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Apple Executive Phil Schiller Deactivates Twitter Account
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Still waiting to hear what changed with Twitter, all I see are temper tantrums from people acting like children because they were told Elon Musk is a bad man.
They banned Trump due to posts regarding and related to January 6 activities.
Still wondering why you can’t read the news or figure out the answer to a stunningly simple question that basically everyone here grasps.
As to Musk, it's not at all clear that he "wants to improve it." And even if we assume that he does, there are strong indications he does not understand what made it work so well, and some indications that his Saudi financial backers are motivated by his history as a chaos agent, rather than by a desire to improve dialogue (or even to make money). Also, while some users may be motivated to leave by "self-righteousness," many others are leaving because they do not believe the platform will continue to work as it has previously.
In short, your assumption that people are acting out of outrage is based on other assumptions that are questionable.
These?
Cause those are the ones I see at the top of his page aka the ones he made before getting the perm ban.
Almost like they wanted to hide those since it goes against the "inciting" narrative.
They banned Trump due to posts regarding and related to January 6 activities.
Exactly. Inciting a violent insurrection.
It has/had it’s uses:
- Best way to get updates on rail /road disruption
- Allows public figures to bypass the creepy distorting filter of the media.
Let’s be more clear for you-Twitter still works just as it did the day before Elon took over. So what’s changed for the end user other than verification?
Some people enjoy playing mental gymnastics and mind games to avoid admitting they are ever wrong.
Free speech is the same as it always has been in this country. And it doesn’t equate to freedom of consequence from said speech. There’s a difference a certain side of the political spectrum doesn’t get. Never has. But facts and reality mostly elude them.
Edit: Grammatical correction.
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Lol, who cares?
Apple's Phil Schiller, responsible for Apple events and the App Store, has deactivated his Twitter account following recent developments on the platform.
Schiller often used his account to promote new Apple products, services, software, and initiatives and interact with customers. As noted on Twitter by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, however, Schiller's account no longer exists. The account had over 200,000 followers and was created in November 2008 according to a web archive of the account dated November 4.
Yesterday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that former President Trump's account would be reinstated on the platform following its suspension in January 2021. In a recent interview, Apple's CEO Tim Cook commented about the future of Twitter and the social media platform's relationship with Apple. During the interview, Cook said he remained hopeful Twitter would uphold its moderation standard under the new leadership.
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Please. Liberal media, conservative media. They’ve all got agendas which means misinformation abounds, like I said in an earlier post.
Those were hours late and only after the ones inciting the violence in the first place and blaming pence for not giving the election to trump even though he lost by a wide margin.
So wait, the media and politician lies about trump tweeting to incite an insurrection?
Shouldn’t there be punishment for something like that?
Again I was calling out the conservative media which, unlike the so called liberal media, have no interest in informing the public, but instead are only there as a propaganda wing of the Republican Party. The "liberal media" is just a reaction to that. Most of the "mainstream media" is actually fair.
Oh I was referring to the democrat version of Fox News: CNN, NBC, Facebook, Twitter 1.0
Right, just like how you consistently follow your religious text to the letter.
I'm sure Jesus would be proud.
For some reason, conservatives are convinced that conservative media doesn't exist or doesn't count as "media".
“Don't paint those institutions with the same brush as Fox, OAN, Sky News, News Max... etc...”
Having been very close to the mass media and news industries throughout my career, and now being 72 yrs old, I can tell you that they’ve been broken for quite a long time, particularly with the inception of the internet. They are relying on clicks and eyeballs, and that means standing out. It’s hard to stand out in such a crowded online field sitting in the middle. I have seen the NY Times and Washington Post lose so much credibility over the last several decades. I have seen the WSJ lose much of its as well. The problems will not get fixed with folks shouting at each other and failing to acknowledge the pervasiveness of the biases and movements to extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. We all have to step up. And the first step is to acknowledge that we are all part of the problem.
Having been very close to the mass media and news industries throughout my career, and now being 72 yrs old, I can tell you that they’ve been broken for quite a long time, particularly with the inception of the internet. They are relying on clicks and eyeballs, and that means standing out. It’s hard to stand out in such a crowded online field sitting in the middle. I have seen the NY Times and Washington Post lose so much credibility over the last several decades. I have seen the WSJ lose much of its as well. The problems will not get fixed with folks shouting at each other and failing to acknowledge the pervasiveness of the biases and movements to extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. We all have to step up. And the first step is to acknowledge that we are all part of the problem.
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Indeed. See below.
Governments are not the only groups engaged in censorship.
Good for him!! It’s a risk to our country. All of the people who want to do what is right are doing it. I closed mine on election night.
What exactly has happened there since Elon took over that was a risk to the country?