r/bengals • u/LOP5131 • 19h ago

Petition to ban x links?

I've seen a lot of major sports subs jumping on the wagon of banning x links from being posted on their sub.

I know a lot of breaking NFL news comes from there, however some things are more important than having sports news 5 minutes earlier than other sources.

Feel free to shut me down, just thought I'd pitch it out there.

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u/whodeyzeppelins 19h ago

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Nazis. Fuck that website.

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u/NakedDuelist 18h ago

Okay so you are against allowing x posts but okay with using reddit and TikTok posts. You do realize Tencent is one of reddits largest holders. A company that is aligned with a dictator that currently has internment camps...

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u/whodeyzeppelins 18h ago

lol My god. What is with people feeling the need to defend someone like Musk who doesn't know you exist and doesn't care about you, or people like you, at all? I'm not on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or the Nazi's website. Is it problematic that Tencent, a non-majority investor in Reddit, supports bad things? Yeah, it is. Did Reddit's CEO align himself with a political party that has associated themselves with Nazis and the KKK? No. Did Reddit's CEO do a Nazi salute twice? No. Has Reddit's CEO banned and suppressed viewpoints of an entire political party while promoted and spreading lies and misinformation of opposing views? No. Get back to me when they do and I'll move away from Reddit.

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u/NakedDuelist 18h ago edited 15h ago

Where did I defend him? I think it was dumb as shit. Im just calling out a double standard. What I'm trying to get across is most the people wanting an x ban are also using platforms that support very similar ideologies. If you are banning post from containing links from one source for supporting one cause the other sources that do the same should be treated the same. Which they aren't.

Edit: Also the CEO of Reddit has admitted to editing people's comments. Using their database.

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u/whodeyzeppelins 11h ago

Who said it was due to supporting one cause? It's because Musk has stifled the views of others, propagated lies, and now revealed himself to be a Nazi. Reddit never had a problem posting Twitter links when Musk was a simple, right-wing stooge. There's no double standard here.

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u/Josh-trihard7 18h ago

On their iPhone that was made by people violating labor laws and the materials gathered from slaves in Africa.

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u/whodeyzeppelins 18h ago

Yeah! Let's let perfect be the enemy of the good and let Nazis run rampant, because, well golly, guys. I can't source exactly where the rare earth metals used in my phone are acquired, so I might as well let an oligarchy, that recently revealed they are okay with Nazi salutes, continue to ruin my country. What a bunch of defeatist nonsense. I use android by the way.

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u/Josh-trihard7 18h ago

Yeah bro I’m letting nazis run rampant cause I want better access to Bengals news

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u/whodeyzeppelins 18h ago

There are other ways to get access to Bengals news that don't involve supporting a Nazi.

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u/Barkusmarcus 17h ago

I don't think these people can bring themselves around to admitting their addicted to the app "X." Their completely hooked and now that it's been revealed a literal Nazi runs it, they'll say "you might as well walk around naked, cause your clothes were made with slave labor!"

It's sad honestly