Musk & Twitter
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@dogmeat said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Kirwan C'mon Musk has plenty of form shutting down dissenting voices or slandering people that don't agree with him.
He talks a good talk but only walks the walk when it suits. Like anyone.
All I'm saying is I expect that "you won't get removed from the site if you don't think a certain way" will probably mean that you will get removed from the site if you don't think a certain way, it's just that the 'certain way' will be different.
I agree with the first part mostly, but extrapolating personal interactions to how he will run a media platform is pretty lazy thinking.
The way I look at it is the Stephen Fry quote, just because you are offended doesn't make you right. Some people are going to have to defend their opinions now, currently the plaform just removes them.
And there is zero proof that the's going to de-platform left wing voices. Currently he's literally saying the opposite.
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@Kirwan I agree with everything you said.
I really couldn't give a shit. Twitter was a good concept corrupted by ideology. I just don't think Musk is going to turn it from the cesspit it currently is into anything that will mean I spend any more time there than I currently do. Which I am sure will devastate my 7 2/3 followers
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@dogmeat said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Kirwan I agree with everything you said.
I really couldn't give a shit. Twitter was a good concept corrupted by ideology. I just don't think Musk is going to turn it from the cesspit it currently is into anything that will mean I spend any more time there than I currently do. Which I am sure will devastate my 7 2/3 followers
I agree, the only way to improve it IMO is for media organisations to stop reporting tweets as news. It has far to much influence for it's actual size and importance.
Then it can go back to people sharing fun stuff and talking shit.
I can think of better things to spend 66 billion on as well.
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One practical thing that will happen from him taking it private, is the compnay will no longer have to pretend to have year on year growth of users. That was gasoline to the bot fire.
Remove bots from this platform, seperate from the free speech issue is a big deal. Bots have been shown to be involved in the election influencing, and driving uncivil discourse in the states - from Russia and China. (Black Lives matter posts on both sides of that issue, for example)
Got to be an easier software problem that getting a car to drive itself.
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@MajorRage said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Kid-Chocolate said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
See thread title.
That doesn't really answer the question. I would guess you think that this means that the censorship will reduce.
Ok, but how will that change the platform? More ideas from both sides? Short term toy throws and abandonment from the hard left?
I don't see how anything at the top level will change it. It's taken the worst of humanity and made it available for all, and in turn, degraded humanity.
that simply won't change.
Less hard left censorship.
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Nope. Unfortunately he's still there.
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@TheMojoman said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
Nope. Unfortunately he's still there.
Haha, just a short deactivation then before he realised his entire self worth is based on his Twitter profile
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@Tim said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
@Kirwan There's going to be some incredibly cringe posts from shitlibs today.
Already an insta-classic. Video here:
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“Not even two weeks ago, the financial world sneered at Musk’s buyout offer, treating it as a ludicrous longshot. But the world underestimated Musk. Even more importantly, they overestimated his opponents.”
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@Kid-Chocolate Ha, look there is even a Silver Lake angle to make it relevant to the Fern.
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This is some of the greatest trolling ever.
He really does love the Babylon Bee. And Iron Man movies, clearly.
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Zeek Arkham's tweet arguably the best I've read this year.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Twitter:
Strangely hee reply was quite funny "I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok", but apparently she deleted that ...
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“The Gates of Hell.” Lucifer/Satan/Trump (same thing) opened them. Reliable Sources.