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'Echo chamber' is an odd thing to say. X has many center left and hard left accounts, they're not banned in the same "women can't be men" was during Woke 1.0.

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Political Twitter is a radical far-right amplification machine now: https://protos.com/nate-silver-says-x-is-rigged-musk-cries-b...

...really?

Elon Musk declares ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ will be considered slurs on Twitter that can be punishable with suspension

https://fortune.com/2023/06/21/elon-musk-declares-cis-cisgen...

https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live

There are tons and tons of people using the term. All the time. Last result was 11 seconds ago (as of posting this).

Their tweets are shadowbanned and you only found them because you searched for the slur. All other avenues of discovery are prevented.

Where did you get that from? I've seen this word multiple times on the feed over the years, too.

Direct link: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/167137028410281984

Slurs aren't allowed on most platforms.

Those aren't slurs

I’m not sure how much contact you’ve had with the far left but “cis het scum” is where you’ll most often hear the word.

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