- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Summary
Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.
Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.
Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.
The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.
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US Tech need to start relocating. I emailed Warp Shell creators advising I’d reluctantly cancelled my subscription to their actually excellent product; because funding the US economy had become ‘morally incompatible with my workflow’. Hope others can do similar.
Why would they, most of US tech is in on the dystopian dream
Paywalled article, don’t click link.
Reddit became such a stooge pit full of obviously skewed moderation. Glad I left.
Guys if you haven’t already, I suggest doing what I did a few weeks ago and actually delete your Reddit account, not just stop using it. They need to see their registered account number plummet.
Plummet? Never gonna happen bro, every day there’s thousands of bot accounts being registered on reddit.
That’s dead internet theory for you.
Sadly it was funnier when it was just a theory.
its also around the same tme they began another purge into early february too.
Musk is, in fact, a giant baby.
Shocker.
Of course he did. Come on over people! Haven’t gone on Reddit since I got lemmy.
People are prefacing their comments on reddit with “I’m not advocating violence” just to avoid getting banned. The climate there has shifted dramatically recently.
when musk complained about whitepeopletwitter for advocating violence, while himself and X is advocating the same thing in a much more aggressive way is when reddit started banning people critical of trump and musk, first they have to look like they are being “fair and both sides” by allowing astroturfing from right wingers and trolls then when comments get baited into arguments they report those comments.
I am not advocating violence, but
[verb redacted][title of high-ranking political office in the executive branch redacted][name of politician redacted]
It’s like posting in a food subreddit with, “Hi, I’m not advocating political violence, but I really enjoy a nice chicken cordon bleu with asparagus.”
And that gutless piece of shit caved to it. I deleted my reddit account a while ago now, and it’s not coming back. Fuck reddit, and fuck Leon.
Typical tiny dick energy.
Reddit is dead!
Has been for a long time.
RIP Reddit o7
So Mr Free Speech just forced a 3rd party to restrict free speech like he does on his free speech platform. Fucking hypocrite.
AND here’s proof /u/spez is a fucking pussy.
Fuck spez. Reddit is bullshit now because of that garbage person.
This dude is the CEO of Tesla and is also the head of DOGE, busy cutting critical services for millions of Americans so more billionaires can get richer… He really has nothing better to do than to pressure other companies to restrict user content!?
Controlling what people say equals controlling what people think
