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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Ban X lmao governments are goofy as fuck

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Just ban the site. Everyone should be banning American social networks.

[–] 5trong5tyle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

Wait, there's still people on twitter? I left when Phony Stark took over, the writing was on the wall at that point.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You need to block X and musk from your country before any election. He will start paying your voters to vote the way he wishes.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

They should ban it. And if people still try to go on, hopefully those smart enough to use VPNs are smart enough to see through the ruse

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 34 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe we just need to ban all social media for the last 2 weeks leading up to an election, similar to how many countries ban publishing polls in the final stretch before an election.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 11 points 7 hours ago

I might be wrong, but the UK I believe has laws against the media talking about elections like the day before and day of polling.

[–] KittyKalledKarma@slrpnk.net 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's just blanket censorship, breaking up social media companies and forcing their federation, shut down is a better deal imo.

Simply banning mass forms of communication is backwards and will obviously lead to accusations of rigging for the incumbent party.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

That only works if they're from that country

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Maybe we need to find the spine to auto-lock/auto-ban all such enemy-agent bots.

WELL past-time we did-so.

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[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 34 points 10 hours ago

Canada should ban twatter. It's a Nazi disinformation and propaganda platform anyways...

[–] PointyReality@lemmy.world 36 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Those that still use X is a nazi in my book.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

That's quite a prolapsed opinion

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

AOC... Nazi
Bernie Sanders... Nazi

Can the community help me name some other surprising Nazis?

[–] PointyReality@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Even when statistical data supports these huge sweeping statements there will always be outliers but they will be few.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/study-finds-persistent-spike-in-hate-speech-on-x/#%3A%7E%3Atext=A+new+analysis+has+found%2Cpledge+to+reduce+bot+activity.

Given Leon’s blatant support of the Nazi’s. Then I believe the saying goes “If the shoe fits”.

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They should shut it down, at least during elections but really just for good would be perfect.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago

Ban it forever. It’s a common pattern from them

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours ago

it's easier to run the bots from the inside, ain't it, muskrat?

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 hours ago

Who uses twitter?

[–] AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Chinese or American bots? There is a lot of psyops involved.

[–] KittyKalledKarma@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly American and some Indian lol. Lots of liberals left Twitter anyways so they're being targeted on different platforms, but Facebook and X are breeding grounds for astroturfed pro American/ Alberta separatist bullshit.

All the convoy types as you would expect are eating up and regurgitating anything remotely negative.

[–] AwkwardBroccolli@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

I see a lot of Russian and Chinese bots as well in Shitter(previously Twitter).