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Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

His great purge of Fembots lasted less than 24 hours, they were back in force later the same day.
 
novaphile said:
I'm aware of the 'fembots' from Austin Powers movies.

What does this term mean from a Twatter perspective? What is their purpose?
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Bot accounts with seductive pictures of nubile young ladies and invitations to spend money on their picture and video services.
They swarm every thread and 'like' any replies to a post. They never seem to put a 'like' on an original post, just replies.
Some are pushing dubious crypto currency and NFTs.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Bot accounts with seductive pictures of nubile young ladies and invitations to spend money on their picture and video services.
They swarm every thread and 'like' any replies to a post. They never seem to put a 'like' on an original post, just replies.
Some are pushing dubious crypto currency and NFTs.
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Aha.

Gotcha.

Thanks for that.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Bot accounts with seductive pictures of nubile young ladies and invitations to spend money on their picture and video services.
They swarm every thread and 'like' any replies to a post. They never seem to put a 'like' on an original post, just replies.
Some are pushing dubious crypto currency and NFTs.
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Is there such a thing as non-dubious crypto?
 
Impulse to speak out leads to 'self-inflicted wounds', says Elon Musk

This is about a deposition in a lawsuit.

Elon Musk said he is “guilty of many self-inflicted wounds” while being questioned in a lawsuit accusing him of promoting a conspiracy theory falsely identifying a California man as a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi street brawler.

But the billionaire also said he didn’t think he had “meaningfully harmed” the Jewish 22-year-old who sued him for defamation.

“There’s some risk that what I say is incorrect, but one has to balance that against having a chilling effect on free speech in general, which would undermine the entire foundation of our democracy,” Musk said in a sworn deposition that was made public Monday despite his lawyer’s request that it remain confidential.
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So repeating unverified rumors is necessary to combat "a chilling effect on free speech in general"?
Brody said in his suit that he and his family suffered a wave of harassment by “belligerent strangers” apparently motivated by Musk’s statements. He said he also feared long-term career consequences.
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“My goal is simply to have the X platform be the best source of truth on the internet,” he told Brody’s lawyer, Mark Bankston, according to a 115-page transcript. “And when you try to figure out the truth of things, you — there’s a debate. That debate, you know, goes one way or the other, but it is a vigorous debate.”
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"the best source of truth on the internet" ;)
 
Elon Musk’s answer to everything is “free speech”.

Lies are great because free speech.

Sure.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Elon Musk’s answer to everything is “free speech”.

Lies are great because free speech.

Sure.
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As his actions has shown he means free speech for himself, not free speech for others. I do wonder if they mention in court his legal attacks against the free speech of others, even when that free speech was according to him truthful? As ever he says one thing but does another.
 
dirtywick said:
being sued for defamation has a chilling effect on lying about people
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It depends on whether there are any real consequences if you lose.

For people like Alex Jones and President Trump, those consequences seem to be largely absent.
 
The Don said:
It depends on whether there are any real consequences if you lose.

For people like Alex Jones and President Trump, those consequences seem to be largely absent.
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they are an investment: if you have to pay a $1,000 fine, you can fundraise $50,000 of it.
 
In Musk's recent deposition, he was forced to admit that the alt-account I outlined in this post was, in fact, him.

It's still way creepier than any horror movie I've ever watched. Seeing those posts again is like reliving trauma.
 
Because it's of some note to previous discussions -

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

X’s policies ban glorifying violence — a broad prohibition that X has sometimes used to take down pro-Nazi content and accounts. The rules also ban “praising violent entities” and say the platform will apply labels to hate imagery like swastikas. But NBC News found that X does not appear to be enforcing those policies consistently.
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The link goes into the subject notably more deeply, for those interested.
 
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