Elon Musk should be the last person to control Twitter, but now he does!

Started by cdtm48 pages
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Probably less chance of that than a single billionaire having his own bias.

A bias against moderation would be a refreshing change from the biases of Jeff Bezos.

Originally posted by Robtard
Musk wouldn't turn Twitter into a "bastion of free speech", it would be Musk's personal views of what free speech is.

Which is fine, if he owns it, do whatever he likes.

I'm really concerned by his words, there. Like...
Did he buy Twitter for the sole purpose of reinstating Donald Trump to it?

Trump has struggled to get his message out since he got banned by both Twitter and Facebook. If Musk is complicit in giving this man a platform to continue his election lies and other things... 😠

Donald Trump has gotten plenty of press, and has his own very popular blog. And his packed rallies.

Will there be more porn on Twitter should be the only question being answered.

Originally posted by cdtm
A bias against moderation would be a refreshing change from the biases of Jeff Bezos.

Bias is bias. And any bias on who can tweet will be back to square one. Except youll be more okay with whose banned and whose allowed.

Originally posted by cdtm
Donald Trump has gotten plenty of press, and has his own very popular blog. And his packed rallies.

His blog? Lol

Originally posted by roughrider
I'm really concerned by his words, there. Like...
Did he buy Twitter for the sole purpose of reinstating Donald Trump to it?

Trump has struggled to get his message out since he got banned by both Twitter and Facebook. If Musk is complicit in giving this man a platform to continue his election lies and other things... 😠

White South African of a certain age and Trump...

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Bias is bias. And any bias on who can tweet will be back to square one. Except youll be more okay with whose banned and whose allowed.

His blog? Lol

Except we have that bias now. Musk is a lateral move at worst.

And at best no more moderation.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441/photo/1

Oh shit oh shit, this is not good.

Read between the lines here, "authentic all humans".

Meaning no more anonymity. Meaning the feds get a list of all provocateurs.

This has never been about free speech, it's been about the federal Gestapo rounding people up in the dead of night and sending them to labs to have their personalities rewired.

Originally posted by cdtm
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441/photo/1

Oh shit oh shit, this is not good.

Read between the lines here, "authentic all humans".

Meaning no more anonymity. Meaning [b]the feds get a list of all provocateurs.

This has never been about free speech, it's been about the federal Gestapo rounding people up in the dead of night and sending them to labs to have their personalities rewired. [/B]

Fantastic, if he does it, great job Elon!

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Fantastic, if he does it, great job Elon!

I read the exact same plot in Transformers. Senator Proteus of Cybertron promised the Decepticons full political status if they could round up 10,000 signatures.

Then he intended to drag all 10,000 names to a network of underground facilities called "The Institute", where they literally rewire personalities in a lab.

You just know the US has something like that.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Fantastic, if he does it, great job Elon!

👆

Creamed my pants and double posted.

Originally posted by cdtm
I read the exact same plot in Transformers. Senator Proteus of Cybertron promised the Decepticons full political status if they could round up 10,000 signatures.

Then he intended to drag all 10,000 names to a network of underground facilities called "The Institute", where they literally rewire personalities in a lab.

You just know the US has something like that.

cd am I reading this right? You want to be rewired and made likeable?
Originally posted by Bashar Teg
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it's official rightists are flipping their shit over personal responsibility for what they say and do.

Now Elon Musk needs to buy McDonald’s and fix all the broken ice cream machines.

Originally posted by Impediment
Now Elon Musk needs to buy McDonald’s and fix all the broken ice cream machines.
😂 true dat!

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
it's official rightists are flipping their shit over personal responsibility for what they say and do.

Originally posted by roughrider
I'm really concerned by his words, there. Like...
Did he buy Twitter for the sole purpose of reinstating Donald Trump to it?

Trump has struggled to get his message out since he got banned by both Twitter and Facebook. If Musk is complicit in giving this man a platform to continue his election lies and other things... 😠

Musk will definitely give Trump his Twitter back, Trump literally has a large cult following him and millions of users = $$$ for Twitter.

While taking Twitter private will offer Musk more power, there's still laws, legalities and laws allow people to be sued for what they say on social media. eg If Trump goes back on Twitter and gets his cult to attack people again, Twitter could be held liable in part.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
it's official rightists are flipping their shit over personal responsibility for what they say and do.

"Defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans." -Elon Musk

I'll believe it when I see it, but that would be a good start in improving Twitter, people having to stand by what they've said instead of hiding behind the anonymity of a screen, considering I keep hearing "new public square" regarding social media. Still not going to use it though.

Originally posted by cdtm
Except we have that bias now. Musk is a lateral move at worst.

Yeah thats true. Just dont see whats to celebrate here.

I guess rightists are just happy that Trump will likely be back on twitter. Although im sure his own staff and slightly more sane supporters found his constant insane tweeting embarrassing.

Presumably he'll have to rewrite the T&Cs before he can unban anyone. Might be a while in that case.