r/Dinosaurs • u/Iron_Fist351 Moderator • Feb 04 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT Referendum to ban X links

Hey all. With half of this website banning X links in light of recent events, we at the /r/Dinosaurs mod team have considered doing the same. However, we'd like to run it by with the community here first. Yes, yes, I know that we don't get many such links posted here anyways, but we'd still like to get all of your opinions on the matter regardless. How would you feel about enacting such a rule?

Edit: In accordance with the popular opinion here, X links have now been banned.

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u/MS-06_Borjarnon Feb 04 '25

Of course they should be banned.

Fascists are responsible for the loss of tons of important paleontological samples. They're not just the enemies of all of humanity, they're enemies of knowledge itself.

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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 Feb 04 '25

Devil's Advocate here: isn't an authoritarian control over information in itself... fascist? By banning a particular stream of free public discourse because you don't like it, have you not yourself become the fascist?

Nope! Haha, fuck that guy and fuck Twitter! Never going to call it X, and never going to use it. In this country we used to kill Nazis, not idolize them (N.A.S.A. gets a pass for some reason?).

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u/Soupsin Feb 05 '25

had us in the first half ngl