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  • So I got to ask, how many y’all still on Twitter? 
    Admitting being a hypocrite isn’t easy, but would love to hear how one could possibly justify supporting such a evil platform/person at this point.  

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    So I got to ask, how many y’all still on Twitter? 
    Admitting being a hypocrite isn’t easy, but would love to hear how one could possibly justify supporting such a evil platform/person at this point.  

    No one said the platform is evil.  Musk is just a lunatic who claims he's a free speech "absolutist" while simultaneously banning reporters, suing college kids and threatening his employees with legal action related to their NDAs.  Now you've spent 6 years defending Trump, so Musk is probably pretty easy at this point.  You are great at defending bullshit with bullshit. 
  • mrussel1 said:
    No one said the platform is evil.  Musk is just a lunatic who claims he's a free speech "absolutist" while simultaneously banning reporters, suing college kids and threatening his employees with legal action related to their NDAs.  Now you've spent 6 years defending Trump, so Musk is probably pretty easy at this point.  You are great at defending bullshit with bullshit. 


    Well that’s one way to defend one’s hypocrisy assuming you are still on Twitter from your response … I love checking in on  this place, it’s the gift that keeps on giving .
    Mahalo
  • Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    So I got to ask, how many y’all still on Twitter? 
    Admitting being a hypocrite isn’t easy, but would love to hear how one could possibly justify supporting such a evil platform/person at this point.  

    How do you feel about personally contributing financially to socialist issues such as environmental, homeless, and indigenous causes. Are you comfortable with that hypocrisy? 
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    lindamarie73 said:

    Well that’s one way to defend one’s hypocrisy assuming you are still on Twitter from your response … I love checking in on  this place, it’s the gift that keeps on giving .
    Mahalo
    I'm not on Twitter, never have been, but your argument still doesn't make any sense.  
  • St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,990
    i am trying to understand your point. are you saying that if we do not like musk, his policies, or him as a person we should not use his platform?

    you do not like what pearl jam stands for. they own the forum, they own the website. yet, here you are.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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    Republicans don’t know how to engage in good faith arguments so there’s always the go to attempt at trying to accuse the other person of being a hypocrite because they think it’s a win. 
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    So I got to ask, how many y’all still on Twitter? 
    Admitting being a hypocrite isn’t easy, but would love to hear how one could possibly justify supporting such a evil platform/person at this point.  

    How many Trump NFT's did you purchase?

    Also, what do you think Trump was doing with all those top secret documents at Mara Lago?
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    i am trying to understand your point. are you saying that if we do not like musk, his policies, or him as a person we should not use his platform?

    you do not like what pearl jam stands for. they own the forum, they own the website. yet, here you are.
    hahahaha

    Maga Elites are not familiar with irony. 
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    Can someone explain to me in what way twitter is any different under musk.  It looks like the same hot garbage only now liberals instead of conservatives are being banned  based on the whims of the people in charge?  Elon Musk destroying twitter is very low on my list of things that make Elon a piece of crap. 
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  • St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,990
    static111 said:
    Can someone explain to me in what way twitter is any different under musk.  It looks like the same hot garbage only now liberals instead of conservatives are being banned  based on the whims of the people in charge?  Elon Musk destroying twitter is very low on my list of things that make Elon a piece of crap. 
    he has unblocked all of the major accounts that were spreading hate, antisemitism, racism, and inciting political violence. he also unblocked trump and allows him to spread his typical bs. he also stopped with the covid information and unblocked people that intentionally spread covid disinformation. 

    he basically gave the voices back to the worst of the worst people on the whole platform.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • he has unblocked all of the major accounts that were spreading hate, antisemitism, racism, and inciting political violence. he also unblocked trump and allows him to spread his typical bs. he also stopped with the covid information and unblocked people that intentionally spread covid disinformation. 

    he basically gave the voices back to the worst of the worst people on the whole platform.
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  • So very apt.


    Opinion  Not another column about Elon Musk

    In “The Madness of King George,” there are several scenes where very learned doctors dedicate considerable time and effort to squinting at the contents of the king’s chamber pot. Watching the movie, you think, “Well, at least we are at a stage of civilization where we don’t have to do that! We do not live in a world that hinges so completely on the condition of one or two powerful men that it is worth our while to spend hours every day examining their stools in minute detail and trying to draw conclusions from them." But then Elon Musk buys Twitter, and — I can think of no better analogy for what has ensued.

    One of the most correct tweets about Twitter is that every day it has a new main character and the goal is not to be it. But now Musk is the main character every day, and in addition to encouraging some of Twitter’s worst voices, he is astoundingly boring. Here is a sample of his tweets: “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.” “Thanksgiving cuisine is such a delightful symphony of flavor!” At one point he tweeted a mildly amusing AI-generated conversation, only to reveal he hadn’t even crafted the prompt himself. Not to mention all the memes about psyops, although I guess that counts as a mention.

    Most recently, he suspendedjournalists who were reporting on him and his efforts to ban an account that tweeted the location of his jet, saying that their reporting amounted to sharing “assassination coordinates.” Columns and columns have been poured into the abyss: Why take this step? What about all his protestations about free speech? Will we ever know what his politics are? (Could it simply be that they are what they appear? That he wants to bring creepy, far-right voices back on Twitter not from an abstract, principled commitment to free speech but because those are voices he enjoys hearing, and ban journalists and critics because they are ones he doesn’t?)

    I have complained about this before. But one of the minor, in the scheme of things, yet persistent frustrations of the Trump era was the sheer amount of brainpower that all kinds of people — good, busy, even witty — had to spend staring into the unfathomable abyss of his words and actions and trying to extract meaning from them. What was covfefe? People spent hours on that! The sheer volume of analysis and jokes and grunting, straining effort to make sense of what made Donald Trump tick — and what made his head open up and a screaming bird shoot out of it at regular intervals — was debilitating.

    There are so many people to know about on this planet. Some of them are pleasant and others are wise and many of them are kind and a few of them are funny and polite to waiters. Some of them possess remarkable skills and others are tremendous listeners and still others know what to do if you spill certain kinds of things on certain types of surfaces. Lots and lots of them own cats, and when they go online, all they do is post pictures of those cats doing cute and interesting things. There are so many people who are interesting. And instead we have to follow Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We have to watch them host SNL, and read their inane tweets, and know precisely what they are going through at all times, because their whims can cost people jobs and ruin lives.

    There is something desperately boring about despots and plutocrats. And one of the frustrating consequences of an unequal society is that the rest of us have to care what is going on with them. Now Trump might be gone, but we still have a main character we don’t want. Not that this is a new phenomenon. The ancient historian Suetonius may not have been the most accurate source, but seeing people like Musk and Trump in action, I feel more sympathetic to his accounts of what boring people, given power answerable to their whims, wind up doing. I thought it was ridiculous when he said Nero, literally the emperor of Rome, decided that, actually, what he wanted to be was an actor — but here is Musk, one of the richest men on the planet, who has decided for no reason whatsoever that what he wants to be is a Twitter troll! And not even a funny one; just as transphobic and anti-vax and awful as the bog standard. I’m sorry I doubted you, Suetonius! Maybe if we are lucky Musk will start doingmore of the fun caesar things, such as trying to get a horse into the Senate, and will stop his mission to turn Twitter into a hateful cesspool! But somehow I doubt it.

    I hate that we have to pay attention. Our lives will be impacted if Trump is again elected president, say, or the roads are suddenly filled with exploding cars, or if the place where journalists go to water-cooler about breaking news gets seized up and its rules rewritten, seemingly arbitrarily, on the fly. Mark Zuckerberg changes an algorithm, and livelihoods in the content economy shudder in terror. I would like nothing better than to not have to know or care about these people. With the amount of time I pour into them, I could have invented Narnia twice. But instead we are sitting there squinting into the king’s stool.

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    So I got to ask, how many y’all still on Twitter? 
    Admitting being a hypocrite isn’t easy, but would love to hear how one could possibly justify supporting such a evil platform/person at this point.  



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    he has unblocked all of the major accounts that were spreading hate, antisemitism, racism, and inciting political violence. he also unblocked trump and allows him to spread his typical bs. he also stopped with the covid information and unblocked people that intentionally spread covid disinformation. 

    he basically gave the voices back to the worst of the worst people on the whole platform.
    Sure but it's the same twitter, different moderators same shit platform.  All I see is that no platform should have that much reach with content moderation in so few hands regardless of what is being posted.  Truly a control the media control the message situation.  I don't want musk at the wheel, but I don't want some incestual public private partnership at the wheel either.  It's a societal deathtrap in my opinion and shouldn't be on the road no matter who is driving.  Like if an uber shows up at my house and its on fire I'm not getting in if it's Fred Rodgers at the wheel or milo yannopolis.
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    he has unblocked all of the major accounts that were spreading hate, antisemitism, racism, and inciting political violence. he also unblocked trump and allows him to spread his typical bs. he also stopped with the covid information and unblocked people that intentionally spread covid disinformation. 

    he basically gave the voices back to the worst of the worst people on the whole platform.
    Not to mention the incessant ads that now appear every 4 or 5 tweets. It's quickly gone downhill. 
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    Musk polls Twitter users about whether he should step down
    By MATT O'BRIEN
    10 mins ago

    Elon Musk is asking Twitter’s users to decide if he should stay in charge of the social media platform after acknowledging he made a mistake Sunday in launching new speech restrictions that banned mentions of rival social media websites.

    In yet another drastic policy change, Twitter had announced that users will no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms the company described as “prohibited.”

    But the move generated so much immediate criticism, including from past defenders of Twitter's new billionaire owner, that Musk promised not to make any more major policy changes without an online survey of users.

    “My apologies. Won’t happen again,” Musk tweeted, before launching a new 12-hour poll asking if he should step down as head of Twitter. “I will abide by the results of this poll."

    The incident was Musk's latest attempt to crack down on certain speech after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet.

    The banned platforms included mainstream websites such as Facebook and Instagram, and upstart rivals Mastodon, Tribel, Nostr, Post and former President Donald Trump's Truth Social. Twitter gave no explanation for why the blacklist included those seven websites but not others such as Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn.

    Twitter had said it would at least temporarily suspend accounts that include the banned websites in their profile — a practice so widespread it would have been difficult to enforce the restrictions on Twitter's millions of users around the world. Not only links but attempts to bypass the ban by spelling out “instagram dot com” could have led to a suspension, the company said.

    One of the test cases was the prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist Paul Graham, who in the past has praised Musk but on Sunday told his 1.5 million Twitter followers that this was the “last straw” and to find him on Mastodon. His Twitter account was promptly suspended, and soon after restored as Musk promised to reverse the policy implemented just hours earlier.

    Musk said Twitter will still suspend some accounts according to the policy but “only when that account’s (asterisk)primary(asterisk) purpose is promotion of competitors.”

    Twitter previously took action to block links to Mastodon after its main Twitter account tweeted about the @ElonJet controversy last week. Mastodon has grown rapidly in recent weeks as an alternative for Twitter users who are unhappy with Musk’s overhaul of Twitter since he bought the company for $44 billion in late October and began restoring accounts that ran afoul of the previous Twitter leadership's rules against hateful conduct and other harms.

    Musk permanently banned the @ElonJet account on Wednesday, then changed Twitter's rules to prohibit the sharing of another person’s current location without their consent. He then took aim at journalists who were writing about the jet-tracking account, which can still be found on other sites including Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, alleging that they were broadcasting “basically assassination coordinates.”

    He used that to justify Twitter's moves last week to suspend the accounts of numerous journalists who cover the social media platform and Musk, among them reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications. Many of those accounts were restored following an online poll by Musk.

    Then, over the weekend, The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz became the latest journalist to be temporarily banned from Twitter.

    Lorenz said she and another Post technology reporter were researching an article concerning Musk. She had tried to communicate with the billionaire but the attempts went unanswered, so she tried to contact him Saturday by posting a message on Twitter tagging Musk and requesting an interview.

    Sally Buzbee, The Washington Post's executive editor, said in a written statement Sunday that the "arbitrary suspension of another Post journalist further undermines Elon Musk’s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech.

    “Again, the suspension occurred with no warning, process or explanation — this time as our reporter merely sought comment from Musk for a story,” Buzbee said. By midday Sunday, Lorenz's account was restored, as was the tweet she thought had triggered her suspension.

    Musk’s promise to let users decide his future role at Twitter through an unscientific online survey appeared to come out of nowhere Sunday, though he had also promised in November that a reorganization was happening soon.

    Musk was questioned in court on Nov. 16 about how he splits his time among Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter. Musk had to testify in the trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over a shareholder’s challenge to Musk’s potentially $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.

    Musk said he never intended to be CEO of Tesla, and that he didn’t want to be chief executive of any other companies either, preferring to see himself as an engineer instead. Musk also said he expected an organizational restructuring of Twitter to be completed in the next week or so. It’s been more than a month since he said that.

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    AP writer Brian P. D. Hannon contributed to this report.


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