Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

Post by conorcleary » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 11:18 PM UTC

markdown wrote: post #624

nmilo wrote: post #407

> Musk hasn’t said all that much since the takeover on Twitter, but he has replied to a couple of users who have complained about platform censorship in the past. One is a user called “catturd2” who claims he’s shadowbanned and who tweets COVID misinformation among other things. The other is Canada Proud, a right-wing propagandist group that also spreads COVID misinfo and focuses on attacking Canadian PM Justin Trude…

I don't think it's a secret that Musk has been cosying up to the Trump right for a while now. It's only a nasty comment if you find those individuals deplorable, and Musk clearly doesn't.

Post by dr_dshiv » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 11:20 PM UTC

Post by dr_dshiv » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

matttb wrote: post #671

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #663

They need to stop ruining the experience for those of us without an account. Everyone was using Twitter as basically an open bulletin board and then they go and make it visitor-hostile. I look at ads either way.

I have an account and every time I hit that signup/in wall I just close the page rather than sign into my account

Post by inferiorhuman » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 11:25 PM UTC

mikkergp wrote: post #151

lake_vincent wrote: post #56

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Well, speaking in those terms, I think the thing to watch will in fact be censorship. Elon is extremely idealistic, so it will be fascinating to watch him melt down when confronted with the reality of how complex free speech and censorship issues really are. I predict that he will succeed in turning Twitter into the rightwing safehaven that "Truth" Social, Parlor, etc have all been trying to become. He's making a dea…

> I predict that he will succeed in turning Twitter into the rightwing safehaven that "Truth" Social, Parlor, etc have all been trying to become. I actually don't think so, I think this was bluster, or if they are safe haven it will be safe in the way that a subreddit is safe. You can freely talk amongst eachother but that content won't be promoted to people who don't want to see it. I mean this was his latest tweet:…

  My prediction is he ends up growing twitter into a fairly bland chat/communications app/social network, and the focus on global political and social debates slowly weans over time.

  "Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K---S AND N-----S," said
  one account, using slurs for Jews and Black people. "I can freely express how
  much I hate n-----s . . . now, thank you elon," another said.

  Some of the Twitter influx was organized on other platforms, including the pro-Trump
  forum TheDonald, where its top posts Friday morning showed tweets celebrating lies
  about Trump's 2020 election loss and memes criticizing transgender people under the
  headline "When you can't get banned on Twitter anymore."

Post by dpkirchner » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 11:28 PM UTC

poszlem wrote: post #680

no_butterscotch wrote: post #662

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> cutting a large amount of staff I wonder if he needs to do this. Maybe I've just been working for tech companies in the Bay Area too long. But I don't want to work for a company where I don't have equity that I can cash out. And now all those engineers are working for a company where equity doesn't exist? An exception could be a Netflix model where you make a buttload of money. But Twitter isn't that.

It isn't that yet, presumably.