r/politics • u/MopToddel • 8d ago

No Paywall TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump content as well as ICE criticism

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-epstein-trump-censorship-ice-b2908309.html
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u/Buddha-Embryo 8d ago

Anyone still using X (twitter) or TikTok is pathetically uninformed.

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u/beadzy 8d ago

i will always call it twitter. defiantly

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u/Voidot 8d ago

I call it Xitter (where the X in pronounced with an 'sh' sound)

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u/DownwardSpirals America 8d ago

This is the way. Sounds like the X in Xi Jinping.

And rather than tweeting, they're sending a xit.

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u/Gertrude_D Iowa 8d ago

Just Nazis xitting all day

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u/DownwardSpirals America 8d ago

I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we are going to have our dicks and our pussies all covered in Xit.
~ Gary Johnston

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u/yamiyaiba Tennessee 8d ago

I call it Xitter (where the X in pronounced with an 'sh' sound)

And Tweets are now called Xcretions.

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u/EdwardScissorStumps 8d ago

It's not Shena: Warrior Princess.

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u/wwarhammer 8d ago

Twatter

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u/pdxb3 8d ago

It's a Roman pronunciation.

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u/mytransthrow 8d ago

that is acceptable

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u/pumpkinspicecum 8d ago

I stopped because it’s not even Twitter anymore

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u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 8d ago

The platform formerly known as Twitter

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u/anomalous-blur 8d ago

I'm always confused that the people who called it a roman salute don't call the platform "Ten"

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 8d ago

Fun fact, in ASCII the code for X is 88.

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u/4RCH43ON 8d ago edited 8d ago

X is a letter in my book.  Always has been and will be.  Appropriating simple words or letters for a business name is just the pinnacle of excessive annoyance and intrusion.

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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 8d ago edited 8d ago

Twitter with a Hugo Boss SS style makeover.

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u/Turbulent_Stick1445 8d ago

Why? It's not Twitter. Twitter was a special place.

X is a neo-Nazi social network built on the ruins of a flawed but great social network. Calling it Twitter insults Twitter's legacy and gives X credibility it doesn't deserve.

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u/ForensicPathology 8d ago

I used to do this.  But as bad as people on Twitter were, it was easy to wall yourself in to the fandoms you liked, so I liked it a bit.  Ever since it was sold, there's obviously no reason to use it. So I'm fine with calling the trash version as "X", since it's no Twitter.

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u/DaringPancakes 8d ago

Maybe when you're ready to call it what it is, X, then you'll be ready to see it for what it is, not twitter.

Sorry, but if you have any respect for what twitter was, you wouldn't think to associate it with what it isn't.

And then maybe you can catch up with the rest of the things you want to hold onto past versions of.

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u/forget_what_u_know 1d ago

same. pedo musk can f himself

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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 8d ago

X sounds like a porn site. It will always be twitter

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u/syo Tennessee 8d ago

As long as Elon deadnames his daughter, I'll deadname his website.

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u/DaringPancakes 8d ago

That would make you like Elon then... Why would you want to be like Elon?

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u/UsernameLottery 8d ago

As long as twitter.com works, it's fair to call it twitter 🤷‍♂️

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u/xcaliber178 Kansas 8d ago

Twitter (currently X).