the protest this time. That’s fine by me, let’s get people going!

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    304·
    1 month ago

    Yeah that’ll show him. I’m sure he’s gonna lose a ton of sleep over the miniscule amount of traffic that’s going to drop for his shitty website that he bought and drove into the ground.

    Wait actually he cares way too much about how people view him so it might actually bother him a ton. It’s hard to say really.

    Either way stop using Twitter and reddit. Both terrible.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

  • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 month ago

    If this is what it took they were just lazy before. This has been CLEARLY where he is pushing things for a long time now. Twitter is in the Xhitter.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    640·
    1 month ago

    Here on Lemmy, people who claim to advocate for freedom of speech and information, demanding for information shared on social networks to be controlled, shutdown and people to be censored based on unknown and ambiguous criteria, without even understanding the implications of it.

    Details at six

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      Look, I’m all for freedom of speech. I’m nearly as close to an absolutist as they come.

      This is an example of a protest. Nobody is restricting anybody’s speech. They aren’t banning Musk-supporters. They aren’t censoring Trumpers. They are specifically banning links to a website owned by a billionaire who did a Nazi salute at an event where hundreds of millions if not billions of people would witness him.

    • probably2high@lemm.eeEnglish
      29·
      1 month ago

      What does freedom of speech have to do with independent subreddits deciding they don’t want to serve content from a private company they don’t agree with?

      • Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        It’s easy if they have no idea what “freedom of speech” actually means and what it actually allows. The phrase at face value is nothing like the constitutionally protected action. They are too ignorant to know that.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        314·
        1 month ago

        That’s easy, freedom of speech means you can say what I want but not what you want, and it applies everywhere including in my dreams. So if you say something I don’t like in my dreams I can criminally charge you and take you to hell in a cell.

        Edit: Thought this would be obvious satire, but here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Saryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Not to worry, you’re simply confusing freedom of speech with obliging private actors to consume content they don’t want to consume or disagree with. The first is a fundemental principle of democratic legal systems and recognized as a perempotry norm under international law. The second is authoritarianism.

      There’s a growing number of legally illiterate people who think freedom of speech is absolute and even affords one the right to oblige others consume their speech through the government. That is fundamentally wrong and a complete misunderstanding of how these key principles of freedom work and have always worked in modern democratic systems.

      Newsflash - freedom of speech is not absolute. Never has been. There are very specific, explicitly codified limitations. Why? Because words are the most powerful weapons and can be used to target and threaten the freedoms of other people, including their freedom to life. Which is why rights and obligations are always balanced against each other, following the principle of proportionality.

      If you feel so strongly about not being able force others to consume content they don’t want to consume, then I have bad news for you - you are opposing democracy. But it seems like you, and many other like you, are just confused, rather than actively promoting anti-democratic standpoints. The truly sad part? The impact is the same regardless of intent.

      Edit: Want to know more? Details at 6.

      • Digital_Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 month ago

        It’s so typical to see 90% good argument and 10% insult the OP & half the country. If believers stuck to the 90% good argument and left out the insults you’d win a lot of followers.

        • Freefall@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          The sky is blue and I think OP is a moron. The second part doesn’t make the first untrue, it also doesn’t make it an ad hominem argument.

          Half the voters(not country) are a bunch of gullible clowns and calling them out is just an observation.

        • Saryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          I don’t want any followers or believers. Calling it as I see it. That is all.

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Existence of mods goes against the concept of freedom of speech. People aren’t prevented from directly using Twitter themselves. They’d be on 4chan if they wanted something as close to an unfiltered internet.

      We wouldn’t be on our respective instances that have blocked off entire instances and communities if we wanted to consume unfiltered internet content.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 month ago

      Holy shit. I made the mistake of looking in there. What a festering pile of misinformed louts. There’s not a brain cell to be found in there.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        1 month ago

        Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

        Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

        Kettle meet pot?

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 month ago

          Uhhhhhhhhh, gotta say, I’ve never once heard NPR tell me that we’re special or privilaged, or above the law. Or even should be.

          Meanwhile our current president is a 34x convicted criminal and sexual predator.

          …although to be fair, the democrats also had a sexual predator in the 60s (twice), and the 90s.

          But I can’t recall any democrat running on the platform of “we’re better than them”.

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me would poke fun at their audience for being the type to sniff their own farts. I haven’t listened in a while, but I assume they still do.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    1 month ago

    Aaaand here come the admins to relentlessly bully any mods involved in this into submission. Because the reddit admins are pathetic, greedy little pig boys who don’t give a flying shit about their users or moderators.