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

[Warp12]

rather childish of you, don't you think?

Not at all. No more so than liberals who celebrated the deplatforming of individuals like Jordan Peterson. Fair is fair.

I love how high and mighty they were, and now are sniveling and/or squealing when they feel persecuted or voices are restored.

 

[angrysoba]

Not at all. No more so than liberals who celebrated the deplatforming of individuals like Jordan Peterson. Fair is fair.

I love how high and mighty they were, and now are sniveling and/or squealing when they feel persecuted or voices are restored.

I don't know how many of them were celebrating given that he wasn't actually banned, but was in a kind of self-imposed exile because he didn't delete his tweet about Elliot Page.

To be perfectly honest, I think Elon Musk didn't really do Jordan Peterson much of a favour by reinstating him anyway, given that Peterson has zero impulse control and apparently spends most of his days on angry Twitter binges, threatening to beat people up and calling them woke sons of bitches.

 

[angrysoba]

Of course Elon Musk can decide how to run his site according to whichever ToS he wants. He won't do it according to The First Amendment despite claims by him and his backers. It always makes sense to have some terms of service in order to avoid the place turning into 4Chan or Gab. And of course, advertisers are going to be wary who they put their names next to - just look at adidas and Kanye, etc...

In fact, Jordan Peterson himself believes that Twitter should be regulated more. He thinks people should not be able to insult him, for example, if they have an anonymous handle. He seems irritated at the idea that whereas he put in the work to build up a name for himself, anonymous people can get a free ride of his publicity and mock him as though they were his equal.

 

[Darat]

Not at all. No more so than liberals who celebrated the deplatforming of individuals like Jordan Peterson. Fair is fair.

I love how high and mighty they were, and now are sniveling and/or squealing when they feel persecuted or voices are restored.

Any evidence for this?

 

[Warp12]

Any evidence for this?

I present to you my evidence: reality.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

I present to you my evidence: reality.

Reality being that Twitter was so much worse in the absence of Jordan, Trump and all the Nazis?

I understand that right-wingers feel Libs owe them Big Time for not assassinating Obama, but it is supremely childish to derive your pleasure from whatever a majority of Americans deems positive.

 

[Darat]

I present to you my evidence: reality.

"No" is shorter.

 

[jeremyp]

Of course Elon Musk can decide how to run his site according to whichever ToS he wants. He won't do it according to The First Amendment despite claims by him and his backers. It always makes sense to have some terms of service in order to avoid the place turning into 4Chan or Gab. And of course, advertisers are going to be wary who they put their names next to - just look at adidas and Kanye, etc...

In fact, Jordan Peterson himself believes that Twitter should be regulated more. He thinks people should not be able to insult him, for example, if they have an anonymous handle. He seems irritated at the idea that whereas he put in the work to build up a name for himself, anonymous people can get a free ride of his publicity and mock him as though they were his equal.

Not if he wants Twitter to operate in jurisdictions other than the USA.

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-mus...sticks-to-blocs-digital-rules-report-12758900

The EU hs told him that Twitter must conform to the EU laws concerning content moderation.

Twitter will have to implement transparent user policies, significantly reinforce content moderation and protect freedom of speech, tackle disinformation with resolve, and limit targeted advertising

 

[Lplus]

Reality being that Twitter was so much worse in the absence of Jordan, Trump and all the Nazis?

I understand that right-wingers feel Libs owe them Big Time for not assassinating Obama, but it is supremely childish to derive your pleasure from whatever a majority of Americans deems positive.

What a bizarre statement, but what evidence for it do you have and how is it relevant to twitter as opposed to criticism of Warp12?

 

[8enotto]

A decade or more ago Yahoo was a simple small program with every function one needs to chat with others.
It was free download, minimal ads and probably minimal data mining. But definitely had some.

Musk wants people to buy twitter, where it used to be default on phones. I know. I took it off all of mine.

He wants to run it on kneejerk decisions and his whims. Screw international law and all that entails.

He wants to dictate to Apple and potential/former advertising clients what they should do with it.
All to his benefit of course.

He may be head of a company or three that manage billions of other people's money but the limits will become very real to him.

If he wants it to become another right wing sewer it's his right. But he had best not expect to keep the EU, everyone not wanting to be part of that on board.
Reality and Mr. Musk probably don't meet often but twitter is going to change that.

 

[jimbob]

A decade or more ago Yahoo was a simple small program with every function one needs to chat with others.
It was free download, minimal ads and probably minimal data mining. But definitely had some.

Musk wants people to buy twitter, where it used to be default on phones. I know. I took it off all of mine.

He wants to run it on kneejerk decisions and his whims. Screw international law and all that entails.

He wants to dictate to Apple and potential/former advertising clients what they should do with it.
All to his benefit of course.

He may be head of a company or three that manage billions of other people's money but the limits will become very real to him.

If he wants it to become another right wing sewer it's his right. But he had best not expect to keep the EU, everyone not wanting to be part of that on board.
Reality and Mr. Musk probably don't meet often but twitter is going to change that.

So you're not going to sign up to this?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-for-human-trials-approval-within-six-months

 

[Warp12]

Musk wants people to buy twitter, where it used to be default on phones. I know. I took it off all of mine.

Does he want people to pay for the standard app, or is he proposing an enhanced service for a monthly fee? The latter.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

The San Francisco County Unemployment Office.

As Ms McSweeney is based out of Ireland, that would be the Dept. of Social Protection (the Welfare) for her dole and Intreo (formerly Fás) for her back to work efforts. If she's really lucky they'll send her on a 12 week excel bookkeeping course.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

So you're not going to sign up to this?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-for-human-trials-approval-within-six-months

Musk does push a lot of vapourware doesn't he?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

What a bizarre statement, but what evidence for it do you have and how is it relevant to twitter as opposed to criticism of Warp12?

the current craving of the Right to "Trigger the Libs" started under Obama, who was believed to have pushed the US deep into Communism. Since then, every single act to cause unpleasantness to the Center/Left has been perceived as "Righting the Wrong" Dems have inflicted on The Right Kind of Americans.

Warp is a typical example of this, as he not just believes but feels that doing whatever Dems/Libs don't like is automatically a Net Good for True America^TM, no matter what it actually is, because it is just normalization back to the Status Quo - or so the logic goes.

 

[Warp12]

Is anyone else thinking that this "new" Twitter might be the death knell for Truth Social?

Not that it was exactly on fire before...

 

[Lplus]

the current craving of the Right to "Trigger the Libs" started under Obama, who was believed to have pushed the US deep into Communism. Since then, every single act to cause unpleasantness to the Center/Left has been perceived as "Righting the Wrong" Dems have inflicted on The Right Kind of Americans.

Warp is a typical example of this, as he not just believes but feels that doing whatever Dems/Libs don't like is automatically a Net Good for True America^TM, no matter what it actually is, because it is just normalization back to the Status Quo - or so the logic goes.

So just poliitical partizanship of no relevance to twitter for no other reason than to criticise another forum poster.

 

[plague311]

So just poliitical partizanship of no relevance to twitter for no other reason than to criticise another forum poster.

Or, you know, commenting on the political partisanship going on in America that is being fed into by Elon Musk using twitter. But yeah, what you said is really cool too.

I ended up deleting my Twitter account last night, not that it'll make much of a difference overall to Twitter. I could just easily tell that the algorithm and the information being relayed to me had changed. Instead of seeing people I actually follow it was nothing but right-wing accounts and Elon Musk, but I repeat myself, showing on my feed. Wasn't even worth logging into anymore.

For the past several years I'd get my sports reporters, popehat, etc., but now it's none of that. Oh well, good riddance I suppose.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

So just poliitical partizanship of no relevance to twitter for no other reason than to criticise another forum poster.

Partisanship expressed through a reaction to Twitter Bans and elevations.
Remember that Warp didn't seem glad that right-wingers where back on Twitter because they had something important to say, but because they caused unease to the wrong kind of Americans.

 

[Segnosaur]

I wonder if Google/alphabet might want to step in and fill the void left by the smoking crater that is twitter and release their own version.

Yeah it seems like a sideways move to go from a billionaire owner to a huge corporation that almost runs the internet. But google does seem to be at least a little more in tune with reality than musk. And they are a large company with experience delivering internet -based applications and have significant infrastructure. I bet they could put together their own version of twitter fairly easily.

(Admittedly they didn't have much luck with their Facebook competitor. But the dynamics are a bit different now, with twitter struggling whereas when Google tried to challenge Facebook, Facebook didn't have any significant problems)

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