Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation

Wasn't Elon Musk the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist"? Turns out it was the "free speech abolitionist" after all.

And that's how I finally made an account here

This is what brought me to lemmy after getting threatened to be banned for up voting anti trump and musk post. Fuck trump, fuck musk and fuck spez. Fucking goofs.

So Mr Free Speech just forced a 3rd party to restrict free speech like he does on his free speech platform. Fucking hypocrite.

AND here's proof /u/spez is a fucking pussy.

I mean…fuck both of em.

Reddit, or at least the subs I frequented, is a cesspool of russian trolls and bots. I made the apparent mistake of calling a couple of trolls out in the r/Europe sub and asked why they weren't in Kursk, and pffft...permanent ban from all of reddit for "inciting violence". I think my blood pressure has improved since then, tbh.

Spez has always been a alt-right coward.

And that’s why I’m no longer on Reddit.

Musk is, in fact, a giant baby.

Imagine being literally the richest man on earth and using your influence to delete mean comments that people wrote about you on the internet.

It's shameful. Reddit is a shell of its former self.

Fuck you spez!

I haven't been to reddit since it happened, I imagine many others did the same.

Here's his Doge email adress, erm71@who.eop.gov Posting it on reddit anywhere in the comments it will instantly be deleted by reddit.

Well that explains why I dropped reddit. Anything Musk touches turns to shit.

Reddit is dead!

Yep got a temp 3 day ban on reddit just saying that let's hope the masked police don't mess up with someone who has conceal carry license.. that is all I said, then boom temp ban.

Reddit is compromised.

Of course he did. Come on over people! Haven’t gone on Reddit since I got lemmy.

Spez is just finally happy his daddy is talking to him.

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.

US Tech need to start relocating. I emailed Warp Shell creators advising I'd reluctantly cancelled my subscription to their actually excellent product; because funding the US economy had become 'morally incompatible with my workflow'. Hope others can do similar.

One thing Musk knows how to do well is run and moderate a social media platform.

Oh wait. Stop. Reverse that.

This dude is the CEO of Tesla and is also the head of DOGE, busy cutting critical services for millions of Americans so more billionaires can get richer... He really has nothing better to do than to pressure other companies to restrict user content!?

Spez is a soft bitch

Guys if you haven’t already, I suggest doing what I did a few weeks ago and actually delete your Reddit account, not just stop using it. They need to see their registered account number plummet.

This is why we need more competitors and especially federated platforms like this

That makes sense. Spez is such a spineless dweeb, it checks out that a narcissistic blowhard like Musk would be pushing him around.

I’m glad I escaped the cracking glass dildo that reddit has become

Liquidate Musk

Another solid reason to abandon Reddit.

these two losers deserve each other.

Yeah, we know.

Trash knows trash

I'm glad to be here on a platform free of Musk's direct influence.

Daddy issues bringing the billionaires together.

Non paywalled link: https://archive.is/RVmD2

Someone (especially someone in a position of power) calling someone’s actions illegal (whether true and/or justified or not) is advocating state-sponsored violence against that person.

Reddit became such a stooge pit full of obviously skewed moderation. Glad I left.

its also around the same tme they began another purge into early february too.

Like anyone worth knowing GAF about Reddit.

And that gutless piece of shit caved to it. I deleted my reddit account a while ago now, and it's not coming back. Fuck reddit, and fuck Leon.

No wonder with how shite Reddit has been the last few months.

Shocker.

Reddit loves nazis. Say anything bad about Musk and you will be banned.

Typical tiny dick energy.

Oh right, that site from the past I haven't opened in weeks. How are they doing? Is it still a cesspool of idiocy and advertisements for scams?

Seeing what reddit has been doing, this isnt suprising

Paywalled article, don't click link.

Obviously?

I mean Reddit is a a corporate/military opinion/sentiment farm and a US Mil psyop conduit. Look up DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communications project.

That was very obvious ngl

RIP Reddit o7

Pressure? .... you mean a text or a quick phone call telling him what to do

Baby Back Bitch Musk