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Its Official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter
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He didn't agree with blocking Russian state propaganda and disinformation either.
It takes time to finalize any deal. The most specific you will ever really get is what quarter it's expected to close
How people don't see him as just another rich billionaire asshole blows my mind. When has anyone with good intentions gone "this is mine now, I own it"
mmm, i'm taking this.
That's the €64million question. Certainly, it's possible that he can do enough damage that Twitter ducks under the Digital Markets Act's gatekeeper threshold when that kicks in (I suspect that's going to be interesting for a lot of companies beyond the usual suspects, but that's a discussion for another thread), but there's a bunch of existing laws that Twitter has to comply that Elon might be stupid enough to roll back. Honestly, I don't know, and I don't think anyone really knows, Musk included.
In my EU country there is a law banning "aggravating speech against an ethnic group". Or was it "demographic"? Not sure if that's the correct translation but you get the idea. People (on far-right in particular) get into trouble because of it quite often, convicted even.
Laws for dealing with "hate speech" and other kinds of troubling speech like harassment do exist here and have precedent, just a matter of enforcing them properly.
I checked in on my Tumblr feed.
Anybody thinking about coming back better hurry up. All the artist communities I follow are shutting the gates and getting the spears out. 🤣
Took us years to fix Tumblr. Y'all not bringing that shit here.
Anybody thinking about coming back better hurry up. All the artist communities I follow are shutting the gates and getting the spears out. 🤣
Took us years to fix Tumblr. Y'all not bringing that shit here.
Twitter is exceptionally good at moderating trans people whenever they fight back against transphobes, at least form my experience. I don't expect that to change under Musk; just get worse.
Seriously. Elon has never done a good thing or made things better for anyone in his entire life. Why do people suddenly expect him to start now?
Funny this cost less than Activision-Blizzard.
The cost to society though...
Or one billionaire asshole runs the platform in much the same way that a collection of billionaire assholes ran it and nothing much changes.
I get that people hate Musk because he's an extremely high-profile asshole billionaire, but it's not like he's usurping some fine upstanding philanthropists who charitably ran Twitter for the good of humanity.
Right wing family members of mine have pointed to Twitters handling of the Hunter Biden story leading up to the 2020 election.
I got exhausted even trying…
He'll say that now, but they always come crawling back.
Pathetic worm.
Saw some Republican saying he should buy Dominion too, LOL.
Yeah, he'll totally stop the election fraud you dreamed up in your heads with that magic freeze peach cure-all.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Twitter has always been shit, but it at least had some moderation on what could and couldn't be said. Musk plans to remove those few restrictions.
We will see an across the board increase in hatred, bigotry, and political misinformation.
You don't spend $45 billion buying a social media platform to run it the exact same way the previous leadership did, especially when that previous leadership wasn't making much money.
He's going to change things, and he's such a stupid fuck that he will inevitably make it far, far worse.
as the reddit guy pointed out he's gonna have to moderate. advertisers will run if it becomes just a hate site.
Cuz he wants to get paid to come back, it's always a grift for him.
Utter bullshit.
The bullshit is obvious with how he's flailed about ever since being banned.
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the first thing you should know about taking Donald Trump's or Fox News word at face value is that you don't
authentication all humans is just gonna lead to doxing and likely never to practically succeed
I haven't deleted my account yet, but I've now blocked Elon Musk so I don't have to see his stupid fucking tweets anymore.
People are laughing but it's crazy how irrelevant trump has become since he got banned from twitter. I don't read or see anything about him unless I actively seek it.
Edit: and I haven't. I think I've watched or heard trump a total of 1 minute since Biden became president and he got banned From twitter
Edit: and I haven't. I think I've watched or heard trump a total of 1 minute since Biden became president and he got banned From twitter
I'm kinda surprised there isn't an alternative made with the explicit mission of zero tolerance for racist, homophobic, conspiracy theorist nutjob content, etc. Unapologetic de-platforming of rightwing nonsense.
Yup. Farewell incognito accounts for members of marginalized communities. Shit is going to be broken wide open in a second and a ton of people are going to suffer just because this scum-fucking bottom-dweller had his feelings hurt from being told he's not right all the time.
If he commits to running in 2024 then he will absolutely come crawling back to it and leave his failed social media that he doesn't even post on.
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