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Haha and of course the persecution complex squad immediately mobilizes right after this post
Like y'all know you can go register joebidenisacuck.org and post whatever AM radio horse shit you want. Or maybe bask in the glorious radiance of the free market and enjoy yourself some Truth Social.
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And thread locked and pointed to GenMay in 3...2...1
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Let's not get too excited gentlemen. The ADL has told a man that just came off his own money what they "expect" and he has already given into their demands. No "election denial" will be allowed. To me, that is enough to tell the tale. If you cannot question the outcome of an election, it is not a free speech platform. Why does the ADL have the power to tell the richest man in the world what they "expect" from him? Also, look for muh hate speech to include "misgendering" going forward. Nope.
For the record, "hate speech" is clearly free speech.
For the record, "hate speech" is clearly free speech.
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It is disgusting isn't it.
Well Elon didn't have a choice, he trolled them and Twitter trolled him back harder, so now he's stuck with it, and to sweeten the deal he owes billions to Saudi oil princes.
I expect him to somehow crypto and blockchain Twitter and turn it into a Crypto Bro haven as he now knows he can't rely on legit advertisers.
Not really, the skype patents and tech were rolled into Teams and their communications platforms which in Business are a big deal, and more so in the remote office environment.
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More like Microsoft buying Nokia.
Which is like when HP bought Palm?
Naa, I'd say AT&T buying DirecTV for $49 billion ($67 billion including debt). Then spinning it off to its own company.
Our Canadian Gov funded news today... is reporting the Canadian gov is suspending advertising on Twitter. Really don't ask me why our government needs to be buying ads at all for anything. (they have had I think like 5 different advertising related scandals now enriching friends advert companies ect).
So Twitter was selling blue checks for 15k in advertising dollars... makes me wonder what the Canadian government was really buying. (we all know)
So Twitter was selling blue checks for 15k in advertising dollars... makes me wonder what the Canadian government was really buying. (we all know)
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Ha! Jokes on them if you don't turn a profit you don't pay income tax!
4 million a day in losses...
Twitter is a fantastic write off for other companies. Musk needs to make Telsa/SpaceX/Twitter all one company. hahaha
You could put a lot of AT&T Purchases up there, I'd put the time Warner up as a bigger oof though.
I actually think that was a good purchase for them.
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I can't imagine why the pedophiles at the ADL would want to control Twitter.
Right and Left tend to agree against Liberals about capitalism to a point and so on, but it become a bit more complicated when the mobile store, AWS server and anti-DDOS service goes out if the disagree with speech that occur on a platform.
There is obviously a giant collision and impossibility to have free speech and capitalism at the same time (has like people, company does not have to respect other people speech, they can give speech a cost and consequence, thus stopping to make it free), it is always just an ideal, like the right to pursuit happiness.
And on twitter side, the moment goverment make people testimony in front of congress and that both political party openly use the treat of destroying their business model by removing section 230, we get out of the idea that it is just free market force going on
People who don't realize that hate speech is free speech don't know what free speech is. There was a time when leftists claimed to understand this.
This is not an endorsement of hate speech. But there's no need to protect uncontroversial speech.
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Exactly. I’m not a fan of hate speech, but it is free speech. I also hate the people preaching tolerance who are intolerant of people who are intolerant. Some people are just in their own little world…
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There used to be a saying: "I don't agree with what you're saying, but I will defend your right to say it."
Now it's: "I don't agree with what you're saying, so I will do everything in my power to have you silenced, deplatformed, shamed, your livelihood taken from you, and your life ruined."
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“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.” "intolerant" triggered it....
hate speech is free speech, people should just walk away and let it die
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The advertisers will come back. Slowly, quietly, once the stupidity quiets down. They want access to those potential customers. If the kill all white people real hate speech did not scare them off, the odd ball stuff the left makes believe is hate speech the will not either.
If the person did not have a job that generated wealth, or supported generating those who did, Elon was right to can them. He appears to have been generous as well. The WARN act only requires 60 days, not 90.
Elon caved to the ADL, because they can turn off his ability to bank. Ask Kanye.
If the person did not have a job that generated wealth, or supported generating those who did, Elon was right to can them. He appears to have been generous as well. The WARN act only requires 60 days, not 90.
Elon caved to the ADL, because they can turn off his ability to bank. Ask Kanye.
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Hate speech is like a child having a tantrum. It’s only effective if people engage with it. Like a child sent to their room, hate speech dies when the other side doesn’t fight back. Disengage long enough and it moves back to the slow simmer that is the cesspool of low lives and racists.
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Also, a lot of people have redefined hate speech to mean "stuff I don't want to hear."
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so these forums aren't free speech compliant?
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Not surprised
Certain bird company and it's fans like to parrot that they are the public/town square.
There is difference to found there.
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It's a relatively bad faith interpretation of freedom of speech, if you ask me. All speech, particularly online, falls under some sort of jurisdiction somewhere. With that in mind, freedom of speech doesn't exist at all if you view it through the lense of that loophole. The recent case with Kiwifarms makes this obvious. It's worsened by the fact that the line between private and public is extremely blurry. Private companies love to cooperate with the government. With that in mind, the distinction between public and private becomes superficial relatively quick and makes it convenient to sweep any thoughtful, critical discussion in with "rulebreaking", "trolling", "Russian bots", etc.
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Oh this went soapboxy very fast
Back on track...I hear hes now trying to get people back that were fired
Ha
What a dick
Back on track...I hear hes now trying to get people back that were fired
Ha
What a dick
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Likely due to incredibly poor management of said people that had no idea what they really did. Management of the rehired folks are likely to be canned.
Not necessarily. Musk is nothing if not an impulsive man who makes sweeping decisions he has to (at least partly) reverse as his dreams clash with reality. See the whole "free speech utopia" myth we've been discussing here. It's entirely possible that he had grand visions of a lean headcount, only to realize that Twitter actually hired those people for a reason.
Remember, Musk either started his other companies or came in when they were relatively small, like Tesla. He's never walked into a large, established company before.
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We know speech is speech.
What people do not know, is that free speech doesn't mean that the newspaper/Youtube/[H]/Twitter/Facebook/etc. have to let you say anything you want on their platforms. That violates the companies' rights.
The right being all up in arms about free speech, really just want to make you parrot "their speech" in the name of "free speech". I don't have to say shit, nor does my hypothetical company.
Kind of like how they use religious freedom as an excuse to violate anothers' right to freedom of religion. Hypocrisy.
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What an idiot. Advertisers don’t take kindly to being held hostage when Twitter is - let’s face it - one of hundreds of competing advertising channels, and one of the comparatively smaller ones. Now Musk is going to spend most of his time slowly wrecking a social media train wreck while Tesla - a company that actually needs his leadership - is struggling to get product out while competitors are looming left and right.
At least SpaceX has a decent leadership team.
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Every time I see what you have described, I can't help but to see "The Walking Dead" and they put a phone in every zombies hand. That would be the perfect description of today.
When I was a kid we had one phone in the house and it was in the kitchen with a 20ft curly cord and when it would ring we all screamed it's your turn to answer it. Now people don't take a crap with out their phones.
But I digress.
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Kiwi Farms got slotted for getting pedos and snuff film makers thrown behind bars.
Lol... Elon is asking some of the workers laid off to come back
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...-workers-come-back-bloomberg-news-2022-11-06/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...-workers-come-back-bloomberg-news-2022-11-06/
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