Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

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MrSquished

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One thing we can count on everyday, is musk doing yet something else shitty that violates his free speech bullshit. What a POS.
 
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Vic

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One thing we can count on everyday, is musk doing yet something else shitty that violates his free speech bullshit. What a POS.
That's because his promise of absolute free speech was never deliverable in the first place.

But that's Musk. The guy is the ultimate vaporware salesman.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
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That's because his promise of absolute free speech was never deliverable in the first place.

But that's Musk. The guy is the ultimate vaporware salesman.
Well we knew he was full of shit before Twitter. Sure total free speech may not be possible the thing is he's allowing all the hate speech and a blocking everybody else for whatever reason he wants, from journalists to being able to link to other websites.

A lot of us saw this coming a million miles away. He never fails to prove the left right these days.
 

UNCjigga

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Need a few billion? He went to Jared!

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K1052

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Watching him petulantly flail about while the business fails because of his stupid decisions and he incinerates Tesla’s valuation at the same time is surprisingly entertaining.
 

Red Squirrel

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I think his plan was always to hand it over to someone else, but have some fun with it first. Like buying a sports car and driving the crap out of it then giving it to a friend.

Been quietly watching all of this unfold, unfortunately it really does seem his promise of freedom of speech was BS after all, just based on everything I see. I had a bad feeling it would be but still had some hopes. He still did some good like getting rid of the ridiculous covid ministry of truth though but banning anyone that criticizes him or posts public information like his flight location is ridiculous. Freedom of speech needs to apply universally to be called that. Can't just pick and choose.

Been testing the waters to see how far the freedom of speech goes but it seems LGBT stuff is still highly protected. Saying the trans movement is a mental health crisis has gotten me a 7 day ban. Speaking out against the WEF and calling them a terrorist organization is also bannable as that was one of the tweets in the report. Seems odd that would be bannable.

Not sure if this ban is him or just the algorithm though as it feels like someone just mass reported my tweets as it's odd I had 3 in a row that were flagged and they were completely unrelated. Lot of that stuff is probably automated and perhaps it's a work in progress to tweak that. I expect my next ban is going to be permanent so I might make a backup account and use that to comment on more sensitive things and keep the current one for memes and retweets.
 

brycejones

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Oct 18, 2005
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I think his plan was always to hand it over to someone else, but have some fun with it first. Like buying a sports car and driving the crap out of it then giving it to a friend.

Been quietly watching all of this unfold, unfortunately it really does seem his promise of freedom of speech was BS after all, just based on everything I see. I had a bad feeling it would be but still had some hopes. He still did some good like getting rid of the ridiculous covid ministry of truth though but banning anyone that criticizes him or posts public information like his flight location is ridiculous. Freedom of speech needs to apply universally to be called that. Can't just pick and choose.

Been testing the waters to see how far the freedom of speech goes but it seems LGBT stuff is still highly protected. Saying the trans movement is a mental health crisis has gotten me a 7 day ban. Speaking out against the WEF and calling them a terrorist organization is also bannable as that was one of the tweets in the report. Seems odd that would be bannable.

Not sure if this ban is him or just the algorithm though as it feels like someone just mass reported my tweets as it's odd I had 3 in a row that were flagged and they were completely unrelated. Lot of that stuff is probably automated and perhaps it's a work in progress to tweak that. I expect my next ban is going to be permanent so I might make a backup account and use that to comment on more sensitive things and keep the current one for memes and retweets.
Leaving the internet might do wonders for your mental health.
 

Vic

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Jun 12, 2001
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I think his plan was always to hand it over to someone else, but have some fun with it first. Like buying a sports car and driving the crap out of it then giving it to a friend.

Been quietly watching all of this unfold, unfortunately it really does seem his promise of freedom of speech was BS after all, just based on everything I see. I had a bad feeling it would be but still had some hopes. He still did some good like getting rid of the ridiculous covid ministry of truth though but banning anyone that criticizes him or posts public information like his flight location is ridiculous. Freedom of speech needs to apply universally to be called that. Can't just pick and choose.

Been testing the waters to see how far the freedom of speech goes but it seems LGBT stuff is still highly protected. Saying the trans movement is a mental health crisis has gotten me a 7 day ban. Speaking out against the WEF and calling them a terrorist organization is also bannable as that was one of the tweets in the report. Seems odd that would be bannable.

Not sure if this ban is him or just the algorithm though as it feels like someone just mass reported my tweets as it's odd I had 3 in a row that were flagged and they were completely unrelated. Lot of that stuff is probably automated and perhaps it's a work in progress to tweak that. I expect my next ban is going to be permanent so I might make a backup account and use that to comment on more sensitive things and keep the current one for memes and retweets.

The answers you seek as to why freedom of speech wasn't applied universally can be found within your own post. It's because you really only wanted that freedom for yourself. And you weren't alone in that. Far from it.

But still less than 43%.
 

Red Squirrel

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The answers you seek as to why freedom of speech wasn't applied universally can be found within your own post. It's because you really only wanted that freedom for yourself. And you weren't alone in that. Far from it.

But still less than 43%.

Nope I want it to be universal. It's good to see both sides. I may ridicule the far left but I still believe they should have freedom to say what they want.