Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

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    The extreme right wing in the US, has always had things they claim to revere, but don’t actually believe in.

    • Free Speech
    • Free Markets
    • Democracy
    • The Constitution

    Probably more

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      • families
      • children’s safety
      • voting rights
      • the economy
      • the well-being of working class people
      • peace
      • morality
      • women’s safety
      • corruption
      • technology
      • infrastructure
      • religion, in that it is only a tool to further their ends and they will interpret religious scripture at their own discretion and opinion
      • education
      • healthcare

      There’s only two things they do care about, capital and power. They are white supremacists and Christian nationalists second, capitalists and oligarchs first.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s about power. They can lie and get away with it, they can break rules and get away with it.

      Everything they do should be viewed through the lens of power relations and control through power. They will say whatever is worthwhile for them to say to gain more power. That’s it, that’s all, that’s all it’s ever been. Calling them hypocrites does nothing, they love that we get mad about it. Because it means they have power over us.

      To quote a rando from (retch) reddit:

      There’s a russian adage about people dumbfounded by how people will baldfaced lie obvious falsehoods: They don’t lie to deceive you, they lie to INSULT you: it’s a statement “I can insult you this way and you can’t do anything about it”

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      They call themselves conservatives, but they’re radicals (the polar opposite) through and through.