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Elon Musk Meets With Apple CEO Tim Cook Amid Claims of Twitter App Store Dispute [Updated]
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Donāt lose hope. Donāt believe everything CNN tells you; donāt believe everything Fox tells you; and, donāt believe anything the NY Times tells you.
I own two businesses and volunteer with several organizations. While, I am insanely busy, this situation ensures that I often deal with many people who have vastly different political views than my own. I have even, on occasion, worked with the White House and politicians whom I did not vote for, including the current and former administrations.
You would be pleasantly surprised to know, that, in the real world, the rhetoric is just not there. Occasionally, my own views come to light, and though I prefer keep it out of the business conversation, it rarely becomes an issue.
This is my point. If we can keep the pontificating to people we have āreal world relationshipsā with, it is substantially less likely to downgrade to vituperation.
Thatās not to say that I have never left a conversation thinking the other incompetent. Yet, I do not leave thinking the other evilā¦(OK, maybe a once or twice.)
If CEOs and others, especially those in Big Tech, who have collectively, and unethically decided that they are the gatekeepers, would let government do the governing; who would encourage the public to have open discussion instead of fostering conflict, we may have a different and better world. A world where you can buy a chicken sandwich or go to a theme park without being concerned your money will be used to harm the causes you hold dear.
Lastly, I agree that while the Media and those in positions of power will do everything they can to control the narrative, we The People, are choosing more and more to ignore them, which is, IMO, a great place for unity to breed.
Half the people want hate speech online? Says who?
Anonymity is the reason why such speech is so pervasive online.
There are little repercussions online. Perhaps they need to start connecting names to accounts?
We all know what happens when a racist is outed.
It doesnāt matter what he thinks or his ideologies are.
Elon will bow down to the advertisers lol
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I've had doubts that there was ever an issue or threat to Twitter here. Whether Musk genuinely thought there was or not is debatable too.
Which is why I stated Apple removing the Twitter app wouldn't necessarily be an issue. My comments have been more about dominance/market power and what rights a company may or may not have. A company with a dominant position in a market that engages in anticompetitive behavior can be violating antitrust laws and regulations, even if it is their platform.
Tim Apple got hammered walking down the hall in some D.C. building. He can't escape he bowed down to a communist regime. This shoots the company's human rights stand through the heart and stomps on it.
he is too busy disabling airdrop for the Chinese people.
The idea that hate speech is something that can and should be enforced is not shared by as many people as you think. The enforce hate speech laws or rules, you need to designate someone to decide what gets censored and what doesn't, and the people who end up doing that in a society are the people you would least want to. And who are they to decide what the rest of us can think and say?
There is no way to do this without an eventual slide towards tyranny.
If you're OK with the power to censor people based on your political views, you should also be OK with other people having the power to censor you based on their political views. Fair's fair.
Not sure what the point of all this bluster is.
Youāre still ignoring that there are rules on Twitter, apple, workplaces, schools, etc for hate speech.
Remind me again are they tyrannical ?
Nah, you can't just refuse to engage with my argument while asking me to keep engaging with yours.
To enforce hate speech laws or rules, you need to designate someone to decide what gets censored and what doesn't, and the people who end up doing that in a society are the people you would least want to. And who are they to decide what the rest of us can think and say?
I wonder what leverage Elon has over Tim
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Iām sure Twitter is a treasure trove of information. Anybody know how many shares of Apple stock Elon owns? Maybe one day we will all find out how they resolved this āmisunderstandingā.
Tim Cook & Elon Musk see their shadows, does that mean six more weeks of rumors about the bird app being removed from the App Store?
Well, these threads are always good for at least one thing - finding a couple more accounts to slap with an "ignore." It's a shame, since I don't want to only hear one side.
But when people are having a normal conversation about the topic at hand (Musk visiting Cook at the Apple campus) and the next thing you know the thread has been hijacked by screeds that include "woke" and "children having genital surgery" and "left-wing-racists" and on and on and on, ignore it is. I'm sure they'll get to Hunter Biden's laptop soon enough (if they haven't already - I stopped reading).
Most normal people I know don't derail conversations like this. They just live their lives and talk about what's being discussed. Like adults.
But when people are having a normal conversation about the topic at hand (Musk visiting Cook at the Apple campus) and the next thing you know the thread has been hijacked by screeds that include "woke" and "children having genital surgery" and "left-wing-racists" and on and on and on, ignore it is. I'm sure they'll get to Hunter Biden's laptop soon enough (if they haven't already - I stopped reading).
Most normal people I know don't derail conversations like this. They just live their lives and talk about what's being discussed. Like adults.
Well statistically speaking, the "conspiracy theorists" have been right more often than wrong
Why hasnt macrumors reported on Tim Cook restricting AirDrop in China at the request of the CCP?
We participate on platforms where we agree to potentially be censored all the time. This very forum for instance. As long as my governmentally protected right to free speech isnāt being infringed, thereās no issue.
Cite this statistic.Well statistically speaking, the "conspiracy theorists" have been right more often than wrong
And now she calls Elon Musk a white supremacist, while now driving a VW which is a car made by the ā¦. (I wonāt say the name as I will probably get banned).