Trump really ‘bout to come back to twitter

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While diversity of opinion is needed America would be much better off without the MAGA’s and the wokes.

I definetly agree, but how can we rid ourselves of both of them at this point? It feels hopeless...

What do the cards say?

Trump shouldn't be censored based on the fact that he is deplorable in the eyes of a lot of people. Freedom of speech is important.

The real question is whether he has a proven hand in causing the insurrection at Capitol Hill, or whether it was his supporters who motivated themselves regardless of his input to do the damage that they did.

Trump being a contributor to illegal actions, resulting in the death of some folk, is a bigger deal than his politics, in my opinion.

Freedom of speech means you can say what you want and got be put in jail. It does not mean you’re entitled to twitter. Idk why people don’t understand this.

If anyone, whether it’d be a politician, a celebrity or a random person, got banned from Twitter, even if the reason was completely insane, their freedom of speech wasn’t taken away. Plenty of other places where they can state their views. Trump was able to create his own platform and say all the things he wants to say there.

He told people to “fight like hell” and that Mike Pence could’ve possibly overturned the election. In that situation, Trump should’ve known that at least some people were gonna be crazy enough to take that info and do crazy things in response, which is obviously what happened. Heck, that included people trying to KILL the VP.

To sum things up, Trump’s tweets were reckless, hence why Trump being banned from Twitter in the first place was justified.

I don't disagree that a privately owned platform should be able to ban users. But on the flip side, someone favourable towards DT such as Elon Musk can easily unban him & then there's really no argument against unbanning, if banning is okay in the first place?

The same argument for people who don't like sharing a platform with him, such as on Twitter could be used - i.e, go elsewhere?

He told people to “fight like hell” and that Mike Pence could’ve possibly overturned the election.

In that situation, Trump should’ve known that at least some people were gonna be crazy enough to take that info and do crazy things in response, which is obviously what happened. Heck, that included people trying to KILL the VP.

To sum things up, Trump’s tweets were reckless, hence why Trump being banned from Twitter in the first place was justified.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-video-shows-capitol-mob-calling-for-the-death-of-the-vice-president-plaskett-says
YES, they were trying to get to pence.

he seems to be deliberately alienating key employees and employees in general with his crap, and it is just a matter of time before there is an outage, at which point users may well start heading for the exits and finding alternatives, local public agencies are already doing this here and there, as there are other social media tools they can choose from now, twitter's no longer the only game in town for tweet-like communications.

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Elon bought Twitter for the data.
He is not there to make money with the company itself. He’s NOT failing. This is all intentional.
I keep saying this and it keeps surprising people so I’m gonna just go ahead and post about it again. (I copied some of this from a comment I made elsewhere.)
Twitter is/has perhaps the most valuable dataset on the planet, in terms of building AI that can predict human behavior.
Elon’s antics are a side-show distraction, and he never intended to keep the company functioning—but he also can’t make it TOO obvious that he intends to drive it to bankruptcy.
In AI, whoever has the biggest dataset wins—and Twitter is the largest extant dataset with which to train AI models on human behavior/sentiment.
Being a public corporation limited what could be done with the data—but Elon took it private.
He will easily make his investment back just from the existing data—even if Twitter dies tomorrow.
Furthermore, any sort of evidence-based inquiry (including science and (real) journalism) is a threat to billionaire (neofeudalist) rule. So it’s actually good for Elon if Twitter dies—now that he has the data.
Elon’s antics are a sideshow, don’t forget that, no matter how much fun it is to laugh at him. This was planned. When you say things like, “Elon has more money than sense,” you are helping provide him cover. This has all been deeply calculated.
Though I think there’s still a chance it won’t work out like he thinks. No idea what that means, though. Yet.
(BTW I’m a software/data/DevOps engineer with almost fifteen years of professional experience, and I’ve done some work with machine learning—I’m not just pulling this stuff out of thin air.)
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No, I don’t have definitive proof of this. I think obfuscating evidence is a big part of the point of what Elon is doing, generally. Go read through the technical subreddits for yourself.
Twitter may not be the largest existing dataset, but it’s definitely one of the largest, and I think it’s critically important for building certain kinds of AI, and yes I really do think it’s worth 44 billion dollars to Elon for that reason alone.
I know, I know, it’s really fun to laugh at Elon. I’m not trying to take that away from you, laugh away. I just want you to THINK a little while you’re doing it. If you can, you’ll be well ahead of most people you know, I expect.