Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X::Elon Musk created a poll on Saturday asking users to vote on whether Alex Jones should be reinstated. After the majority voted “Yes,” the conspiracy theorist best known for calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax was given his X account back.

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      Technology is inherently related to social issues. Pretending otherwise is how you get the “libertarian tech bro” company that usurps the autonomy of national elections.

      This will also (assuming republicans don’t further consolidate power…) likely lead to a further examination (and series of lawsuits) on how responsible a platform is for what it is platforming. Because alex jones famously got sued to hell and back for his many many many hateful and evil conspiracy theories on The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

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      Yeah it fucking sucks. It’s mostly business news. And now it seems anything tangentially related to social networks is now fair game too. This is like having a community on pens and having a bunch of articles about books written flooding the community. “But they wrote the book initially in pen so it fits in this community”.

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        Also occasionally random links to some “Pen Island” what ever that might be

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      Honestly it’s more a how-to on digital piracy if anything. Nearly every submission will fixate on hating this or that company and stacking on comments about how we’re sticking it to the man through one illegal method or another.