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Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Calling himself a “free speech absolutist”, Musk granted an amnesty to hundreds of accounts that had been kicked off the platform. Within hours, those belonging to right-wing Britain First leader Paul Golding, along with former deputy Jayda Fransen and the party itself, reappeared. “We’re absolutely pleased,” Golding says. “Now that we’re back on Twitter, our following is growing very, very rapidly.

[Edited for a typo.]

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[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Define far-right

Probably just wants common-sense immigration.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Blamenta

Define far-right

Scroll down a bit, it's a tiny sample what it means.

[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I did. It's just a bunch of articles, all randomly served up. Looks like common sense immigration policy, common sense environmental policy, that sort of thing.

Man, y'all are just stuck in your echo chambers, aren't you?

[–] toffi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[–] toffi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

You keep using this phrase "common sense". I don't think you exactly know what it means.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

As one had asked to define 'far right': I just stumbled upon the article on a white nationalist publisher’s data exposed in Amazon cloud leak

The right winger in the article is the US citizen Greg Johnson. His views reveal a completely insane state of mind. How out of touch can one get?