Pedo guy megalomaniacal manchild officially owns Twitter

[Massdriver]

I wish he gave more to charities. It’s perplexing. It’s in his interest to throw a billion here and there to the global poor. It’s his largest moral failing and he has plenty of them. 
 

Still, I like Tesla and SpaceX. I think Musk has some attributes to be admired. But he’s got a messiah complex that ruined what could have been. 
 

I hope he gets better with time. 
 

As for him purchasing Twitter, I don’t think it’s the end of America. We were already done!

 

ps: Weird silly fight 

[Kal-El814]

21 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Who are you following that is giving them the business for that, and why do you follow people who behave that way?

 

Or do you mean in the replies? Because I said, don’t go look for the replies because you will definitely get the toxicity in the replies to *every* topic.

 

I don't go looking through the replies, I know better than that.

 

It's creators posting receipts of people targeting them / creating fake accounts impersonating them and doing stupid shit with them, etc.

 

I don't blame them. The space is weirdly gatekept by a particularly vocal kind of chode, which in of itself isn't especially unique. But it's also not super big; purging the bad actors is frequently possible. So it's often worth the time and energy for the creators to call out the behavior. It's not like I'm following the members of BTS or something.

[BloodyHell]

28 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

Bruh if you only get Warhammer shit on your feed, you get fashy shit on your feed.

 

 

I suspect this is somewhat topic related. I follow a bunch of tabletop game creators, several of them are queer and / or trans and they get a ton of shit for simply existing.

No, I don't. I follow very specific people, and the idea that Warhammer is filled with hateful people is an terrible overstatement. Grimdank and the like is not indicative of the Warhammer community at large

[Jason]

 

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

It's creators posting receipts of people targeting them / creating fake accounts impersonating them and doing stupid shit with them, etc.

This seems like a poor strategy to avoid harassment!

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I don’t use Twitter much, just to follow a few news people, politicians, and authors. I never actually interact there. So I don’t see how much would change for me. 

[Dodger]

Wasn’t using Twitter before, won’t be using it after. Anything I’m interested in gets posted on a forum anyway. Including a bunch of shit I don’t want to see. Hopefully whichever of you gets the desire to post Ben Shapiro tweets already deleted your account in a fit of rage.

[Guest]

One nice thing about Twitter as a private firm is no longer needing to care about user and engagement growth, which is pretty much the entire reason that bots and the negativity algorithm exist. The important metrics of a privately held Twitter are different than a public one.

[Ricofoley]

Honestly, it's shocking Twitter turned out as good as it is with this dude in charge for years.

[Brick]

5 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

unless he's the kind of guy who only reads the headline

 

Shit if that's true do you think he posts here!? OK, which one of you is Elon's alt? 

[Spork3245]

[BloodyHell]

8 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Yeah, like I said, Hyperbole and nonsense. Taking a few isolated incidents and painting it as the whole community. 

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 hour ago, BloodyHell said:

Yeah, like I said, Hyperbole and nonsense. Taking a few isolated incidents and painting it as the whole community. 

Welcome to the Culture Wars. 

 

Reaction videos and consolidation accounts (i.e. Libs of TikTok) find problematic content, then give them false impression that an entire community/group of people is similar to the fringe.  Unfortunately, too many people that believe that the fringe beliefs are significantly more widespread than they are.

[SuperSpreader]

Let's make Blockchainz Twitter and the more reputation you have the more Coinz you get as NFTs on your profile and you can sell them like Reddit awards. 

[Kal-El814]

9 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

Honestly, it's shocking Twitter turned out as good as it is with this dude in charge for years.

 

Soft boiled eggs are jealous of this man’s brain smoothness.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Now this is interesting 

Other interesting tidbits on hire he’s not actually a free speech guy, but what happens when Tesla is threatened because of tweets or stories going viral? Does anyone think he won’t get involved directly like he apparently does at his other companies?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

3 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Now this is interesting 

Other interesting tidbits on hire he’s not actually a free speech guy, but what happens when Tesla is threatened because of tweets or stories going viral? Does anyone think he won’t get involved directly like he apparently does at his other companies?

 

The ever-odious Peter Navarro outright stated that he doesn't trust Musk at all when it comes to his business interests with Beijing.

 

And speaking of odious people...

 

Jeff Bezos is already testing Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech by trolling

WWW.THEVERGE.COM

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He’s just asking a few questions

 

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Just before Twitter announced it’s accepting Elon Musk’s $44 buyout bid, the world’s richest man tweeted, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”

 

His commitment is getting a mild test thanks to a fellow tech billionaire / rocket enthusiast / media mogul. Jeff Bezos quoted a New York Times reporter’s tweet pointing out that Tesla’s business interests in China could give the government leverage over Twitter via its new owner, saying, “Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?.”

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

@b_m_b_m_b_m - I added something else to my post as well

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

36 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

@b_m_b_m_b_m - I added something else to my post as well

 

I hate it so much

[stepee]

I’m not too concerned that elon owning twitter will suppress  free speech on twitter since twitter has nothing to do with free speech. Definitely concerned it will be used as a brainwashing mechanism ala fox news but I think it already captures the people who are susceptible via algorithm anyway. 

[legend]

2 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Welcome to the Culture Wars. 

 

Reaction videos and consolidation accounts (i.e. Libs of TikTok) find problematic content, then give them false impression that an entire community/group of people is similar to the fringe.  Unfortunately, too many people that believe that the fringe beliefs are significantly more widespread than they are.

 

I agree that the fringe is amplified beyond its reality via social media, but I think we also have to be a little careful of dismissing occurrences as just the fringe. In 2014, people supporting Trump would have been labeled a fringe group, yet he went on to win the republican nomination and presidency. And while he got voted out of his second term, it was more than close enough that he could still potentially win it in the next term.

 

The fringe on social media can turn into the typical.

[Spork3245]

Let's all short TSLA 

[Jwheel86]

Quote

Musk just now: 

By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. 

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. 

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

Who's law? 

[stepee]

31 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

Who's law? 

 

It’s just a bunch of complete horseshit so I don’t think it really matters. Pretty sure he’s leaving it up to the reader to decide.

[TwinIon]

 

He has clarified before (I think) that he'll comply with all laws in a given country. So he knows that the EU and the US and India will have different restrictions on speech and they will comply with all of them.

 

What I'd love to see someone grill him on more is his feeling on content rules at all. The first amendment allows all sorts of things. Basically everything not allowed on Twitter right now is allowed by the First Amendment. How about porn? Harassment? Deliberate misinformation? Impersonation? Terrorism? Suicide promotion? Gore? Is blocking someone infringing on their rights? What about muting them? Will they ban anyone? How about children, will they be allowed on Twitter now?

 

The only thing he's really specified so far is that he wants to ban bots, which is the exact opposite of free speech!

 

My guess is that most of Twitter's policies will remain in place.

[Firewithin]

Bot Lives Matter! 

[Guest]

Elon and others have floated a second tier of verification where your identity would be matched to a credit card. Not a perfect system, but would make it more difficult to create fake accounts for harassment campaigns if there was an option for verified account interactions only.

[ort]

People like Elon who value money over human lives got really pissy when twitter tried to reign in the people who were making up stupid bullshit about COVID and getting more people killed. Fuck all those people.

[stepee]

30 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

 

He has clarified before (I think) that he'll comply with all laws in a given country. So he knows that the EU and the US and India will have different restrictions on speech and they will comply with all of them.

 

What I'd love to see someone grill him on more is his feeling on content rules at all. The first amendment allows all sorts of things. Basically everything not allowed on Twitter right now is allowed by the First Amendment. How about porn? Harassment? Deliberate misinformation? Impersonation? Terrorism? Suicide promotion? Gore? Is blocking someone infringing on their rights? What about muting them? Will they ban anyone? How about children, will they be allowed on Twitter now?

 

The only thing he's really specified so far is that he wants to ban bots, which is the exact opposite of free speech!

 

My guess is that most of Twitter's policies will remain in place.

 

Wanting to spread deliberate misinformation is exactly why he bought twitter so I assume restrictions on that ease up as long as it’s not about things he aligns with. 

[stepee]

Theoretically you would think having a free speech chud own twitter now would mean we finally can stop hearing about free speech nonsense all the time but I don’t think things work that way

[Firewithin]

Cool cool cool

[CitizenVectron]

11 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

Cool cool cool

 

Yes, because he rules by chud decree.

[Ricofoley]

Read today that Ford is starting to get the first batch of F-150 Lightnings rolled out to dealerships, and I'm wondering if a big part of all this is just Elon calling this the top for Tesla stock and trying to diversify away from it.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Oh my god this is funny

(also firing a lot of engineers lol goodbye twitter)

[Kal-El814]

One of the few "both sides" things that's true is that everyone thinks the algorithm is out to get them.

 

But fucking toplel at Shapiro thinking "woke progressives" control implementation. Tell me you don't hang out with engineers without telling me you don't hang out with engineers. Smooth brains always think the solutions are fewer people, more transparency, and some kind of gestapo.

 

EDIT - LOL