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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rchaud on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:33PM (#36297531)
> a philosophical and political commitment to free speech

Surely this is a meme by now? Any CEO that has ever said this about a website they control is just pandering to the crowd. Musk's Twitter has complied with more government takedown requests than the previous regime had.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by callalex on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:54PM (#36297952)
It is now, but it was very different at the time. The old guard of the internet supporting absolute freedom of speech didn’t used to be associated with Nazis. Some good examples that still exists today are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and to some extent the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:55PM (#36297962)
There is no way #Stolzmonat would have taken place prior to Musk. It's ironically more inclusive than the hashtag it replaces.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by djcannabiz on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:34PM (#36298693)
Would you mind explaining what #Stolzmonat means or what is behind it? I see that it is german for pride month. Is it meant to be ironic or something like that?
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:28PM (#36299596)
It's meant to protest the current conception of pride month. On the outside the rainbow flag is replaced by a gradient flag of the national flag. Of course it started with Germany, but every nation is invited and many followed with their own gradient flag. On the inside it's a protest against wokeness and the associated contradictions of excluding most people, while everyone is supposed to celebrate it (or they are <smear word here>). In contrast everyone is invited to #Stolzmonat.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by strato-cumulus on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:07PM (#36300196)
I'd be all up for an initiative that attempts to burst the liberal bubble which seems to reject the possibility that people have other things to do than follow the latest inclusivity trends online, but come on. You know well what this is about. Had to scroll like 3 posts down to find out that this panders to reactionary clowns[0].

If this were a protest I would expect polemic discourse, yet the "official account" is just throwing shit around and screaming with excitement when someone "gets offended"[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/BjoernHoecke/status/1664190277282611200 [1] https://twitter.com/stolzmonat

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:13PM (#36300294)
Note: If the wrong people take part, abandon ship.

More seriously: I don't care. If Hoecke proclaims the water is healthy, I don't stop drinking water. #Stolzmonat is honestly a good thing especially because everyone can take part. If we now start the game of distancing (and that never stops) we can also just use the old hashtag.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by strato-cumulus on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:47PM (#36300839)
Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here.

If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty much the same as with Pride. What's the difference then?

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:22PM (#36301344)
Who is not welcome? Wokies? Yeah, if you want to hate on people because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or such, you're likely not welcome. Happy #Stolzmonat.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by manicdee on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:22PM (#36301342)
It's a counter-protest by white male supremacists ("neo-nazis"/Proud Boys) who believe that diversity and equality diminish them. It's a parody of Pride Month.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by johnysmith67 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:59PM (#36347223)
It is pointing out the degeneracy that plagues society in a lighthearted manner, by using the German flag, which could easily be interpreted as a new iteration of the gay pride flag to the untrained eye
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by eropple on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:08PM (#36298207)
#Stolzmonat is categorically not "more inclusive". It's reactionary spittle.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AnonCoward42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:22PM (#36298469)
The usual pride crowd hates white people, men(1), "TERFs" (aka normal women), tradwives and many more given they make up terms for groups they hate pretty often. #Stolzmonat does not exclude anyone because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or mental illness.

(1): cis-men in their terminology

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by thatguy0900 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:42PM (#36299798)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

If anyone would say it and mean it, it was probably this guy. He was quite the activist before he committed suicide.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by melagonster on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:47PM (#36303587)
I read his message on thie old markdown web page. this is so sad.
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