Elon Musk Says He Would Reverse Twitter’s Ban on Donald Trump
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Someone made this observation earlier, but it's not a coincidence that people like Musk openly revealed themselves as Conservative-sympathizing shitheels precisely at a time when the labor movement is gaining steam in the US.
It wasn't too long ago that Musk was posting the trans pride flag, paying lip-service to LGBTQ+ equality, and talking about how much he prides himself on Tesla getting perfect scores on the Corporate Equality Index.
Because Jack Dorsey had to vow to investor pressure. He didn't actually want to do it.
Jack himself is the one who urged Elon to buy Twitter and take it private, away from the hands of Wall Street, in his own words.
The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent the Tesla CEO’s ear. One of them had a very personal stake: Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey.
www.wsj.com
Yeah too many people and companies are super tied to it to promote their stuff to make money. Its not going anywhere anytime soon. Its like Youtube and ingrained into people other things appear and fail to compete with these companies. No one is willing to put up the money to even try either.
Well, he won't be president for at least 2 1/2 more years, so I think a Trump tweet master thread would be fine, at least until then IMO. It gets a bit more tricky when he is president and his words can literally and directly effect the lives of millions of Americans.
Never forget, it was his hateful rhetoric that inspired an insurrection attempt on our Democracy and has led to endless assaults by Republicans on our free elections.
His words as president matter.
By then Twitter will have helped re-elect Trump and having a social media platform for politics won't matter anymore...
Companies won't have anyone to promote to if regular people not tied down to it just quit. I literally disabled my account and deleted Twitter before posting in this thread.
Deleting my account the day that happens. Do we know when this deal would go through and he would take control?
We all need to go back to MySpace. What did Tom do to deserve everyone to leave him?! He just wanted to be all our friends.
I think people focus too much on Trump, yes it would be better if he stayed banned but he's a symptom of the problem not the actual one. Secondly, Musk has no experience running a social media company and he doesn't understand branding very well, if you look at twitter its relevance and influence is generated by very few users compared to the total number of users. They are mostly the blue check demographic (and others), it actually wouldn't take many of them to leave/push against twitter to initiate an exodus of users from the entire platform.
At least it will be fun to see Trump screw over his own social network and the other start up competitors. It's going to be glorious.
I personally think twitter with or without trump isn't functionally different and everyone tweets his statements out anyways so he literally could use it just the same with everyone acting as a middle man anyways. It's also not as if my lunatic Trumper parents like him because he's on twitter or not.
I personally think twitter with or without trump isn't functionally different and everyone tweets his statements out anyways so he literally could use it just the same with everyone acting as a middle man anyways. It's also not as if my lunatic Trumper parents like him because he's on twitter or not.
Clickbait article titles and even ResetEra thread title "Its Official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter" are to be blamed.
The problem is the media and business won't leave twitter so neither will the users in any big way and whatever is said on twitter will spread everywhere anyway, it's like hoping Facebook implodes.
Yeah, a problem with Twitter alternatives is that not only they are small and confusing, they don't have news, brands, famous people...
You can't see a new trailer in Mastodon.
Make no mistake, he still has a smallish, but plenty active defense force on these boards. Most of the ones who haven't been banned are just marginally subtler and better at picking their spots.
Oh you mean alienating the part of the county who believe lies such as the election was stolen and Democrats eat babies. Trump on Twitter is bad for our Democracy but this rich fuck doesn't care.
If he returns to Twitter there needs to be a mass exodus. I wouldn't share a platform with known American traitor.
If he returns to Twitter there needs to be a mass exodus. I wouldn't share a platform with known American traitor.
Elon is the conundrum America deserves. He's killing our beloved gas cars but now Trump can speak! Hooray!
It's going to be great! He'll be an ISP, a content provider, an electricity provider, a car manufacturer. Plus, he'll even sell us the roads to drive 'em on. One stop shop.
Yep. Same.
I also get the added bonus of not spending time on Twitter. Even though I enjoyed it, I can be more productive elsewhere.
I mean he isn't wrong….Trump is a terrible human being, but I think it's better to have him on Twitter where his terribleness can be on display rather than divide the country even more and force people on to other platforms. Free speech applies to everyone. If he spreads misinformation they can always highlight that in his tweet which they've done in the past and I believe that's more effective than just kicking him off the platform.
Elections have become too interesting. That's the inherent problem.
How do so many people keep conflating "free speech" as something that applies to everything or what the 1st amendment actually means? How did this get so twisted?
I stopped at freedom of speech because last time I checked the US government hasn't thrown him in jail for what he's said.
If you get banned from Era has your free speech been violated yea or nah?
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We should also unban Nazis and eugenics proponents.
I mean, it's important we give equal opportunity to those who believe humans should be systematically murdered based on their genetics.
It will be educational and heal society.
I mean, it's important we give equal opportunity to those who believe humans should be systematically murdered based on their genetics.
It will be educational and heal society.
This is quaint but the fundamental concept you're dressing up is that it's better to cohabit a space with Nazis and the alt-right as opposed to letting them circlejerk in some dump hidden from the majority of people. I don't really think it is.