Campaigners at the Tech Transparency Project in the US found paid-for features for organisations.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    341·
    10 months ago

    Care to elaborate on that?

    I’m an instance admin, and I haven’t taken money from anyone to fund my stack (let alone terrorists).

    Most Lemmy instances are run by volunteers, many as personal projects. The few big instances typically accept donations and often provide financial summaries (Beehaw definitely does, and I think LW does something similar?)

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
      370·
      10 months ago

      Sure. The swarm of terrorist sympathizers is well known on these pages. Which is fine, but you can’t respond to them without a mod making up an excuse to ban you from a community. You either conform to their thinking or get the hook. They are a powerful lobby. Not the same in other chat boards. Does money change hands? Don’t know, but it’s as if it does. If you haven’t taken money, perhaps some is owed to you.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        52·
        10 months ago

        From the modlog, it shows that you recently posted comments containing ethnic slurs and were just being completely uncivil in the other (the original comments are all visible in the modlog). Further back, several comments were removed for being hostile. It was only after all that you got a 3 day ban which is basically a slap on the wrist.

        That’s hardly “conform or get the hook”.

        • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
          148·
          10 months ago

          I’ll gladly compare past writings and discuss them. But, understand that a mod has to say something to justify their position and they won’t move off that no matter how ridicules it seems. In this case I referred to Jihad Janes. There is nothing ethnic about that and it’s certainly not a slur. Jihad is a spiritual struggle. Anyway, it was enough for the mod.

          • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            17·
            10 months ago

            That’s factually not true. A mod can ban you because they don’t like creeks (as in your name) and it would be perfectly valid. Not saying i agree with it, just that they can without having to justify themselves.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        15·
        10 months ago

        Make your own community, with blackjack and hookers if you want? If the instance doesn’t let you, make it somewhere else or make your own instance. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.

        Generally, you need to be really bad to get de-federated from most instances.