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Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by proactivesvcs on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:27PM (#38894490)
Being part of, and tacitly validating, an ecosystem that welcomes Nazis, sex traffickers and the sort of people who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children.
Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by CompanionCubee on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:08PM (#38894916)
>the sort of people who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children.

Oh, you mean the Brady Campaign that misled parents of the Aurora shooting to file a frivolous lawsuit and whom are now on the hook for legal fees for that lawsuit?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lucky-gunner-lawsuit_b_819780...

>After their daughter was killed, the Phillipses went to work for the Brady Campaign doing survivor outreach. “I would call survivors and they would say, ‘I haven’t heard from [Brady] in three years,’” Sandy recalled. “They don’t know what to do with survivors. They’re a business.”

>The experience, she said, made her realize that survivors are often used as “backdrops.”

>Two years after they began working with the Brady Campaign — when they were “no longer a bright, new shiny object” — Lonnie and Sandy were let go. Now they see politicians and big organizations in Washington, DC, most often at the center of the gun violence conversation.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/gun-control-l...

Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by eesmith on Saturday January 06, 2024 @04:41PM (#38895790)
I took it to mean Alex Jones, since I have no idea who those people are and the links you give make no mention of a Twitter/X connection, much less a high-level connection like Jones has.

While with Alex Jones we have lawsuits which fit the description of "who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children", like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Pozner_and_De_La_Ro...

> On April 16, 2018 Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of victim Noah Pozner, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas.[254] Pozner, who has been forced to move several times to avoid harassment and death threats, was accused by Jones of being a crisis actor.

as just one example, and we have the high-level Twitter connection on the same Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Social_media_restri...

> In November 2022, Musk referred to Jones as a person who "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame" and said Jones would not be unbanned.[119] He changed his position on December 10, 2023 when he reinstated Jones's account.

Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by proactivesvcs on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:29PM (#38905842)
That was, indeed, one of the people I was referring to.
Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by paulddraper on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:01PM (#38894832)
The World Wide Web has all of that...better not tacitly support it.
Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by timeon on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:41PM (#38896778)
So does world. But we are talking about particular website.
Re:X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads by the_third_wave on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:11PM (#38896964)
That could just as well be a description of an ivy league campus where the local 'palestine support group' holds sway. They have no problems calling for the death of Jews, they are all too happy abusing the parents of those who already succumbed to their brethern-in-faith and they seem to have forgotten the 'believe all women' thing when it comes to those women which were raped and abused by the 'freedom fighters' they're cheering on.

If you consider Musk's TwiX a 'problematic ecosystem' I assume you consider those campuses to be even more problematic - I know I do.