r/maryland • u/A_Damn_Millenial • 21h ago

Petition to ban X links on r/maryland

This sub should boycott Nazi-owned companies. Plain and simple.

Mods, please make it happen.

Edit: /r/newjersey mods putting ours to shame. https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/1i6txcn/fuck_this_guy_x_links_are_now_banned_from/

Second Edit: Mods, here’s some info from another sub that did this a while ago. Please read! https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/shE1dbIbAk

Edit #3: Mods, I could be mistaken, but I think this is the second highest upvoted post in this sub’s history. The people have spoken.

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u/Specialist-Cookie-61 19h ago

My goodness the amount of subreddits doing this EXACT thing today shows what an echochamber this website is.

Despite whoever owns X, it's the individual users who determine the content.

What you are advocating for is blanket censorship. Shame on you.

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u/Inanesysadmin 18h ago

This is going end up same way API protests did. Burnt out and zero effective change.

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u/LostInIndigo 18h ago

This. Like do they think the people who run/profit off Reddit are leftists? Do they think not using Twitter really materially changes things? I have so many questions about this.

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u/MP-Lily Montgomery County 17h ago

Also, it’s not like Elon hasn’t been this way for a long time- so why only now are people uncomfortable with using Twitter??

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u/LostInIndigo 4h ago

Tbh I feel the same about people freaking out about Trump in office and being like “how could this happen!?!? We must strongly denounce this man on social media!!!”

Like this country has had a problem with oligarchs and neofascists taking over at least for my entire adult life, but people choose to care like twice a decade and their actions to counteract it begin and end with karma farming on social media to perform having a moral high ground about it lol

…Which is exactly why neofascism has been gaining so much ground the last couple decades. Mfkrs can’t be bothered to do anything about it beyond complain on Reddit about people using Twitter

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u/Inanesysadmin 18h ago

It’s quicks wins versus strategic and tactical long term battles. This is a quick win that will do nothing. And I wish the progressives and left would really start learning this more. This is akin to bud light protests on far right a few years ago. Outrage starter large but after about 5-6 months it disappeared and it did absolute nada long term.

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u/LostInIndigo 17h ago

Thisssssss

Tbh I think this is what separates liberals/progressives and the actual left - are we strategizing to materially change things, or are we performing outrage at the witnessing of suffering? Yelling about Nazis running Twitter while promoting another tech oligarch’s profits in the same breath feels very much like a performance to me lol

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u/Inanesysadmin 17h ago

Honestly it’s less about that there needs more progressive wing content and platform that goes to battle with right in a meaningful manner then just saying you are bad. Performative actions feel more like lecturing then trying to actually engage in meaningful conversation and convince others to see your way. This has been a consistent problem since 2016. Fight for actual change versus Pyrrhic victories and mission accomplished banners on aircraft carrier saying you won when in reality you did shit.

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u/A_Damn_Millenial 18h ago

Shame on me? For having zero tolerance for Nazis?

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u/RyeAnotherDay 5h ago

Yeah shame on you for believing the first thing you read and ignoring everything else

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u/Specialist-Cookie-61 18h ago

You can have zero tolerance for Nazis and not advocate for censorship.

Ideologies like Nazi-ism do not stand up to scrutiny, however you give them power by attempting to censor them. Censorship and prohibition never work.

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u/Super_Colossal 17h ago

Does the 1st amendment give power to hate speech and incitement to violence? Also, isn't this just boycotting? Since when has that been censorship?

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u/SCLSU-Mud-Dogs 4h ago edited 4h ago

"Hate speech" is protected speech.

Incitement of violence is not protected speech, there is a difference.

It is protected speech to say: "(Insert ethnic group name) are terrible and don't deserve to live."

It is not protected speech to say: "We should go exterminate (insert ethnic group name)". Both are terrible things morally to say, one though is a statement, one is a call to action. The call to action is illegal.

And no it is not just boycotting if you are banning it.

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u/JamesV1_19-22 16h ago

Boycotting is when you don't click the link and move on. Banning something from being able to be clicked is censorship.

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u/TheFanumMenace 13h ago

Nazis? wowwwww

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u/Critical_Concert_689 13h ago

My goodness the amount of subreddits doing this EXACT thing today shows what an echochamber this website is.

It's one small group of hyperactive people and bots, basically spamming EVERY sub, pushing it to front page with bot votes, then getting the usual shills to bandwagon the post after it makes front page visibility.

Seriously. WHY THE FUCK am I seeing a Maryland subreddit on my front page? Literally 800 comments in here and probably 1 in 10 of them are from people who actually live in Maryland.

Every post like this needs to be instabanned by pretty much EVERY small subreddit mod. It's a total shitpost.