New candidate for Twitter CEO advocating for South African style racial quotas https://t.co/Fcms7EZrrj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) May 12, 2023

Doc Holliday said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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New candidate for Twitter CEO advocating for South African style racial quotas https://t.co/Fcms7EZrrj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) May 12, 2023

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Ugh stupid ass move by elon

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a real head scratcher. activists running twitter caused all the problems in the first place.

BearFan33 said:

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Doc Holliday said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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New candidate for Twitter CEO advocating for South African style racial quotas https://t.co/Fcms7EZrrj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) May 12, 2023

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Ugh stupid ass move by elon

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a real head scratcher. activists running twitter caused all the problems in the first place.

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What is $40 billion between friends?

Whatever Elon says about being a ‘radical centrist’ or whatever we now know he’s definitely fully assimilated to the modern Anglophone Right: he pulled off a massive victory practically in a fit of absent mind, then within a matter of months he’s handing it all over to the enemy https://t.co/SUlGvcexys

— ReStation (@St1Station) May 12, 2023

Never, I repeat never, trust anyone who wears glasses like this. https://t.co/8RoP1KjkcY

— Bobby (@RealBlackIrish) May 13, 2023

Redbrickbear said:

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Never, I repeat never, trust anyone who wears glasses like this. https://t.co/8RoP1KjkcY

— Bobby (@RealBlackIrish) May 13, 2023

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That accent though

Twitter cancelled tweets against Erdogan to avoid retribution from Turkey.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

HuMcK said:

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Actually, Twitter fielded similar requests from Erdogan in 2014 under the previous leadership, and that time they didn't just roll over and acquiesce to the threat like Musk just did.

Musk's direct interference in decision making is objectively worse than what came before, but he puts his thumb on the scale in favor of "the right" so they love him.

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Use of the word "objective(ly)" is now following the same path as "virtual(ly)". They are now used as an emphatic rather than factual.

quash said:

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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Yep…very similar leadership as the old twitter

Oh shit.... She's one of "those" people...

Elon, fella, get a grip! https://t.co/lq8rY3GGZL

— DJSharpieD (@SharpieDj) May 15, 2023

She's crazy but I think Musk picked her in an attempt to make twitter profitable; he's hemorrhaging cash on the deal. If I read his tweets correctly (as he defended the pick), he'll remain in control of the technical stuff.

I remain very skeptical of the pick but we shall see.

"I don't want to hear about Elon Musk talking about free speech ever again. He literally bowing down to a dictatorship."

— @EnesFreedom on Musk's decision to choose "business and money over his morals and principles" by shutting down some Turkish accounts at Erdogan's insistence pic.twitter.com/7crhdChiHi

— The Recount (@therecount) May 15, 2023

LIB,MR BEARS said:

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HuMcK said:

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Actually, Twitter fielded similar requests from Erdogan in 2014 under the previous leadership, and that time they didn't just roll over and acquiesce to the threat like Musk just did.

Musk's direct interference in decision making is objectively worse than what came before, but he puts his thumb on the scale in favor of "the right" so they love him.

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Use of the word "objective(ly)" is now following the same path as "virtual(ly)". They are now used as an emphatic rather than factual.

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No, I think a group of people arguing the merits of a moderation decision is objectively better than the current system, where a trolling billionaire makes unilateral decisions based on his ideological whims that day. Musk is doing all of the things his supporters claimed to despise, except now there is even less debate or transparency about it because it all just comes from him directly.

We literally have a test case for this, I already referenced it. In 2014 the Turkish government (Erdogan) made similar requests, but that time Twitter refused to bow down and the threat was shown to be a bluff. Fast forward to now, and we have Musk himself making the call to deplatform opposition candidates, and the background context is Musk currently negotiating a potentially lucrative SpaceX deal with (Erdogan's) Turkey.

HuMcK said:

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LIB,MR BEARS said:

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HuMcK said:

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Actually, Twitter fielded similar requests from Erdogan in 2014 under the previous leadership, and that time they didn't just roll over and acquiesce to the threat like Musk just did.

Musk's direct interference in decision making is objectively worse than what came before, but he puts his thumb on the scale in favor of "the right" so they love him.

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Use of the word "objective(ly)" is now following the same path as "virtual(ly)". They are now used as an emphatic rather than factual.

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No, I think a group of people arguing the merits of a moderation decision is objectively better than the current system, where a trolling billionaire makes unilateral decisions based on his ideological whims that day. Musk is doing all of the things his supporters claimed to despise, except now there is even less debate or transparency about it because it all just comes from him directly.

We literally have a test case for this, I already referenced it. In 2014 the Turkish government (Erdogan) made similar requests, but that time Twitter refused to bow down and the threat was shown to be a bluff. Fast forward to now, and we have Musk himself making the call to deplatform opposition candidates, and the background context is Musk currently negotiating a potentially lucrative SpaceX deal with (Erdogan's) Turkey.

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How are you in a position to judge that if you did not work for twitter pre and post Musk?

But if true it is very worrying that post-Musk Twitter interfered in Turkey's election.

But how is that objectively different than pre-Musk twitter interfering in USA elections? UK elections? Canadian elections? And even in the elections of Brazil and other Western nations?

I will say it is refreshing to see that Liberals are now speaking up and voicing concerns with how much power Big Tech has to silence the voices of opposition in politics and culture.

They did not care for years while it was conservatives and right-wingers being censored, blacklisted, deplatformed, and silenced.

Redbrickbear said:

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HuMcK said:

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LIB,MR BEARS said:

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HuMcK said:

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Actually, Twitter fielded similar requests from Erdogan in 2014 under the previous leadership, and that time they didn't just roll over and acquiesce to the threat like Musk just did.

Musk's direct interference in decision making is objectively worse than what came before, but he puts his thumb on the scale in favor of "the right" so they love him.

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Use of the word "objective(ly)" is now following the same path as "virtual(ly)". They are now used as an emphatic rather than factual.

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No, I think a group of people arguing the merits of a moderation decision is objectively better than the current system, where a trolling billionaire makes unilateral decisions based on his ideological whims that day. Musk is doing all of the things his supporters claimed to despise, except now there is even less debate or transparency about it because it all just comes from him directly.

We literally have a test case for this, I already referenced it. In 2014 the Turkish government (Erdogan) made similar requests, but that time Twitter refused to bow down and the threat was shown to be a bluff. Fast forward to now, and we have Musk himself making the call to deplatform opposition candidates, and the background context is Musk currently negotiating a potentially lucrative SpaceX deal with (Erdogan's) Turkey.

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How are you in a position to judge that if you did not work for twitter pre and post Musk?

But if true it is very worrying that post-Musk Twitter interfered in Turkey's election.

But how is that objectively different than pre-Musk twitter interfering in USA elections? UK elections? Canadian elections? And even in the elections of Brazil and other Western nations?

I will say it is refreshing to see that Liberals are now speaking up and voicing concerns with how much power Big Tech has to silence the voices of opposition in politics and culture.

They did not care for years while it was conservatives and right-wingers being censored, blacklisted, deplatformed, and silenced.

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He's not concerned. He's pissed off that the left loss their propaganda machine.

“I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money — so be it”
-@ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/dKOBiJeKpG

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 16, 2023

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

The contract ended June 30. So, here we are. The story about throttling being intentional is likely just a cover for this chaos. https://t.co/abMDk0mGQo

— Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) July 1, 2023

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-threads-launch-instagram-app-twitter/

"In the days leading up to Threads' release, some people on social media referred to it as a "Twitter killer" because of the expectation that some users of the rival platform will jump ship in favor of the new app. Some Twitter users have expressed frustration with recent changes instituted by CEO Elon Musk, who this week throttled the number of tweets that nonpaying users are able to vie
w per day.

Twitter has also seen a spike in hate speech since Musk bought the platform last year."

Why have conservative boycotts started working?

Business analysts and academics keep coming back to one answer: “Twitter changed hands.”

The Elon Musk effect.

On cultural issues, it ended up being bigger than the results of the 2022 election. https://t.co/ZOQaT8d8Np pic.twitter.com/QWCj4bgW68

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 10, 2023

NEW: The daily active users on Mark Zuckerberg's "Threads" PLUMMETS by 70% from its peak.

THREADS — 13 million ADUs, down from 44 million on July 7, spending avg of 4 min on the platform.

TWITTER — 200 million ADUs spending avg of 30 min on the platform.

Twitter remains king. pic.twitter.com/I6lKm9jThL

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 21, 2023

Weeeeee pic.twitter.com/UJ3JqoHGgN

— greg (@greg16676935420) July 21, 2023

Is it Twitter or is it Xavier?

Touche ... well done.

Redbrickbear said:

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Poor Malcolm.
Article title is pretty much pig cleanser.

I genuinely wish it were the case that left-liberal members of Congress were angry about or at least concerned with the US Security State's official programs to censor the internet in the name of combatting "disinformation."

But there simply are none. So watch how good this is: https://t.co/dLBgG8u7No

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 26, 2023

The ADL is bragging about its ability to bully X 's leadership, counting on their public embarrassment to do the trick.

No one elected Greenblatt or agreed to make ADL the hall monitor in the X terms of service, and yet, he revels in having the power to judge and condemn all: https://t.co/axQgM1TzNr

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) August 31, 2023

Redbrickbear said:

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I genuinely wish it were the case that left-liberal members of Congress were angry about or at least concerned with the US Security State's official programs to censor the internet in the name of combatting "disinformation."

But there simply are none. So watch how good this is: https://t.co/dLBgG8u7No

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 26, 2023

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Why would this be a surprise? Democrats are fascist-authoritarians at heart, so they love this type of Newspeak and disinformation.

Elon Musk secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of occupied Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to a report.https://t.co/N16e7dIbH7

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 7, 2023

Elon Musk represents something very special about Western Civilisation; He’s the forward thinking innovator

The ADL represent the great enemy of this Western genius; The petty bureaucrats

Elon thinks BIG:

- “We’re going to build rockets and go to Mars”

- “We’re going to… https://t.co/NKi1w0kFJU

— Uberboyo (@uberboyo) September 7, 2023