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X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- noughtme 3y ago5500 words to say the ad was blocked in error: 'According to X, the account had been labeled as political in 2020 "when political ads were prohibited"'(prior to Musk's takeover)
- th0ma5 3y agoStill very much needs to be discussed. Now that they've opened the can of worms of being a political entity, it most certainly was a political decision not to find cases like this within their own systems that they should know about. Are they really prepared or are they going to further cave to the Saudis?
- tensor 3y agoThis really begs the question, when they removed the policy why did they not remove all the existing blocks and labels? Sounds fishy to me.
- paulddraper 3y agoLikely not a reason, just a mistake. I don't see the reason for deliberately doing it.
- delecti 3y agoMy understanding is that there isn't an abundance of people around at Xitter these days to do that kind of due diligence. "Nobody had time to go through and unblock all the people blocked under the old policy" doesn't sound fishy to me at all.
- nogridbag 3y agoHaving lots of Chinese friends, whenever I see the letter X at the start of a word, I instinctively try to pronounce the X as a "Sh" sound. And this definitely isn't the first time this happened. Every time these Twitter/X threads comes up I have to laugh at some of these spellings :)
- TX81Z 3y agoAh, and now I’ll have this stuck in my head as well! Is this the “woke mind virus”?
- atkailash 3y ago[dead]
- vuln 3y agoHappened to people still shadow banned by the twitter dick detector
- decremental 3y ago[dead]
- croes 3y ago5500 words to show how much endurance you need to get behind the auto response until X checks if they made an error. Your version sounds like they just asked and the ban was lifted because it was an error. That's not what happened.
- tracker1 3y agoThey've also announced, they're re-establishing "trust and safety" (censorship) teams under a different name/brand.
- locopati 3y agoIt is values not censorship to say that you value protecting people from harmful speech in a private company.
- tracker1 3y ago[flagged]
- SR2Z 3y agoBecause one side of the aisle proposed solutions for COVID like ivermectin, or "inject bleach," and said things like "it'll blow over by March" and "if we stop measuring the numbers will go down." Both sides might have said incorrect things about COVID, but only one was responsible for politicizing it to death, and it's the side that tried to pretend it didn't exist while it was massacring Americans.
- dpatru 3y agoThe side that uses government power to censor its opponents should automatically be suspect.
- merpnderp 3y agoI mean your statement right there is full of misinformation. No one said to inject bleach and no one massacred Americans, unless you mean by housing the infected in old folks homes, which killed far more than any right wing shenanigans like ivermectin.
- vuln 3y agoNo one ever said “inject bleach” please stop. It was only Harvard that inserted bleach into the conversation via tweet. “I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.” Please don’t inject bleach or drink disinfectant. Bleach injections cause hemolysis (where your red blood cells that carry OXYGEN break apart) and cause liver damage, and many disinfectants can cause dangerous burns or bleeding in your stomach. This tweet IS medical advice — Harvard Toxicology (@Harvard_Tox) April 24, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/trump-disinfectant-bleach-coronavirus-claims-reaction https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/24/trump-disinf...
- pierat 3y ago[flagged]
- partiallypro 3y agoEveryone is waiting on an alternative; Threads has basically not had any features rolled out since it launched. Still no trends, web interface, DMs, etc. Don't really know why they even bothered rolling it out at all if they weren't going to have those features out quickly.
- wilg 3y agoWhen someone mentions emeralds you know you can safely ignore them.
- mrguyorama 3y agoSo is his dad lying when he openly talks about them owning an emerald mine?
- vuln 3y agoHow much did the emerald mine produce? Who cares what his father says. Would you care if Bill or Steve’s dad was a liar or lied about business deals? No? Okay. Imagine getting “facts” off a family member “setting the record straight” to a tabloid.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThe question is, why are you on about it?
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- raydiatian 3y agoTwitter. Twitter. Twitter. Not X.
- timbit42 3y agoXitter.
- raydiatian 3y agoThe En-xitification of Xitter
- paulddraper 3y ago? what do you mean
- ta757579 3y agoThey mean that we humans are under no obligation to comply with a corporations branding strategies. See also: Google/Alphabet, Blackwater/MurderInc/Whatevertheyrecallednow
- paulddraper 3y agoOkay. Though for me personally, if someone changes their name, I usually try to call them by that name. But usually not the easiest, I admit.
- clipsy 3y agoCorporations aren’t people.
- iAMkenough 3y agoLegally they are in the United States, where X is based.
- hawski 3y agoThe day I will stop taking it first to mean X11/X.org will be a sad day for me. With this publicity I imagine more people visiting x.org. I wonder what will happen to it in a couple of decades.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAnd it just promoted some very 1488 ads too. Hope the simps are happy.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoAw, salty sally got butthurt. Your lord and xavior is never going to notice you. get the fuck over it.