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  • meanwhile Musk spending $250M+ on Republican campaigns. but sure, ban a few Twitter accounts
    by syngrog66
  • >X purges 13,000 accounts

    Yeah, Im sure its all “After careful review,”

    In other news I just read today how Gough Luis account got banned for posting organic content and linking to his own blog. https://goughlui.com/2026/10/15/opinion-death-of-the-old-int...

    Sad but accurate summary about current state of internet is “There is no incentive to be honest, aside from having a conscience.”

    by rasz
  • Posts on "For you" are mostly pro right/republican/Trump these days, even if you block such accounts frequently.
    by feverzsj
  • Probably 13,000 accounts that suddenly went dark after Ukraine took out some datacenter in Russia recently.
    by bratsche
  • I am fine with content policeing actions from being legal but I think we content enforcement of this nature on platforms that live on freedom of press and speech should be forced to publicize when that take action against accounts. Publicize the lists for bans, and reason for it. Here the reason is given but its not account linked so its hard to say if the reason is justifed with the accounts histories.

    Maybe the government needs a meta organization that upholds freedom of speech enforcement from platforms and companies that get broad Section 230 protections. I.e Facebook, X, Twitch, Youtube, etc. If a company can just purge you soruce of speech entirely the country protections seem lacking for the public welfare. Curious what other people think. I know an agency like this is rife to partisan infiltration but if its roll is to for unbanning rather than banning I think the scope of its potential abuse would be extremely narrow.

    by xphos
  • Meanwhile: https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-midterms-republicans-do...

    Manipulation of elections is OK as long as you do it with money.

    by voidhorse
  • What a blow to Elon to lose his account in his own platform
    by mingus88
  • I'm sure this was done in a perfectly fair and balanced manner and not in a way that is at all aligned to the CEO's publicly stated politics.
    by stetrain

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