X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation

Remember back when Elon kept calling himself a Free Speech Absolutist? That just gets funnier every day.

No explanation other than Elon is a thin-skinned little bitch baby who’s carrying water for fascists.

It's the same for all Right Wing / Conservative / Republican type people. They are brittle ego thin skin faux intellectual little babies who crumble when even 1% of their own bullshit is reflected back at them.

The term Snowflake is by far the 2nd largest projection, right after Groomer, in history.

Abandon Everything Musk.

I don't get why people still use that platform. It's so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we're just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.

Anyone who follows the alt-right, did Joe or anyone else go ape shit over this yet? I'm assuming that because they were going crazy over the previous Twitter about certain infractions under the old guard ... so this new shit must be driving them crazy. Being free speech activists and all that.

This was always going to happen.

Muskrat bought twitter specifically to make it Parler, GAB, and Truth Social all rolled into one.

Banning, shadow-banning, or purging any and all dissenting views or content that differs from the Far Right narrative on the sites is the norm.

FreEdOm oF spEAcH!

I don't understand why people don't collectively quit Twitter and flock to Mastodon. It's very simple, it's better for everyone

Who the fuck is still on Xitter? Jesus people, get the hell out of there!

So only fascists allowed now.

Elon "Free speech absolutist" Musk.

The Nazi bar is open for business

Censorship for thee, not for me.

Anyone who expects the bourgeoisie to platform those whose politics are a threat to capitalist interests is a fool.

No, no, there's an explanation. The owner.

No official, public explanation. We know why...

X it's the new "Truth Social"

Elon bought it to make it the christofascist heaven on earth.

I don't like that, "leftist", has become a word used outside conservative circles. It sounds shitty and is as meaningless as, "rightist".

Are we allowed to say he's gone mask off yet?

Permanently Deleted

What were journalists and leftists doing hanging out in a Nazi bar anyway?

Needless to say, just like if r/conservative/conspiracy bans you you're probably doing something Right, X is just the new, louder, conservative/conspiracy echo chamber, although i still don't get why everyone senseable hasn't abandoned the platform yet.

What a coincidence. People critical of israel got banned

The account @Zei_Squirrel, which had 200,000 followers, explained in a Substack post that it was suspended over criticisms of Israel and Bill Ackman but was also not provided with an explanation from X. “If they don’t unban me, it will prove beyond all doubt that Twitter and Elon Musk are just explicitly doing the bidding of the genocidal Israeli regime and its deranged supporters like Bill Ackman.” The post continues, “There is no possibility that anything I have posted rises to the level of being ban-worthy, but nothing that Zionists posts constantly, explicit calls for genocide and mass killing of Palestinians, isn’t.”

Don't care. The only people that can get kicked off of shitter are people still on shitter propping up it's waning credibility. There are no respectable people left on shitter because you can no longer simultaneously be there and be respectable.

Remember when Musk painted himself as a free speech absolutist who would bring freedom to Twitter, and all of his fanboys believed him, and when he never delivered none of them did ever fucking care?

If people would just use Mastodon instead of Xwitter this sort of thing would not happen.

Musk can do whatever he wants, keeping Twitter (sorry, X, yuck) alive with billions that are peanuts to him. This news isn’t a surprise to me. He talked big about free speech, but it was just talk.

Night of the Long Bans.

I really do wish there was a viable popular alternative to Twitter. Phony Starks has been awful.

a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald

I don't know what it says about me that I know about the squirrel, but it's not nothing

Dead platform!

time to follow them on mastodon I guess.

T…. Time to leave?

Where is the "vote" to reinstate their accounts that closes like 58 minutes after going up?

There's an explanation, we're just not allowed to say it because for some reason in "ThE lAnD oF tHe FrEe" we're not allowed to say the thing because the faschie right's feelings might get hurt.

It's a conspiracy and fascism echochamber. No prominent journalists should be there either way

Its ran by a hardliners rightwinger? I mean, its pretty self-explanatory.

The platform whose CEO openly endorses antisemitic "Hitler was right" Tweets would censor left-wing views? What a shocker!

I mean... it was no secret that xitter was a rightwing shithole, for quite a while now...

The X accounts of several prominent journalists and leftist pundits were suspended from the site, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday morning with no clear explanation.

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.

I’be taken to nicknaming him “Xitler”

That was the risk of remaining on the platform the moment musk took over. And if not then, when he started stripping it down and making it less reliable. And if not then, maybe when he started pursuing shadow banning again.

No government or news business has any business anymore being on Twitter. They should use the fedpub protocol and push out their messages there.

This will allow their readers/citizens to use a broad scala of apps to read them, allows more 3rd party apps to integrate them.

Governments and newspapers must hold the reigns over their own infra or risk this happening.

It's to entrench the far right audience so that Elon Musk can monetize and enrich right wing extremists. He knows that one reason they struggle to bring Apartheid to America again is that many of the hillbillies who support them are broke. Well now, if you're attractive, you can go on Twitter and if you spew enough unchecked, reactionary bullshit, you can get yourself a condo. They might even make you a fucking Senator.

You know what, great! While they're pretty fucking stupid for staying on the platform for this long, it's good that they have finally been forced off of it. Perhaps now they will find their way to something more federated friendly.

Musk is showing his other rich kid friends that he is got access to some buttons

I'd purge the leftists who lacked an explanation as well. #commasCount

Elon is psychologically compromised. Not sure if it's rampant drug abuse, mental illness unrelated to drugs, a brain tumour, or what. But the man is not on planet earth, and not in the way he would prefer. If he weren't a billionaire, he'd be sectioned/committed. Same with Kanye; that dude would be in care in no time flat if he were a regular Joe. This is one of the few ways that being rich and famous is a net negative; when you need help the most, you get enablers and yes men instead fermenting your insanity for their own purposes or out of fear for their own livelihoods.

Man I am so glad I ditched Twitter, now stupidly known as X, right when Musky took over. To be fair it's lasted way longer than I thought it would. Any bets on whether it survives 2024?

"Don't think of it as dying. Think of it as... getting out before the rush. "

I think I know why. Elon doesn't agree.

Hopefully all serious media members follow them.

These people need to get off Twitter anyways. This is a nonstory to me

Any explanation they'd try to give would be an obvious lie anyway. It's already clear what the real explanation is.

The situation is perfectly self-explanatory, however.

He may have some success promoting that social network as "the social network for people who want to be like me".

I know they are asking for an explanation, but they already know why their accounts were suspended.

Quite sh(x)ittery

It's impressive how few people get past the headline

a shitlib isn't a leftist.

I don't trust any of them, all of them seem opposed to federation. Useful idiots.

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They're all back online now. I mean I dislike the ultra wealthy as much as the next guy but y'all got hate boners