• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it’s there.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.

      Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.

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      5 months ago

      It’s funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.

      It’s in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.

      This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD’s twitter.

      Great work, guys!

  • Riskable@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!

    The deep state doesn’t want people following Harris! They don’t want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!

    “Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell… Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They’re coming for your smells!”

    Haha, yeah… This is Elon Musk’s X.com we’re talking about. It’s just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that’s not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday

    Assuming he’s awake for 16 hours, that’s over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.

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      5 months ago

      Seriously though, it should be grounds for getting blacklisted from the government.

      Or if the company in question is strategically crucial to national interests, as is the case here, it should be put into federal receivership with the appropriate relevant agency - so, SpaceX goes to NASA, Tesla goes to the DoT, Twitter goes to the FCC, etc.

      I so deeply want this to be a case of “fuck around and find out”.

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    5 months ago

    Maybe the reason Elon broke every part of Twitter was just so he has plausible deniability while he meddles with everything and desperately tries to get his name in every discussion.

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    5 months ago

    This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.

    I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.

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    5 months ago

    Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?

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      5 months ago

      Maybe technically in Florida and Texas, given that they passed a law to try to stop sites deplatforming Trump.

      https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3102.htm

      “The owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with a social media website user in this State is subject to a private right of action by a user if the social media website purposely: … (2) uses an algorithm to disfavor, shadowban, or censure the user’s religious speech or political speech”.

      In May 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled to strike the law (and similarly there was a 5th Circuit judgement), but just this month the US Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals judgement (i.e. reinstated the law) and remanded it back to the respective Court of Appeals. That said, the grounds for doing that were the court had not done the proper analysis, and after they do that it might be struck down again. But for now, the laws are technically not struck down.

      It would be ironic if after conservatives passed this law, and stacked the supreme court and got the challenge to it vacated, the first major use of it was used against Xitter for censoring Harris!

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        5 months ago

        People stupid enough to support fascism aren’t smart enough to recognize that it can be used against them

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        5 months ago

        Even without all that messing with stuff too much is bound to clash with protections those kinds of sites have around editorialising. That is, by doing such stuff X says “we’re not actually a pinboard, we’re a newspaper, we’re editorially responsible for what’s on there”, and then prosecution can come along and say “so, your newspaper published an article calling for <crime>, didn’t it? That’s your speech now, not speech of some random user, isn’t it?”.

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      5 months ago

      the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it