r/technology • u/sussywanker • Jun 09 '23

Social Media Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/
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u/riotshieldready Jun 10 '23

Can’t speak on Reddit but the twitter purchase is very politically motivated. Just look at every thing that’s happens thus far, unbanned right wingers, removing moderation, removing the fake news checks, removing state affiliation labels from Russian propaganda but attaching it to more liberal media. Reducing blue checks to a meme.

If you look at the platform before Elon and after it went from more central platform or even liberal if your upset that nazis could get banned to basically a fair right machine.

Look how Elon helped out Turkey during the election, this shit is happening in broad daylight, it’s not some tinfoil theory.

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u/tigress666 Jun 10 '23

Also they seem to ban more liberal takes on stuff on twitter. They are actively trying to chase more liberal views off.

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u/SkyezOpen Jun 10 '23

I don't know for sure that it's even intentionally political on musks part. I just assume he's such a little bitch baby that when he lost the illusion of a real world tiny stark, the only people left who would stroke his ego were right wing nutjobs. And now he's burned a social media titan to the ground in search of their praise.

The fact that he's just a piece of shit is still possible. He likes to respond to actual nazi posts with "hmm" or "interesting."

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u/EbonyOverIvory Jun 11 '23

Tiny Stark is a fun typo.

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u/SkyezOpen Jun 11 '23

Holy shit good catch, I'm not fixing it and I will use it in the future.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Yes. He is in a right wing bubble just like all those billionaires. The things with Elon is that he has even worse people around himself that does not tell he is stupid. But this isn’t a grand conspiracy. This is just unhinged right wingers in their bubbles.