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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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[-] 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.