Elon Musk caves to the Troon Cult

X will now lower the visibility of posts that "misgender" or "deadname"

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, many people expected a new era of unbridled free speech. Well, if that was ever in the cards, it’s over and done with now. X has revived a version of Old Twitter’s policy against “misgendering” and “deadnaming.”

Here are some details (hat tip to

Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

)

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its abuse and harassment rules to revive regulations around content that misgenders or deadnames individuals.

The quiet update comes less than a year after the platform, under Musk’s ownership, revoked its ban on content that uses a transgender person’s name before they transitioned — known as a deadname — or purposefully used the wrong gender for someone.

The updated rules state X “will reduce the visibility of posts that purposefully use different pronouns to address someone other than what that person uses for themselves, or that use a previous name that someone no longer goes by as part of their transition.”

Well, there you go, folks. You have to go along with the Troon Cult’s madness or have your post lost somewhere in the mists of time on X. I’d like to say that I am surprised by this, but I am not.

Why?

X still has woke commies inside of it

The jig was up when Elon Musk hired Linda Yaccarino as CEO. My guess is that this policy change likely came from her or somebody she hired. I could be wrong here, but she seems like the most likely culprit. Or perhaps there is some left-over from Old Twitter? I really do not know.

Elon himself seems not to have commented on the policy change; I could find nothing on his feed. If I missed it, please post a link in the comments. This seems like something he and Yaccarino likely want to be put in place without a lot of fuss or attention. It reeks of a “stealth change” to X’s policy guidelines.

The new policy is marginally better than that of Old Twitter, since it seems to just lower the visibility of an “offending” post rather than banning the “offender” outright. However, the effect is the same: It will cause people to self-censor, which means they will be intimidated into going along with the Troon Cult’s ideological madness.

I am disappointed in Musk that he allowed this change to happen, but I am also not surprised. Elon has made X better than when it was Twitter, and allowed for a wider range of opinions and commentary, but there are still limits, and anyone who crosses those limits is going to pay one kind of price or another.

Why I do not post much on X or pay Elon

All of this is why I do not post much on X, nor will I pay Elon a dime to increase the visibility of my comments or posts. The fee Elon charges is not worth the money, particularly since all Substack links have limited visibility due to Elon’s temper tantrum when Notes first launched.

I prefer Notes here on Substack, and also Poast for my social media. X is still useful to me for certain kinds of content, but I am generally just a lurker there. There is no point in participating since I do not pay for X Pro, or whatever it is called. It is unlikely that my comments or posts will be seen or responded to by X users unless I pay Elon his cash.

I know there are some Substack authors who are posting on X, and I wish them well. But I wonder if, in the end, it will really be worth it to them. How much time does posting on X consume versus what they will get out of it? I suppose each person must decide that for himself or herself.

As for me, I made my decision about X a while ago, and this news about the Troon Cult just reinforces that decision. Sorry, Elon, but I will never go along with the Troon Cult’s ideology of mutilation, drugging of children, and the rest of it.

The only people who benefit from the Troon Cult’s ideology are those in the Medical-Industrial Complex who make tons of money from mutilating mentally ill men and women, and children, who are unable to protect themselves from mentally ill parents.

I wonder if Elon Musk or Linda Yaccarino ever thought about any of that when they changed X’s policy? 🤔

UPDATE:

Jason A Clark

posted a link to a story that indicates that this decision is related to a court decision in Brazil:

In response, Musk quickly jumped to action, eventually confirming that the change was due to a court judgment in Brazil, which, Musk claims, X is in the process of appealing. Musk also noted that the policy update “should not apply outside of Brazil,”

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