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So I guess X is past the “deny there was antisemitic content” stage.
Also, the hot take from Ken Paxton
Paxton claimed to be "extremely troubled by the allegations that Media Matters, a radical anti-free speech organization, fraudulently manipulated data on X.com."
Freedom to do what, Ken?
Yeah, reading through the article, it's a weird set of mental gymnastics they're going through to argue the case. They're saying that Media Matters basically created an account specifically for the purposes of seeing hate speech content and refreshing it so much that these major advertisers eventually showed up next to the hate speech content. They're not even acting like it's an issue that the hate speech is on there in the first place, it's just sort of like a given, "Of course we host hate speech, so what?" The problem that they're arguing is that the average user likely wouldn't see this, which doesn't seem like that's what Media Matters was saying, MM just presented it as, "This has the possibility of happening on twitter/X." As long as they're the ones allowing hate speech on their site, they're creating opportunities for these ad placement situations to happen in the first place, MM just pointed it out.
I'll never understand the point of "enough_____spam" that reposts old stories about the person the sub claims they're tired of hearing about....
Should have left this shit on reddit
I assumed the point was to contain it to a single community so people who don't want to hear about it can block it
Would be it a bit weird to have a community where we’re not posting stuff right?
It's a place to hate on him, let us have our fun 😈
You’re right, let’s post it all over the news and tech communities for everyone to see, right?
You could make the argument that this community exists to fill a niche where post tags would work well - namely, Musk stuff can get posted here, general-subject comms can choose to ban it, and you - a strong independent user who don’t need no spam - can block it.
That’s literally the whole point of it. Block it. Stop complaining about people doing you a favor.
Should have left that shit on Reddit.
You’re right, let’s post it all over the news and tech communities for everyone to see, right?
Well, OP literally crossposted this to regular subs tho...
Which is the point I was making, these stupid subs only make the problem they're complaining about worse
There's literally no point to them, they actively make the entire problem they're meant to solve.
I legitimately don't understand why you all don't get this.
Shouldn’t you be complaining in those other subs that you don’t want to see news related to Musk/Twitter in those subs? Why are you here complaining about posts about musk in a community that was created specifically to discuss musk?
There's something about this sub and needing stuff repeated over and over again...
I'm not subbed here, but I always assumed it was a joke like the name of the community is what other users say.
Like, I see users on here complain about Musk posts on tech communities and stuff, just as on reddit. So I figured the user who named it did so because everyone was telling them to stop spamming communities with Musk posts.
So they decided to make a community specifically for that content, and ironically named it that.
I have no clue if that's correct.. but I'm totally okay with this community existing, as it prevents its content from perpetuating other communities. If you don't want to see their posts, just block the community.
It's dumb and counterintuitive to criticize their community's existence when it has the content all boxed up an ready for you to block it. Why would you instead want the users here inundating communities you browse with Elon Musk posts?
I have blocked so many anime, meme, and sports communities I have no interest in, and I don't see them anymore. I don't go into the community I don't enjoy to complain about their content. That's useless. Just block and move on.
Oh, it's been blocked. Probably for months.
Lemmy just did that thing where when you sign it, it still shows blocked subs till you refresh
I haven't experienced this using Jerboa (3rd party app). Would definitely recommend it.
That story is from today.