• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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      BlueSky would ban his account as well. It was banned in Turkey because of a legal request by the Turkish government. If they don’t comply there are huge legal consequences.

      Would BlueSky, the huge fans of censorship that they are, challenge the decision in court like X are though? Not a chance.

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    A little context might have been nice, but then the musk hate and conspiracy theories would be harder to justify:

    X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

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      Yeah, he is forced to, but just to be clear, he will bitch for a month if this happens for even more legitimate reasons in any country that is a functioning democracy e.g. UK, Brazil, Biden US, Germany, South Africa…

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      Complying with the incumbent to silence opposition is a political decision. Erdoğan is known for silencing and jailing opposition and anyone with knowledge of Turkish politics is aware of this

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      I used to use it to find out information on local emergencies and stuff but now you have to log in and they don’t allow search or whatever so I never use it… I have a few accounts there but haven’t used them since at least x if not before I should probably mass delete my accounts there next time something happens

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    Nazi platform.

    Make sure to stop clicking on Nazi links when people post them. No matter how bad you want to see someone “prank” someone or cry about their perceived persecution.

    We need to stop making a Nazi platform important enough that it hurts democratic politicians when they lose access because of the Nazi in charge of said platform.

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        You’ve called the good guys here the nazis and let the actual authoritarians off the hook scott-free.

        Only if you ignore that Twitter is owned by a nazi, and that the person above didn’t say anything about letting, the authoritarian regime in turkey off the hook.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      and if you absolutely must see something on twitter, use xcancel instead.

      its a frontend for the same content, that doesn’t add views or ad revenue to twitter.

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      I hear often Nazi this Nazi that? I think it has lost meaning. Can you explain what Nazi is? Vs Nazi from like WW2?

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        Some people wouldn’t know a Nazi if he was sending people to camps without trial, trying to outlaw the political opposition, fomenting a cult of personality, launching coups, oppressing the most vulnerable people, ratcheting up racist attacks, and threatening to attack Denmark.

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        The word ‘nazi’ has 100% lost its meaning.

        Might as well just be saying “I don’t like this person or group of people because they disagree with me.”

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          Nazis are opposed to the basic human rights of anyone who isn’t a white hetero, usually a man.

          Nazi sympathisers deserve a bullet in the head. That includes you.

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            I guess we can start adding ‘nazi sympathizer’ to the list of terms that have lost their meaning.

            Remember, you only have people like yourself to blame.

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        As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.

        Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.

        His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.

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                It really isn’t. It’s not even close. You said I had gold medal mental gymnastics, but you’ve just done another gold medal performance.

                E: but thank you for pointing out my typo

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                  His gesture is as much of a “Nazi salute” as Elon Musks. They’re either both Nazi salutes, or neither are. No other option.

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            Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.

            Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.

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              I didn’t misinterpret that, I was simply pointing out that it wasn’t a nazi salute unless you also think Tim Waltz is a nazi.

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                And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.

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                Yes notice the crisp snappy way waltz did it? With fingers together, and twice so there is no way to doubt what it was? Ohhh wait sorry that was elons.

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                  Yeah, elon’s not a nazi…

                  …he just wanted to send out a message of hope and support to nazis round the world by siegheiling twice on stage behind the seal of the United States…yeah…

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          Note how Jin, the Nazi Defender (not a Nazi themselves, they just defend people who are justifiably called Nazis) won’t respond to your answer.

          One feature from Reddit I liked was the ability to tag people. Or maybe that was the reddit enhancement suite. But Jin would’ve earned himself a big red “Nazi Defender” tag.

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            you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then “Add Tag” or “Tag user” from their profile

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              Hmm… I definitely don’t see an About user menu or Add Tag or Tag User on their profile. Maybe it has something to do with your lemmy browser.

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            Nah its much simpler label than that.

            “Troll”

            The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.

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        If you perform a Nazi salute, you’re a Nazi.

        Musk performed TWO Nazi salutes on national television during a presidential inauguration.

        Musk owns X.

        Anymore questions? Do I need to illustrate with crayons?

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      Ekrem is Kemalist, which is very similar to a literal Nazi, but in the current world I’ll even agree he’s kinda better than many other variants.

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      I think elon called Lula a dictator…and called the UK a dictatorship. That makes it even more obvious what he’s doing.

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          Yes, but that’s not a dictator fetish (ok, it is, but it is a different one)… He knows dictators are a bad thing to be, because he calls the people he doesn’t like one. But he never calls out actual dictators, he actually makes deals with them and helps them. That says he likes and respects that model of governance, even if he knows it is deeply unpopular and deeply disrespects functioning democracies. And uses it to rouse his stans.

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    Memba when Elon Fuck said it would be a town square where everyone can speak out?

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        X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

        No, it’s not. It’s related to the legal takedown request that they were given.

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          Because framing is usually done in bad faith, when i read that i read ‘they arent allies, the media wants you to think that’

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      They comply with local laws and legal orders, like the one that forced them to do this:

      X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

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    I saw the headline and for a split second got excited for X-Com news. Instead, I got xitter.

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      Honestly whomever owns the ip these days should do something about it. Also glad to see I’m not the only one hired wired for the game franchise

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        Jake Solomon left Firaxis in 2023. Don’t know if there is anything in the pipeline over there.
        (And if there is anything, please let i be Apocalypse 2.0)

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    One more reason to not put all of your social media eggs in the same basket.

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      People on X expected what is actually happening, not what people in here think is happening (and hope it is).

      • The Turkish government ordered a legal request to ban the opposition leaders account in Turkey.
      • X complied with the legal request, as there are huge penalties for not complying
      • X immediately started the process to challenge the legal request in court

      This is what most people on X expect, which is to fight for free speech on X.