TOPLINE Several communities on social platform Reddit are considering protesting X owner Elon Musk after the billionaire made a gesture at a post-inauguration speech Monday that critics have likened to a Nazi salute, provoking Reddit forums to call for a ban against links to X, formerly known as Twitter.
KEY FACTS
- Large subreddits such as r/nfl, r/f1 and r/nintendo, which collectively have millions of members, have either called for or instituted a ban on links to X, citing Musk’s controversial gesture.
- Musk found himself in hot water this week after making the gesture, though he did not explain what he meant by it and has blasted critics who said it was a Nazi salute.
- Subreddits like r/nintendo instituting the ban have alternatively allowed for members to share screenshots or videos of X posts as long as direct links to the Musk-owned site are not shared.
- A moderator on r/pcgaming, a subreddit with 3.8 members, said the community has contemplated the ban on X links for some time, adding “X has become increasingly hateful, toxic and less and less moderated.”
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Get your shit straight, forbes. Musk didn’t blast anyone for calling him out for being openly Nazi, he just complained loudly about it. Musk is being blasted by the rest of the world for being openly Nazi.
And it’s fucking hilarious to me that a double standard has appeared.
“But he has autism so it’s ok.”… Meanwhile any other random person with autism who does something wrong (even tho they may not understand or even know what they’re doing) is dragged through mud and hit with “it’s not an excuse!”
Nazi sympathizer mainstream media has to cuddle with the Nazi billionaire oligarchs so they don’t get their profit streams cut, so they’ll come up with any shitmouthed double standards they can.
I’m just glad that a lot of people i associate with can see the obvious double standard and call it out as bullshit.