Freiburg following fellow Bundesliga golf equipment St. Pauli and Werder Bremen in leaving Elon Musk’s X platform in favour of Bluesky, owing to “speedy radicalisation of the platform.”
In an announcement launched by the membership, Freiburg went in-depth on their reasoning behind their resolution to ditch X.
“The sports activities membership is straight away ceasing its actions on the platform X, previously often called Twitter. Values corresponding to range and tolerance, which the membership upholds in its statutes, are being trampled on there.
The platform’s speedy radicalization is obvious via a flood of hate, incitement, and conspiracy theories. Regulation and sanctions are virtually nonexistent. Quite the opposite, Elon Musk, who took over Twitter two years in the past, is personally answerable for the publication and dissemination of a lot of this content material.
Some extent has been reached the place the sports activities membership can now not merely stick with it as earlier than. Standing towards xenophobia, racism, and discrimination is a part of our id. Remaining on the platform can now not be justified in gentle of X’s present trajectory.
SC Freiburg will due to this fact take its first steps on the platform Bluesky. We invite all events—particularly the colourful SC group that has developed on Twitter over time and can now not obtain updates from us on X—to observe SC Freiburg on Bluesky for day by day content material.
Within the coming weeks and months, we’ll observe and consider how our presence on this new platform is obtained.”
This comes after St. Pauli left X on November 14 whereas Werder Bremen adopted go well with final week. BILD additionally reported final week that Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are on the verge of leaving X, whereas Stuttgart, RB Leipzig and Hoffenheim may all observe.
