The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Amnesia said:
Isn't this what you are all in tears over, that you want the Russian government CENSORED, you want to take away their ability to communicate to the world, that they not be allowed to share their thoughts.
Now you are arguing is if that was never said, has there ever been a more dishonest lot than the yous.
Time and time again you lot get caught out lying.
It was only a few weeks ago I was here and there was some either illiterate or very dishonest poster who kept claiming he could not see the word PEACE in a post and it was an extremely short post.

Go ahead change your arguments....
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Lol, depriving them of using a website that is not their's is not taking away their ability to communicate with the world or stopping them share their thoughts.

Twitter is not the world, or the only way to communicate. It's a website, now run by an idiot. Nothing more really.
 
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Amnesia said:
Isn't this what you are all in tears over, that you want the Russian government CENSORED, you want to take away their ability to communicate to the world, that they not be allowed to share their thoughts.
Now you are arguing is if that was never said, has there ever been a more dishonest lot than the yous.
Time and time again you lot get caught out lying.
It was only a few weeks ago I was here and there was some either illiterate or very dishonest poster who kept claiming he could not see the word PEACE in a post and it was an extremely short post.

Go ahead change your arguments....
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I would want their thoughts of genocide censored, yes please.
 
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This platform will neither promote nor limit their (*Russian) accounts, but we will rapidly address any attempts at gaming the system. It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength.
 
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This platform will neither promote nor limit their (*Russian) accounts, but we will rapidly address any attempts at gaming the system. It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength.
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Ah so this is why he labeled the BBC a state funded broadcaster. So he could sneek the Russians in under the same guise.
 
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This platform will neither promote nor limit their (*Russian) accounts, but we will rapidly address any attempts at gaming the system. It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength.
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So he's happy to censor people who don't pay by burying there tweets but won't censor a regime in the same way that has invaded a neighbour, committed war crimes and continues to do so. Free speech!
 
Trusty said:
Not sure if it's true or not. My personal opinion is Musk should follow through.
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Well here's the very imminent problem with the answer, much more visible than any financial problems it may cause which Elon might never confess to.

Lets take LeBron James as the example, he's absurdly rich and said he's not paying for a sub, he's also ~27th largest Twitter account.

If Joe Bloggs is looking at basketball tweetings and sees CareerGrifter39, HopefulInfluencer27, 10,000 random kids and Piers Morgan tweeting away, burying LeBron James then the user is getting a worse experience even if they are the ones paying!

If LeBron James is given a default sub status because Elon is forced to accept that BIG NAMES are the product people come to Twitter for then he will have visibly crawled right back to the starting point of giving major users special status.


Heck, we now know Elon likes following the BBC on Twitter, many accounts but @BBCBreaking is basically same size as LeBron James. If they don't cough up is he going to kneecap them too.

These big accounts are big because of their status outside Twitter and by their status outside Twitter they bring an audience. It is incredibly dodgy to make being on Twitter inconvenient for them.
 
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After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber. Quick(ish) recap: On Thursday, Musk’s original hand-picked Twitter Files scribe, Matt Taibbi, went on Mehdi Hasan’s s…
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On Thursday, Musk’s original hand-picked Twitter Files scribe, Matt Taibbi, went on Mehdi Hasan’s show (which Taibbi explicitly demanded from Hasan, after Hasan asked about Taibbi’s opinions on Musk blocking accounts for Modi in India). The interview did not go well for Taibbi in the same manner that finding an iceberg did not go well for the Titanic.

Hasan notes that Taibbi has talked up how he believes Musk is supporting free speech, and asked Taibbi if he’d like to criticize the blocking of journalists.

Taibbi refused to do so, and claimed he doesn’t really know about the story, even though it was the very story that Hasan initially tweeted about that resulted in Taibbi saying he’d tell Hasan his opinion on the story if he was invited on the show. It was, well, embarrassing to watch Taibbi squirm as he knew he couldn’t say anything critical about Musk.

He already saw how the second Twitter Files scribe, Bari Weiss, was ex-communicated from the Church of Musk for criticizing Musk’s banning of journalists.
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By Friday, that exchange became even more embarrassing. Because, due to a separate dispute that Elon was having with Substack (more on that in a bit), he decided to arbitrarily bar anyone from retweeting, replying, or even liking any tweet that had a Substack link in it.

But Taibbi’s vast income stems from having one of the largest paying Substack subscriber bases. So, in rapid succession he announced that he was leaving Twitter, and would rely on Substack, and that this would likely limit his ability to continue working on the Twitter Files.
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Minutes later, Elon Musk unfollowed Taibbi on Twitter.
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Has anyone even mentioned this...just why


It's like he's given up and just self sabotaging now, it reminds me of someone talking smack in a game and they want you to 1v1 them and as soon as you take a big lead they start blowing themselves up then comes the "I wasn't even trying bro" this is where Elon is right now
 
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