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It appears that Elon has now reinstated the account of white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 OP
It's time Apple and Google cut the cord C_U_L8R Jan 2023 #1
That's a shock... Caliman73 Jan 2023 #2
Yep. Rolling Stone article: highplainsdem Jan 2023 #3
Musk doesn't stray far from his racist apartied roots RAB910 Jan 2023 #4
Twitter hosted pro-Nazi rally LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #5
He's already been suspended again. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2023 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2023 #7
Money. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2023 #8
Nick Fuentes suspended again. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #9

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
1. It's time Apple and Google cut the cord
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 03:05 PM
Jan 2023

C’mon. Nazis? What’s it going to take to get this atrocious cesspool taken down ?

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
2. That's a shock...
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 03:13 PM
Jan 2023

Says no one who has been following this shit show.

Wow, up until now Musk has been so responsible with his acquisition of Twitter. This came out of left field.

Musk is a right winger, or at the very least, very sympathetic to right wing ideas. He is creating a safe space for the most extreme right wing personalities, out of a once relevant and useful social media site.

How much longer before everyone with status and a shred of integrity, leaves Twitter in the dust and we can all move on while Twitter becomes just another 4 Chan, 8 Chan, 8 Kun... or whatever that shithole is called nowadays?

highplainsdem

(48,978 posts)
3. Yep. Rolling Stone article:
Tue Jan 24, 2023, 03:17 PM
Jan 2023
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nick-fuentes-reinstated-twitter-1234667137/

TWITTER HAS REINSTATED the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Fuentes was permanently banned from the platform in July 2021, and attempted to skirt the ban following Elon Musk’s October takeover of the social media platform. The decision to reinstate Fuentes is the latest digital pardon the billionaire has granted to extremist figures looking to re-establish themselves on Twitter.

Fuentes recently made headlines for dining at Mar-a-Lago with former President Donald Trump and Kanye West, now known as Ye. At the time, the rapper was fielding public backlash for a series of antisemitic statements. Fuentes and Ye would later appear on Alex Jones’ InfoWars, where they unleashed a new torrent of antisemitic tropes. During the interview, Ye lauded Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler while denying the Holocaust. Fuentes has since continued to publicly praise the genocidal leader responsible for the death of millions of Jewish people.

Fuentes rose to prominence as a Trump superfan, attending the Charlottesville Unite The Right Rally in 2017. He went on to found the “America First Political Action Conference,” an effectively white nationalism-focused alternative to CPAC. Multiple members of Congress have attended the conference, including Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

An avowed white supremacist, Fuentes has repeatedly called for the subjugation of influential Jewish people and the embrace of Christian nationalism in the United States. “If we’re going to make America great again, we’ve gotta talk about this anti-white thing that’s going on,” he said in February 2022. “We’ve got to make America a Christian nation again. And you can understand why influential Jewish people in conservative media are not really gung-ho about that. They’re not promoting white identity. They’re not promoting this.”

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