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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:03 AM

Temeret (80 posts)

Elon Musk suspends Kanye West from Twitter for inciting violence

Source: BBC

Kanye West has been banned from Twitter again and accused of "inciting violence" over offensive tweets - a month after his account was reinstated.

The US rapper, who now goes by the name Ye, posted a series of erratic tweets - one of which appeared to show a symbol combining a swastika and a Jewish star.

Twitter's new boss Elon Musk was asked by one user to "fix Kanye".

Musk tweeted that West had "violated our rule against incitement to violence".

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63826675

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Elon Musk suspends Kanye West from Twitter for inciting violence (Original post)	Temeret	Dec 2	OP
Elon is a hypocritical loser and will somehow justify	BigmanPigman	Dec 2	#1
Just the fact that he banned Dumbye again days after reinstating him	Obvious85	Dec 2	#17
One high profile ban to distract from opening floodgates for filthy lies & pollution. . nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Dec 2	#2
How long before the Jews are blamed?	Behind the Aegis	Dec 2	#3
Probably not long; they're blamed for everything ELSE	oldsoftie	Dec 2	#10
To Paraphrase Musk Himself...	GB_RN	Dec 2	#4
Musk himself is banning people? Incredibly dumb move.	live love laugh	Dec 2	#5
Agree. Even if he can't rise above micro-managing those decisions,	yonder	Dec 2	#6
he is intentionally driving it to the ground...	2naSalit	Dec 2	#7
44 billion bucks and untold value invested by the community	yonder	Dec 2	#22
Musk has been suspending the accounts of reporters for no reason.	yardwork	Dec 2	#14
Just curious- what reporters accounts were suspended?	womanofthehills	Dec 2	#26
can someone tell me why Kanye became a white supremacist	Skittles	Dec 2	#8
The same as ALL white supremacists - severe mental illness	groundloop	Dec 2	#18
I hear you	Skittles	Dec 2	#27
I checked Twitter this morning and found a "FAFO" tweet from Musk. No further	highplainsdem	Dec 2	#9
So twitter has a limit to hate speech?	SouthernDem4ever	Dec 2	#11
The line is whether it embarrasses Musk or not	C_U_L8R	Dec 2	#12
Very true.	SouthernDem4ever	Dec 2	#13
Knowing Musk, there probably was a twit by ye criticizing Musk	rpannier	Dec 2	#15
Good. Ye probably insulted him, lol, but Musk has to know that he's skating on thin ice with the EU	catbyte	Dec 2	#16
Yeah, right AFTER the EU threatened to ban Twitter for hate speech	NullTuples	Dec 2	#19
musk never should have reinstated the loser kanye	samsingh	Dec 2	#20
Kanye... attention whore	keithbvadu2	Dec 2	#21
Gotta love how this is being reframed to make Musk look decent.	NullTuples	Dec 2	#23
Never mind that Trump did the same.	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Dec 2	#24
The former Squatter-in-Chief posted the same thing?	Behind the Aegis	Dec 2	#25
Tell the truth, Elon	jmowreader	Dec 3	#28
Nah, it was because of the paparazzi pic	ck4829	Dec 5	#29

Response to Temeret (Original post)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:10 AM

BigmanPigman (48,358 posts)

1. Elon is a hypocritical loser and will somehow justify

allowing him back on Twitter before long.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 09:32 AM

Obvious85 (182 posts)

17. Just the fact that he banned Dumbye again days after reinstating him

shows what a hypocrite he is. Elon is not doing this out of any sense of values or right/wrong, it's purely because he is feeling the heat of all his advertisers dumping him. He can't defend Kanye, though I'm sure he would prefer to

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:17 AM

Bernardo de La Paz (44,165 posts)

2. One high profile ban to distract from opening floodgates for filthy lies & pollution. . nt

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:17 AM

Behind the Aegis (51,474 posts)

3. How long before the Jews are blamed?

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 06:56 AM

oldsoftie (10,249 posts)

10. Probably not long; they're blamed for everything ELSE

I'll never understand it. The Jews are probably the ONE group who really don't do anything to anyone. I've never seen Jews insisting on certain laws to be passed because of their beliefs. Or blowing up shopping malls or buses. Or pushing for government to change how they do things to better fit their way of thinking. Or push for special treatment. Etc Etc.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:26 AM

GB_RN (1,830 posts)

4. To Paraphrase Musk Himself...

I guess Elon hates free speech*.

*Musk accused Apple of hating free speech in a tweet after Apple cut back advertising on Twitter and rumors were floating that Apple was getting ready to kill Twitter in its App Store.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 04:13 AM

live love laugh (10,363 posts)

5. Musk himself is banning people? Incredibly dumb move.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 04:40 AM

yonder (8,377 posts)

6. Agree. Even if he can't rise above micro-managing those decisions,

he needs to appear to be above doing so and leave that to his "system" or whatever might be left of it.

Incredibly bad optics otherwise. Then again, from the looks of it, he could give a shit. What a mess. Good gawd does he not have any filters?

It's looking more and more as if he is intentionally driving it to the ground

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 05:11 AM

2naSalit (67,407 posts)

7. he is intentionally driving it to the ground...

No "if" about it.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 01:40 PM

yonder (8,377 posts)

22. 44 billion bucks and untold value invested by the community

who choose, perhaps soon chose, to use it. I'm not sure he can cover his 44b. There's no way he can cover the lost user value if his platform suffers the demise it looks to be headed for.

Does he have a plan through tax write-offs or other mechanisms to recoup his personal lost value? Who knows? I think it would be safe to say that Twitter's user community will be the last to know but the first to suffer if he does succeed in scuttling it.

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Response to live love laugh (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:26 AM

yardwork (55,639 posts)

14. Musk has been suspending the accounts of reporters for no reason.

That's why I deleted my twitter account earlier this week.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 03:10 PM

womanofthehills (7,016 posts)

26. Just curious- what reporters accounts were suspended?

Plus there are many types of suspensions. Some some short like 12 hrs - some long.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 05:27 AM

Skittles (147,653 posts)

8. can someone tell me why Kanye became a white supremacist

I mean, WTF

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 09:40 AM

groundloop (10,848 posts)

18. The same as ALL white supremacists - severe mental illness

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 08:03 PM

Skittles (147,653 posts)

27. I hear you

I feel very sorry for Kanye's children.....

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 06:42 AM

highplainsdem (42,006 posts)

9. I checked Twitter this morning and found a "FAFO" tweet from Musk. No further

explanation there, but after last night's craziness it really wasn't necessary. The free speech absolutists are angry, though. They want to know exactly how Ye was inciting violence.

And there were enough accusations that Musk had suspended Ye for posting an unflattering photo that Musk felt it necessary to tweet this:

Link to tweet

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:06 AM

SouthernDem4ever (2,044 posts)

11. So twitter has a limit to hate speech?

Some is ok some is not. Who knew it would become a hate fest - well we actually did didn't we?

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:12 AM

C_U_L8R (43,288 posts)

12. The line is whether it embarrasses Musk or not

Quite arbitrary and self-serving. He isn't exactly lifting Twitter to new heights.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:17 AM

SouthernDem4ever (2,044 posts)

13. Very true.

I keep reminding people that complain about twitter policies that it's not a public service - hell it's no longer public company. Musk can be the brat that owns the toy store and not share at will and make the rules as to who can play and who can't. He can be the bull in the china shop he owns. So they can bitch away looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Best way to handle it is to not use the system.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:28 AM

rpannier (23,921 posts)

15. Knowing Musk, there probably was a twit by ye criticizing Musk

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 07:49 AM

catbyte (31,552 posts)

16. Good. Ye probably insulted him, lol, but Musk has to know that he's skating on thin ice with the EU

as it is and the last thing he needs is for Twitter to be banned there. I wonder how many advertisers are bailing out now?

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 10:49 AM

NullTuples (4,514 posts)

19. Yeah, right AFTER the EU threatened to ban Twitter for hate speech

CEO decisions have consequences, it turns out.

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 11:02 AM

samsingh (17,254 posts)

20. musk never should have reinstated the loser kanye

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 11:42 AM

keithbvadu2 (30,066 posts)

21. Kanye... attention whore

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 01:44 PM

NullTuples (4,514 posts)

23. Gotta love how this is being reframed to make Musk look decent.

Funny how he didn't give Ye the boot though, until after this happened:

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/celebrities/2022/12/02/6389974c22601d50358b4596.html

(hint: it was about Elon's ego, not Ye's bigotry)

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 02:10 PM

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (94,773 posts)

24. Never mind that Trump did the same.

What's the difference I wonder?

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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 02:33 PM

Behind the Aegis (51,474 posts)

25. The former Squatter-in-Chief posted the same thing?

He equated Jews to Nazis?

"What's the difference I wonder?" Do you? I wonder why.

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Sat Dec 3, 2022, 08:25 PM

jmowreader (48,625 posts)

28. Tell the truth, Elon

You suspended Ye for ridiculing you, didn’t you?

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Mon Dec 5, 2022, 06:35 AM

ck4829 (34,135 posts)

29. Nah, it was because of the paparazzi pic

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