After Elon Musk bought X and implemented free speech changes, many leftists moved to an alternative platform. However, a lack of diversity of opinion on the new platform is causing a stir.
Liberal billionaire and censorship advocate Mark Cuban has used and touted Bluesky as an X alternative for months, but he appears to be no longer satisfied with the leftist echo chamber. The “lack of diversity of thought here is really hurting usage,” he warned. Bluesky attracted over a million users in 2024, according to Fortune, following Musk’s endorsement of President Donald Trump.
Cuban recently complained about Bluesky users’ inability to have open debates and conversations on the censorship-happy leftist haven. “The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful,” Cuban griped on Bluesky on June 8. “Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away[.] Talk Business: Go away[.] Talk Healthcare: Crickets. Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist[.] We are forcing posts to X.”
Cuban ironically even summed up the whole argument against those trying to control speech.
“The moderation and block tools on here are so advanced, if you see someone you don’t want to see on here, just block them. Don’t attack them,” Cuban posted in response to a question about solving Bluesky’s problems. “There used to be great give and take discussions on politics and news. Not so much any more.” It seems Cuban has finally noticed the grass isn’t always greener on the censorship side.
“Is Cuban finally starting to see the light on free speech?” asked MRC Free Speech Director Michael Morris. “Conservatives have argued from the very beginning that the answer to bad speech is more speech, not less. Allowing an individual, not the government or a Big Tech platform, to block information they don’t like puts the power in the hand of that individual. That’s precisely what freedom looks like.”
Back in November, Bluesky Safety, the platform’s censorship team, boasted about how it had to “dial” its content moderation team up to “max capacity” because of a mass flood of flagging and complaints. They urged users to help the platform by reporting “spam, scam, and trolling activity” which the platform could then censor. Bluesky’s rules also brag about the censorship model that provides tools for users to flag and block other users.
Cuban’s initial Bluesky post in November 2024 was, “Hello Less Hateful World.” But Cuban, like other anti-free speech individuals, is discovering that he doesn’t agree with anyone 100 percent of the time. Unsurprisingly, censoring free speech because of personal disagreements is a slippery slope. Worse still, those who demand censorship based on such personal disagreements can never be satisfied.
Free Speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
