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and so removing freedom of speech from people who push those boundaries is also dangerous.
No one is suggesting that freedom of speech isn't something we should be protective of, but it doesn't come for free, and I suspect that soon enough Musk will discover that the dildo of consequence rarely arrives pre-lubed.
Can anyone name a ridiculously wealthy / powerful visionary etc that doesn’t have flaws
Warren Buffet
From what I know about him – I’d rather have him on this planet than not.
From speaking to those who actually know him, most of them seem to think he should have been on his last rocket.
I certainly wouldn’t take away his freedom of speech - that’s an absurd suggestion, how would it even be possible - but would happily take away his billions through a sensible progressive taxation system including a wealth tax.
It’s profoundly anti democratic to have so much power concentrated in the hands of such a small number of wholly unaccountable people.
That would be the case even if their wealth had been accumulated through entirely meritocratic means and if they were also all thoroughly good people (neither of which is the case).
Surprised, no, no I'm not
https://twitter.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1661097339644157953?t=CzzEIyUf8txAUyOYBpYCUw&s=19
Anyone got any more on this claim?
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1662886879681716227?t=IN9PWflRRvN_D_c9oYxNSA&s=19
He seems to be trying to turn Twitter into Truth Social 2.0 (in terms of size, credibility, political leaning and global appeal anyway). Twitter will end up in a mess of fines if they just try and ignore the EU post August 25th. Elon's happy enough to ignore his workers' rights and supplier's demands for payment but he'll soon find out ignoring the EU comes with real consequences. That is unless he somehow uses Tesla's leverage of building EU giga factories to avoid regulation of Twitter but hopefully that won't be the case (I could quite easily see the UK government looking the other way in similar circumstances).
Anyone got any more on this claim?
Noticed this at the weekend...
https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1662194595755704321?s=20
So Space Karen firing all his engineers is going well
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?t=NxLP2HAzCv9gH_FmzQcsHw&s=19
https://twitter.com/sysop408/status/1675163602687496192?t=l2QaQiglHFZHtGiaTdaz9w&s=19
Considering every other tweet seems to be an advert (for the most inane crap) this seems extra nuts
Sooner or later Twitter is just going to fall over.
The big question is whether there’s anything else in the wings (and things like Mastodon don’t quite seem it)
The man is a real danger…
To be fair Kelvin, that post could have been written by Douglas Murray at The Spectator, or a number of the hacks at the Daily Telegraph...
I'm not sure that Musk cares too much about the Twitter share price and I don't think Twitter is about to collapse any time soon. He is achieving what he wants with the platform and can afford to take a short to medium term hit financially.
I've made sarky comments about him myself on this thread, including the comparison to Truth Social but in reality, what Musk has done to Twitter has made TS redundant. Truth Social was formed as a reaction to certain people being banned from Twitter, a reason that no longer exists.
I also think there are valid criticism to be made of how Twitter was run under the previous ownership.
has he had a fist fight with zukkerberg yet?
Even if only one of them dies of a brain bleed from a hard punch I'd consider that a good result.
Twitter is about to die a death as Mr Musk has not renewed his contract with Google and failed to pay his AWS bill too. These are the reasons for the restrictions on usage for everyone.
Apologies for the filter avoidance in the copied image.
Thunderdome.
2 men enter, one man leaves.
Re the Google data services, if its this they (maybe) started paying again
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-bloomberg-news-2023-06-21/
Is the search function on twitter broken for everyone else too?
Is the search function on twitter broken for everyone else too?
It's working for me
He wants to be careful completely trashing Twitter's value, or his Saudi partners may get the bonesaws out.
Who would want to advertise on a platform where half the users can't see your content?
I also like how nobody believes Elon's explanation.
https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1675218867520405508
To be fair Kelvin, that post could have been written by Douglas Murray at The Spectator
Murray is an evil little shit spreading hateful propaganda and lies for his own financial gain. But he doesn’t own one of the biggest social media platforms with a worldwide reach.
Agree Kelvin, though my point stands that the new Twitter isn't publishing things that you wouldn't find in other media such as the Telegraph, DM, Talk (SHOUT!) TV etc.
It is also still a platform for left wing or centrist viewpoints, (unlike the other media I mentioned) and in that respect could be said to represent a greater diversity of views than other outlets.
I guess I'm becoming more tolerant as I age! It's all to easy to throw rocks at the other side (I've thrown a few in my time) but it's becoming tiresome.
I work in the Arts sector where the groupthink, censoriousness and virtue signalling has reached a level of absurdity that I find far more troubling that the things that Elon Musk is doing at Twitter.
I was obviously wrong with my share price comment though I'll maintain that Musk isn't too concerned about the company's value. Despite the technical mess he is making of the site, no competing platforms have managed to take advantage of any of the weed fuelled, spur of the moment decisions that Elon makes.
That in itself points to the fact that Twitter has a virtual monopoly in its domain. Within a few years, Twitter will be at least as valuable as it was when Musk bought it (and profit wasn't even the reason he bought the platform).
https://twitter.com/maggiepint/status/1675331352584134658?s=46&t=kryCDSKqicplVhYJZNG9RQ
caching layer collapsing / vanishing would have been my first guess too
I'm wondering if Elon knows the actual issue is not the scraping and is trying to cover up for his decisions crippling Twitter's infrastructure or if that's just what an engineer told him on the spur of the moment to get Elon off his back and then Elon made it a thing :p
Definitely the first option fuzzywuzzy
I'm guessing all tweets are now off limits to those of us without Twitter accounts?
Tbh, having just seen a Tweet arguing that Mein Kampf is misunderstood and has some really good points, youre not missing much.
There was a massive bust up not so long ago when Christopher Hitchens claimed that the Nazis were in fact left-wing. That pretty much sums up the level of debate on Twitter these days
There was a massive bust up not so long ago when Christopher Hitchens claimed that the Nazis were in fact left-wing. That pretty much sums up the level of debate on Twitter these days
That was Peter Hitchens. Big difference!
ah cool, thanks, I knew it was one of them.
Nice to see that Zuckerberg's new data accumulator/social media app has been given an appropriate name.
Meta's version of Twitter (Threads) went live this morning. Quite a contrast to Mastodon where you need to do 3 days worth of research into the sign up process. You literally just link the Instagram account you probably already have, and bosh, you've got a timeline full of content even before you start following anyone. (clearly the algorithms are powered by data across the Meta ecosystem). Reportedly 10 million users already.
This is something that could potentially kill Twitter very quickly. But then it's a notoriously difficult market to crack and history tells us it's more likely to fizzle after the initial excitement.
Quite a contrast to Mastodon where you need to do 3 days worth of research into the sign up process.
Glad it wasn't just me, I thought I was being especially dimwitted, but I never did get the hang of it!
Created a Thread log on in about 30secs this morning. Don't know about the name though, makes me think of thread worms...
Well Elon's had a little snide tantrum over it, so it must have some potential
Let’s just hope Meta let this thing be used to converse with the people you really want to. Sign up was a breeze. Let’s see…
It seems that with Twitters latest valuation, Elon is answering the age old question 'how do you make a small fortune?'
...start with a large one 😂
Not overly bothered about either of these ****ers right now but happy to see the more infantile one having a strop.
I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't in cohoots with zuckerburg to gut twitter and launch facebooks new rival
Short the stock, gut the firm, sell out to rival, cash in.
These guys make money wether they succeed or fail