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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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Nice way to break Twitter.

Turn it into bit torrent and watch the copyright claims flood in
 
jeremyp said:
Is there another Mr Rumbold than the one in Are You Being Served? Because, if not, it's likely that only the older British forum members will get that.
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Old Americans were able to enjoy the show, too. Thanks to our Public Broadcasting System.
 
Of the people unbanned who have been discussed the last few pages, Griffin was banned for impersonating Musk, while the rest were banned for either targeted harassment (usually of trans gender people but also of cis women and in one case a black man) or fomenting violence using misinformation.

Again, why don't they use Parlor, or Truth Social, or 4chan? They can use slurs against black people and trans gender people and talk about violence all they want already in those places. (I don't think the posts in AAH were moved because of this specific point, sorry if they were.)

Why is it so important that Twitter specifically be amenable to being a cesspool of even more acidity than it already was? It's because the reactionary conservatives fundamentally don't understand that Twitter wasn't just more popular and more influential, it was so in part because they couldn't corrupt it as much.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
The future is . . . um . . . cloudy:

Twitter Spirals Into Decline and a Plague of Bots is Totally Out of Control

A week?
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A plague of bots is totally out of control? It looks like their evidence is Musk agreeing that a spate of votes for Trump not to be reinstated was done by leftist bots, as claimed by someone who I doubt is in a position to know. While bot issues are certainly something to beware of and it's very plausible that the issues are getting worse on that front... THAT is some utterly worthless evidence of a plague of bots. It is excellent evidence that Musk is absolutely not to be trusted, though. A vote for Trump not being on Twitter makes you a leftist bot, after all.
 
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Warp12 said:
That's the direction the wind is blowing today. :D

I doubt he can resist for long.
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Trump has a financial interest that will suffer if he goes back to Twitter. It should be interesting to see DWAC stock prices on Monday.
 
15 million "people" voted in Musk's poll. One of his other tweets says there were 134 million views.

Even if all the numbers were real people, which we can be sure that is not the case, the majority was silent. The people did not express an opinion leaving Musk to paint lipstick on a pig.
 
tyr_13 said:
Why is it so important that Twitter specifically be amenable to being a cesspool of even more acidity than it already was? It's because the reactionary conservatives fundamentally don't understand that Twitter wasn't just more popular and more influential, it was so in part because they couldn't corrupt it as much.
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There's also the counterpart to that. A lot of reactionaries actually are intelligent people and we really shouldn't neglect that. That they couldn't corrupt it as much may be better looked at as a challenge. So, they work to change the rules in their favor so that they can suppress those that resist their dominance, even if it means using a nuclear option. It would hardly be out of character and, quite frankly, even if people just move to an uncorrupted venue again, damage has been done that gives them advantage, both immediate and as backing for future attempts to put pressure on and corrupt where ever the people went to.

One also shouldn't forget that China, Russia, Iran, and so on have serious issues with Twitter. Musk is... quite connected to a number of powerful forces that regard Twitter as more a thorn in their side. Musk's pretty directly channeled Putin, for that matter, and the pro-Ukraine part of the world has been using Twitter to somewhat incredible effect against Russia.

Even if Musk isn't intentionally sabotaging Twitter, it would be no surprise at all for Musk to have been a useful pawn for those hostile to Twitter who knew him and could easily predict the issues that he would cause.
 
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Aridas said:
There's also the counterpart to that. A lot of reactionaries actually are intelligent people and we really shouldn't neglect that. That they couldn't corrupt it as much may be better looked at as a challenge. So, they work to change the rules in their favor so that they can suppress those that resist their dominance, even if it means using a nuclear option. It would hardly be out of character and, quite frankly, even if people just move to an uncorrupted venue again, damage has been done that gives them advantage, both immediate and as backing for future attempts to put pressure on and corrupt where ever the people went to.

One also shouldn't forget that China, Russia, Iran, and so on have serious issues with Twitter. Musk is... quite connected to a number of powerful forces that regard Twitter as more a thorn in their side. Musk's pretty directly channeled Putin, for that matter, and the pro-Ukraine part of the world has been using Twitter to somewhat incredible effect against Russia.

Even if Musk isn't intentionally sabotaging Twitter, it would be no surprise at all for Musk to have been a useful pawn for those hostile to Twitter who knew him and could easily predict the issues that he would cause.
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He has a lot of connections and points of leverage from China as well, whose 9-9-6 system he praises. (9am to 9pm 6 days a week).

Musk thinks he's a super special smart boy and that the authoritarian right is ascendant in government and society. He wants in and thinks he can gain power doing so with his masterful CEO skills.

But he's a moron and wrong.

I don't think he was trying to sink Twitter, but to do a blatant pump and dump while hurting it, then got sucked in. He's hurt so he'll try to hurt, but he also probably thinks he can pull a win out of this with his 'talents'.
 
Warp12 said:
No Bob, I do understand that. That is why I said this change more aligns the business with the Constitution. Of course the private business normally has a much different model, and standard.

There is a lot of censorship on social media, and outlets such as YouTube. It is entirely legal, but a different standard of freedom.
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If you want social media without censorship, go to 4chan.
 
Doubt said:
15 million "people" voted in Musk's poll. One of his other tweets says there were 134 million views.

Even if all the numbers were real people, which we can be sure that is not the case, the majority was silent. The people did not express an opinion leaving Musk to paint lipstick on a pig.
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No-one cares about people who don't express opinions. Only those who raise their voice have a say.
 
Aridas said:
Employees fired from Twitter's Ghana HQ accuse Musk of trying to ‘silence and intimidate’ them

Also, that their dismissals were in flagrant violation of Ghana's labor laws in a bunch of ways and more.

Yet another set of lawsuits for Twitter to deal with.

Oh, and John Oliver ripped Musk pretty badly in his recent monologue.
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Thru that link I found this:

https://twitter.com/petergyang/stat...-him-Willy-Wonka-who-benefited-from-apartheid

Uhh, scare off your advertisers and free speech or no, Twitter is dead.
 
lobosrul5 said:
Thru that link I found this:

https://twitter.com/petergyang/stat...-him-Willy-Wonka-who-benefited-from-apartheid

Uhh, scare off your advertisers and free speech or no, Twitter is dead.
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Ouch. From that link:

One of my campaign managers logged in last week and found all our paused creatives from the past 6 years had been reactivated.
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I'm sure it's just broken software, but it did cross my mind that one of the survivors at Twitter had been going through reactivating dead campaigns to generate some revenue.
 
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