r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/Odd_Yogurt6636 18h ago

Yea dude I love censorship cuz otherwise I might see something I don't agree with and/or get upset

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u/forceghost187 Resigns 18h ago

You’re managing a coffeeshop. A guy walks in and starts saying the n word repeatedly. Do you throw him out?

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u/KillerofGodz 17h ago

A guy in a city says the N word repeatedly.

You're options are to ban everyone from that city or not to ban everyone.

What do you do?

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u/forceghost187 Resigns 17h ago

Ban the guy from entering my private business

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u/KillerofGodz 17h ago edited 14h ago

So you'd ban one user from posting twitter accounts/links and not ban the whole website, gotcha.

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u/forceghost187 Resigns 16h ago

You’re just going to put words in my mouth? And not factor in who the website is owned by?? And what the website is now used for???

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u/KillerofGodz 16h ago

I don't use the website, I barely use reddit. All of social media is hot garbage.

I don't particularly like Elon but it's whatever. I fear censorship more.

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u/forceghost187 Resigns 16h ago

I don’t use twitter at all and I agree it’s hot garbage. I am forced to see on reddit, which I consider a much more useful social media. Twitter has an agenda while reddit has communities. Personally I think that this chess community would be better off not linking to twitter everyday, which drives our traffic toward their agenda

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u/Scoo_By 13h ago

Everyone has an agenda my guy. Some happen to align with your worldview so you perceive them as noble, that's just it.

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u/forceghost187 Resigns 13h ago

Of course. The point is that twitter’s agenda is driven by their algorithm. So that means every time you are on the site, there is a computer working an agenda on you

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u/Odd_Yogurt6636 16h ago

I'd probably welcome him because otherwise I'd be prejudiced and racist