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Vandeverre Resident
It would be great if you would distance yourself as an organization from X because it is a fascist propaganda platform. Thanks.
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Otoa Kiyori
I don't know about other people but I peronally choose not to go there anymore (and give any data or internaction to them). I blocked .x.com (and other related) domains, my computer does not know how to reach them, not even affiliate links in some web pages. Digital Greyrocking 😏
Jeffery Rowley
AGREED! For an organization that is absolutely fueled by diversity and inclusion among its users and promotes itself as a place where DEI is embraced, it needs to distance itself from X.
Alwin Alcott
That you dislike it, doesn't make it a less bigger platform that mány people still use.
The owner's ideas don't make it a bad product.
Liberty Fairelander
Linden Lab provides a platform for expression across a vast range of views. Taking a public stance against another platform based on ideology undermines its neutrality and invites future pressures to enforce political gatekeeping—something that risks alienating residents with differing perspectives.
While X has changed under new leadership (some say for the better), it also remains a space for artists, activists, journalists, and Second Life residents. Condemning the entire platform implies that all who use it endorse its worst aspects—an unfair generalization that erases nuance and individual agency.
If Linden Lab disavows X, should it also denounce Facebook, YouTube, or Discord for their issues? And if so, it should definitely denounce Bluesky for its entirely biased perspective of users and owners alike. Every major platform has flaws. Singling one out creates an illusion of moral clarity in a deeply messy digital ecosystem.
Second Life thrives because residents choose how and where to connect. Imposing ideological restrictions on external tools erodes that autonomy and turns Linden Lab from a platform provider into a moral arbiter.
The better path is to focus on conduct, not where it occurs. Linden Lab already enforces community standards within Second Life. Let’s hold people accountable for their actions, not for which site they use or their political leanings.
Not making a public condemnation isn’t the same as supporting a platform. Urging corporations to perform ideological purity stunts can backfire—reducing trust, increasing division, and encouraging performative morality over real-world solutions.
Laufiair Hexicola
Liberty Fairelander I was waiting for someone to have a fully thought out response to something like this instead of a one shot response as I highly agree with you.
Madi Melodious
Upon reviewing some of the comments I've decided that I can no longer support this. Basically, it is not my position, or anyone else's to tell someone what social media app they choose to use. I choose only to engage in very narrow social media system that deal with a limited scope of view. An that is my choice.
Tonya Souther
I come to Second Life to get away from this kind of political crap.
PuRf Fegte
Great idea, next we could also vote to ban anyone who has an X account!
Toothless Draegonne
Seems to be a lot of people confusing a request with a demand in the replies. Some quite dramatic about it. I don't see the Lab outright closing their Twitter account in spite of the odious nature of its current owner, simply because a lot of people (still, for some reason) use Twitter.
That said, surely it wouldn't be too tricky to crosspost to Bluesky? I wouldn't know whether the Lab has an account there because I don't have an account on either platform, but it doesn't seem like something that would cost the earth to do.
Vesca Starlight
Toothless Draegonne They do in fact appear to have a page on bluesky.
That said I think the rather heavy reaction people have had here is the general sentiments towards the "if you aren't with (thing) you are against (thing)" and inverse "if you aren't against (thing) you support (thing or other thing)" given its caused a lot of undeserved misery for people personally in the last years myself included. The reaction is less dramatic and more understandable if you've ever been the wrong thing to the wrong people regardless of what you are or support.
Tech Robonaught
Toothless Draegonne People, for some reason, still use X because they know they can voice their opinions, even if they're wrong, without fear of the Government calling management and saying, DELETE THEM AND THEIR POSTS. It is US based you know, where the basic human right of freedom of speech is cherished.
Tech Robonaught
Toothless Draegonne The OWNER of the platform delisting someone is his RIGHT - he paid 40 million dollars for it. The GOVERNMENT demanding he silence someone - is FASCISM.
Garnet Psaltery
Thus demanding exclusion in the manner of a fascist.
Darien Caldwell
Garnet Psaltery Demanding? I see a polite request.
Garnet Psaltery
Darien Caldwell I see an iron fist in a velvet glove. Different views.
Nikki Littlepaws
I'm sorry but I can't say I agree with this sentiment as it sets a precedent of control of outlets based on a political stance, which in turn means that a political sway could deter users from signing up or continuing participation on this platform.
Companies should not be beholden to a political sway by default nor should they be labeled based on the choice of platform for advertisement and display of intellectual property and artistic expression. That would be tantamount to political control and artistic oppression.
Because of that, I personally do not believe this request is reasonable. Sorry.
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