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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by sergiotapia on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:28PM (#44512704)
X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God!

X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by lukas099 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:00PM (#44513645)
He said he would reinstate freedom of speech, but did he actually? [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-promised-free-speech-twit...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...

[3] https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-un...

[4] https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-user...

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by big_toast on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:12PM (#44513165)
Saved?

Seems like it harmed the migration to more free protocol oriented services. One company controlling the algorithm and API to a global conversation. Verified badges getting ranked priority in replies and For You. A DM function that barely functions. Private chats as a promise instead of cryptographic guarantee?

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by sergiotapia on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:39PM (#44513435)
>free protocol oriented services.

Love all of these on paper, I think any tech person would. But they are non-starters. Normies have zero chance of ever deciding to use these.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by big_toast on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:47PM (#44513512)
Just like all the normies who don't use web browsers, email, podcasts, calendars, jpeg image standards. Like how btc and ethereum finally died out and companies aren't adopting stable coins.

Yes.. non-starters, too complicated and fiddly..

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by ixtli on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:35PM (#44513398)
what speech specifically did it save?
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by UncleSlacky on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:30PM (#44513355)
> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law

I have one word for you: "cisgender".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by throwaway37153 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:10AM (#44518190)
> “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease,”

How does this make it different than other website's policies in terms of free speech?

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by sunbum on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:19AM (#44519724)
Its pretty easy to find large profiles calling others the n word without any reprocussions. cisgender is the only one that gets automatically filtered no matter the context.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by driverdan on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:20PM (#44523267)
cis is not a slur or attack. The only people who believe this are the transphobes.
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