Campaigners at the Tech Transparency Project in the US found paid-for features for organisations.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, granted subscription perks to designated terrorist groups and others barred from operating in the US, according to campaigners.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    341·
    8 months ago

    Care to elaborate on that?

    I’m an instance admin, and I haven’t taken money from anyone to fund my stack (let alone terrorists).

    Most Lemmy instances are run by volunteers, many as personal projects. The few big instances typically accept donations and often provide financial summaries (Beehaw definitely does, and I think LW does something similar?)

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        52·
        8 months ago

        From the modlog, it shows that you recently posted comments containing ethnic slurs and were just being completely uncivil in the other (the original comments are all visible in the modlog). Further back, several comments were removed for being hostile. It was only after all that you got a 3 day ban which is basically a slap on the wrist.

        That’s hardly “conform or get the hook”.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        15·
        8 months ago

        Make your own community, with blackjack and hookers if you want? If the instance doesn’t let you, make it somewhere else or make your own instance. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.

        Generally, you need to be really bad to get de-federated from most instances.

      • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
        71·
        8 months ago

        Can you link some of these terrorist sympathizers?

        And if you link me people supporting Palestinian refugees I am going to block you so hard I’ll need to replace my mouse.

        Again.