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Musk Takes Control of Twitter, Immediately Fires Top Executives
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now i hear its 20 bucks a month to keep your blue checkmark ..
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#pwnd
Who cares? If he owns the platform he can make those choices. I fail to see the issue here.... just like before. It's privately owned entity, and they can make rules, just like before. If they don't like it they can go make their own social media site with their own rules.
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Elon Musk
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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
10:28 AM · Nov 4, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
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Elon Musk
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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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Nobody owes you support and can complain if they don't like you, that's just how it is. They aren't trying to destroy "free speech" for a couple reasons. First, twitter was never an unlimited free speech platform. Second, they're using their free speech to engage with companies that advertise there and you just don't like their opinions about you. Well, too fucking bad for you, cry more Elon, please do, it's entertaining.
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Jack Posobiec
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That's too bad advertisers are pulling out of Twitter due to outside pressure groups. This lack of revenue is going to lead to mass layoffs, no way around it
11:39 AM · Nov 4, 2022·Twitter Web App
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If I had funding enough to buy a social media company on the rocks and take it private, I’d systematically dismantle it, strip mine the codebase for any saleable IP, and put the domain name up for sale when I was done, along with any real estate. After all, who would I answer to? A board of directors? Hah.
Along the way, I’d be quite sure to irritate as many of the entitlement minded narcissistic prats that inevitably flock to such platforms as I possibly could. And why? Because I could. Not saying this is where Elon is going, but you never know…
Along the way, I’d be quite sure to irritate as many of the entitlement minded narcissistic prats that inevitably flock to such platforms as I possibly could. And why? Because I could. Not saying this is where Elon is going, but you never know…
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Nothing like foreign influence, eh?
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Retarded take.
Privately owned businesses don't owe you shit. If they don't want you there they can ban you for any reason. Don't like it, start your own site. Trump did with Truth Social. You don't see me complaining about him banning Democrats of Liberals there do you? No, because it's a privately owned site, they can ban anyone they want.
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They absolutely *are* trying to destroy free speech.
And they are using their free speech to do it.
Pro censorship is by definition anti free speech.
The 1A may only restrain the government, but that doesn't mean private citizens can't be anti free speech. They may not be able to violate the 1A, but thay can certainly violate the principles it stands for.
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Government colluding with private corporations to violate peoples rights is pretty much the recipe for fascism.
That's the loophole that allows it to work.
Government is restrained by the constitution, so they enlist private corporations to do the dirty work. By extortion, bribes, or downright capture.
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Elon Musk
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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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did you reply and tell Elon reach out to the firearm industries ... they would love to advertise on twitter ..
LOL .Did the government force Twitter to ban Trump, etc? No, so that's an invalid argument. Twitter chose to do so from the feedback of their users. I don't see an issue with this.
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they most likely had a part in it .. finding the proof is the issue ..
They can't destroy what wasn't there. Twitter was *never* a free speech platform.
We do agree on the bottom sentence though. Though, I disagree with the severity you imply. Do I stifle free speech because I won't let anyone post any signage they want in my yard? By your definition I'm violating free speech principles too.