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Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

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Re: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

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Musk appears to be suspending those he doesn't like or doesn't fawn at the alter of Musk.
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:48 am Musk appears to be suspending those he doesn't like or doesn't fawn at the alter of Musk.
So no different from what the previous management did.
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knownunknown wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:58 am So no different from what the previous management did.
But they figured out who to keep onside enough to pay the bills. Musk hasn't figures that out as the advertisers appear not to be using Twitter. At the end of the day, the bills have to be paid......
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Re: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

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So he banned a bunch of CNN reporters. This is the best action ever taken against fake news!!!
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Re: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

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Jesus, he's the definition of a snowflake.
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Good to see healthy diversity of opinion on the thread 🙂

Way back at the beginning of the thread I think I said here that I'm not hugely fond of Elon Musk. Specifically I object to him renting women's wombs for his surrogate pregnancies. I also think he is a spoilt rich kid

However I am extremely impressed at what he has done re the child abuse material on Twitter.

I also think that anyone who doxxes in any way on any platform should be banned or suspended if the doxxing is less direct. It doesn't matter that the information is public - I can look up people's home addresses in Sweden for example, if I know their names, but publicly posting it on a timeline is not cool. Not with the way weirdos are these days. Antifa and stuff. Plus political elites are not beyond extremely illegal/sinister activity if they don't like someone or if they are unveiling their wrongdoings. So I understand Musk being hyper aware of her personal security.

If people don't doxx they should be grand.
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Isha, I don't regard publishing publically available information doxxing. Flight information is public information. Our register of electorate is public. How is that doxxing?
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:38 pm Isha, I don't regard publishing publically available information doxxing. Flight information is public information. Our register of electorate is public. How is that doxxing?
Well people can probably look up where any politician or celebrity lives, but say in a twitter thread communicating with such a person one responded to their posts that one didn't like by writing This person lives at no 12, A Road, The Village, Dublin - even if the information could be got publicly it's a kind of incitement to violence or at least a veiled threat.

People are publishing Musk's planes whereabouts as a threat, in essence. Being casual about it, saying anyone can find this out, is just disingenuous. It's not good to encourage this from any side of a debate.

It's like going to a politicians home or a judge's home to protest - it's a new element that has crept into public life, and, I may be wrong, but I don't think it's cool.
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Musk appears to be backtracking on the journalist bans this morning.
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Re: Elon Musk buys 100% of Twitter

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Was he ever learned money can’t buy you everything?
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:12 am But they figured out who to keep onside enough to pay the bills. Musk hasn't figures that out as the advertisers appear not to be using Twitter. At the end of the day, the bills have to be paid......
Twitter were haemorrhaging money long before musk took over and nobody seemed to care.
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:38 pm Isha, I don't regard publishing publically available information doxxing. Flight information is public information. Our register of electorate is public. How is that doxxing?
Doxing: (verb)

the action or process of searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the internet, typically with malicious intent.

Remember when project veritas was banned for doxing? https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/2227 ... violations
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knownunknown wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:43 pm Doxing: (verb)

the action or process of searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the internet, typically with malicious intent.

Remember when project veritas was banned for doxing? https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/2227 ... violations
Exactly! Flight plans are public information!
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:45 pm Exactly! Flight plans are public information!
Posting identifying information also qualifies as doxing regardless if it’s public or not. What’s important is usually the intent. What is the intent of the person that created the bot to do this?

Honest answers please here!
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Hairy-Joe wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:45 pm Exactly! Flight plans are public information!
Some aircraft are assigned temporary private IDs to prevent tracking. Musk's was one of them using temporary IDs. Sweeney's elonjet bot used software to negate the private ID and still track Musk's aircraft. It is not as simple a story as it first appeared.

Regards...jmcc
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Finally, the real shit is being disclosed.

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This is why Musk’s purchase of twitter, taking the reins of control from the wokerati, is good for the world.
X Corp, formerly Twitter, has been "forced by court decisions" to block certain popular accounts in Brazil and is prohibited from giving details of the order, the company said on Saturday.
X owner Elon Musk said in a post on the platform, that this order could lead to a total loss of revenue and shut down of the offices in Brazil, promising that he would legally challenge it where possible.
The social medial company said it is unaware why the blocking orders have been issued and is barred from giving details of the impacted accounts, adding that it is threatened with daily fines if it fails to comply.”
The woke hate him because he bought their censorship machine and revealed it for what it is.

There is a reason that freedom of expression is included in the universal declaration of human rights at the U.N. and there is a reason the woke want to circumvent this principle(and have proven so repeatedly like in the twitter files that were revealed). They want to alter public discourse by silencing opinions.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-ch ... 024-04-07/

To get a feel for this Brazil administration have a read of this, sounds like a lot of similar problems we’re experiencing in Ireland. Thankfully there is someone like Musk with enough F.uck you money to tell these guys where to stick their authoritarian censorship, up their holes.

https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-e- ... concretos/
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Condensed TLDR;
Brazilian politicians wanted x to suspend prominent politicians, comedians and journalists from their platform, while not revealing the real reason why and saying they broke their own rules. They were given two hours to act under penalty of fines.

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The narrative has begun to change.

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knownunknown wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 4:57 pm The narrative has begun to change.

Being fair,it's just overrun with leftists shite rethoric and bots.....I kept getting followed by dozens of bots and fake accounts everyday,felt it smelt like an effort to embed AI generated intelligence gathering on subjects I viewed,and think it's an security risk to anyone who deosnt tow the establishment line nowadays
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Setanta wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 1:29 pm Being fair,it's just overrun with leftists shite rethoric and bots.....I kept getting followed by dozens of bots and fake accounts everyday,felt it smelt like an effort to embed AI generated intelligence gathering on subjects I viewed,and think it's an security risk to anyone who deosnt tow the establishment line nowadays
When it was owned by shareholders twitter was a left wing cesspit that banned and shadowbanned any views that aren’t far left endorsed.

While I wasn’t on twitter then or now the calls of censorship happening on the platform have ceased since Musk took over. People are free to say what they like within the political sphere.

Biden’s admin demands spacex not hire undocumented workers(since the work is highly confidential top secret advanced weapons type of stuff) but then goes after them for not hiring illegal workers. It’s truly kafkaesque stuff and show how the woke establishment just don’t like his politics.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/techtal ... 40182.html

Hiring illegals is one of the key issues with the woke establishment these days, immigration is top of their agenda even in this country now. Its clear as day to the dog in the street, the establishment want more unmitigated, unregulated mass immigration. They appeal to leftist ideals to achieve their aims saying they just want to help everyone equally blah blah blah, but the end result is cheaper labour(anyone remember the Keelings story with the Bulgarian strawberry pickers that emerged and incensed the country during the pandemic?) , in stark opposition to leftist ideals.

The woke activists have been hoodwinked, they are pushing illiberal politics that hurt the weakest in society, they sit comfortably in their holiday homes posting about more welfare for poor immigrants to make themselves feel better, while calling the worst off here in Ireland all types of prerogatives from scum, stupid, uneducated etc…
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knownunknown wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:05 pm When it was owned by shareholders twitter was a left wing cesspit that banned and shadowbanned any views that aren’t far left endorsed.

While I wasn’t on twitter then or now the calls of censorship happening on the platform have ceased since Musk took over. People are free to say what they like within the political sphere.

Biden’s admin demands spacex not hire undocumented workers(since the work is highly confidential top secret advanced weapons type of stuff) but then goes after them for not hiring illegal workers. It’s truly kafkaesque stuff and show how the woke establishment just don’t like his politics.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/techtal ... 40182.html

Hiring illegals is one of the key issues with the woke establishment these days, immigration is top of their agenda even in this country now. Its clear as day to the dog in the street, the establishment want more unmitigated, unregulated mass immigration. They appeal to leftist ideals to achieve their aims saying they just want to help everyone equally blah blah blah, but the end result is cheaper labour(anyone remember the Keelings story with the Bulgarian strawberry pickers that emerged and incensed the country during the pandemic?) , in stark opposition to leftist ideals.

The woke activists have been hoodwinked, they are pushing illiberal politics that hurt the weakest in society, they sit comfortably in their holiday homes posting about more welfare for poor immigrants to make themselves feel better, while calling the worst off here in Ireland all types of prerogatives from scum, stupid, uneducated etc…
The woke are the establishment arm to beat down on workers rights,they've sought to get people sacked (or cancelled)in an effort to push through the establishment principle of eroding workers rights and turning poor against poor....while the left rob the money for the 1%,you never see them seek to hold rich or evil mega corporation's to account....just help them in exorting excessive money and making subscriptions for everything legal to bleed ordinary people dry for the riches benefit


They can cheerlead all sorts returning to X,but remain silent on there mass reporting and seeking to get likes of saoradh and eirigi banned,for the evil crime of not bowing to the left and wanting to speak out for ordinary people
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knownunknown wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:40 am Condensed TLDR;
Brazilian politicians wanted x to suspend prominent politicians, comedians and journalists from their platform, while not revealing the real reason why and saying they broke their own rules. They were given two hours to act under penalty of fines.

Now Brazil have outlawed X(twitter) entirely in the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3rnl5qv3o
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