Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.
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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Reddit is a publicaly traded company, and fElon has more money that countries. So, he could literally just buy Reddit and turn it into a propaganda machine. Glad I left. There are some UI stuff that I will miss (like having sub-reddits as a fast-access at the top of the page, or that replies to a posting on Reddit would be indented, or /r/place), but I'll survive here.
I have a bit of a pet peeve when people use petty terms like fElon or Elmo. It just seems a bit childish and communicates that you're only interested ad hominem.
But that was before I heard the moniker "Phony Stark". I think we should always use this to refer to Elon because I think it's hilarious.
I share the same pet peeve, but I have to admit a few clever ones deserve to survive and you bring a good contender
Ya, it doesn't annoy me as much as I let on in order to set up the joke and I love hearing new ones.
The only thing that annoys me a bit is using them as a nickname instead of a punchline.
It usually pisses me off immediately, it feels like I'm discussing with 12 years olds, but it's mostly when they use them as nicknames, as you said.
And constantly.
Jokes and occasional puns, that's fine, I still find most are not funny to begin with but that's personal taste.
. like fElon. It has nice wordplay. Could be Fuck Elon or Felon Elon. Although, I believe it's both.
phony stark mostly came from one of his old profiles when he was wearing the iron man armour to make him appear like he was a "genius" like tony stark. others like space karen, and temu stark.
When he stops targeting an entire group of people with the ad hominem that they're all child predators, I'll stop calling him Elmo.
Reddit no longer deserves r/place
I wonder if he'd lift all the bans, like he did with Xitter, considering he is responsible for a decent chunk of them.
He'd probably lift them for the "correct" people (read as those who agree with him).
reddit was on a downward spiral the moment they went public.
nah, it's been WAY longer than that. I would say when they closed the source is about when it was starting to go on a downward spiral.