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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by bluescrn on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @06:46PM (#40591516)
There is also a perspective that the worryingly popular ‘silence all dissent’ mentality is vastly more of a threat to democracy than anything Elon has done.
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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by digging on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:01PM (#40591627)
> silence all dissent

Who are you talking about? I'm talking about the guy who declared "cis" is a slur and promised to ban people for saying it on his private free speech platform.

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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by EricDeb on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:00PM (#40591621)
Yes and now Twitter is filled with hate speech, porn bots, crypto scams, misinfo, compelling and difficult to disprove conspiracies. I'm glad that stuff is no longer being silenced.
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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by FredPret on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @08:15PM (#40592090)
What do you mean "now"? Did it use to be a clean and pure space?
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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by peterfirefly on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:35AM (#40596202)
Yes, when it was new and had practically no users :)
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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by EricDeb on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:54PM (#40601041)
It used to have more moderation definitely.
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Re:Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission by FredPret on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:50PM (#40602783)
The moderation simply switched political sides. My experience in centrist, topic-focused X is identical save for the logo.
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