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highplainsdem

(61,991 posts)
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:17 PM Nov 2022

Non-RW Twitter accts, incl celebs, pundits, organizations & politicians, targeted for mass reporting

by RWers. I've seen other tweets about this saying the list is as long as 5,000 Twitter accounts RWers want banned.

I skimmed down one thread with what was supposed to be the full list, noticed Elizabeth Warren was on it. Some tweets I saw said that the RW platform Telegram was being used to spread the list.

This is from Ben Collins of NBC:





Thread from Andrew Wortman about this:






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Non-RW Twitter accts, incl celebs, pundits, organizations & politicians, targeted for mass reporting (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 2022 OP
If they all got banned it would just be another shitty 4chan The_Casual_Observer Nov 2022 #1
I am reminded of the famous quote from LBJ Otto_Harper Nov 2022 #2
A great way to keep the advertisers away RainCaster Nov 2022 #3
Twitter, just another toxic cesspool. My bet is it will likely fade into the past or just another RKP5637 Nov 2022 #4
Musk's version of Twitter reminds me of LuvLoogie Nov 2022 #5
I'm the opposite - I'm reporting and blocking right wingers for hate and harassment. Initech Nov 2022 #6
 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
1. If they all got banned it would just be another shitty 4chan
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:22 PM
Nov 2022

That no one but other shitheads would look at.

Otto_Harper

(822 posts)
2. I am reminded of the famous quote from LBJ
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:33 PM
Nov 2022

Lyndon B. Johnson — 'Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.'

When they have succeeded in deplatforming anyone they disagree with, the entire platform will become an ignored backwater, until it collapses due to the basic economics of the situation. In the mean time, the rest of the world will have moved onto a new venue (still being sorted out), and which may very well exclude them.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
4. Twitter, just another toxic cesspool. My bet is it will likely fade into the past or just another
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:45 PM
Nov 2022

pile of garbage.

Initech

(108,700 posts)
6. I'm the opposite - I'm reporting and blocking right wingers for hate and harassment.
Fri Nov 25, 2022, 04:58 PM
Nov 2022

Fuck these pieces of shit!

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