5mo ago

Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’

www.engadget.com

Musk has repeatedly accused people who post the names of his DOGE associates on X of breaking the law (to be clear: doing so absolutely is not a crime). He made a similar claim in response to the screenshots from r/WhitePeopleTwitter posted by Reddit Lies, saying “they have broken the law.” Engadget was unable to verify the Reddit comments posted by the account, but it included statements like “time to hunt” and “this nazi stooge needs to be shot.”

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And this is a problem we won't have with Lemmy.
- We will. If Lemmy users start inciting violence or commit other crimes, instance owners will need to crack down on them, or risk losing their instance.
  The only thing we got going for us is that Lemmy isn't in the spotlight (yet).
  
  How am I, a non-Amrican citizen, going to lose something that I host out of my bedroom because Amricans got upset over what I said?
  
  or for no any particular reason, like on your instance, lol. then admins will make up some rules retrospectively and will pretend that nothing happened
  
  All it takes is a couple of planted actors, a few screenshots, and a few users repeatedly regurgitating "A traitor is a traitor!" People who start throwing punches should aim for the king, this just gets you trapped for peanuts.
- Looking at how .world did things with piracy community last year, they may have to make some level of TOS changes after consulting with their legal team. I'd imagine other instances might follow their guidelines too.
- Lemmy is already turning into Reddit. Got banned around election time from a few communities for hurt feelings or wrong think and I know I’m not the only one.
- Lemmy isn't any different in that regard, instance owners are still responsible for moderating their instance.
  Not just legally, but for the lemmyverse as a whole.
  Look at yesterday's situation with sdf's instance, if you let that shit go on for too long, you will be defederated.
  
  Look at yesterday's situation with sdf's instance
  ?what happened?
  
  Yeah we don’t tolerate transphobia, that’s different to tolerating the removal of scum.
Freedom from speech absolutist.
He’s a whiney little scrote, isn’t he?
Sure. Temporarily.
- Exactly, Huffman basically sniffs Musk's farts so the idea that this will end is foolhardy.
  
  I suppose it could be temporary in the same way the subreddits that shut down after the blackout were brought back up with a completely different (and loyal) mod team.
i just remembered when I got banned from r/blackPeopleTwitter after commenting. It turn out you have to submit a picture of your skin color to mod to be allowed to comment or post in the sub.
- To be fair blackppltwitter was getting flooded by white kids giving white friendly opinions and answers that got overwhelmingly upvoted and became the unofficial black concensus.
  "I think white ppl using the n-word is completely fine" type of shit. Not the best way to solve the problem but how exactly do you stop a subreddit based on black culture become overrun by white kids
it's still banned, along r/iselondeadyet and couple others
But MAH FREEZED PEACH
Do you suppose someone may one day generate a copypasta list to disseminate everywhere? Much like how the internet still retains memory of convicted rapist Brock Turner?
They also banned a shitload of NSFW subs today.
I mean, the sub is full of people calling for the execution of anyone affiliated with Musk or Trump. Can we be bipartisan for a second? The screenshots that lead to the sub's banning are out there, it was unhinged af.
- And yet this wasn't a problem when it was the_donald doing it to women and minorities
  
  it was... that's why that sub was banned
- Yeah, I would have nipped that rhetoric right in the bud even here on Lemmy, though I certainly wouldn't have nuked the whole community.
- Bipartisan? Bipartisan?! The only Bipartisan I want to see is Elon Musk and his goons torn apart bi-partisans.
- I’m not sure how calling for the death of Musk or Trump is In anyway unhinged? That’s like questioning why we should stop a serial killer.
  I guess the real question is how many times did you vote for Trump? All three?
- I mean, the sub is full of people calling for the execution of anyone affiliated with Musk or Trump
  ... and?

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