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The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.

This isn't the first time the site has banned reporters. In April, it permanently suspended Wired reporter Dell Cameron after he spoke with a hacker who accessed conservative pundit Matt Walsh’s emails. In December of 2022, it suspended the accounts of ten journalists who’d been critical of site owner Elon Musk.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593

https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1744712132015370527

Edit: they're back now

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Bro why the fuck is anyone still on Twitter this is ridiculous at this point. Just go use fucking Bluesky or something do you not understand that Twitter is dead? It’s done. It’s gone. It has ceased to be.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Some people have their ego tied to their follower count and it's sad.

Mastodon is the obvious choice for people already using Lemmy. They're both part of the Fediverse. no-copyright

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not just an ego thing - some people have livelihoods that depend on their follower count. Twitter is very important to update Youtube subscribers, Twitch followers etc. on things. Remember, we are in the early stages of the Technological Adoption Life Cycle (assuming the Fediverse actually catches on) so most people don't use the Fediverse. As a content creator, you have to adapt to what people currently use.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

There were ways to automatically connect Twitter to the Fediverse and give you the best of both worlds, but Elon killed them. 🙁

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

So much for the "free market" lmao

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Let’s face it, everyone is still on Twitter, even those who were the loudest about boycotting it back then.

This is not the early 2000s when social media platforms were still carving out their own turfs. This is the terminal stage where a handful of social media companies have already captured the entire market.

The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.

There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Actually the CPC was so successful because it did create alternatives to the warlord institutions that folks could rely on, Marxists have always been creating alternative structures around the current order to bypass them.

Also my sibling in sinai, you are posting on the federated alternative to reddit

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Land reform was instrumental to unleashing the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, but in the end, the race between the CPC and the KMT to capture the Japanese industries in the Northeast as the Soviets began to withdraw became the most crucial moment that defined the future of the Chinese communist movement.

Mao was famous for saying that he is willing to give up all their existing bases in China, so long as they can capture the Northeast (where the most developed heavy industries built by the Japanese stood), the revolutionary movement would survive. There simply wasn’t enough heavy industries in all the other regions of China combined at the time to sustain an ongoing war with the KMT. Mao was very aware of this fact and was supremely adaptable to the dynamic and changing conditions of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.

Equating free & open equivalents, which just need adoption, to cryptocurrency which has significant flaws doesn't make sense to me... It costs nothing to switch, there's no inherent risks involved. It remains to be seen what happens long term with Twitter financially too. Maybe Musk gets another State/DOD bailout or it's too valuable as propaganda/data collection to some present shareholder, but that's not decided.

I don't use any Twitter or equivalents, but I do see screenshots and archive/proxy links to it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

I mean I'm not

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.

Yeah, so unlike utopians like Lenin, who had crazy delusions about somehow creating institutions that operated in parallel to existing power structures in order to smash the state machinery and retain a mostly-functional society.

"Dual Power"? What's that, the name of a syndicate?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

If we reply with a thumbs up emoji to Elon tweeting about Jewish people drinking white people's blood from skulls he'll give me my account back, you'll see.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ill use bluesky when I see a single funny thing come from there. No one uses it! Twitter is still the only game in town, Im actually surprised threads fumbled so badly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I couldnt even paste a fucking image into Threads and they had no desktop app. How are the influencers supposed to make any fucking posts for people to look at if they can't use a god damn computer

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 10 months ago (3 children)

lol, didn't TrueAnon just get called far-right by NYT or WaPo or something? Why is it that "both sides" hate the podcast about the elite pedophilia cabal thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

melon-musk: "MEIN GOTT! ZE UNTERSMENCH FIGURED OUT IT'S NOT THE JEWS!"

capitalist-woke: "Well, just ban them lol and frame it as owning the libs."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

The Indépendant

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

because brace fought for a foreign army. Got to be that

[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've never been a twitter user but I have read that the easiest way to get your account back is to tell them you're a right wing account being canceled for your speech and they'll just re-activate it without checking

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago

That's so fucking funny.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're joking or not but that seems about right based on what I remember of Twitter post-buyout

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

I've heard it referenced by two comedians who claim it worked for them, but with this new purge list you might not be able to get past without somebody noticing

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Worked for Badempanada. Also, he hasn't been banned since he bought blue check.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.

lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Their old account was suspended like 5 years ago. Honestly I'm a bit surprised they lasted that long.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The essence of free speech under capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Brace & Elon 2023 purge-1

Elon 2024 purge-2

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Free speech is stored in the balls

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now you've got a new cause to fight for, cowboy ypg-brace

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

they didnt just do my boy Mehmet like that... brace-dark-cowboy

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

Oh man this is going to make for a great bit

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

grill-broke: "MEIN GOTT, ZE UNTERSMENCH KNOW! SHUT IT DOWN!"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

RIP to a king Kenny K. rat-salute

Edit, he lives

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (5 children)

time to start my communist twitter competitor, the only problem is i don't have a catchy name for it ...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Something like Hexursine or Hexpanda

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Hexpanda goes hard

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

is two syllable names a form of liberalism??

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biggest white supremacist account on twitter asks Elon Musk why all accounts got roasted and he reinstates them.

unbanned

https://nitter.net/theserfstv/status/1744772938191253836

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe I have to actually feel concerned about Hinkle. I miss when he was just a rando. Now he is a white supremacist grifting off Palestine and putting Jews in danger

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand I agreed but in the other we were saying the same thing about Tucker a few years ago and look at how pathetic he is now

Hopefully he fizzles out too

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

It all happens on x. Except for the happenings of those accounts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

If you come for rachel jake, you best not miss

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

✍️ Elon Musk

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this an Israel related purge or something else? I can't really figure out the common feature of all these accounts getting simultaneously nuked. Obviously they're on a list together for having something in common.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Real leftists? You ought tae be kiddin me

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