A site for those who oppose free speech for conservatives
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As we've documented, Bluesky at its core has become a "safe space" of sorts for Donald Trump/Elon Musk-averse figures on the left and in the media who have stated among other things that the social media platform is intolerable now due to the Twitter/X owner's support for and professional involvement with the President-Elect.
Among the reasons they've given for fleeing is that Musk is not as quick to throttle/ban "offensive" content (read: opinions our supposed intellectual betters don't like), something they say has only gotten - in their view - worse since Trump won a second presidential term on November 5th by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
Just before Thanksgiving, Mississippi Free Press journalist Ashton Pittman composed a detailed explanation as to why he was leaving Twitter/X for good and would be on Bluesky permanently after saying for over a year that he would remain at X despite Musk's ownership of it.
In it, he revealed that the final straw for him and "millions" of others was the belief that Musk was tipping the algorithm scales in a way that boosted conservative voices and suppressed others:
Twitter transformed into X, a place where racism, misogyny, homophobia and especially transphobia run rampant under the guise of “free speech,” but where using the word “cisgender” can get your account restricted because Musk (who has described his very-much-alive transgender daughter as “dead”) considers it a slur.
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But what really launched the great exodus was Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5. During the campaign, Musk not only openly supported Trump’s campaign, but researchers have reported that X appears to have tweaked its algorithm to turboboost Trump and other MAGA-aligned Republicans. With X’s owner set to be actively involved in Trump’s presidency (leading some to refer to him as Co-President Musk), that meant that one of the largest and most influential social-media platforms in the world would suddenly be owned by a government-aligned billionaire with the ability to control what you see, whether anyone sees what you have to say and to manipulate your emotions.
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Pre Musk Twitter was throttling about 50 % of conservative content. Musk is not throttling content because of political positions, which appparetly upsets the censorious left.
Fortunately, none of my children are unhappy with their gender.
I find X a much more interesting site under Musk's directions.
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