Elon and free speech

Del · Post by **Del** » 04 Dec 2022, 11:12

coco wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 10:33 This will be written off as irrelevant by the Powers, and thus the majority of Americans will deem it irrelevant.

There's a reason for this.

coco wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 10:33There will be a few weirdos, including some who smoke pipes, that will deem it grounds for impeachment. They will be correct, but noone will care.

The self-righteous wokesters who serve as gatekeepers should be sacked, and replaced by such as those humble, wise pipe-smokers.

Hovannes · Post by **Hovannes** » 04 Dec 2022, 11:31

I think he means well.
Not at all sure I think the same about Twitter 1.0

SlowToke · Post by **SlowToke** » 04 Dec 2022, 15:50

coco wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 10:33
Del wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 10:11
Jocose wrote: 03 Dec 2022, 22:15This is huge
YUGE!
This will be written off as irrelevant by the Powers, and thus the majority of Americans will deem it irrelevant.

There will be a few weirdos, including some who smoke pipes, that will deem it grounds for impeachment. They will be correct, but noone will care.

You're not wrong.

Jocose · Post by **Jocose** » 04 Dec 2022, 17:12

Jocose · Post by **Jocose** » 04 Dec 2022, 17:17

SlowToke · Post by **SlowToke** » 04 Dec 2022, 17:30

This just in: MSNBC reports there's no such thing as treason really. It's just a far right MAGA racist conspiracy theory. It never did exist to begin with.

Jocose · Post by **Jocose** » 04 Dec 2022, 17:58

SlowToke wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 17:30 This just in: MSNBC reports there's no such thing as treason really. It's just a far right MAGA racist conspiracy theory. It never did exist to begin with.

tuttle · Post by **tuttle** » 05 Dec 2022, 05:53

coco wrote: 04 Dec 2022, 10:33
This will be written off as irrelevant by the Powers, and thus the majority of Americans will deem it irrelevant.

There will be a few weirdos, including some who smoke pipes, that will deem it grounds for impeachment. They will be correct, but noone will care.

This is exactly unfortunately right.

I feel like there is a 'gotcha!' every week. The only thing that ever happens is that Republicans shake their fists in rage until the next outrage.

They could've had Joe Biden himself on camera telling Twitter to suppress speech and NOTHING would happen but grumbles.

I'll believe the Republican outrage when they actually start throwing the appropriate people in jail.

Wosbald · Post by **Wosbald** » 05 Dec 2022, 07:51

+JMJ+

Regarding "Elon and Free Speech", I s'pose the lesson is: If one can't get free-market actors to platform Fascism, then find a capricious billionaire with money-to-burn so as to platform it at a loss.

Del · Post by **Del** » 05 Dec 2022, 08:34

Wosbald wrote: 05 Dec 2022, 07:51 +JMJ+

Regarding "Elon and Free Speech", I s'pose the lesson is: If one can't get free-market actors to platform Fascism, then find a capricious billionaire with money-to-burn so as to platform it at a loss.

That fascist billionaires were Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. Although it looks like even Jack Dorsey has had a conversion of heart over what was done at Twitter.

Twitter now has more actual human users under Musk than they did before the purchase. But leftist pressure against advertisers (and fascist throttling of the Twitter App by Google and Apple app stores) have slowed the rate of monetizing those eyeballs.

This is temporary. As Musk delivers on making Twitter more friendly for humans and less optimized for bots, advertisers are going to want access to users.