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The biggest PC gaming subreddit [r/rpcgaming] has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't nitter shut down like 2 years ago or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It very nearly did, but there's, like, 2 working instances with heavy ratelimits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or those who don't want to see it but aren't technical or motivated enough to fix it themselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's way worse to keep information from someone who wants to see it, than to let it be seen by someone who would prefer not to see it but isn't motivated enough to do something about it. Sort of by construction, actually - if the latter category really didn't want to see Twitter links, they would have done it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think keeping fascist content away from unsuspecting people is good, actually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

...we're talking about a ban of links to Twitter on a gaming subreddit. Those links would be to, like, game news. That's not "fascist content".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Fair, but the website still promotes it and requires you to log in to see the link contents, thus exposing you to the other content.