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Elon Musk Offers to Buy All of Twitter
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I can see him buying it, bringing back the ? ? ? to curry favor with that party. On the free speech angle, I think Robert Reich sums it up pretty well:
www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense | Robert Reich
Musk now faces no limit on how much of Twitter’s stock he can buy. He’ll buy as much as he needs to gain total control
And TBH… his cars are yesterdays news. Poor build quality, unfulfilled promises and boring. Here in CA, I see probably 30+ of them a day… all the same and bland.
Hard pass
Hard pass
As the CDC has very clearly said, VAERS data is basically useless for drawing any kinds of conclusion. It's made for scientists to find possible areas of research to find actual adverse effects. It relies on self reporting and has a history of anti-vax patients and care providers filling in inaccurate or unverifiable information. Placebo or nocebo effects can also significantly affect the data. Even if we presume all the data was accurately reported, it's still correlation and not causation, making it impossible to say what was actually caused by the vaccine vs what was something that would have happened anyway.
We'll have to just go ahead and close down every internet forum ever, then
Like the DeLoreans. I remember when they came out and people were GAGA over them. Drooling, and sure they were near gifts from heaven.
And then...
Most of the DeLorean was parts 'off the shelf' from GM. Yeah, it 'looked' great, but... People started having problems with brakes, and electrical systems, doors, and the all too interesting 'fit and finish'. I actually bought a Saturn, and 'fit and finish' was not their strong point. It ended up having the clutch self-destruct. OOW, but Saturn covered it. I traded it in.
Twitter’s policies censor accurate information in favor of propaganda.
You are very business minded, right? I can just sense the business mindednesses in you. Have you ever considered that what Twitter does isn’t censoring, but rather, not alienating the majority of users? If Twitter allows say for example photos of dead bodies, etc., some people will be offended by this, right? Heck, even you might be offended. So, what is a business to do? There must be policies that cater to majority of users, and have them be returning customers, right? Customers because after all, Twitter is not a platform, but a business.
I am sure this forum has rules, too. I think no political talk is one of them. How come you don’t have issues with this?
Ultimately, I think you benefit financially from Elon’s hype, just as Elon does.
I'm glad you brought this up..
I'm not sure why people think it would be desirable to have an "anything goes" Twitter.
That is a business that will flat out die and the only thing left will be the most unsavory characters imaginable.
Was hearing some talk on the news today that $b$ were not buying media companies. One of those was an article (op-ed) from WaPo.
Then saw this and checked (Googled) on some of them.
Not when I have run into having two of my posts pulled from Twitter last year for quoting CDC info.
Misinformation.
I’d agree with you IF the rules were clear and concise. They are more arbitrary.
Not an anything goes rather have a well defined set of guidelines and enforced along those guidelines.
Not surprising to me. Owning a media company is like owning a sports team to those with the bucks.
Reading some of these replies are hilarious.
No, Twitter won’t magically become some racist toxic unfriendly environment. There will still be rules as there is now.
Only difference is people who were say, for example, critical of Ukraine, the vaccines, or an election - can actually speak and not have post watermarked with ‘fact checks’ which have been proven wrong time and time again.
People banned for stating beliefs via text will be re-reviewed
And the algorithm will be open-sourced, community input will be welcomed, and bot armies/astroturfing will be combatted.
Stay mad Elon haters, don’t like these ideas? Go create your own social network.
No, Twitter won’t magically become some racist toxic unfriendly environment. There will still be rules as there is now.
Only difference is people who were say, for example, critical of Ukraine, the vaccines, or an election - can actually speak and not have post watermarked with ‘fact checks’ which have been proven wrong time and time again.
People banned for stating beliefs via text will be re-reviewed
And the algorithm will be open-sourced, community input will be welcomed, and bot armies/astroturfing will be combatted.
Stay mad Elon haters, don’t like these ideas? Go create your own social network.
I’m surely in the minority being on an Apple fanboy website where there are 99% limousine liberals but
We need free speech even if you don’t agree
Musk needs to win this
Thanks
We need free speech even if you don’t agree
Musk needs to win this
Thanks
Teenagers and men in the twenties have had heart attacks all the time in the past. Nothing new, certainly nothing to do with the jab.
Musk offers to buy Twitter at a 20% premium and the stock falls 1.7%. Says how much credibility he has on Wall Street…
And somehow people are using the occasion to go back to arguing about covid. Thank’s Elon.
And somehow people are using the occasion to go back to arguing about covid. Thank’s Elon.
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