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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Twitter Takeover, Fires Top Executives, and Makes Himself CEO
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Really hope this is satire
What is “real free speech”?
No need to answer, we know what it means, you guys make it so easy.
You do realize these are astroturfed fake accounts, right? Please don’t tell me people are that gullible.
It really shocked me how the big companies did everything to ban Trump. When Trump was banned by Twitter, people said that it he free to go somewhere else. So he went to Parler - or at least copies of his tweets went there - but as a result Parler was banned from the App Store, from the Google Play Store and Amazon Web Services, who hosted Parler so far, shut down the website from one day to the next. Sometimes even credit card companies or other payments services like Paypal just stop processing payments to certain platforms. Then those platforms are basically sanctioned like Iran or Russia, but by private companies. That is why it is important to restrict their power.
I don't think anyone actually realises what the notion of free speech is.
You can indeed speak freely on Twitter now. But you're going to look like a dick on the public record. Firstly people will challenge you and knock you down because that's their right to do so. Secondly you're doing it on the public record and believe me there are software companies out there right now with huge databases of twitter content they can objectively tie to your reputation which will follow you around until you're dead.
Don't say anything regrettable in public.
Treat each other with respect and as equals, not crow over your superiority and your ideological superiority. Life is better that way.
You can indeed speak freely on Twitter now. But you're going to look like a dick on the public record. Firstly people will challenge you and knock you down because that's their right to do so. Secondly you're doing it on the public record and believe me there are software companies out there right now with huge databases of twitter content they can objectively tie to your reputation which will follow you around until you're dead.
Don't say anything regrettable in public.
Treat each other with respect and as equals, not crow over your superiority and your ideological superiority. Life is better that way.
Especially when the accounts are CLEARLY fake. Liberals literally do this every single time. You could see this coming 1,000 miles away.
Brilliant news! Thank goodness. Twitter shouldn't be a place where those on the right are banned or silenced for 24 hours whilst the Russian, Chinese and Taliban regimes have almost total free reign to vilify the basic freedoms we cherish here in the West. I think free speech is important and hope that Musk protects our rights.
That little girl is one of the most dangerous people on this planet, because she can freely attack others and tell them they destroyed her childhood, but any time someone fights back, people say you can't attack this harmless woman. Just think about how much life has gotten more expensive just because all those new carbon taxes. Greta started all that nonsense. While I sent the tweet she was sailing across the Atlantic to visit the United Nations. So how could she be trending while on the open sea? A shark attack was my hope.
Musk didn't buy it to protect your free speech. He bought it to protect his free speech.
Watch what happens.
Pretty sure political opinions are protected characteristics
illiberalism = illiteracy.
I suppose you can prove this then right?
Political association is a protected characteristic.
Political opinion is not.
And if you publish it freely then it is no longer protected.
This isn't Slashdot. I know when to stop arguing with people.
Look at the profile pictures, look at the user names, look at the join dates. Use a shred of common sense.
There’s your proof.
This is the first reasonable argument in this thread pro right wing hate speech. But I’d argue, actually Twitter should have been doing much more in Russia, china, etc to limit the appalling content posted there.
This is why I’m starting to support climate change, humans don’t deserve this Earth as proven by this truly nutso post.
Dangerous? Nah, the danger is in climate change. She didn’t start that discussion. If that’s what you think then you’re very poorly informed.
Just like I deleted FB years ago for their practices, I deleted my Twitter account yesterday as I have no interest in participating in a forum where people think they should be expressing their hate for others, because it’s free speech. I don’t mean this as a political statement, but rather my desire for people to be kind and considerate humans.
That’s your proof lol?
C’mon man, why don’t you guys ever just be honest? Those accounts are going ******* right now because they get to freely express their racism and anti Semitism. That’s what the right means by “free speech”, don’t sugar coat it. Nobody is being fooled here.
Sorry, I don't use Twitter. And I see no use for "one common digital town square". But I can see, he wasn't able to put his thoughts into 280 characters himself, more like 280 words over two pictures, which are cut off top and bottom to fit some artificial tweet height limit? Maybe Twitter is as useless as it seems.Yeah like he really needs titlesMaybe he did it for the reasons he wrote Tweet link
EDIT: Oh no, now I see it's actually three pictures! 🤦
No, that's no way to communicate. I stay on MacRumors. Thanks!
How do you decline when you’re already at the bottom? Only one direction to go here. Up like one of Elon’s rockets.