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Elon Musk finally suspends Kanye West from Twitter over swastika post
Hitler-praising rapper Kanye West was finally suspended from Twitter this week after posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Jewish Star of David.The suspension came after Twitter CEO Elon Musk once again reached out to West to register his concerns about West’s flagrantly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi posts, after which West rebuffed him.
Hate and harassment is the ‘price of admission’ to Twitter under Elon Musk’s ‘whims’: reporter
On MSNBC Friday, reporter Brandy Zadrozny discussed the consequences of billionaire Elon Musk taking over Twitter, and giving the green light for people previously suspended over hate and harassment to return to the platform. This comes amid an NBC News report that the platform is seeing a rise in hate speech — and people promoting it.
Fox News hosts who lauded Kanye West fall silent after his InfoWars pro-Hitler rant: report
On Friday, The Daily Beast explored the reactions of Fox News hosts and commentators who praised far-right rapper Kanye “Ye” West after his interview with Tucker Carlson — but before he appeared on InfoWars and professed admiration for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.Most of them are either avoid people trying to ask about it, or simply not saying anything at all.
Again we see a double standard applied to comments made by a media star like Mr. West. Society labels him as an eccentric, but the same words uttered by an ordinary citizen would be labeled as crazy and unhinged !!!
john_chubb over 1 year ago
Yes, but as Ye found out there are limits to what one can tweet.
And apparently tweeting pictures of Elon in a swimsuit is way over the line.
Swastikas were just a convenient excuse.
superposition over 1 year ago
What would happen if the internet infrastructure itself could color/shade/filter text/video based on the content’s objective, non-partisan, truthfulness?
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Pathological right wingers love lies.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Elon Musk finally suspends Kanye West from Twitter over swastika post
Hitler-praising rapper Kanye West was finally suspended from Twitter this week after posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Jewish Star of David.The suspension came after Twitter CEO Elon Musk once again reached out to West to register his concerns about West’s flagrantly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi posts, after which West rebuffed him.
I Play One On TV over 1 year ago
I am now more convinced than ever that Twitter will become the next Gab or 4chan.
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
Honest question: What are Twitter’s policies?
rlaker22j over 1 year ago
musk, worst midlife crisis ever
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Hate and harassment is the ‘price of admission’ to Twitter under Elon Musk’s ‘whims’: reporter
On MSNBC Friday, reporter Brandy Zadrozny discussed the consequences of billionaire Elon Musk taking over Twitter, and giving the green light for people previously suspended over hate and harassment to return to the platform. This comes amid an NBC News report that the platform is seeing a rise in hate speech — and people promoting it.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Fox News hosts who lauded Kanye West fall silent after his InfoWars pro-Hitler rant: report
On Friday, The Daily Beast explored the reactions of Fox News hosts and commentators who praised far-right rapper Kanye “Ye” West after his interview with Tucker Carlson — but before he appeared on InfoWars and professed admiration for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.Most of them are either avoid people trying to ask about it, or simply not saying anything at all.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Initial research confirms hate speech skyrocketing on Twitter … and you ain’t seen nothing yet
SHIVA over 1 year ago
Again we see a double standard applied to comments made by a media star like Mr. West. Society labels him as an eccentric, but the same words uttered by an ordinary citizen would be labeled as crazy and unhinged !!!
timbob2313 Premium Member over 1 year ago
And what is the DOJ doing about Musk ignoring the consent decree that Twitter was operating under?
rossevrymn over 1 year ago
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