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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What a coincidence. People critical of israel got banned

The account @Zei_Squirrel, which had 200,000 followers, explained in a Substack post that it was suspended over criticisms of Israel and Bill Ackman but was also not provided with an explanation from X. “If they don’t unban me, it will prove beyond all doubt that Twitter and Elon Musk are just explicitly doing the bidding of the genocidal Israeli regime and its deranged supporters like Bill Ackman.” The post continues, “There is no possibility that anything I have posted rises to the level of being ban-worthy, but nothing that Zionists posts constantly, explicit calls for genocide and mass killing of Palestinians, isn’t.”

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

Can people see now that when people clamour for controls on things like hate speech and disinformation, the question of "who defines what is/is not disinformation" isn't just sea-lioning?

It's a fundamentally critical argument against such controls. Sooner or later, people you agree with will be at the receiving end of them.

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Using Twitter and substack? Could they possibly be working any harder against themselves?

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, they could limit their reach even further by only using the fediverse.

[+] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world -7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I mean... Many anti Israel folks are borderline abusive. Denying rapes happened, trying to call Hamas freedom fighters, praising the Oct 7th attack etc. This is the exact shit (and worse) platforms have been demonetizing or removing people for except this time it's the "other side" doing it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

This is a journalist, not some guy who argues with random people.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

What are you even talking about? There is** zero evidence** for any rapes that is a straight up IDF Zionist story. Most of the rape "testimonies" have been completely debunked and proven to be falsified. Here is an article completely debunking it

I don't understand how you are so confidently repeated straight up conspiracy theories as if they are cold hard undeniable facts.

The fact that you think it's okay to ban people for people to questioning an extremely shoddy story full of inconsistencies and many straight up lies is very weird to me.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 4 points 10 months ago

Weird that I haven't seen any of that on lemmy

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 10 months ago

Oh look, a propaganda mouthpiece