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Elon & Twitter
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JohnSnowNW
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He's very busy creating polls and memes and such though...busy guy.
This idiot really thinks someone wants to assassinate him
basically more MAGA QANON BS….I really wish Tesla would cut ties with him, Franz should take over
EVNow
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May be the Semi guy ? Also a good speaker …This idiot really thinks someone wants to assassinate him
I really wish Tesla would cut ties with him, Franz should take over
Or Jack
BitJam
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What he says:
Actions speak louder than words. Is it even possible for Elon to make good on this boast?
Protips: Selling $3.5B of TSLA every month is not the way to ensure Tesla shareholders benefit from Twitter. Nor is the long list of things Elon has done to alienate Twitter users and advertisers. Overtly politicizing Twitter (and Tesla by extension) is not helping Twitter and is not helping Tesla shareholders.
I will make sure Tesla shareholders benefit from Twitter long-term.
What he does:Elon sells another $3.6B of TSLA.
Actions speak louder than words. Is it even possible for Elon to make good on this boast?
Protips: Selling $3.5B of TSLA every month is not the way to ensure Tesla shareholders benefit from Twitter. Nor is the long list of things Elon has done to alienate Twitter users and advertisers. Overtly politicizing Twitter (and Tesla by extension) is not helping Twitter and is not helping Tesla shareholders.
A few minutes after Elon bailed out on his 2-minute appearance in the Twitter Space discussion the entire discussion ended suddenly. The normal recording playback is not available. It’s been censored.
ElectricIAC
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With what? The same stuff the Chinese government uses to play cat and mouse with VPN users?
Here's another:
Apparently they're working on the full recording in a Discord. Probably will be released later.
EVNow
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EVNow
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I’m not surprised Musk has zero regard for free speech. Just BS.
EVNow
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Bet TSLA
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Just to be more complete, Tom Fitton is also one of those who was whispering in Trump's ear encouraging him to treasonously keep power. Even before the election.
Some details here, (Who Is Tom Fitton? The Voter Fraud Propagandist Who Urged Trump to Ignore the Will of the People | Right Wing Watch) repeated in many other places.
The fact that Musk listens to him at all on Twitter is disgusting. He's another person who clearly belongs in prison along with his fellow insurrectionists.
These findings were presented during the House select committee’s ninth hearing held Thursday and, taken along with comments from Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and testimony from Greg Jacobs, were evidence that Trump had a premeditated plan to declare victory whether or not he had the votes....
Fitton hasn’t relented in waging war on voting. During his 2021 CPAC address, Fitton declared that “Voting by mail should be generally ended.” And in 2022, Fitton became the president of the Council of National Policy, whose members were prominent in the campaign to overturn the 2020 election results.
stopcrazypp
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Welp, just saw in news about the mass suspending of journalists on Twitter (I guess you guys also discussed this already). Does Elon not realize how hypocritical he looks now with a move like this, and how unconvincing his justification for it is? This is the prime reason few believed Twitter can be a "free speech" platform with him having the final say on content, but I didn't expect this example to happen so soon.
Then not respecting the poll he made asking if they should be reinstated and the disaster with the Twitter Spaces.
I see up thread his post about the 7 day ban for journalists and that taking some time off Twitter can be a good thing. Perhaps Elon really needs to take his own advice and take some time off Twitter?
Then not respecting the poll he made asking if they should be reinstated and the disaster with the Twitter Spaces.
I see up thread his post about the 7 day ban for journalists and that taking some time off Twitter can be a good thing. Perhaps Elon really needs to take his own advice and take some time off Twitter?
ZenRockGarden
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It's not gonna go under - Elon can keep it going quite a long time with his piles of TSLA cash.
But this idea that he's headed toward making it a nirvana of centrist, delightful, well reasoned free speech town hall is already pretty much a farce. He's deeply anti-free-speech on anything he doesn't happen to like. Twitter is now his personal agenda platform, openly biased to his political tribal concerns.... which is amusingly the very thing he claimed was wrong at Twitter and needed fixing.
Bet TSLA
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Here's the latest rant from Jim Wright, former military and well-known blogger at Stonekettle Station. All about Elon Musk and Twitter.
www.stonekettle.com
The Mad Titan
I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh w...
italian bread
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1. So much for Vox Populi.
2. Perhaps a public square shouldn’t be privatized.
Some excerpts from:
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company
The Twitter account for Mastodon, a platform billed as a Twitter alternative, was also suspended early Thursday evening. Twitter accounts operated by NBC News journalists were unable to tweet any links to Mastodon pages. Mastodon was, however, trending on Twitter.
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He [Musk] had earlier put up a poll with a variety of options, asking whether or when he should reinstate the journalists’ accounts. When a plurality of respondents voted to restore the accounts immediately, he deleted the poll and started a new one with fewer options.
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In early November, shortly after having taken control of Twitter, Musk tweeted that he would not ban the account that tracked his jet.
2. Perhaps a public square shouldn’t be privatized.
Some excerpts from:
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company
The Twitter account for Mastodon, a platform billed as a Twitter alternative, was also suspended early Thursday evening. Twitter accounts operated by NBC News journalists were unable to tweet any links to Mastodon pages. Mastodon was, however, trending on Twitter.
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He [Musk] had earlier put up a poll with a variety of options, asking whether or when he should reinstate the journalists’ accounts. When a plurality of respondents voted to restore the accounts immediately, he deleted the poll and started a new one with fewer options.
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In early November, shortly after having taken control of Twitter, Musk tweeted that he would not ban the account that tracked his jet.
italian bread
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Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger
The same day, a new Twitter policy outlawed the sharing of “live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to … travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available.”
Yet none of the tweets from suspended reporters that The Post has reviewed revealed the location of Musk or his family.
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass) wrote on Twitter Thursday night that her staff had met that same day with Twitter officials. “They told us that they’re not going to retaliate against independent journalists or researchers who publish criticisms of the platform. Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended.”
The same day, a new Twitter policy outlawed the sharing of “live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to … travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available.”
Yet none of the tweets from suspended reporters that The Post has reviewed revealed the location of Musk or his family.
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass) wrote on Twitter Thursday night that her staff had met that same day with Twitter officials. “They told us that they’re not going to retaliate against independent journalists or researchers who publish criticisms of the platform. Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended.”
italian bread
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Anybody else find it ironic that Teslas will feature zoom meetings at the same time as Musk is banning working remotely?
Zoom Work Meetings Integrated Into Your Tesla: Coming Soon
Raisin45567
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From the New York Times: “After his suspension from Twitter, Mr. Sweeney turned to Mastodon, an alternative social network. After Mastodon used Twitter to promote Mr. Sweeney’s new account on Thursday, Twitter suspended Mastodon’s account. As some journalists shared the news of Mastodon’s suspension, their own accounts were suspended.”
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