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18 points by pdyc 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



I stopped Twitter because of constant crypto and hustle spam


I think "fed up" users left the platform long time ago.


I have not seen any crypto ads, but my stream was not what it use to be.

I try to follow STEM teachers and I use to have a good volume of posts till just before Elon took over.


if you're still using twitter at this point, malicious crypto ads are the least of your worries.


what are your worries?


Being part of, and tacitly validating, an ecosystem that welcomes Nazis, sex traffickers and the sort of people who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children.


The World Wide Web has all of that...better not tacitly support it.


So does world. But we are talking about particular website.


>the sort of people who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children.

Oh, you mean the Brady Campaign that misled parents of the Aurora shooting to file a frivolous lawsuit and whom are now on the hook for legal fees for that lawsuit?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lucky-gunner-lawsuit_b_819780...

>After their daughter was killed, the Phillipses went to work for the Brady Campaign doing survivor outreach. “I would call survivors and they would say, ‘I haven’t heard from [Brady] in three years,’” Sandy recalled. “They don’t know what to do with survivors. They’re a business.”

>The experience, she said, made her realize that survivors are often used as “backdrops.”

>Two years after they began working with the Brady Campaign — when they were “no longer a bright, new shiny object” — Lonnie and Sandy were let go. Now they see politicians and big organizations in Washington, DC, most often at the center of the gun violence conversation.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/gun-control-l...


I took it to mean Alex Jones, since I have no idea who those people are and the links you give make no mention of a Twitter/X connection, much less a high-level connection like Jones has.

While with Alex Jones we have lawsuits which fit the description of "who abuse the bereaved parents of murdered children", like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Pozner_and_De_La_Ro...

> On April 16, 2018 Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of victim Noah Pozner, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas.[254] Pozner, who has been forced to move several times to avoid harassment and death threats, was accused by Jones of being a crisis actor.

as just one example, and we have the high-level Twitter connection on the same Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones#Social_media_restri...

> In November 2022, Musk referred to Jones as a person who "would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame" and said Jones would not be unbanned.[119] He changed his position on December 10, 2023 when he reinstated Jones's account.


That was, indeed, one of the people I was referring to.




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