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I know I keep saying I'm going to leave but I just have to write this piece because I was inspired by @kaamrev's post about the closing of the Rapport. The truth is I have a shitload to say about journ*lism in general and the South African journ*lism scene but some of it would result in me doxxing myself, and quite honestly, most of it isn't interesting if you've never been in the space. I also have a funny story of how I fricked up so badly I almost caused a long-running newspaper publication to close down permanently, but I'd rather push that memory back to the dark recesses of my psyche.
With that said, I never fricked up as badly as the who we'll be discussing today - Verashni Pillay. This is pretty much South Africa's version of G*mergate, and it caused waves internationally. My post will be organised as such:
1. What is Huffpost?
2. Who is Verashni Pillay?
3. Verashni does a hate speech
4. Verashni is in trouble
5. Conclusion
What is Huffington Post
If you're familiar with online journ*lism, you'll have come across Huffpost. It is a left-leaning publication that aims to be hip and trendy while delivering the news. Not all their content is "news" and it also features a lot of clickbait pop culture slop. It's really a terrible site. The site almost died but it was purchased by Buzzfeed in 2020. It was during this time that the site experienced mass layoffs and the Canadian arm of the business was closed down.
Go on the front page right now and see the slop they post. From experience in the media industry, I can easily tell that it is a content mill that you shouldn't trust at all. I can spot the SEO tricks and the common tactics used to increase engagement and exploit the writers. Take a random article on the front page:
The headline is stuffed full of trending keywords. They had to fit in "elon musk" and "obama" to improve SEO on Google. Secondly, the writer never had to leave their desk to write the article. It's literally a longpost based on a Tweet by Elon Musk. All it does is report on the Tweet and the responses to the Tweet. I can promise you @kaamrev puts more effort into his posts than the writer of this article did.
You can also tell it's a content mill by looking at the writer's profile page.
This is someone pooping out three articles a fricking day. 100% he has a quota to meet and he's grinding away trying to achieve it. There is no way you're going to deliver quality journ*lism when you've got to write three fricking articles every day. The only way you achieve that is by writing slop.
The worst part of Huffpost is the writing. They've been bought by Buzzfeed, as I've mentioned, and they write in that "BuzzFeed" voice. You know exactly what I'm talking about. They use Black People Twitter slang and it's incredibly cringy when you see the author is a generic white dude.
Elon Musk is getting cooked on social media for equating the policies of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party to the U.S. Democratic Party at the start of Barack Obama's presidency, after Musk recently pointed to the AfD as Germany's only hope.
Yasss! Elon Musk is cooked! Fricking kill me.
Who is Verashni Pillay
For some reason, a lot of young people in South Africa want to become journ*lists. It's mostly young people who know nothing about the job market, are probably above average writers, and are highly opinionated. The truth is that once you're in the business, it's all about SEO and meeting quotas, and most importantly, YOU DON'T NEED A FRICKING JOURN*LISM DEGREE TO DO JOURN*LISM. So many idiots get scammed into a journ*lism degree that is utterly useless when all that matters is your portfolio. Instead of going into debt paying university fees, you're better off freelance writing and building up a portfolio to work your way to a permanent position (jk those don't exist anymore it's freelancers all the way down, journos don't get permanent jobs lol).
If you're in South Africa, for a long time, Rhodes University was THE place to go to study journ*lism. It had a very, very strong reputation for being a good journ*lism university and for anyone who wanted to become a journ*list it was assumed you'd be going to Rhodes.
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Quick Notes from Holly!
So I attended Rhodes University, got my Masters Degree in English there and also wasted 3 years trying to get my PhD only to fail (I'm currently doing my PhD at a different university while working). I was fricked over by my supervisor majorly and I had a lecturer bully me so hard I attempted suicide, but that's a story for another day. Rhodes used to be a fun university. I arrived in 2014, which was right around the decline of the university.
Rhodes has a reputation of being a bit of a party university, and it's extremely liberal. It is also known for the National Arts Festival which is held every year. The university is located in Grahamstown which is a small town almost entirely dependent on the university for its economy. I was in Grahamstown when COVID-19 hit. Students studied from home so the university was practically empty. As a result, several businesses shut down and the entire town was financially crippled.
Fortunately, I don't live there anymore because the town can't even provide water or electricity to its residents, resulting in mass protests. I mean, they literally go weeks without any water.
I would not recommend anyone go to Rhodes University these days. It's a dead university in a dead town. Also, due to Rhodes's liberal approach to academia, they allow you to mix and match your degree however you want, allowing you to create a custom degree of your choice. I know a couple of universities in the USA like Evergreen do this shit as well. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NEVER DO THIS. If you're going to university, get a degree with a set curriculum that allows you to specialize in a skill that is in demand. Nobody wants a generalist who majored in Psychology and History, or a weirdo who decided to major in Math and English. Anyone hiring is going to take one look, think "what the frick is this shit", and move on to someone who has clearly specialized in a specific task.
Dear lord if there's any advice I can give it's that university is not there for you to follow your passions. There is nothing passionate in a university setting. YOU'RE THERE TO SECURE THE BAG. Pick a degree that is in demand. If you want to go the artistic route, university is not the place to go. You're better off independently working on a portfolio.
Last point I want to make about Rhodes. The lecturers get paid SHIT. It's actually funny how poorly they are paid. Just look at this shit:
A fricking full-blown lecturer is only netting about $25K. Why the frick would you move to a town with no water to earn peanuts?!?!
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Verashni Pillay attended Rhodes University where she earned her degree in Journ*lism. Verashni quickly proved herself to be quite the ambitious journ*list and she wrote for a number of popular South African publications including News24 and the Mail & Guardian. She has won a number of prestigious awards for her journ*lism. I'm not going to list them all because quite frankly I don't care. All that matters is that she was a journ*list of note in South Africa and she worked her way up to eventually become editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post in South Africa.
Verashni Does a Hate Speech
Verashni's woes began when she allowed a blog to be published titled "Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?". You can still find the blog post online. The author's name is Shelley Garland and the author basically argues that white men should not be given the right to vote, and that their assets should be forcibly redistributed.
For the sake of stirring drama and outrage, I'll post a few choice quotes here
If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely β the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world. The influence of reckless white males were one of the primary reasons that led to the Great Recession which began in 2008. This would also strike a blow against toxic white masculinity, one that is long needed.
A withholding of the franchise from white males, along with the passing of legislation in this period to redistribute some of their assets, will also, to a degree, act as the reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid, which the world is crying out for to be paid.
Although this may seem unfair and unjust, allowing white males to continue to call the shots politically and economically, following their actions over the past 500 years, is the greater injustice.
Almost immediately, the article garnered widespread attention both locally and internationally. It got so big that fricking Jordan Peterson commented on it:
Locally, many groups cried racism and attacked Huffpost for publishing the piece. Afriforum, a group focused on the rights of Afrikaaners, accused Verashni Pillay and Huffpost of hate speech.
This did not deter Verashni and amidst the controversy, she fully defended the piece. Thanks to the wayback machine, we still have access to the article.
A few quotes from Verashni to make you seethe:
Garland's underlying analysis about the uneven distribution of wealth and power in the world is pretty standard for feminist theory. It has been espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now. In that sense, there was nothing in the article that should have shocked or surprised anybody (or so we thought.)
It would appear that perhaps much of the outcry derives from a very poor reading of the article -- or perhaps none at all.
So in response she basically shits on her readers telling them denying white men the vote is pretty normal feminist theory.
Verashni is in trouble
Well, a big plot twist emerged. Shelley Garland does not exist! The whole thing was a fricking prank written by a white man! Not just a white man, but a fucing full-blooded Boer named fricking Marius Roodt. That's a peak mayo name! Roodt wrote the piece to prove that there was little fact-checking done in South African journ*lism and so he wrote a piece where he intentionally inserted errors and he got fricking published! He made an absolute fool of Huffpost, and he's not fricking sorry about it.
https://www.news24.com/news24/i-do-not-regret-it-huffpost-fake-blogger-20170525
Eventually, the backlash got so bad that the article was taken down and an apology was issued.
But this wasn't just a thrashing on social media. There were legal consequences to face as well. The South Africa's Press Ombud found that the article amounted to hate speech, resulting in Verashni stepping down from her position as editor-in-chief.
Since the incident, Verashni has taken on the role of the victim and has framed herself as a victim of online hate mobs. This is ironic as she tried to stir hate mobs against white men. She is just getting what she tried to dish out to others. When speaking on the matter, Verashni brings up many of the criticisms of modern journ*lism that I've brought up and she confesses that the site is basically a clickbait content mill where writers are stretched to meet insane quotas.
"He targeted a stretched newsroom that was being asked to do way too much with too little resources: we were being asked to publish 30 unique pieces of content a day in addition to wire stories and international content from the other HuffPost sites. We had three junior reporters and were refused sub-editors, despite my warning that we would run into legal trouble given the rate at which we were publishing. In addition, the editorial team was under enormous pressure from management to produce traffic and clicks."
https://themediaonline.co.za/2017/08/verashni-pillay-opens-up-about-her-hate-speech-appeal-victory/
She has also released a Ted Talk about her experience and how she got shamed because of the piece.
Quite honestly, it's an annoying video to watch. She hides behind the fact that she is a female BIPOC and argues that her identity is the reason she was attacked, and not the fact that she published an anti-democratic article arguing that white men should not be allowed to vote.
Conclusion
Verashni was knocked down but she's not out for the count. She currently works at radio station POWER 98.7. I have no knowledge of the station or what it does, and I'm not in the mood to research it. Did she learn anything from the experience? In my opinion, no. I don't think she understands or accepts that she published disgusting hate speech. That blog post should have never been published and it was only possible because
a) THE EDITORS ACTUALLY WANT TO STRIP WHITE MEN OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE
b) Huffpost is a content mill that cares more about clicks than facts.
For this reason alone you should never read Huffpost. It's inaccurate garbage mass produced for clicks. So what do you think of Verashni's story? Do you think she got what she deserved? Or was she the victim of a mean prank?
.webp?h=10 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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I know people are going to talk about the money, but say someone was buying it for you, what are your opinions of the game outside of cost?
And yes, because I am a troll, I want to join the same Pirate Software server and join that guild harassing him in-game. teeeheeee
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DEATH AS WE SPEAK, 'teens have raided and hacked some huge Lolicon/Shotacon website, and published over 17.000 login and email info of its users, one of which has already been doxed as a convicted Shitalian libertarian who was arrested for molesting children and CSAM possession
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https://kiwifarms.st/threads/allthefallen-ninja-now-allthefallen-moe.38831/page-45#post-20148554
https://www.mattinopadova.it/cronaca/molesta-allieva-dodicenne-docente-condannato-qhvgxhjt
uncanny!, even the hairline looks the same! 
One year 2 months to Duilio Flora, 43, who has a prior conviction for possession of child pornography behind him. The episode happened on the first day of service
PADUA. The little student who reported being molested by the after-school teacher on the first (and only) day of the teacher's service at the Casa del Fanciullo "il Melograno" educational center on Santonini Street was believed. Thus came the sentence of one year and two months (suspended) for Duilio Flora, a 43-year-old from Brindisi, a graduate in engineering, computer scientist and science teacher in schools, currently suspended from teaching and present in the courtroom: the sentence was pronounced by the Padua gup Mariella Fino at the end of an abbreviated trial, an alternative rite that provides by law for a discount of one third of the sentence. Very serious was the charge charged: sexual assault against the 12-year-old pupil with a double aggravating circumstance, the victim's age under 14 and the fact that she was in his care for educational reasons.
The judge also applied the ancillary penalties of perpetual disqualification from public office and, in particular, from facilities frequented by minors. Flora, moreover, had a previous record (plea bargain of a sentence converted to a fine of 5 thousand euros) for possession of child pornography. Finally, an immediately enforceable provisional award of 5,000 euros was established, 3,000 for the little girl, 2,000 for her mother who constituted a civil party with attorney Aurora D'Agostino. This is an advance on the compensation that, as for the remaining part, will have to be quantified by the civil judge in a separate judgment.
The defense (entrusted to lawyer Luisa Granata) had always insisted on the defendant's innocence, firm in rejecting all charges. Prosecutor Sergio Dini, on the other hand, had urged a sentence of one year and eight months, believing that all the elements gathered during the investigation were sufficient to prove the defendant's responsibility.
The abuse occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2015, at the center attended by the little girl: her mother is alone, works, and the Municipal Social Services helps her by paying her tuition so that the little girl (good and diligent) can be tutored in doing her homework for a few hours in the afternoon. The 12-year-old is in class with other classmates and is doing her math homework. The teacher is buzzing around her and increasingly trying to shorten the distance with her: his hand insists on touching her until it reaches her private parts. Fortunately, the student immediately tells another teacher at the center about the incident. And the complaint is triggered: the next day the professor is "invited" to leave the school.
The victim had been questioned in the center "The Sunflowers" by a psychologist on behalf of the prosecutor: experts had assessed her testimony as credible.
What a wholesome way to end the year!, 2025 sure looks promising!, may 2025 be the year that TTD and TPD is finally achieved! 
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aweonao
Chapter 4
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!bookworms to discuss the 4th chapter of our book club choice Petersburg. I'm delayed and still in the middle of chapter 4 so I'll post on the following days or catch up by the next thread like I did last week.
Do you guys think Nikolai Apollonovich is like that because of inceldom?
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Sure, I've neglected everything else I'm supposed to be doing but look at that view count.
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Did I *plan* this week's new episode knowing in advance I'd be in the (so far?) minority of critics with a positive take on a new release? No, but it's funny when it works out that way π€£ youtu.be/50-PDnWMzVE?...
— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T03:19:50.936Z
Review - "CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD" (2025)Marvel goes back-to-basics with lean, fast-paced throwback to Tom Clancy potboilers and its own 'Winter Soldier'/Phase2 mode of solo-franchise "multiverse who?" sequels.youtu.be/E6oPFS9dAvc?...#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld#CaptainAmerica
β Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T17:18:42.113Z
everyone who disagrees with me is the same person
β josh (@fevered.earth) 2025-02-09T17:49:42.709Z
Every time I'm reminded of how Moviebob writes/talks I laugh so hard bro
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How did I just get the most golden clip without prompting... pic.twitter.com/K7qO0pmZLt
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Some Wario and Waluigi shit https://t.co/I1HXpLg092
— Todd S. Howard (@ToddHowardSigma) February 19, 2025
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"Did Jesus really raise form the dead? I don't know."
— Protestia (@Protestia) February 13, 2025
United Church of Christ Minister Pat Langlois says she doesn't know if Jesus rose from the dead, and also that it doesn't matter if he didn't. pic.twitter.com/FsRYNpmTow
I'm not familiar with the United Church of Christ, is this a commonly held belief of it's members?
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French Quarter
Jackson Square
Palms
More palms
Dog
City Park
Oak trees
Coffee shop
Cemetary
Uptown
House
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop (oldest bar in the US)
And the snow keeps falling. We're forecast for 4-8 inches by the end. More photos on reddit - browse social media or local news for more.
Hey libs, what happened to global warming 
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I've been browsing XiaoHongShu ever since the tiktok ban. If you don't know what XiaoHongShu (on the app store it is called Rednote) is it is basically the Chinese pinterest, if pinterest was more video oriented. Actual Chinese tiktok is only available for those with a Chinese phone number so a lot of american creators talked about going to XHS around the time of the Tiktok ban.
Its a pretty cool app, I was surprised that the algo would guide me to thick women so quickly considering that isn't in style in asia. But in my time on the app I came to notice that chinese people have some very thin skin and big egos about their nation, their national standing, and what is and isn't Chinese. Anyways here are some quick tips on how to troll em.
1. Talk about how great the game Astrobot is:
Recently Astrobot, a silly marioesque platformer, won game of the year over Black Myth Wukong, a game by Chinese devs that follows a classic Chinese story. This ENRAGED Chinese g*mers as Black Myth was super popular and had a real shot at getting China it's first game of the year, and to see it beat by this childish platformer where the main character rides a ps5 like a rocket ship was triggering 
. I think that all you have to say is something to the effect of "what do you guys think of Astrobot? I really like it" to get waves of chicom malding.
2. Say Lunar new year instead of Chinese new year:
Chang is very protective of things he thinks as Chinese, some other asian countries decided to call Chinese new year Lunar new year and now Chang wants to put the Chin back in Chinkmas. Chinese people also claim Kimchi, sushi, the color red, and if the pattern continues they are going to say that they invented the Nanking massacre. They claim that it is the Koreans that actually do this, and say that Koreans claim christmas as a Korean holiday. As far as I can tell they just completely made this up on their own.
3. Downplay the importance of China in history:
To no surprise to anyone, the middle kingdom acts like they are at the center of the universe. They are super protective of the idea that China was a super important part of the world, while this isn't wrong they are REALLY insecure about it and constantly make up attacks to react to.
Like "Westerners say that Rome conquered China!" uh... no?
"Westerners deny Chinese history!" No, what does happen is that historians don't take stories of ancient Chinese dynasties as fact when there is no physical evidence or contemporary accounts of these empires.
4. Perform horrific medical experiments on them as part of unit 731 
Like a boss
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It seems there is a movement on a lot of the sports subreddits. Especially Canadian hockey subreddits to ban twitter links.
hockey https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1i6h6sm/can_we_ban_twitter_links_now/
They all seem to be getting massive support and upmarseys. Some subreddits like hockey are user proposed but others like the Maple Leafs sub are being hosted by the mods.
leafs https://old.reddit.com/r/leafs/comments/1i6kj05/subreddit_discussion_should_we_ban_twitter_links/
This extends beyond hockey though. Liverpool football club has the post locked down while the mods discuss. Same situation with Manchester United
Liverpool https://old.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1i6gym0/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
RedDevils https://old.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/1i6idm3/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
I have nothing extra to add but here's Vancouver Canucks sub too just to show that it's a lot of subreddits.
Canucks https://old.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/1i6kc8y/can_we_also_ban_xtwitter_links_from_this_sub/
Lots of discussion of Elon of course but a lot of people also just pointing out that X links are simply trash anyway and suck to use.
Some of these posts seem to be getting brigaded according to the mods at reddevils.
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/1i6idm3/comment/m8ceqh2/?context=8
Edit:
Aston villa FC https://old.reddit.com/r/avfc/comments/1i6f6li/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links_and_screengrabs/
Bournemouth FC https://old.reddit.com/r/AFCBournemouth/comments/1i6h58l/proposal_to_ban_x_links/
Edit 2:
Chelsea got it's own post and the main mod who literally calls himself the "emperor/autocrat" of the subreddit immediately shut it down but is getting called out. https://old.reddit.com/r/chelseafc/comments/1i6hprq/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
New mod seems to have taken over the stickied comment now. Saying that they are discussing it internally.
New mod saying they'll discuss it.
Edit 3 more teams:
Chicago Bears. https://old.reddit.com/r/CHIBears/comments/1i6k1iu/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Green Bay Packers mods have created an official mod post after removing some other posts. Talk about how they are receiving harassment from users over this. Please remember the person behind the screen. https://old.reddit.com/r/GreenBayPackers/comments/1i6rbb9/rgreenbaypackers_and_xcom_with_a_dash_of/
NUFC is going a slightly different way and are discussing asking their team to drop twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/NUFC/comments/1i6k8wh/is_there_a_way_to_contact_the_team_and_ask_them/
Buffalo Bill has already deleted one post that I didn't catch but a second has already been posted. https://old.reddit.com/r/buffalobills/comments/1i6mll8/petition_to_ban_x_links/
Ravens have locked their post. No mod response yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/ravens/comments/1i6kdhe/petition_to_ban_x_links/
The Colts https://old.reddit.com/r/Colts/comments/1i6l19e/proposal_to_ban_xtwitter_links/
Minnessota Vikings mod are removing every discussion thread. Here's a brand new one but it won't be up long likely. Update the vikings mods have confirmed no. (https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesotavikings/comments/1i6rtt1/hi\_there\_we\_are\_not\_going\_to\_ban\_xtwitter\_links/) https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesotavikings/comments/1i6mwzr/possibly_something_we_can_agree_on_proposal_to/
The most important sport subreddit. Chess. https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1i6kj9w/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
NFL have now posted a mod thread for discussion after removing many posts about this. https://old.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1i6ne3o/twitter_and_rnfl/
NFFC has officially banned twitter links. Discussion over on that subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/nffc/comments/1i6k2oz/rnffc_is_banning_direct_links_to_xtwitter/
Detroit Lions https://old.reddit.com/r/detroitlions/comments/1i6jzq3/petition_to_ban_x_links/
Figureskating mods are "actively discussing it" https://old.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1i6n4yo/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
NASCAR https://old.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/1i6qu17/twitterx_and_rnascar/
Eagles. Mods are hesitant due to big upcoming game. https://old.reddit.com/r/eagles/comments/1i6p8wk/petition_to_ban_x_links/
Baseball is hosting a poll (please don't participate in the poll if you don't frequent the subreddit.) https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1i6l2mj/meta_poll_regarding_the_use_of_twitterx_on/
Steelers mod commented in this thread. They've banned twitter links. Are allowing screenshots. This seems to be a compromise that many people are pushing for in various subs. https://old.reddit.com/r/steelers/comments/1i6n71l/effective_today_we_are_banning_twitter_links_in/
Toronto blue Jays https://old.reddit.com/r/Torontobluejays/comments/1i6jgcg/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Boston Celtics. https://old.reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/1i6lk50/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Saints https://old.reddit.com/r/Saints/comments/1i6nxgy/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Seahaws have banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/Seahawks/comments/1i6rrgi/twitter_xcom_link_ban_policy/
Mariners have banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/Mariners/comments/1i6pxqs/twitter_links_are_no_longer_allowed/
Atlanta United https://old.reddit.com/r/AtlantaUnited/comments/1i6kqeb/banning_links_to_x/
Panthers mods refuse to ban twitter saying they will never restrict where people get their panthers news. https://old.reddit.com/r/panthers/comments/1i6n360/regarding_the_movement_to_get_twitterx_banned/
The calgary flames have banned twitter. The Edmonton Oilers will not. Their rivalry has hit new heights. https://old.reddit.com/r/CalgaryFlames/comments/1i6qayx/the_jets_and_sabres_have_already_banned_twitterx/ https://old.reddit.com/r/EdmontonOilers/comments/1i6rqty/about_the_requests_to_ban_twitterx_posts/
Dallas Cowboys mods removed their post without responding. https://old.reddit.com/r/cowboys/comments/1i6t1tl/ban_twitter_links_with_only_screenshots/
/r/realmadrid deleted their discussion after saying they would consider it. Deleted before I could grab a link.
Edit 4: leaking into some non sport subs?
ehbuddyhoser https://old.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/comments/1i6mccr/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Mod has already said no. Although one of the reasons is the mod doesn't remember there ever being a single twitter link post anyway. Rather than a ideological reason.
The Canadian sub /r/onguardforthee actually started the process of phasing out twitter two weeks ago https://old.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/1hw76xz/rule_change/
Magic the Gathering https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1i6mjqc/rmagictcg_and_the_website_formerly_known_as/
euro vision https://old.reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/1i6mxq5/petition_to_ban_links_to_xtwitter/
xmen sub is hosting a poll too https://old.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/1i6p7w3/vote_should_linkscontent_from_twitterx_be_banned/
military has banned twitter links. https://old.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1i6of4m/twitterx_has_been_added_to_the_disallowed_domains/
twoxchromosomes actually had this discussion start almost two weeks ago.
Aoe2 https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/1i6n3u0/proposal_to_ban_links_to_xcom/
Anarchy Chess following up on Chess https://old.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/1i6kl0k/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Valorant competative https://old.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/1i6ozcd/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Macgaming https://old.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1i6ljij/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
BlyeSkySocial (seems like it should have been banned there already) https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1i6hng9/proposal_to_ban_twitterx_links/
/r/fighting has banned twitter because "frick Elon Musk" https://old.reddit.com/r/Fighters/comments/1i6r37u/comment/m8ez6pw/?context=8
Billie Eillish sub https://old.reddit.com/r/billieeilish/comments/1i6nqmr/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Megaman https://old.reddit.com/r/Megaman/comments/1i6supi/proposal_to_ban_x_from_this_platform/
uhmmm Whitepeopletwitter. Surely they will ban twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1i6tmlj/proposal_to_ban_posts_from_twitter/
/r/cybersecurity is having the discussion now. https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1i6ttm4/should_linkscontent_from_twitterx_be_banned_on/
Forged In Fire mod made a pre-emptive post in case people asked for it to be banned. Will not ban posts due to no alternative platform but encourages users to use xcancel.com
https://old.reddit.com/r/forgedinfireshow/comments/1i6o9dw/preemptive_post_regarding_xtwitter_links/
frick cars is hosting a poll https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1i6t7om/should_we_ban_xtwitter_links_andor_screenshots/
MtF https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/1i6pqjl/x_link_ban/
autism has literally just banned mentions of Elon Musk. https://old.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1i6lawd/elon_musk_megab-word/
One piece will not ban twitter. Says theres nearly no twitter links on the sub anyway but they will ban any nazi supporters. https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1i6py83/petition_to_ban_x_twitter_links_on_this_sub/
leapardsatemyface https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1i6o2p5/petition_mods_should_ban_all_twitterx_links/
/r/inflation has banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/inflation/comments/1i6nexk/announcement_links_to_xcom_banned/
Linus Tech Tips has a post. Some commenters suggesting Linus Media Group should be pushed to leave the platform. https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i6snul/f_it_lets_also_ban_all_x_links/
Hearthstone https://old.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1i6tb0m/consider_banning_xtwitter_links_from_rhearthstone/
/r/poirot which apparently exists. Has banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/poirot/comments/1i6sdji/twitterx_links_are_banned_going_forward/
Imaginary network (which I think is the hub of all the imaginary\_\_\_\_\_\_ subreddits) is discussing. https://old.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryNetwork/comments/1i6mxdt/i_see_a_lot_of_posts_today_petitioning_to_ban/
Crypto Currency has removed a post discussing this asking that it be moved to the crypto currency meta discussion sub. No one has reposted it there though.
DnD just had a post on this. Mod team says they are discussing it. https://old.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1i6upny/banning_links_to_twitterx/
Super Stonks https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1i6k5d4/petition_to_ban_all_twitter_links_with_exception/
MarvelSnap https://old.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/comments/1i6rjcy/petition_to_ban_twitter_links/
Civil Engineering is considering a ban to ALL direct social media links. https://old.reddit.com/r/civilengineering/comments/1i6r2fl/should_direct_posts_to_social_media_posts/
PC gaming has added x to domain black list. https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1i6v0j5/as_of_today_rpcgaming_has_added_xcom_to_the/
FromSoftware mods have removed the discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/fromsoftware/comments/1i6vuji/petition_to_ban_xcom_links_on_this_sub/
/r/karate bans x. https://old.reddit.com/r/karate/comments/1i6vra7/regarding_x_musk_and_sigh_fascism/
Transformers discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/1i6vrzf/can_we_ban_all_x_links_please/
edit 5: state subreddits maybe joining in. Also Canadian provinces.
Minnesota. The OP here deleted his post. https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1i6p7sg/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Alternative Minnesota sub stateofMN has banned x. https://old.reddit.com/r/stateofMN/comments/1i6oon7/20250121_twitterx_links_are_banned_effective/
Delaware claims the ban is in honor of our veterans who fought nazis.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Delaware/comments/1i6sei9/proposal_lets_ban_xcom_links_on_the_delaware/
Iowa https://old.reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1i6sqex/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links/
Connecticut (Wtf is that really how you spell Connecticut?) https://old.reddit.com/r/Connecticut/comments/1i6tmo5/proposal_to_ban_x_links/
Nova Scotia joins the discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/NovaScotia/comments/1i6p33v/do_we_have_a_ban_on_x_links_if_not_why_not_add_one/
Hawaii just got into it https://old.reddit.com/r/Hawaii/comments/1i6tz8s/should_rhawaii_ban_any_links_from_twitterx/
Nothing on /r/texas but /r/texans has banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/Texans/comments/1i6vhu9/since_many_people_have_brought_it_up_we_have/
Maryland discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/1i6up1u/petition_to_ban_x_links_on_rmaryland/
Indiana is only 20 minutes old but is getting a lot of attention. https://old.reddit.com/r/Indiana/comments/1i6vxbn/banning_x_post/
Edit 6: countries too.
/r/finland has banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/1i6qk8a/twittercom_links_are_now_banned_on_rfinland/
Scotland https://old.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/1i6kw6t/proposal_to_ban_xcom_direct_links_on_this/
Ireland https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1i6nwji/proposal_to_ban_xcom_direct_links_on_this/
Europe confirms they already filter out social media links anyway. https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeMeta/comments/1i6oicn/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links_on_reurope/
South Africa has a post. No one has contributed though. https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/1i6szjc/guys_we_should_talk_about_banning_twitter_links/
France is talking about banning X... I think. Thank to google translate it looks like they actually already banned twitter. https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/1i6nh35/bannir_les_liens_xcom/
Philippines https://old.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/1i6w86e/proposal_to_ban_xcom_links_on_this_subreddit/
Edit 7: cities because I made the mistake of starting to categorize things a bit.
Chicago. https://old.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1i6khw2/petition_to_ban_xtwitter_links_from_the_subreddit/
Columbus https://old.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/1i6oqko/can_we_also_have_a_petition_to_ban_links_to/
Suffolk will now ban users for X posts. https://old.reddit.com/r/suffolk/comments/1i6qrzb/posts_that_include_a_link_to_twitterx_will_now/
Ipswichuk will now ban users for x posts. https://old.reddit.com/r/ipswichuk/comments/1i6qrgm/posts_that_include_a_link_to_twitterx_will_now/
Austin is discussing. No input from mods yet. https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1i6u0wz/ban_x_twitter_posts/
Los Angeles mod confused. Realized they banned twitter but not x. Corrected mistake. https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1i6utaz/can_we_also_ban_links_to_twitter/
Denver discussion https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1i6wcbx/proposal_to_ban_xtwitter_links/
Edit 8: Moderators of /r/law offer to assist any subreddit set up their automods to remove twitter links if they wish to participate in the ban. https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1i6n7ou/if_youre_a_moderator_of_a_sub_considering_an_x/
Edit 9: General discussion on askreddit on if there should be a sitewide ban. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1i6rjf2/what_are_your_thoughts_of_a_reddit_wide_ban_of_x/
Edit 10: Trueunpopularopinion post thinks leftwingers are pathetic for this movement. https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1i6qz9i/leftwing_redditors_trying_to_get_x_links_banned/
The conspiracy subreddit has weighed in. https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1i6m35z/shills_are_floating_around_all_the_sports_reddits/
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Codeberg released an emergency statement regarding a powerful alt right attack that endangered the safety of everyone who has ever used codeberg. Sources say this is was probably organized by a DOGE-Steve Bannon alliance
We stay strong against hate and hatred
Codeberg public relations team
Wed 12 February 2025
Category: Announcement
Intro
Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces, and so are our users. First and foremost, we apologize for everyone who has recently received a notification email from our system containing offending and potentially traumatizing content. We are working hard on containing the effects on our users and systems.
Most importantly, your private data was not leaked. All emails have been generated through Codeberg's servers using the notification feature and the abusers had no access to your email address directly.
Fighting hate and far-right forces is important to us. Read to the end of this article to learn why.
What has happened?
In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.
Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.
On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each. Depending on the notification settings of users (if you are a user on Codeberg, you can modify it in your settings), these generate notification emails that contain a copy of the post that includes the mention - and thus the abusive content via email.
Although our staff reacted quickly, blocked access to the used functionality and deleted the user accounts, they managed to generate a large amount of notification emails already.
Since this attack is not only harming Codeberg users but the platform itself, both via technical means (we had brief downtime of our systems and our mail server was suffering a lot), as well as by harming the reputation of our platform and trust users have shown us. We expect this incident to be in response to our swift moderation of the previous campaigns that targeted only individual projects.
How could this happen?
Please understand that Codeberg.org is driven by volunteers mostly. We have sufficient capacity to run the platform under normal conditions, and normal conditions also include some headway to deal with abuse campaigns that come and go. We suppose that most readers did not notice the spam campaigns of the past days, and we are happy that we managed to contain them quickly. We are fighting with advertisement spam, phishing and malware week to week.
However, our capacity was obviously exhausted this time, when it comes to attacks that target us specifically. And we apologize for this.
You might wonder why there are not more technical countermeasures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Technical measures evolve over time, and we have implemented several protections on multiple levels that are trying to contain the amount of abuse you see day to day.
However, doing proper rate-limiting is hard. We need to ensure that legitimate usage of our API and interface is possible, including custom scripts that import or synchronize massive amounts of issues from projects on other platforms. There are some rate-limits tailored to the previous abuse vectors we have seen, which was mostly aggressive advertizing, and so it would not have been possible to create these massive postings if they would have contained a hyperlink to another website, for example.
However, just spamming notification emails to users is a new abuse vector to us, and we did not sufficiently prepare for this. For that, we are sorry.
What will Codeberg do?
Currently, we are investigating the details of the attack and we have implemented short-term countermeasures and monitor activity on the platform closely. Further, we are responding to hundreds of emails from our users that ask about the incident. Some request the deletion of their data in response.
Next up, we will make plans on how to improve our protection against this and future kinds of abuse attacks on Codeberg itself to reduce the likelihood of similar things from ever happening again.
If you want to help with development work on Forgejo, the free/libre and open source software that powers Codeberg, please reach out. Go developers who can commit some time and patience to implement one our more technical measures in the codebase are much appreciated.
Unrelated to the current incident, we have worked with NLnet in the past weeks and secured funding for some moderation cowtools. A meeting was scheduled for later today at 20.00 CET to talk about technical architecture for a feature that allows reporting abuse directly in the app and the goal is to implement it for the next release of Forgejo.
Far-right forces endanger free/libre software projects
We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.
Extreme right forces actively target members of our communities and discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, political background, sexual orientation, disabilities, nationality and faith. However diversity is an important asset in free/libre software communities and it is what makes our software great and development productive.
By targetting (Editor's note: Codeberg can't afford a spell checker) some of our most active translators, nicest designers, best developers and all other motivated contributors, they are hurting the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.
Don't be fooled if right-wing forces promise to "promote open source" in their political agenda. This has nothing to do with the values of our movement! This is about national patriotism and protectionism, and they will happily accept splitting our community on their way.
We all know that the free/libre software ecosystem won't work this way. Every human is an integral and equally important part of it, and targetting some of our community members threatens the ecosystem as a whole.
Let's together stay strong and united against the emerging threats. We stay strong against discrimination of all kind, including but not limited to sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ableism. And we hope that you all join us for this mission.
A big shout-out to all the projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and that have been the primary goal of these attacks. Support them if you can.
If you ever considered supporting the fight against right-wing forces, for example by joining political movements and parties, organizing protests or getting involved in online communities with this goal - now might be the best time to move ahead.
Again, we apologize for the disruption of your work and the abusive content delivered to your mailboxes. We are doing our best to contain the situation.
We'd like to thank everyone who signaled their support in the current situation, via e-mail, Mastodon and in Matrix chats. This means a lot to us.
Thank you for your trust and support!
Your Codeberg Public Relations team
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