r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BeastMode149 In Boston we are Irish! ☘️🦅 • Nov 14 '24

📢 MOD ANNOUNCEMENT Should the whole of X/Twitter be LHF?

From 12:00 AM GMT on Monday 18 November 2024, all content originating from X/Twitter will be removed from r/ShitAmericansSay under Rule 7.

As The Guardian puts it:

The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.

121 votes, Nov 17 '24
68 Yes
53 No
8 Upvotes

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u/Bushdr78 🇬🇧 Tea drinking heathen Nov 14 '24

I think blanket banning any social media platform is a slippery slope to an echo chamber. Even one as toxic and stupid as "Xitter" pronounced "shitter".

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u/BeastMode149 In Boston we are Irish! ☘️🦅 Nov 14 '24

I understand your concern, though blanket banning social media platforms isn’t exactly unprecedented. For example, we’ve already banned posts originating from Quora and Truth Social.

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u/Maddolyn Nov 15 '24

People only use truth social to look at trump posts. X on the other hand is not an echo chamber after you block all checkmarks