'A big, blinking "Welcome Nazis" sign': Elon Musk shredded by veteran tech observer - Raw Story
By: Matthew Chapman
... another hero of the GOP maga cult.
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For all of his claims to be working on content moderation, billionaire Elon Musk has allowed neo-Nazi accounts to proliferate across X, the rebranded platform previously known as Twitter, wrote tech analyst John Gruber in a scathing analysis this week.
This comes in response to independent multimedia journalist David Leavitt flagging several facially anti-Semitic accounts that the site has explicitly said do not violate policies, including accounts with names like "@J3wsAreBad" and "@gasthejews6969."
These sorts of accounts, wrote Gruber, "should be two of the easiest reports of your day to deal with" if you are a content moderator on the platform: "You don't even need to look at any of their tweets — both of their usernames should be sufficient on their face to just delete them. No warnings, no suspension, just nuke them. There should be no more question whether these accounts should be deleted than there is whether a turd ought to be scooped off the sidewalk."
Instead, wrote Gruber, "these accounts are welcome on Twitter."
All of this comes at a moment when Musk, who has caused chaos with a series of impromptu rules changes since taking over the site, is under fire for escalating attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, one of the most renowned Jewish advocacy groups, even threatening to sue the organization for allegedly causing X's drop in ad revenue with allegations of anti-Semitism on the platform.
It also comes as he increasingly interacts with and signal-boosts far-right content on the platform, and pushes conspiracy theories about billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros, a favorite target of anti-Semites.
This issue, concluded Gruber, "has nothing to do with any sort of reasonable criticism of or disagreement with the Anti-Defamation League." Rather, it's about the fact that the platform has "a big blinking 'Welcome Nazis' neon sign. Antisemitism is more than just a form of bigotry and hatred, it's a millennia-old conspiratorial crackpot worldview. And Elon Musk is seemingly sinking into it."
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Well his daughter is a ''commie'' according to him.
which one, and from which baby mama?
he's such a freakshow scumbag
The transgender one.
You can take the boy out of South Africa but you can't take South Africa out of the boy.
he's a white supremacist/nazi mutation, no wonder he's so popular with trumpsters...
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He's just showing what a true racist he is. I wonder what his Black, Muslin, Indian et. al. employees think about his beliefs?
If they had any integrity they wouldn’t work for a racist, I know I wouldn’t. It tells me all I need to know about them if they believe he is a racist and continue to work for him.
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He is regarded as a hero in the Ukraine (of course they are white people).
As Russia was launching it's invasion of Ukraine a year and a half ago, it targeted the routers of the American Viasat with malware which disable the Ukrainian military command communication system. Top Ukrainian officials frantically appealed to Elon Musk for help with access to his Starlink system. Within 48 hours, 500 Starlink terminals were in Ukraine. 24 hours later another 2,000 terminals arrived.
Russia had knocked out portion of the power grid so Musk offered to ship some field solar+battery kits, Tesla Powerwalls or Megapacks too with solar panels.
In the early days of the war, Musk met daily with his engineers and they found ways to defeat Russian jamming. By July of last year, 15,00- Starlink terminals operating in Ukraine. He connected the Ukrainian military and US military operating in Europe.
Musk contributed over $80M of his own money to this initial effort.
Musk may not be the hero he once was in Ukraine after this decision on the Starlink system a couple of days ago.
There was a good article posted today about how the ADL fired back at Musk.