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Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by andrepd »

lancesells wrote: post #413
machina_ex_deus wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go back to Musk deal, it was immediately after Babylon bee was banned for an anti trans remark about man of the year. I'm speculating a bit, and I'm not supporting his actions, I'm trying to explain then. I think he already had disagreement with his son that came out as trans later, and I think the major reason he changed his political position is because of his child. The child also cut all ties with him. He…

According to my search Musk has 10 kids. According to him he works something like 18 hours a day. He seems to maybe spend a lot of his time browsing and using Twitter.

According to myself I work 26 hours a day and go to work barefoot, uphill both ways. :3

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Post by bb88 »

trashtester wrote: post #722
bb88 wrote: post #712

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> That way, one can hope, it may be possible to separate facts from matters of opinion from outrights falsehoods. Jan. 6th was a based on a series of falsehoods. Fox News and several Republican politicians claimed it was a antifa "False Flag" operation the night after it happened. Fox News downplayed much of the Trump scandals in his presidency. So now turnabout is fair play I guess with the coverage of whatever's on…

> So we need to restore Trump to the presidency, suspend the constitution, or whatever the right wing demands or there will be violence? Not what I'm saying at all, rather the opposite. But if both sides stop interpreting everything coming frome moderates on the other side in the worst possible light, that's a start in mitigating polarization.

Personally I don't think that's the issue.

I think the issue is that social media is the most amazing tool for propaganda ever invented.

The Russians realized it in 2016. One of the two political parties learned from that experience rather than wanted to fix it.

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Post by sgjohnson »

bmitc wrote: post #310
jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

> What tech people like Paul Graham and others were hoping was for Elon to apply his scientific first principles type of thinking that he demonstrated previously at SpaceX+Tesla to Twitter. I wish one could take a step back and just see how ridiculous of a statement this is. There is nothing about Musk’s history and management style that is even remotely close to what could be called “scientific first principles type…

The hyperloop is the most egregious example imho

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by alvah »

themitigating wrote: post #727
alvah wrote: post #721

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Good for you. I haven’t seen any evidence for the “it was only dick pics, definitely nothing else” theory, I assume you have some?

So you want evidence to prove something didn't happen? How are you on Hackernews?

If this is your level of understanding of logic, reason, and debate, how are you even able to tie your own shoelaces?

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Post by xcrunner529 »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #724
xcrunner529 wrote: post #718

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The “twitter files” links has the Biden campaign reporting dick pics. We can actually view the links mentioned via the Internet Archive. Oops. And no they don’t have a right for something illegal (revenge porn, unconcent) and the company certainly has their own right to censor how they want and choose who they listen to. The Russian thing was about the actual facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and…

Twitter blocked the NYPost and any DMs containing links to the article based on the set of advice you summarize as "reporting links to dick pics". The emails are probably the most politically relevant, and possibly damaging, as they contain possible evidence of corrupt dealing.

Source? Be specific. I’ve only seen links reported that were dick pics.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by themitigating »

alvah wrote: post #734
themitigating wrote: post #727

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you want evidence to prove something didn't happen? How are you on Hackernews?

If this is your level of understanding of logic, reason, and debate, how are you even able to tie your own shoelaces?

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Proving...

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by themitigating »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #724
xcrunner529 wrote: post #718

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The “twitter files” links has the Biden campaign reporting dick pics. We can actually view the links mentioned via the Internet Archive. Oops. And no they don’t have a right for something illegal (revenge porn, unconcent) and the company certainly has their own right to censor how they want and choose who they listen to. The Russian thing was about the actual facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and…

Twitter blocked the NYPost and any DMs containing links to the article based on the set of advice you summarize as "reporting links to dick pics". The emails are probably the most politically relevant, and possibly damaging, as they contain possible evidence of corrupt dealing.

Contain possible evidence? How do you know that?

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Post by trashtester »

bb88 wrote: post #732
trashtester wrote: post #722

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So we need to restore Trump to the presidency, suspend the constitution, or whatever the right wing demands or there will be violence? Not what I'm saying at all, rather the opposite. But if both sides stop interpreting everything coming frome moderates on the other side in the worst possible light, that's a start in mitigating polarization.

Personally I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is that social media is the most amazing tool for propaganda ever invented. The Russians realized it in 2016. One of the two political parties learned from that experience rather than wanted to fix it.

> I think the issue is that social media is the most amazing tool for propaganda ever invented.

The Russians realized it in 2016, and the data I've seen indicates that they promoted both Trump and Sanders at the time.

> One of the two political parties learned from that experience rather than wanted to fix it.

Both sides spread a lot of lies and even more half truths both in social media and more traditional media. The loyalists on both sides also both seem unable to spot where their own side is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

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Post by LawTalkingGuy »

themitigating wrote: post #737
LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #724

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter blocked the NYPost and any DMs containing links to the article based on the set of advice you summarize as "reporting links to dick pics". The emails are probably the most politically relevant, and possibly damaging, as they contain possible evidence of corrupt dealing.

Contain possible evidence? How do you know that?

There are 128k+ emails, many about the Biden's business dealings. I say 'possible evidence' because it hasn't been investigated yet.

https://bidenlaptopemails.com/

We also know that the emails, or at least many of them, are valid. The signatures, made years before the leaks, check out.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/10/yes-we-can-validate-leake...

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by LawTalkingGuy »

xcrunner529 wrote: post #735
LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #724

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter blocked the NYPost and any DMs containing links to the article based on the set of advice you summarize as "reporting links to dick pics". The emails are probably the most politically relevant, and possibly damaging, as they contain possible evidence of corrupt dealing.

Source? Be specific. I’ve only seen links reported that were dick pics.

Source that the FBI/Dems/etc only sent dick-pic links to be censored, or proof that the laptop leak contained more than dick pics?

Earlier in this thread you made a claim that the leak was only dick pics, have you read a source which claimed that, or is it only that you haven't seen a source talk about anything else?

There're these, many of which are verified: https://bidenlaptopemails.com/

I don't know the entire contents but it is certainly more than just dick pics. I've heard someone discuss using the dates in those to corroborate other stories which means they aren't just salacious either.

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