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[–] Burn_The_Right 142 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But according to Elon, he's a "free speech absolutist" who will bring "actual freedom of speech" to social media.

Yet another example of how every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Conservatives are dollar store versions of human beings.

[–] NOT_RICK 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Free speech¹

  1. Unless you’re a slut, unionist, or too brown
[–] swag_money 16 points 1 year ago

Brown slutty unionists are my kinda people tbh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The Holy Trinity

[–] twotone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 of the 3 are something you can change, so that's a win

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure I can change all three in the right pardner. giggity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Free speech*

*for myself and people of my liking.

[–] Frozengyro 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Equal free speech, some are more equal than others

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an insult to dollar stores

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah you can actually get some decent stuff at dollar stores if you know what to get

[–] Lemminary 7 points 1 year ago

He meant freeze peach. You'll get your can in your inbox soon, silly goose!

[–] worldwidewave 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Under Musk’s leadership, X has become increasingly hostile toward nudity and explicit content. This week, X started flagging NSFW posts as “sensitive material,” as Rolling Stone reported, and restricting flagged accounts to limit their reach. Sex workers said their engagement tanked and their accounts no longer show up in X’s search, even if they weren’t notified about being flagged.

Let sex workers be, you weird puritans.

[–] FlyingSquid 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There absolutely should be no free speech is what he meant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only for Nazis

[–] hansl 5 points 1 year ago

When no one can speech, speech will finally truly be free.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Hey dont insult the Puritans, they were generally egalitarian and anti-slavery, also John Brown came from a Scottish Puritan background. If you got the Puritans of old to interact with these modern fuckwads youd pribably need a hazmat team to clean up whatever was left.

[–] DocMcStuffin 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Porn and adult content was one of the hold outs on Xitter. If they're going after that now, usage and users are going to tank again. If they keep this up, eventually the only thing that will be left on Xitter will be right wing assholes, white nationalist, and fascists.

[–] Blinding 44 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that's the end result they're hoping for.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look he just didn't get the engagement he wanted on parler

[–] DocMcStuffin 32 points 1 year ago

Parler shutdown this year. I guess Elmo didn't get the memo on what does and doesn't work for a social media website.

Parler’s New Owner Shuts Down Site: ‘No Reasonable Person Believes Twitter For Conservatives Is A Viable Business Model’

[–] xc2215x 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That might be Elon's intention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Bring the mountain to Muhammad" kinda thing since Truth and Gab never took off.

[–] Phegan 7 points 1 year ago

I've said this about all the right wing social networks. Right wingers want to be on a platform where they can spread hate and bully people, no one else wants to be on that platform, leaving the right wing no one to bully, rendering the platform useless to them.

[–] uis 3 points 1 year ago

For some reason I read Xitter as Xitler... Time to take medications.

[–] Starkstruck 49 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Tumblr users fled to Twitter after the porn ban, now Twitter is making the same mistake.

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[–] alienanimals 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.

[–] frizop 5 points 1 year ago

I wish I didn’t have to work so hard to avoid this sort of content every single day

[–] bappity 17 points 1 year ago

another hit from the self proclaimed "free speech absolutist"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t a lot of those angry incels go to Twitter to see tits though?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, if Twitter suddenly cracking down on T&A ends up causing another X-odus to the fediverse, then it is mildly amusing that the "masto" in "Mastodon" is literally from the Ancient Greek word for "boobs".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good old boobytooth is the place to be!

[–] creditCrazy 4 points 1 year ago

It's all comes around in a great big circle or a single boob

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Poor fools, it's always run on porn.

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