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Re:X Is Reportedly Selling Inactive Usernames for $50k by gkoberger on Sunday November 05, 2023 @09:47PM (#38158207)
Elon has done just as much “censoring”, if not more. He’s just changed what he censors. Remember when he went on a personal banning spree? Or increasing censorship on the things the Turkish/Chinese government asked him to? Or where he banned people for “parodies”? Or blocking links, like those to Substack? Or shadow-banning people he personally was arguing with, such as Taibbi? Or how he now considers the word “cis” a slur that you can’t say? He even banned the guy who created this site (pg).

He censors. He just censors the things he doesn’t like. Can you give an example of anything you can say on Twitter that you can’t say on, say, Mastadon or even Facebook?

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Re:X Is Reportedly Selling Inactive Usernames for $50k by zappb on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:32PM (#38158518)
It’s much easier to get away with racial slurs on Twitter now, especially if they’re 21st century slurs commonly used on 4chan. On Mastodon, people will block or defederate you for that, but Twitter will make it trend.
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Re:X Is Reportedly Selling Inactive Usernames for $50k by bufferoverflow on Sunday November 05, 2023 @10:12PM (#38158369)
"As much" censoring is a lie. Prior to Elon Twitter banned tons of conservative accounts with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers.

Taibbi is still on Twitter and is posting like every hour:

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi

> Can you give an example of anything you can say on Twitter that you can’t say on, say, Mastadon or even Facebook?

Ask Trump.

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