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Musk Reinstates Trump on Twitter

Stacyhs said:
Has, or can, anyone verify that the vote was what Musk says it was? Not that he'd lie in order to do exactly what he already said he was going to do.
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I think it's safe to say there was a poll and that it had votes in it. Anything otherwise would be too easy to debunk.

Now whether or not those votes were real people or bot \ people who were paid to create fake accounts and vote in it is another story entirely.

Not sure how you would even verify that unless you go over all accounts one by one and check them out.



On the other hand, if those were the numbers in the above image then 7,814,267 people voted for him. It doesn't seem outlandish that Trump has that many people that would vote for him to come back. Whether they support him or are just in general "nobody should be banned" people or just "come on, let's make fun of him" people.
 
I don't care, but basing your policy decisions on internet polls sets a wonderful precedent.

I'm guessing this is a one-off though, which just makes me wonder why Trump gets to be so special.
 
Olmstead said:
I don't care, but basing your policy decisions on internet polls sets a wonderful precedent.

I'm guessing this is a one-off though, which just makes me wonder why Trump gets to be so special.
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I do wonder if it would open them to further legal challenges for accounts being suspended?
 
GrandMasterFox said:
I think it's safe to say there was a poll and that it had votes in it. Anything otherwise would be too easy to debunk.

Now whether or not those votes were real people or bot \ people who were paid to create fake accounts and vote in it is another story entirely.

Not sure how you would even verify that unless you go over all accounts one by one and check them out.



On the other hand, if those were the numbers in the above image then 7,814,267 people voted for him. It doesn't seem outlandish that Trump has that many people that would vote for him to come back. Whether they support him or are just in general "nobody should be banned" people or just "come on, let's make fun of him" people.
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Musk was sorting out all those bots, so there is no way bots could have been used…..
 
Olmstead said:
I don't care, but basing your policy decisions on internet polls sets a wonderful precedent.

I'm guessing this is a one-off though, which just makes me wonder why Trump gets to be so special.
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It means Musk has gone full own the libs. Which is a wonderful strategy when you're dependent on them to make your main company viable.

But then again, who am I to question galaxy brain Elon?
 
Pretty sure that it worked out for the best for Musk.

He said he would reinstate Trump, and he did. He can point to the poll to show that people had their chance to vote (of course the procedures are garbage, but he can still say he gave Twitter users more chance than they had had before to have their say), then if Trump refuses to post, it will be one less headache for him if Trump just decides to violate all ToS's.

That said, pretty sure Trump will eventually be back on Twitter with some excuse. Maybe to make fun of people who don't use Truth Social, which is pretty much everyone.
 
Stacyhs said:
Wanna bet?

So the voting was open about a day. Yep...that's going to be some kind of reliable poll.
Musk wants Trump back on Twitter because he thinks it will revive the sinking ship.
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Now, it's an established legend that rats leave a sinking ship, but nobody ever claimed you could keep the ship afloat by putting them back onboard.

Hans
 
Somebody is very happy.

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It might do well to remember why trump was removed from Twitter to begin with. It was in the immediate wake of the January 6th invasion of Congress by his supporters. It was in line with policies various social media platforms had essentially had forced upon them. That unscrupulous people had used social media to foment violence again people they considered 'enemies.' That the costs from this had been devastatingly real and the platforms needed to take steps to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Not wait until people were dead and then suspend the accounts of those who had instigated it.

In 2020 the Kuwait Times reported:
Facebook and other social platforms, which are also often used to organize peaceful events and pro-democracy movements, have been condemned for failing to stop a range of abusive and hateful content including organized violence such as the massacre of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty near Paris. Kuwait Times link
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Gulliver Foyle said:
It means Musk has gone full own the libs. Which is a wonderful strategy when you're dependent on them to make your main company viable.

But then again, who am I to question galaxy brain Elon?
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One thing for sure I will never be back on Twitter ever again.
 
When Trumpists complain about how old twitter restricted speech it lays bare how they aren’t really conservatives. They don’t believe in capitalism or commercialism, they want authoritarianism.

The free market rejected them and their ideas. Now they need a sponsor to come to the rescue.

Musk won’t be their savior. Even he isn’t rich enough to prop up their failing ideas. Trumpist social media will be just as profitable as Trumpist comedians are funny.
 
Mike! said:
I can't see Trump returning to Twitter because that'd be like admitting his platform isn't cutting it for him, and we know he'll never acknowledge making any kind of mistake.
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Plus the fact that Kathy Griffin was reinstated before he was.
 
Mike! said:
I can't see Trump returning to Twitter because that'd be like admitting his platform isn't cutting it for him, and we know he'll never acknowledge making any kind of mistake.
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That might be part of Musk's rationale. Twitter is one of the worst acquisitions in history. He needs more eyeballs on ads. Killing Truth Social might bring those eyes back to Twitter. I don't think it will work but it looks like Musk is grasping at straws.

Musk's real problem is all those employees leaving know what right looks like. They could possibly go in on a new platform or an existing company could swoop them up.
 
If there weren't pretty abundant evidence that Musk is what he is, and his idea of free speech as muddled as it is, a recreational conspiracy theorist could put together a pretty good argument that this is all a plot by Musk to induce Trump to abandon other social media and then, through the inevitable crash of Twitter, to expose him to ridicule and ultimately deplatform him without seeming to.

How's that for a conspiracy theory: it turns out Musk is not the egotistical, right wing jerk we thought, but a liberal sleeper agent!

(note, for those who think the latter is serious, sure it is, and there are also fairies at the bottom of our garden, scantily clad in emerald garlands of questionable provenance.)
 
Dr. Keith said:
When Trumpists complain about how old twitter restricted speech it lays bare how they aren’t really conservatives. They don’t believe in capitalism or commercialism, they want authoritarianism.

The free market rejected them and their ideas. Now they need a sponsor to come to the rescue.

Musk won’t be their savior. Even he isn’t rich enough to prop up their failing ideas. Trumpist social media will be just as profitable as Trumpist comedians are funny.
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Well look at the "conservatives" and "free speech advocates" here and their double-standard over the Missouri book ban law and the "no denigration" gags for former Twits.
 
Seems like Trump CAN'T leave Truth Social, as he is contractually obligated to post whatever he wants to post there first, and not for another 6 hours afterwards on any other platform.
 
Maybe he will be happy becoming President of Twitter and leave the rest of us alone.
 
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