X has locked and suspended the accounts of journalists and researchers who shared the alleged identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist known as Stonetoss after the cartoonist appealed to site owner Elon Musk.
The incident, critics say, highlights once again how Musk has not only welcomed extremists onto his platform but has repeatedly boosted their conspiracies, engaged with their accounts, and seems to have protected them from scrutiny.
Wasn’t sure if this was the right place to put it, it seems tech to me since they’re making tech gateway, decisions for social platforms? I’ll delete if it’s not the right place.
Seems pretty relevant if you ask me
I think it’s more of a politics thing, but I don’t know of any politics communities (I’m sure they exist), so I wouldn’t have seen this otherwise.
And it’s actually news, unlike the dozens of posts people used to make linking to articles about Elon eating breakfast or something.
I think it’s fine to leave it. I’m not the mod for this comm, anyway. I’m not sure where I’d have posted this either, it kind of spans topics while not cleanly fitting into any specific one? Ars Technica is ostensibly about tech 🤷
I think it was already the precedent for mainstream social media to delete illegal content from their sites (such as doxxing). Although they did delete the entire accounts of the doxxers, not just the dox itself, which I think is setting a precedent.