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09 Oct 2024, 7:44 am

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09 Oct 2024, 4:43 pm

^^^ Bot master ?



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09 Oct 2024, 6:37 pm

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^^^ Bot master ?


Yes, it appears so.

It's part of his self-aggrandizing behaviours, he literally bought Twitter in order to use a bot army to pretend to be popular.


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09 Oct 2024, 8:08 pm

Because he misgenders his daughter.


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10 Oct 2024, 3:00 am

It's funny that he call himself "Dark MAGA", but at the same time twitter (X) has to be politic neutral according to him.

I'm not using twitter, but isn't it used mainly by politicians and political messaging? Hasn't it become less relevant for normal people?


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19 Oct 2024, 1:48 pm

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It's funny that he call himself "Dark MAGA", but at the same time twitter (X) has to be politic neutral according to him.

I'm not using twitter, but isn't it used mainly by politicians and political messaging? Hasn't it become less relevant for normal people?


In Britain a local councillor's wife has just been sentenced to 31 months in prison for posting racist messages on Twitter. These messages did not violate Twitter rules.

Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.



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19 Oct 2024, 2:46 pm

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Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.


Unless one accepts it's purpose is to be like 4chan for old people.


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20 Oct 2024, 1:47 am

funeralxempire wrote:
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Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.


Unless one accepts it's purpose is to be like 4chan for old people.


Nope. I don't accept Nazi toilets for people of any age.



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20 Oct 2024, 2:26 pm

JamesW wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
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Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.


Unless one accepts it's purpose is to be like 4chan for old people.


Nope. I don't accept Nazi toilets for people of any age.


Since that's it's purpose one can't argue it isn't fit for it's purpose. It is fit for it's purpose even if we recognize it's purpose is condemnable.


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20 Oct 2024, 11:05 pm

JamesW wrote:
peet wrote:
It's funny that he call himself "Dark MAGA", but at the same time twitter (X) has to be politic neutral according to him.

I'm not using twitter, but isn't it used mainly by politicians and political messaging? Hasn't it become less relevant for normal people?


In Britain a local councillor's wife has just been sentenced to 31 months in prison for posting racist messages on Twitter. These messages did not violate Twitter rules.

Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.


X is an American company, they're not particularly required to take those down. Although most sites would take that sort of thing down because they can't afford to run a site that nobody's willing to advertise on because they don't want their products being advertised next to Nazi stuff.



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21 Oct 2024, 6:28 am

MatchboxVagabond wrote:
JamesW wrote:
peet wrote:
It's funny that he call himself "Dark MAGA", but at the same time twitter (X) has to be politic neutral according to him.

I'm not using twitter, but isn't it used mainly by politicians and political messaging? Hasn't it become less relevant for normal people?


In Britain a local councillor's wife has just been sentenced to 31 months in prison for posting racist messages on Twitter. These messages did not violate Twitter rules.

Twitter is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned.


X is an American company, they're not particularly required to take those down. Although most sites would take that sort of thing down because they can't afford to run a site that nobody's willing to advertise on because they don't want their products being advertised next to Nazi stuff.


I just want to clarify my point. That it is Elon's point of view that X should be political neutral, not mine. Yet he advocate for Trump and other far right extreme views and funded the purchase of Twitter partly from Putin's american lobbyist.
Elon said publicly, F those companies who pulled their ads which was shown next to the Nazi stuff. But at the same time he sued the same companies trying to prohibit them to pull their advertisements.
He's a ridiculous person. I believe it's getting harder and harder for him to keep up the veneer of someone who is intelligent and reasonable.

There are some very interesting court cases in the US and the Supreme Court regarding what kind of speech that is permitted, who's responsible for it, libelous and so on. It will have consequences for rest of the internet users.
Since the Supreme Court is politically and economically motivated it's getting more difficult to keep a logical consistent reasoning.


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21 Oct 2024, 11:48 am

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26 Oct 2024, 5:30 pm

Well, he certainly does things to inspire respect at Twitter. :roll:

"Everything that's happened to X, formerly known as Twitter, in the 2 years since Elon Musk bought it"

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November 2022
A week after starting, Musk announces there would be more major layoffs across the company. NBC News reported that the first wave targeted teams primarily responsible for monitoring misinformation and prohibited content on the platform. A few weeks later, as many as 20 engineers were fired — some, allegedly, for making critical comments about Musk.
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May 2023
Musk appoints Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO. Twitter’s full-time employee count is around 1,000, down from 7,500 employees when Musk first took over.
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September 2023
The European Union Commission finds that X has the highest amount of Russian disinformation out of the most-used social media platforms.
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October 2023
Ebiquity, a media investment analysis company, releases a report finding that a majority of X’s biggest-spending advertisers have stopped advertising since Musk took over.
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December 2023
Musk decides to reinstate Alex Jones and Infowars’ X accounts after running a user poll. Jones, a conspiracy theorist, and his media brand were permanently banned from Twitter in 2018 for posting abusive content.
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January 2024
X temporarily suspends several accounts belonging to journalists and podcasters who have been critical of Musk. They were later reinstated.
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26 Oct 2024, 5:38 pm



The guy is both a fraud and a hypocrite.


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