Twitter is 100% gamed by big money. Rihanna for instance was paid 2.5M for pro farmer tweet
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Will India Ban Twitter?
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#42Right now I'm listening to a report on NPR about how India, the world's largest democracy, leads the world in the number of times it has shut down Internet access. As this will inevitably (sadly) become the norm, I fully expect we'll see the same in the U.S. in relatively short time. Hopefully that's too pessimistic; but, to be prepared -- what is the state of the art of HAM-based networking in the U.S.?
What leads you to believe the USA has any interest, now or in the future, in shutting down Twitter?
It need not shut down twitter, when twitter itself will shut down accounts 'the USA' doesn't like..
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#43given how much Twitter influences elections and has clearly demonstrated the degree to which they put their thumb on the scale, countries will be making their own and/or block it. it would be stupid not to.
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#44Private countries should be able to ban private companies
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well my dads a farmer and he has no problem with these laws and you will find the same with majority of the farmers in India. They support the law, literally every economist is giving their approval to these laws. There will naturally be some opposing the law and the government has held a dozen meetings with the small number of farmers to discuss each and every point, but they are hell bent on repealing the law inste…
Whether your dad is okay with it or not is irrelevant though. The fact remains though that many are unhappy about it and have been attacked violently. The fact is that the police have filed FIRs against people for voicing support. Those are the salient points to this discussion on whether India will ban Twitter or not
It's true that considerable number of farmers are unhappy with the new farm laws. But an even larger number of farmers are just fine with those. Ideally, this should be implemented differently in each state, as situation in each state is different. Violence does not help in anyway - either by the farmers or the police.
The other point is about involvement of shady organizations.
There is evidence that the protests were planned in advance. Greta Thunberg seems to be involved. I have read the document which was published on Cryptpad. While the document is not really encouraging violence, it does have phrases which clearly intend to malign India's image. A Canadian outfit called 'poetic justice' is also involved.
read the article from the Print https://theprint.in/diplomacy/canada-firm-mp-pr-person-suspe...
and this is the link for the toolkit https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/ehTz+drfKPwi4fP5dn0mivw...
while the toolkit does not directly incite violence , it clearly mentions that the plan was followed per schedule. the protests were already planned despite the leaders of protests giving their word that the protests would be peaceful on the republic day.
the toolkit reveals intentions to malign India by asking people all over the world to protest infront of Indian embassies
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#46Twitter is 100% gamed by big money. Rihanna for instance was paid 2.5M for pro farmer tweet
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This is what i saw this morning, not sure about authenticity though
https://theprint.in/diplomacy/canada-firm-mp-pr-person-suspe...
According to sources, it was Skyrocket that allegedly paid $2.5 million to popstar Rihanna to tweet in support of the farmers’ protest in India. Dhaliwal, the sources said, is a Canada-based Sikh who is a “self-proclaimed Sikh separatist” and is also close to Jagmeet Singh.
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#47Indian. I resisted getting a twitter account all these years, but created one just to keep track of the pandemic. As far as I can tell, Indian political parties and "news" outlets have completely gamed the system. Every day, there would be a new outrage hashtag. And by no means are these outrages driven by one political faction. Over the last one year, I notice that Twitter itself has taken steps to limit the "trendi…
True that. Daily you wake up and you see powerplay of tweeting trends. Accounts trying to just use their followers to build a wave of trends and then people against them doing the same.
It's not the number of tweets that should build a trend, but number of authentic facts that is backing it up. I wish there was a platform which shows facts leading up to a certain tweet - for both sides. So that immediately, I can compare the reality.
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#48Twitter is 100% gamed by big money. Rihanna for instance was paid 2.5M for pro farmer tweet
> Rihanna for instance was paid 2.5M for pro farmer tweet
You can game any system like that - instagram etc
Why do you think Rihanna would need 2.5M for such a tweet when her any collaboration can make her much, much more money?
Just because she did not sing to your tunes so you thought you can accuse her like that.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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This is what i saw this morning, not sure about authenticity though https://theprint.in/diplomacy/canada-firm-mp-pr-person-suspe... According to sources, it was Skyrocket that allegedly paid $2.5 million to popstar Rihanna to tweet in support of the farmers’ protest in India. Dhaliwal, the sources said, is a Canada-based Sikh who is a “self-proclaimed Sikh separatist” and is also close to Jagmeet Singh.
"According to sources"
FFS
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what i saw this morning, not sure about authenticity though https://theprint.in/diplomacy/canada-firm-mp-pr-person-suspe... According to sources, it was Skyrocket that allegedly paid $2.5 million to popstar Rihanna to tweet in support of the farmers’ protest in India. Dhaliwal, the sources said, is a Canada-based Sikh who is a “self-proclaimed Sikh separatist” and is also close to Jagmeet Singh.
"According to sources" FFS
>>not sure about authenticity though