We're spending so much media attention on this Nazi salute that I'm wondering if it may have been the intent all along - tie up media coverage while the Trump administration pushes harmful legislation through under the radar.
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The thing is, Trump's harmful policies are in fact Nazi policies. We need to be spending more attention on the fact that there are now Nazis in the White House.
Well, trump is doing some weird old chap shit... musk did a master move (relative to it's intelect)
That is how i read the situation
What are we going to do. Ignore the Nazi in the room?
Thus, the stun lock begins
Garbage blocking garbage. Fuck Reddit
11 year old account banned for saying that if there was a revolution the rich wouldn't have the resources to protect themselves
No previous infractions
Never looked back.
Boycotting Twitter is a good idea for many reasons. However this kind of blanket link ban will lead to more informational segregation quickly. This has already happened in many ways since the beginning of the war on Ukraine. Linking to Telegram or any Russian website is no longer allowed in many forums, e. g. Reddit. That has made finding original sources and verifying information much more difficult.
Take links to videos for example. Reddit is full of videos copied from YouTube, Telegram, TikTok, etc. without attributing the original source. The World Wide Web was supposed to link information together into a network, where you can follow up on origins snd details. Nowadays it has turned into a series of copy & paste silos, enabling the most extreme echo chambers.
I think segregation is the long term plan.
Divide and conquer.
Knowledge is power; Wikipedia is next on the hit list.
I doubt there’s a plan behind this.
Social media wasn’t the primary driver behind the Arab spring. The economic issues were the trigger. People couldn’t afford to buy food. Lack of food will topple any government. Media control only gets one so far.
On the Internet the dominant websites can change quickly. Being banned from Twitter enabled Trump‘s Truth Social. Buying Twitter gave Elon Musk a giant soap box. However new soapboxes are constructed all the time and some succeed.
The changes in attitudes towards social media websites, caused in this instance by Elon Musk are a great way for those in power to suppress another Arab Spring type event in the future.
The change in attitude is the consequence, not the cause. The best way for those in power to suppress another Arab Spring type event is a change in ownership of a massively influential social media platform where the richest man can take over completely to censor and control the narrative and oh, whoops... that already happened.
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I've banned new Teslas from going before me at stop signs, passing me on the freeway, and not being cut off by me within inches in the left lane at any opportunity I can take.
Edit: was really expecting greater than zero downvotes for the last sentence. Thanks for letting me talk shit and knowing I'm not trying to endanger any safety for real
I choose to believe this is brilliant trolling
Lemmy should do the same.
eh, spez is probably going to step in and force them back to require Twitter or something. he wouldn't want to be pushed out of the oligarchy.
fuck spez in advance
I don't care what Reddit does, it's dead to me
do they not ban all lemmy links as well?
guide them to Lemmy and my comment becomes “[ Removed by Reddit ]” after a few seconds
The bots are going nuts over there... lol.. no way the TOP comments of some of those are legit...
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