Musk and Twitter

[DittoHead]

Pretty much everyone who wrote the Twitter Files has parted ways with Elon.

From Alex Berenson:

On Thursday, he picked a fight with Substack, a company one-one-thousandth Twitter’s size. Then he doubled down by attacking Matt Taibbi, a veteran investigative reporter who has done months of work at Musk’s invitation on the Twitter Files, the effort to open Twitter’s archives to examine how governments, non-profits, and companies tried to force Twitter to censor tweets and ban users.

In 48 hours, Musk has burned up what’s left of his credibility as a free speech champion. And he’s ensured the mainstream media will forever treat the Twitter Files – a key reason he bought Twitter – as a joke.
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If Musk has a long-term or even short-term plan for Twitter, that plan is not evident. He is simply flailing from crisis to crisis.

He apparently shadowbanned Taibbi. 

[cordex]

Yeah, Elon is not the champion of free speech on social media he pretends to be.

I have noted your newfound interest in the subject, though. Welcome to the party.

[dogmush]

Elon:  BBC is stated funded media.

BBC:  No we're not!!

Elon: Well why don't you come on my Twitter Space and we'll talk about content moderation.

BBC:  Well this seems like a good idea and totally not a trap, let's send someone.

The Trap:  https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1646025652347506688?s=20

My personal favorite part of that clip is BBC hack saying "This is not an interview about the BBC" and Elon saying "Oh, you thought it wasn't?"   

Elon is not a perfect guy by any means, but the level of schadenfreude I get from watching the self proclaimed gatekeepers of public discourse have their control stripped away by his whims allows me to overlook a lot of ideological differences I might have with Elon.

[WLJ]

Yeah, Elon is not the champion of free speech on social media he pretends to be.

I have noted your newfound interest in the subject, though. Welcome to the party.

There's going to be some missteps along the way and areas we will disagree on and besides I seriously doubt he's personally micro managing twitter especially with all the activity at SpaceX.

[Ben]

It appears he has cut 80% of twitter staff. I would assume it was mostly non-operational staff. I would also assume most of the other similar companies are just as bloated as twitter was.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk/index.html

[Angel Eyes]

[WLJ]

I can heard the steam coming out of their ears as I type

Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who 'sterilize a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11974075/Elon-Musk-slams-transgender-therapy-minors.html

[Ben]

I can heard the steam coming out of their ears as I type

Elon Musk slams transgender therapy for minors and says parents or doctors who 'sterilize a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11974075/Elon-Musk-slams-transgender-therapy-minors.html

When he's right, he's right.

[Ben]

This right here is some gold medal gaslighting:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1647075805866913793

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/04/15/unreal-msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-how-elon-musk-and-twitter-could-interfere-with-elections/

[WLJ]

This is my shocked face

    Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk has claimed in a new interview how the U.S. government had complete access to users private messages on Twitter
    Musk stated how he was surprised when he learned of the revelation
    Musk then goes one step further and admits how  government agencies had full access to everything that was happening on Twitter

'Government had full access': Elon Musk makes bombshell claim that US govt could access Twitter users' private messages
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11980025/Elon-Musk-claims-Government-access-private-Twitter-DMs.html

[WLJ]

More Elon

    Pronouns are virtue-signaling, so inevitably, as with all virtue-signaling, they will be used as a shield by bad humans

    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2023

    In any event, good manners require using the person’s name, not their pronoun, when referring to them

    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2023

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/17/boomity-elon-musk-calls-pronouns-out-for-the-virtue-signaling-bad-human-shields-they-really-are/

[WLJ]

Welcome to the extreme radical fascist MAGA far right Mr. Musk.

[Ben]

I saw Tucker Carlson is doing an interview with him tonight. I'm DVRing it - it should be good.

[WLJ]

Someone came unprepared and got their arse handed to them because of it.

As they discussed looming layoffs and the “painful” journey Musk, 51, has gone through following his Twitter acquisition last year, BBC reporter James Clayton decided to confront the Tesla founder about allegations that he does not have enough staff to police hate speech on Twitter.

“What hate speech are you talking about?” Musk asked. “I mean, you use Twitter. Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just a personal anecdote? I don’t.”

When Clayton answered that he did personally see more hate speech on Twitter, Musk challenged him to name just one example, but the reporter could not come up with one.

“Honestly, I don’t … I don’t actually use that feed anymore because I just don’t particularly like it,” Clayton said of Twitter’s “For You” feature. ” And actually a lot of people are quite similar. I only look at my followers.”

Musk replied: “I’m asking for one example and you can’t give a single one. Then I say, sir, that you don’t know what you are talking about.”

“You cannot give me a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And yet you claimed that hateful content was high. That is false, you just lied.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/elon-musk-slams-bbc-reporter-in-tense-interview/

[WLJ]

And to prove him right

‘Sounds Just Like Trump’: Elon Musk Blasted for Tweeting Demonstrably False Meme Supporting Conservatives
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/sounds-just-like-trump-elon-musk-blasted-for-tweeting-demonstrably-false-meme-supporting-conservatives/

[Ben]

The interview with Tucker Carlson is very interesting. Various governments have had access to people's DMs, which (I assume as I'm not on twitter) are supposed to be private. Elon said that he's implementing encryption now.

[RocketMan]

The interview with Tucker Carlson is very interesting. Various governments have had access to people's DMs, which (I assume as I'm not on twitter) are supposed to be private. Elon said that he's implementing encryption now.

Do you mean various governments of other nations, including the US?  Or various US government agencies?

[Ben]

Do you mean various governments of other nations, including the US?  Or various US government agencies?

Yeah, sorry, the latter. I didn't have anything to drink yesterday, but I still apparently drunk typed.

There's going to be a part 2 tonight.

[dogmush]

Late night Elon tweets are the best Elon tweets

[MechAg94]

And to prove him right

‘Sounds Just Like Trump’: Elon Musk Blasted for Tweeting Demonstrably False Meme Supporting Conservatives
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/sounds-just-like-trump-elon-musk-blasted-for-tweeting-demonstrably-false-meme-supporting-conservatives/

Interesting that no where in the article did they list out specific issues where Republicans moved to the right.  That would seem like a simple thing to do. 

[dogmush]

Interesting that no where in the article did they list out specific issues where Republicans moved to the right.  That would seem like a simple thing to do.

That's because it's not an article.  It's left wing twitchy.  They get lefty rage clicks and sell impressions to advertisers.

[Ben]

First, both US and Canadian public broadcasting quit twitter, and now Musk has revoked the twitter policy regarding banning people who "deadname" trannies. The schadenfreude just keeps on rollin'. 

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/18/cue-the-meltdown-elon-musk-rolls-back-hateful-twitter-policy-punishing-users-for-misgendering/

[WLJ]

    So by revoking my blue check mark because I wouldn’t pay some arbitrary fee, someone can just be me and say a bunch of bullshit. Does that mean Twitter and @elonmusk are liable for defamation or identity theft or fraud?

    — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 20, 2023

    “Someone can just be me and say a bunch of bullshit”

    Yes, we wouldn’t know the difference… https://t.co/d2zYB1EygP

    — Liam Henry III (@Liam_Henry_III) April 21, 2023

 

Cope and SEETHE: Alyssa Milano has the biggest most hilarious meltdown OF ALL over losing her blue check
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/21/juuust-point-and-laugh-alyssa-milano-has-the-biggest-meltdown-of-all-over-losing-her-blue-check/

[Ben]

Cope and SEETHE: Alyssa Milano has the biggest most hilarious meltdown OF ALL over losing her blue check
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/04/21/juuust-point-and-laugh-alyssa-milano-has-the-biggest-meltdown-of-all-over-losing-her-blue-check/

Yeah, this blue check thing is pretty hilarious. 

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/04/21/blue-checkless-bette-midler-struggling-to-adjust-to-life-amongst-twitter-peasants/

[WLJ]

Shibetoshi Nakamoto
@BillyM2k
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people are literally going to die because some are being taken away. literally. i almost died but then i paid 8 bucks.

Cigs
@UsingCigarettes
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Apr 20
Elon thinks this is a funny joke. As a former verified account who lost their blue checkmark, I know how dangerous this really is. People are going to die. twitter.com/verified/statu…

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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@BillyM2k
Lmaoooo