Musk and Twitter

[Hawkmoon]

I keep wondering if Musk is as much a free speech advocate as he claims.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/tech/lawrence-fossi-speaks-out-on-elon-musk/

(Use reader view if you can't read it.)

[MechAg94]

Musk's Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found Overnight
https://babylonbee.com/news/musks-twitter-purchase-fails-after-138000-board-votes-found-overnight

When the final votes were tallied, the takeover bid failed by a final tally of 10 votes for, 138,000 votes against. While the final result came as a shock to most observers, Agrawal said the election was fair.

...............

Musk later tweeted that he was planning a demonstration at Twitter headquarters on May 6 to protest the results. His account was then permanently suspended by Twitter for questioning the integrity of the election.

 

[Ben]

 

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/04/26/men-dont-have-periods-sara-gonzales-tweets-everything-and-then-some-twitter-has-suspended-conservatives-for-saying-before-and-its-glorious/

[kgbsquirrel]

Related note:

I don't know how much time this crowd spends on twitter, but today, all of a sudden, literally hundreds of conservatives leaning tweets are just appearing by like magic on peoples timelines.  Conservative folks are all of a sudden reaching followers that are interested in their views and engaging on threads.

An example: https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1518978445631401986  ( I already followed Larry, but he's seeing a bunch of movement)


IraqVetern8888 and John Ringo showed up on my feed today, and I didn't even know they were on Twitter.

The deal isn't actually done yet, so it's not like Elon is in there tearing things up.  I have two theories:  Twitter employees aren't as monolithic as everyone thought, and folks that previously felt the need to keep a head down and go with the liberal flow are feeling empowered to tweak stuff (probably not), or there was a shadowban algorithm, and someone nuked it before Elon could make it public.  By the time the deal is done there will be no evidence that algorithmic de-platforming ever occurred.

Ding ding ding!

[WLJ]

We need algorithmic justice!

Dem Sen. Ed Markey says we need laws to ‘promote algorithmic justice’ as a safeguard against Elon Musk’s ‘dangerous influence’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/26/dem-sen-ed-markey-says-we-need-laws-to-promote-algorithmic-justice-as-a-safeguard-against-elon-musks-dangerous-influence/

[WLJ]

Hit piece after hit piece on the internet today.
Here's a doozy

Elon Musk Proves Yet Again That He's Just Not Very Bright
America's dumbest smart guy strikes again with an idiotic take on subways.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-proves-yet-again-that-hes-just-not-very-brigh-1848835670

[230RN]

All that and umpteen slides to clobber an offhand incorrect remark?

I think he left his pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew auto firing switch on.  Talk about being "triggered."

Some of these people are going to be poisoned by their own vitriol.

[Perd Hapley]

We need algorithmic justice!

Dem Sen. Ed Markey says we need laws to ‘promote algorithmic justice’ as a safeguard against Elon Musk’s ‘dangerous influence’
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/04/26/dem-sen-ed-markey-says-we-need-laws-to-promote-algorithmic-justice-as-a-safeguard-against-elon-musks-dangerous-influence/

At this point, I'm pretty sure "________ justice" is just commie-speak for "absurd or downright evil things voters would overwhelmingly reject if we didn't cloak them in buzzzwords."

[WLJ]

Musk could

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1518777886668374016

    “You could secretly ban one party’s candidate…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until AFTER the election.”

    pic.twitter.com/yPMbtSN2wx

    — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022

You mean just like twitter? 

Yeah that came from MSNBC

MSNBC’s Ari Melber warns that Elon Musk could secretly ban one party’s candidate from Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-that-elon-musk-could-secretly-ban-one-partys-candidate-from-twitter/

[Ben]

MSNBC’s Ari Melber warns that Elon Musk could secretly ban one party’s candidate from Twitter
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/msnbcs-ari-melber-warns-that-elon-musk-could-secretly-ban-one-partys-candidate-from-twitter/

Unbelievable.

[Angel Eyes]

I'll just leave this here:

https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/1518581620969771009

[Ben]

I'll just leave this here:

https://twitter.com/mbesheer/status/1518581620969771009

If all it takes to solve world hunger is $43 Billion, then why hasn't any government done so yet?

[fifth_column]

I keep wondering if Musk is as much a free speech advocate as he claims.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/tech/lawrence-fossi-speaks-out-on-elon-musk/

(Use reader view if you can't read it.)

Here's his latest tweet on free speech:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
2:33 PM · Apr 26, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

Is he lying? Maybe. It's not illegal to lie . . .

[WLJ]

    Twitter lawyer responsible for decision to boot President Trump off Twitter on Jan 6, 2021 cried at Twitter employee meeting on the take-over by Musk. She has been in charge of all content moderation and was also behind the ban of New York Post article on Hunter Biden's computer. https://t.co/xC5w0ZgFRC

    — Tricia D (@patriciamdavis) April 26, 2022

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-cried-during-a-meeting-about-elon-musks-takeover-of-the-company/

[Ben]

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-cried-during-a-meeting-about-elon-musks-takeover-of-the-company/

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So no more fawning glamour articles on her by Politico, I guess.

[Ben]

What's cracking me up is that all these twitter employees are coming out with statements right now as if "new twitter" will cover for their lies the same as "old twitter". For some of this stuff, whether they nuke algorithms or whatever, it doesn't matter. What they say, along with documented evidence to the contrary, clearly shows they're lying.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/twitter-engineer-insists-that-suppression-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-wasnt-targeted-censorship/

[bedlamite]

[fifth_column]

I don't want to turn this into a microcosm of twitter or anything but this is too good not to share:



Originally posted by some Libertarian account.

[WLJ]

I haven't seen this much stupid since the great 2016 liberal migration to Canada.

‘Anti-racism educator’ says we’re ‘gonna have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did’ because of Elon Musk
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/anti-racism-educator-says-were-gonna-have-to-deal-with-nazis-the-way-our-grandparents-did-because-of-elon-musk/

[WLJ]

I don't want to turn this into a microcosm of twitter or anything but this is too good not to share:



Originally posted by some Libertarian account.

I think it is ~$24b, or something like that, of his money. Proportionally about what you would spend on a used car.

[MechAg94]

I haven't seen this much stupid since the great 2016 liberal migration to Canada.

‘Anti-racism educator’ says we’re ‘gonna have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did’ because of Elon Musk
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/04/26/anti-racism-educator-says-were-gonna-have-to-deal-with-nazis-the-way-our-grandparents-did-because-of-elon-musk/

Bolded for truth. 

[WLJ]

Andrew Lawrence
@andrewlawrence
·
20h
Elon Musk could have put that $44billion towards tackling world poverty, instead he's used it to send millions of woke Liberal narcissists into a spiral of depression, and honestly I think it's money well spent.

Anthony Cabassa
@AnthonyCabassa_
·
22h
Can @elonmusk
 buy California next?

[WLJ]

Expect more crying

Elon Musk weighed in on the Hunter Biden and Sussmann stories and there’s not enough popcorn in the world for what’s about to happen
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/27/elon-musk-weighed-in-on-the-hunter-biden-story-and-the-sussmann-trial-and-theres-not-enough-popcorn-in-the-world-for-whats-about-to-happen-a/

[WLJ]

Give them a list of the leftest hate speech still up and info them this will have to go as well.

    I am told this morning that Apple and Google will remove Twitter from the App Store if it does not moderate and remove hate speech under @ElonMusk.

    This isn’t a new policy, but a commitment already made.

    Amazon Web Services has the same commitment.

    So there’s that.

    — Shaun King (@shaunking) April 27, 2022

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/04/27/shaun-king-says-apple-and-google-will-remove-twitter-from-their-app-stores-if-elon-musk-wont-moderate-hate-speech/

[K Frame]

Well, given that we know what their definition of hate speech is -- any speech that doesn't conform to their very left-leaning view of the world, including men can menstruate/have babies, there are 1,206,127,279x10¹⁹⁶ genders, that America actually started in 1619 and then was violently overthrown by a bunch of rich white men, etc. -- it's a foregone conclusion that Twitter will be deplatformed.