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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation, including TrueAnonPod (www.vice.com)

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The suspensions affected several journalists and commentators, including Texas Observer journalist Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippensten of The Intercept, podcaster Rob Rousseau, and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. The landing page for their accounts says it’s been suspended, but does not give any explanation as to why. A message on the profiles simply states “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”

The ban didn’t just hit journalists either. Several prominent-left leaning accounts were also purged from the website, including the account for the TrueAnon podcast and @zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.

This isn't the first time the site has banned reporters. In April, it permanently suspended Wired reporter Dell Cameron after he spoke with a hacker who accessed conservative pundit Matt Walsh’s emails. In December of 2022, it suspended the accounts of ten journalists who’d been critical of site owner Elon Musk.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593

https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1744712132015370527

Edit: they're back now

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 111 points 10 months ago

Bro why the fuck is anyone still on Twitter this is ridiculous at this point. Just go use fucking Bluesky or something do you not understand that Twitter is dead? It’s done. It’s gone. It has ceased to be.

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Let’s face it, everyone is still on Twitter, even those who were the loudest about boycotting it back then.

This is not the early 2000s when social media platforms were still carving out their own turfs. This is the terminal stage where a handful of social media companies have already captured the entire market.

The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.

There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago

Actually the CPC was so successful because it did create alternatives to the warlord institutions that folks could rely on, Marxists have always been creating alternative structures around the current order to bypass them.

Also my sibling in sinai, you are posting on the federated alternative to reddit

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Land reform was instrumental to unleashing the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, but in the end, the race between the CPC and the KMT to capture the Japanese industries in the Northeast as the Soviets began to withdraw became the most crucial moment that defined the future of the Chinese communist movement.

Mao was famous for saying that he is willing to give up all their existing bases in China, so long as they can capture the Northeast (where the most developed heavy industries built by the Japanese stood), the revolutionary movement would survive. There simply wasn’t enough heavy industries in all the other regions of China combined at the time to sustain an ongoing war with the KMT. Mao was very aware of this fact and was supremely adaptable to the dynamic and changing conditions of the time.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

my sibling in sinai

geordi-yes

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Thanks, my partner invented it, they're great

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

I dont get it. Is it about moses or the canal?

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

It's like a Moses thing, my brother in Christ is funny but limited to Christian adjacent people atleast, whereas everyone can be a sibling and every abrahamic religion's had something going on in the Sinai.