A company or service like twitter should never be made private. It’s too important and always needs to be public to ensure it remains bipartisan/neutral and equal participation of everyone is ensured.
So you want the platform to censor people you don't agree with, but not censor ideas you agree with.Haha, sounds like there are plenty of other places for people to spout that nonsense. I'd rather a platform do what they can to get rid of racism, misinformation, and bigotry, but hey that's just me I guess.
I would agree but it doesn't operate in a completely bipartisan/neutral manner with equal participation of everyone ensured. I also don't think Elon buying it would fix that. The problem is deeper than that. A subscription (hate them, but possibly?) a public utility, who knows. But the way it operates currently + the way it would if Elon owned it would only shift it in a different direction.A company or service like twitter should never be made private. It’s too important and always needs to be public to ensure it remains bipartisan/neutral and equal participation of everyone is ensured.
You're right. I believe the individual should do the censoring, not the company, not the 'committee' or whatever else they will come up with whenever something 'bad' happens. There are flaws in society and you can see them out in the open on places like Twitter, but censoring them sure won't make them go away. They only go away in 'your world' in your imagination.So you want the platform to censor people you don't agree with, but not censor ideas you agree with.
Can you provide this documentation by the CDC agreeing with what he was banned for? I saw the tweet around a "limited window of efficacy and a terrible side effect." I think the limited window comment is somewhat fair, but I haven't seen anything on terrible side effects (only unproven misinformation). From as far as I remember, I knew going into it that the vaccine was meant to stop serious illness and death, which it does. I could understand why a platform wouldn't want high profile people spreading incomplete or inaccurate information downplaying the effectiveness of a vaccine that has been proven to be extremely effective by every long term study. Especially when the country is trying to prevent their citizens from dying.People such as Alex Berenson have been kicked of Twitter for speaking the truth of the vaccine last summer. What he said that got him kicked off is now being said by the CDC. He was just quicker to the truth.
I remember when Twitter was around $6-9 bucks. Still worth about that IMO, lol.Investors are not taking him seriously anymore as the share price didn't rocketed to $54 bucks.
The notion that the privileged children of wealthy people have "earned" the right own the world is out of control.
I don't believe it does our society any good to promote and spread racism, misinformation, and bigotry. Either way, it's a capitalist free market society. It's their call what they want on their platform, not mine or yours.So you want the platform to censor people you don't agree with, but not censor ideas you agree with.
Not to mention a government controlling speech is called dictatorship.I don't believe it does our society any good to promote and spread racism, misinformation, and bigotry. Either way, it's a capitalist free market society. It's their call what they want on their platform, not mine or yours.
Whenever a social media platform gets shut down the toxic users are dispersed and make other platforms worse. I would rather twitter existed as it is even if it’s for the sake of non-twitter users.For the good of mankind Twitter needs to be shut down. A lot of idiots pretending as intellectuals shape public opinion to divide our societies.
Correct, which isn't happening here. Thankful for that.Not to mention a government controlling speech is called dictatorship.
Of course Musk is a free speech absolutist. He doesn't want to ever be held accountable for what he says... things like falsely accusing someone of being a pedophile without a shred of evidence... and then to claim it was only a joke when he was sued.The only reason to like this is that Musk is a self-described free speech absolutist. I hope this will extend to twitter if he takes over.
It was calling those divers saving stranded children pedophiles that showed me all I needed to know about Musk.I see why you'd think that if all you do is look at his twitter feed. If you watch his interviews he's a completely different in person.
Well, you only need to look on the CDC website at the Vaccine Adverse events. In just 6 months 384,270 adverse events have been logged there along with 4,812 deaths from the vaccine.Can you provide this documentation by the CDC agreeing with what he was banned for? I saw the tweet around a "limited window of efficacy and a terrible side effect." I think the limited window comment is somewhat fair, but I haven't seen anything on terrible side effects (only unproven misinformation). From as far as I remember, I knew going into it that the vaccine was meant to stop serious illness and death, which it does. I could understand why a platform wouldn't want high profile people spreading incomplete or inaccurate information downplaying the effectiveness of a vaccine that has been proven to be extremely effective by every long term study. Especially when the country is trying to prevent their citizens from dying.
Even if his stance is because of personally selfish reasons, if extended to twitter it will benefit the society.Of course Musk is a free speech absolutist. He doesn't want to ever be held accountable for what he says... things like falsely accusing someone of being a pedophile without a shred of evidence... and then to claim it was only a joke when he was sued.
Well, you only need to look on the CDC website at the Vaccine Adverse events. In just 6 months 384,270 adverse events have been logged there along with 4,812 deaths from the vaccine.
What gets labelled today as "misinformation" is almost entirely driven by political ideology. There are plenty of examples from both sides of the aisle. (Trump's "fake news", Hunter Biden laptop, etc)Is racism, misinformation, and bigotry considered a political opinion/idea?