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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by hackerlight »

BLanen wrote: post #473
echelon wrote: post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

> He's gone insane. He has literally always been this way. He's a moron. There is no meritocracy. He got there through dumb luck and narcissism which the media/you people interpreted as confidence. If you actually listened to him talk at any point you could hear that he really doesn't know shit about anything.

> If you actually listened to him talk at any point you could hear that he really doesn't know shit about anything.

I disagree. Yes he's a narcissist but you can't hold this conversation and be a moron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Fa50Zc_3Y

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by hackerlight »

concordDance wrote: post #712
d23 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's possible, it's just that Musk's behavior is so abhorrent there's essentially no remaining reasonable defense of any of his naked hypocrisy and childishness.

On the grand scale of things, Musk's twitter behaviour isn't even a nanohitler, well bellow Bill Gates, the Koch brothers or Murdock and not even close to basically any world leader (Tony Blair, George W Bush, Barrack Obama, Emmanuel Macron). Don't overuse words like "abhorent" unless you want to seem like you're hysterically overreacting.

Murdoch sure but why Bill Gates?

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by sib301 »

hutzlibu wrote: post #796
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #618

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?

I think he will do it. But he will still own Twitter and he will still take action, whenever he feels like it, so not sure if that would change anything. Either way, the whole drama is both hilarious and sad at the same time.

Of course he will do it. He plans to step down regardless of the results of this poll.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by influxmoment »

BulgarianIdiot wrote: post #315
mvkel wrote: post #173

It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter. He fails to realize _why_ Twitter uniquely has the reach that it does. It's because it's platform-agnostic in a lot of ways. It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to. By removing that connection, it completely nerfs that influence and Twitter becomes just another social network. I a…

His first principles seem be to get what he wants through brute force. He'll realize that he doesn't have the brute force to control the online communication of 450 million people.

Good observation. Dealing with non mechanical objects is not his strength

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by nickthegreek »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #507
dm319 wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing. I think what you meant was you didn't buy into it, and this is proving your point of view. He's gone from freedom of speech absolutionist to defining the limits of freedom of speech by whether you discuss social interactions on other websites. It isn't as simple as a one-dimensional scale between freedom of speech absolutism and not, and the f…

> He's gone from freedom of speech absolutionist to defining the limits of freedom of speech by whether you discuss social interactions on other websites. I don't know how you can say that with a straight face. This is only a small bit of his capricious rules. Earlier this week it was publicly available information about flights, now it's even indirect mentions of social media competition, what happens next week if h…

Not only that, but users will need to check out Musk’s account in the morning to be sure they know the new rules for the day, as there is no tolerance for slip ups.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by influxmoment »

wereallterrrist wrote: post #421
mvkel wrote: post #173

It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter. He fails to realize _why_ Twitter uniquely has the reach that it does. It's because it's platform-agnostic in a lot of ways. It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to. By removing that connection, it completely nerfs that influence and Twitter becomes just another social network. I a…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851 Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.

Explain the success of his previous companies without lying or references left wing conspiracies? I genuinely want to see an answer to this. Can't state things as fact that 5 seconds on Google can disprove

I already know the answers are going to be he uses his secret emerald mine to power the self landing rockets

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by LastTrain »

influxmoment wrote: post #936
wereallterrrist wrote: post #421

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851 Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.

Explain the success of his previous companies without lying or references left wing conspiracies? I genuinely want to see an answer to this. Can't state things as fact that 5 seconds on Google can disprove I already know the answers are going to be he uses his secret emerald mine to power the self landing rockets

What does politics have to do with it?

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by robswc »

smrtinsert wrote: post #393
benmorris wrote: post #97

If it isn't obvious this is the new norm for Twitter. Elon is making up the rules as he goes and ruling like a pissed off insecure reddit mod. I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing. This is about control and fueling his ego. It is a real shame because I wanted to continue using Twitter like I always have, but I don't think that will be possible.

No mod of any other major social network issues site wide bans based on the mere mention of another social network.

Wym? This happens all the time.

Many of the popular subs will retroactively ban users for posting in other subs.

I was banned from a fair amount of subs because I had a trivial argument with a mod in one sub. IIRC it was literally an "argument" about humidity being worse than dry heat, lol.

Seeing this repeated on twitter, even if its for a day, is alarming.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by SgtBastard »

influxmoment wrote: post #936
wereallterrrist wrote: post #421

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851 Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.

Explain the success of his previous companies without lying or references left wing conspiracies? I genuinely want to see an answer to this. Can't state things as fact that 5 seconds on Google can disprove I already know the answers are going to be he uses his secret emerald mine to power the self landing rockets

So when you say “his” companies, do you mean:

PayPal (not founded by Musk) Tesla (not founded by Musk) The Boring Company (only existed to de-rail a planned road development that annoyed Musk) SpaceX (I’ll give you this one)

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by nickthegreek »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #894
MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #774

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the problem, money is just another form of free speech isn't it?

One shouldn’t have more free speech by virtue of their net worth or disposable income.

Ideally, but we would apparently need an amendment to the Constitution for that too be true.
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