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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by nopenopenopeno »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

> and welcomes non-extremists back on

What is this even supposed to mean? Extremist in what sense?

If we are talking about politics, a common context for this kind of language, the United States is the most extreme capitalist nation in human history, so just being a US patriot should reasonably be considered an extremist position.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by a5aAqU »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

> removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on ... hope he truly makes twitter somewhere that you visit that isn't just rage bait again.

He's probably going to unban Trump and other awful people. His buying Twitter is literally a risk to the foundation of civilization (if far-right clowns gets into power again and destabilize the US and Europe). Billionaires gained a lot of money and power in the past few years.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by clay10 »

rosenjcb wrote: post #457

Does anyone else feel like he's going to start doing petty shit like banning people he doesn't like (e.g. that musk flight tracker account)? He talks a lot about free speech but he has a track record of limiting speech on the platform (blocking multiple people) and off (making the founders of Tesla sign a hush contract).

It would be contradicting everything hes currently saying. I don't think him blocking people from his account is indicative that he would ban those same people from the platform, nor do I consider it "limiting speech on the platform".

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Post by cmckn »

nova22033 wrote: post #102

What if the Chinese government forces Elon to ban criticism of China? Nice EV business you have there in Shanghai...be a shame if...you know..

Twitter has not been available in China since 2009. I think the CCP is much more interested in controlling what Chinese citizens see than what foreigners say in other countries. Still, interesting to think about.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by GuB-42 »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

Most social networks are nice places if you pick the right people/topics to follow, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, etc...

I would place an exception on Facebook, or Facebook-like networks because you follow actual people, not public persona and ideas. For example I have some good friends that have some debatable political ideas, that's fine, we may have small and respectful arguments, but most of the times, we just avoid the subject and do things we both enjoy. But add them to Facebook and you get all the vomit, no only their posts, but others too, because Facebook thinks that if you like a person, you must share the same ideas. It makes my Facebook feed essentially worthless, as if being littered with ads wasn't enough.

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Post by hannasanarion »

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #219

Whoever you are, whatever your politics and positions are, you have to admit and appreciate the humor in the saying: “it’s a private company, they can do what they want”. Full 180 and probably shouldn’t use an argument you don’t believe in to help make your point if you are on the receiving end of that joke. Just trying to enjoy the ride on by this one… I’m still much more concerned with the on-demand Ludovico Techni…

What's the "full 180"? Where is the hypocrisy?

"it's a private company they can do what they want" is a response to the right-wing claim that moderation is somehow illegal. It isn't, and it still isn't. Online forums are allowed to moderate as much or as little as they want to.

Moderation isn't illegal. Reduced moderation also isn't illegal. I hold the the opinion that some moderation is preferable to no moderation, and I am disappointed that this move may lead to a reduction in moderation and an increase in spam and trolling on the platform. That's not hypocrisy.

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