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X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 187 points 1 year ago

Funny the kind of folks that get suspended on Elon's twitter.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Once again - the US Government shold be giving ZERO money to this chucklefuck. SpaceX, you want taxpayer money? Boot this clown. No? Well, bye.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Honestly I think there are at least 4 really REALLY good arguments for nationalizing spaceX. Fuckwit Musk is a national security risk.

[-] oDDmON@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago
[-] lemmylem@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Literally, and I've seen people glorifying that Elon's Xitter is a 'free speech' platform. It's not even the closest thing to that. It's a proprietary application where Musk can control whatever he wants and push any kind of narrative that he wants.

[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Ha ha. Yeah… funny. … gulp.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 108 points 1 year ago

I kind of understand Reddit, but why do people hang in there with Twatter when there are currently three grown ass alternatives?

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Heh, it took me a minute to think of a third one after Mastodon and Bluesky.

Totally forgot about Meta's thing.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Meta's thing is... still a thing?

And they're sticking with that name? ... huh

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Smarter than me, I thought of Nostr

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago

I think they are talking about Nostr because saying threads is better than twitter is like comparing a piece of shit with another piece of shit.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I mean Nostr is also a piece of shit but for different reasons, it's basically 4chan but without any moderation at all.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Are you saying 4chan has moderation ?

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well maybe I wouldn't necessarily call it moderation but it has a site admin that bans people and neighborhoods (IP ranges) for really nasty stuff (like child abuse material). Nostr doesn't even have that though, some nodes may remove content, but most don't, and people effectively can't be banned.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Many big accounts like politicians are slow to adopt it.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Many big politicians are also right-wing extremists, at least here in the US, so that makes sense.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

If only. When I ask my friends and relatives it feels like the reach of alternatives to shitty resources is nearly non-existent. We shouldn't fool ourselves about their current popularity and promote their adoption in our peers ):

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago

working lock-step with putin and trump

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Putin's got his own management interface. He just logged on and did it.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I want to say yes, but to be honest Putin doesn't even know how to turn on computer and he never uses internet.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

I used to joke that Republicans were Russian sycophants, bought and paid for by Putin himself to destroy America. But it's not actually, and maybe never was, a joke.

Yeesh

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No they just take trips to Moscow for fun! And that Russian agent that lied about Hunter Biden was totally legitimate!

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 40 points 1 year ago

GET OFF SHITTER

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago

The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons.

This seems a misleading headline, unless what I've quoted was edited in. I'm no fan of Musk, but it could be something like a load of people (or bots) reported the account and an automated system put it into review.

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 58 points 1 year ago

Funny how the automated system always catches musks political opponents and not any of his allies

[-] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah cuz musk is on Russia’s side and Russia is the one flooding the platform with bots. It doesn’t have to be conspiratorial levels of stuff, in another article they literally said it was an automated action due to reports. So Russia bots mass reported, it got removed, then someone at Twitter (probably not musk) reinstated the account after receiving a message about it.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Musk is not on Russia's side. I'm against such definition. He is on Putin's side.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

That’s a great point. Sorry for insinuating that all of Russia agrees with putins policies.

[-] ben_dover@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

fReE sPeEcH

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 12 points 1 year ago

Imagine a system that literally pushes this guy to the top.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

It literally says in the preview and the article it was restored quickly. There are a myriad of reasons she could have been banned.

I doubt Elon is sitting there with his dick out waiting to ban her, despite what most people here seem to believe?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

I doubt Elon is sitting there with his dick out waiting to ban her, despite what most people here seem to believe?

Eh, I wouldn't be too quick to discount that.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then maybe it speaks about the incompetent tech and process used in the twitter banning system.

Why do so many people get "falsely" (assuming you are right) banned all the time.

[-] Dra@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago

I've no doubt that twitters banning system is a steaming pile, it has a long history of being terrible. Doesn't change my point.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I'm shocked how many people are still defending a xenophobic, right wing, white nationalist because he opposed Putin.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago

it’s kind of a common trope in history that pieces of shit can still represent the idea of a broader good.

ghandi was also pretty much scum irl too. (this comment defends neither of them and implies no further similarities than that they are shitty and represented an oppositional movement.)

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

There was no good in Navalny, he was the Russian version of Nick Fuentes. And the US is exploiting his death to overshadow the conversation that people are tired of war.

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