Stupid World

[husaberg]

Before you start commenting on Twitter I'd suggest you spend some time there. While it is still functioning.

Musk
the bird is freed

Thierry Breton European Commissioner
"In Europe, the bird flies by our rules."
#DSA, referencing the incoming Digital Services Act, which lays out the rules for social media companies operating in Europe
One of the central facets of the DSA is about ensuring that what is illegal offline is also illegal online -- something Musk will have no choice but to comply with.


Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India’s minister of state for electronics and information technology.
"Our rules and laws for intermediaries remain the same regardless of who owns the platforms,"
So, the expectation of compliance with Indian laws and rules remains."


Dimitry Medvedev, former Russia president and current deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council,
: "Good luck @elonmusk in overcoming political bias and ideological dictatorship on Twitter. BHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Margarita Simonyan, The editor-in-chief of Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, asked Musk to "unban RT and Sputnik accounts and take the shadow ban off mine as well?"

He's already lost GM's advertising and is now resorting to pleading with other advertisers

Dear Twitter Advertisers


piss of the companies and the results is, shit heads who post crap lose big.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kanye-w...itic-comments/

A reminder why turd was banned

[sugilite:Me]

Haha, musk has purchased a money pit. He is already 200 million down paying out the execs he fired. Wow he really showed them

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/28/t...tes/index.html

[R650R]

Did someone say Hunter Biden’s Laptop...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0929...rb_top?ie=UTF8

“USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret.

When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.

The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.

This is the unvarnished story of what’s really inside the laptop and what China knows about the Bidens, by the New York Post journalist who brought it into the open.

It exposes the coordinated censorship operation by Big Tech, the media establishment, and former intelligence operatives to stifle the New York Post’s coverage, in a chilling exercise of raw political power three weeks before the 2020 election.

A treasure trove of corporate documents, emails, text messages, photographs, and voice recordings, spanning a decade, the laptop provided the first evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s ventures in China, Ukraine, and beyond, despite his repeated denials.

This intimate insight into Hunter’s dissolute lifestyle shows he was incapable of holding down a job, let alone being paid tens of millions of dollars in high-powered international business deals by foreign interests, unless he had something else of value to sell—which of course he did. He was the son of the vice president who would go on to become the leader of the free world.”

[R650R]

Haha, musk has purchased a money pit. He is already 200 million down paying out the execs he fired. Wow he really showed them

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/28/t...tes/index.html

Pocket money to him... will be interesting to see what it’s worth is when dust settles, extreme left may try but it back haha

[TheDemonLord]

I've been a regular user of Twitter for years and have never seen or heard anything of that. I have to assume therefore that it's total bollox and that you have neither experience nor knowledge on which to base this.

Hunter Biden Twitter bans/Blocks
Babylon Bee twitter ban for calling Biological Men... Men.
The Wuhan Lab Leak was a little more subtle on Twitter

Now - there's some receipts for you.

And here's the Rub - the fact you haven't seen or heard of it is the very issue. It was banned/blocked/hidden/memory-holed before you knew about it.

On Twitter "Hunter Biden's laptop" would be an indicator that confirms we have an idiot in the conversation. I'd block the fuckwit there and then. Other such indicators are 'Soros' and 'woke'. You see those, you know there's no hope.

As for virus misinformation, I have no idea where you got that. I believe virus misinformation might be the cause of Mad Marge's banning. She was perpetuating the "hoax' theory, plus pushing anti virus theories, anti mask, and all sorts of insane rubbish. All while over a million of her fellow citizens were dying. This is the woman that said the Californian forest fires were started by Jewish lasers from outer space. Of course the Republicans are suggesting she might make a good Vice President. She can barely speak English.

Regardless of how much you want to bury your head in the sand - there are issues that have a factual basis. Just like the 'Pornography in schools' discussion we had a few pages back. The story that you read (and accepted as 'true') was omitting certain highly salient points to convince you that the claim from the other side was absurd.

Same with the Hunter Biden Laptop, same with the discussion on Gender Ideology, Same with Covid.

When one side has the power to artificially restrict points of view (and especially points of view that have a factual basis) - then you get a highly skewed perspective.

This is why Freedom of Speech (which includes Hate Speech, Offensive speech etc.) is critical to the proper functioning of society.

Before you start commenting on Twitter I'd suggest you spend some time there. While it is still functioning.

I dunno - I remember I think 5 years ago, back in 2017 when I was making the claim that Twitter's ToS had a specific Left-wing bias - and I was ridiculed.

As has been happening with glorious frequency - Time is being exceptionally vindicating.

[TheDemonLord]

You are talking about truth social right?

I think it is hilarious that Musk has taken over twitter, but for different reasons to you, obviously.
Musk is so thin skinned, he could not handle his offer of a submarine being rejected he resorted to calling the guy a pedo. I bet he scrubs twitter of any mean tweets about him lol

Well, we'll see. Elon certainly appeals to my Chaotic leanings - the fact he walked into the Twitter HQ with an actual Sink is just the type of Trolling IRL that I love.

And if it makes you happy - many people who otherwise like Elon have pointed out many times that he would make a perfect Bond Villain....

If trump does not come back, twitter will ultimately and very likely eat itself.
And i could not care less.

If Twitter does itself, it might be good for the world.

Trumps dilemma however is an amusing one. Rejoin twitter to hook up with his former 60 million followers, tacitly acknowledging truth social is the turd that it is, or just stick with truth social and retain his severely limited exposure and go down with the slowly sinking ship. Poor orange turd

Are you sitting down?

I actually agree with the essence of this statement. To rejoin Twitter would be to tacitly acknowledge it's superiority to his own brand.

[TheDemonLord]

Haha, musk has purchased a money pit. He is already 200 million down paying out the execs he fired. Wow he really showed them

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/28/t...tes/index.html

I can't remember where it was I saw it - might have been a YT video - where someone did a comparison for what Money is like for the Ultra Wealthy like Musk.

Him buying Twitter for $44 Billion is the equivalent of You and I buying a new, nice car - like a $60-70K car.

So $200 Million is like a really fancy restaurant dinner for him.

And we know that Twitter is a money pit - it's never turned a profit, it's been propped up by people with lots of Cash.

If one were feeling conspiratorial - one might go so far as to say it was propped up by people who had an interest in controlling the flow of information...

[pritch]

Did someone say Hunter Biden’s Laptop...

Somebody might buy the book. 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' I've often wondered about books aimed at the MAGA crowd, it's not as if they are big on reading.

There are multiple interviews on YouTube with the computer tech who handed the laptop to the authorities. In one of them he says he saw something that he thought might be a security concern, so he handed the laptop to the authorities. They evidently didn't consider it of concern.

Never heard of anybody getting banned from Twitter for mentioning the HB laptop.

I did see reference to a banning yesterday. Somebody was attacking a trans person. People reported the attack to Twitter, they replied that the attack breached their rules and they had closed the account.

To get tossed off Twitter you need to be pretty bad. A 24hr or seven day spell of limited access seems more normal, this is referred to as being in Twitmo. Seemingly this can be easily had. Although I've no personal experience.

The only comment I've seen about different behaviour under the new ownership is that reportedly the N word is now being used freely. I haven't seen it, the algorithm evidently doesn't think I'll be interested.

[TheDemonLord]

There are multiple interviews on YouTube with the computer tech who handed the laptop to the authorities. In one of them he says he saw something that he thought might be a security concern, so he handed the laptop to the authorities. They evidently didn't consider it of concern.

The very same partisan Anti-Trump FBI...

I wonder why they didn't think it was much of a Concern...

Never heard of anybody getting banned from Twitter for mentioning the HB laptop.

The New York Post.

I did see reference to a banning yesterday. Somebody was attacking a trans person. People reported the attack to Twitter, they replied that the attack breached their rules and they had closed the account.

I'm guessing that the 'attack' was to point to biological reality.

Apparently saying a Man, despite cosmetic therapy - hormone therapy - and any N number of medical interventions, is still a Man is wrong...

To get tossed off Twitter you need to be pretty bad. A 24hr or seven day spell of limited access seems more normal, this is referred to as being in Twitmo. Seemingly this can be easily had. Although I've no personal experience.

The only comment I've seen about different behaviour under the new ownership is that reportedly the N word is now being used freely. I haven't seen it, the algorithm evidently doesn't think I'll be interested.

I could also bring up the Tim Poole/Jack Dorsey interview with Joe Rogan a while back where they talked about some of the more high-profile bannings.

[pritch]

I mentioned Mad Marge being booted off Twitter. In case I confused anybody, they closed her personal account, she still has her Congressional account. Yesterday she tweeted, "Impeach Biden." She omitted to mention which particular high crimes or misdemeanours he has allegedly committed. Mind you history suggests if she tried to send a longer message than just two words she'd almost certainly fuck it up.

[sugilite:Me]

Well Jack Dorsey certainly has start up experience.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-...195424178.html

[Berries]

What is Twitter?

[Laava]

It's the bit between the twat and the shitter

[nerrrd]

Twitter just seems like the internet's version of talkback radio to me – entertaining, but ultimately too shallow to take seriously.

Journalists and politicians do seem to like it, though.

[R650R]

Twitter just seems like the internet's version of talkback radio to me – entertaining, but ultimately too shallow to take seriously.

Journalists and politicians do seem to like it, though.

Just like talkback radio the “host” gets to cut out opinions they don’t like.

It always makes me laugh when people run down talkback. Straight away it tells me that’s a person who lives in a bubble and doesn’t like hearing others point of view. Sure some hosts have agenda and hard to listen too but for most part you get to hear a good cross section of what society is thinking. Pity is most of astute minds and good ideas come out late which you won’t hear unless your shift worker or up very late.