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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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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 105 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 68 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

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.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

So much for the "free market" lmao

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[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 64 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 65 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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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[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

I mean I'm not

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 40 points 8 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.

[-] grey_wolf_whenever@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 14 points 8 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

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

I don't have an account on any of these but Bluesky is login-walled.

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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 102 points 8 months ago

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

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 27 points 8 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."

[-] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

The Indépendant

[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

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

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 76 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 51 points 8 months ago

That's so fucking funny.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

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

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 32 points 8 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

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago

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

lol

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

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

[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago

The essence of free speech under capitalism.

[-] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

Brace & Elon 2023 purge-1

Elon 2024 purge-2

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

Free speech is stored in the balls

[-] HighOnCopium@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

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

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

Oh man this is going to make for a great bit

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

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

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

RIP to a king Kenny K. rat-salute

Edit, he lives

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

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

[-] DanComrd@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

Something like Hexursine or Hexpanda

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

Hexpanda goes hard

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

is two syllable names a form of liberalism??

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago
[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

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

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

[-] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago
[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

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

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

If you come for rachel jake, you best not miss

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

✍️ Elon Musk

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Real leftists? You ought tae be kiddin me

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