Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election

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Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
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Who cares? Do they not have a website, or a YouTube show or something? There's still plenty of entertainers I like on there. Didn't stop me from deleting that Nazi cesspool and just getting that info elsewhere. You just have to want to actually quit and quit coming up with excuses. Sports ball is on other platforms, too.

How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media šŸ˜‚super weird behavior

Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform.

The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking ā€œIā€™m supporting a nazi but itā€™s okayā€. They are thinking ā€œIā€™m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interactionā€.

The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles

Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg.

Yes I have, and itā€™s nothing like what you describe on my end. I donā€™t even care for twitter, Iā€™m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother.

Youtube? Talk about a cesspoolā€¦
Sometimes itā€™s simply almost unavoidable.

Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem.

True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose.

But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that.