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If anything, Elon has largely increased the amount of censorship on his platform[1][2]. The only demographic whose voice got louder is the far right[3], in order to please the new presidency. Zuckerberg is going for the same strategy, facts and democracy be damned.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/13/the-right-wing-l...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk...

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> if anything

How on earth can you say that if you were alive during the pandemic?

Do you really believe it's better now? Have you opened any of the links in my previous comment?

I get the point with the government stuff but:

> remove censorship

> Left suddenly don't have a stranglehold on culture.

Hmmm

If by "remove censorship" you mean systematically promote right-wing content and downrank left-leaning content, unban neonazis, russian bots and other fascistic influences, then yeah, that's what Elon did.

Also what "Left stranglehold on culture" are you speaking of?? Workers have been losing rights in this country for decades. You clearly bought into the lies.

Here it is in the same format you did:

> Removes facts

> The right suddenly gets a stranglehold on culture

Hmmm

Wokeness is mostly random bits of academic communism renamed.

Ah yes, the famous woke USSR, in which you could be sent to the gulag for being gay.

Do you believe in your own ahistorical view of the world?

Ignoring that the USSR tried all this stuff in the 20s until Stalin got rid of it, you know full well that there's a difference between some communist academic working in an office in Berlin or whatever and the Soviet union

Who exactly are you taking about? Marx and Engels seldom spoke of sexuality. What does an economic theory has to do with LGBT rights? And no the USSR was never "woke"[1], not even in the 20s, you can't just claim stuff like that. Bring sources next time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_history_in_the_Soviet_Un...

According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform:

https://x.com/stat_sherpa/status/1867627066826400096

According to this chart on X, X is the fairest and most balanced platform ever created. Nice.

Try this experiment. Make two posts. One with the word “cisgender” and the other with the N-word and see how balanced the platform treats you.

The former will mute your post for using a slur (?) but somehow the latter is allowed without any moderation at all (!).

Such balance. Musk has made no attempt to hide his thumb on the scale in silencing things he disagrees with.

This chart shows users, not reach.

I have an X account that I only use to access tweets friends send me occasionally. Whenever I go there, my "for you" page is filled with Elon Musk, Alex Jones, libs of TikTok, etc. Not a single remotely left-leaning account in sight.

If you don't believe me, try it. Create a new account and see for yourself.

Well yeah. If it said anything else they wouldn't be allowed to post it on X. Did you see the recent news that Elon banned his former supporters en masse for disagreeing with his stance on H-1B visas?

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