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"It's a town hall for everyone..."
Where only those who pay money actually have a voice.
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Where only those who pay money actually have a voice.
Soldato
I guess it's more, "those who pay money are heard". Everyone still has a voice. Elon has just given megaphones to those with money so it drowns out the rest.
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Exactly. Its paid for speech, not free speech. He's adopted the Money is Speech that has infested US politics. I'll just never flick over to For You again.
And the poll voting is totally down to Elon being voted out. What is the betting he does another poll once this is fully deployed and he wins it by 80% considering 80% of those who pay are simps.
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Expect "for you" to become the default standard (or only option) unless you pay for a blue tick pretty much as soon as Musk registers that people are actively avoiding it.
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Remember when he said this?
"I think it's essential to have free speech and to be able to communicate freely"?
And this?
"I think it's essential to have free speech and to be able to communicate freely"?
And this?
Soldato
If that happens I think Twitter will be done for non subscribers, it will be useless to anyone other than them. From free speech to this is the speech you will consume.
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It will become just another Truth Social.
What a slime ball this butt hurt guy is.
Soldato
All the more reason Facebook should hurry up and bring in a better alternative, and, I can't stress this enough, it needs to clearly be very independent from Facebook, other than perhaps the ability to use your Facebook login if you want to create an account
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Imagine being stupid enough to think a narcissistic billionaire like Elon wanted to help do anything containing the word "free" in it.
"Hey guys, you can have free speech at the low low cost of giving me $8 dollars a month! Want even freer speech!? You can get that for $16 dollars a month! The more you pay me, the more free your speech will be!"
"Hey guys, you can have free speech at the low low cost of giving me $8 dollars a month! Want even freer speech!? You can get that for $16 dollars a month! The more you pay me, the more free your speech will be!"
Caporegime
Voting in polls, I wonder if that's because he lost that poll about him having to quit ?
This is the longest slow motion train wreck since Trump's failed presidency.
But remember, he only bought Twitter so that people would have a place to express themselves freely!
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But remember, he only bought Twitter so that people would have a place to express themselves freely!
You can express yourself freely (providing its legal), but that comes at a cost (ie not free
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freely adverb (NOT LIMITED)
without being controlled or limited:
For the first time in months she could move freely.
Exotic foods are freely available in supermarkets.
She freely (= willingly) admits that she's not as fast a runner as she used to be.
We encourage the victims to talk freely (= talk a lot and honestly) about their
experiences
Hint, does NOT mean exotic foods are free of charge in supermarkets....
One thing I have come to learn is the liberal left aren't very good at putting their hands in their pockets.... <LOL>
Caporegime
Musk has a long way to go before he can honestly claim Twitter is a bastion of free speech. The best place for that is Gab. They'll let you say anything as long as it's not illegal under US law, and that's a pretty broad spectrum. I don't like Andrew Torba, but it's hard to deny he offers the freest social media platform available.
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Soldato
You know you can grovel to the mods to let you back into SC; you don't have to post your political ramblings in every thread...
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God I miss the days when trump supporters would defend trump one day, bending to explain what nonsense he had been doing, only to have trump just totally do/say the opposite thing the next day, and then those same simps have to now try and rejustify the latest thing, even though it clearly contradicts everything they were just saying.
Chris's post is a reminder of just that.
"when he said free speech he didn't mean free speech"
Any way, either way of what Elon meant, twitter is no longer free speech based on what Chris has said. Time for better alternatives seems to be the obvious answer. Elon has some how managed to half the value of a company in 6 months, and create a space perfect for competitors to fill.
What's extra stupid about this idea, is that it's sold as the answer to the bots issue, when in reality, what every day user has an issue with bots? What he's done is create a problem, while trying to solve the non issue of bots .
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Musk's choice of the word "free" was probably not very foresighted as there will be those, as can be seen in this thread, that latched onto it meaning without cost. (Quite probably to suit their agenda). Such are the nuances of the English language.
I can sense the angst and rising blood pressures as the possibility of Trump returning to the White House sinks in, keep calm, he'll be thousands of miles away, you'll be quite safe <LOL>
I can sense the angst and rising blood pressures as the possibility of Trump returning to the White House sinks in, keep calm, he'll be thousands of miles away, you'll be quite safe <LOL>
OK bud...
Someone worth $191,000,000,000 has a car collection worth around $3,000,000, apparently buying more cars is his motivation in life though, despite the fact he buys almost nothing. If I had $191bn I'd probably own a single Bugatti worth more than his entire car collection lmao
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