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Elon vs Twitter update: Elon helped America win , Tesla stock through the roof

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by tinman, Mar 26, 2022.

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Who is for democracy?

  1. Elon

    34 vote(s)
    57.6%
  2. Twitter

    9 vote(s)
    15.3%
  3. Chinese democracy by Guns N Roses

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    27.1%
  1. fchowd0311

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    Nah dude I think you are just freaking out. Is this message oard all you have in your life?
     
  2. tinman

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  3. SuraGotMadHops

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    Twitter is the absolute most powerful social media tool in the universe, and the Left cannot control it anymore to steer and control thoughts and information, and cancel accounts that produce information that they disagree with. The run of bullshite from Lefty twitter heads is OVAAAAAAA, and it couldn't have happened any sooner.

    Eat it.
     
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  4. durvasa

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    ClutchFans > Twitter

    It's actually possible to have conversations on here. Twitter kind of sucks for that. It's a platform that allows people to chirp out into the ether what's on their mind or breaking news. It's not conducive to dialogue.

    Twitter has its uses, but I am skeptical about its "potential" to be a transformative force for good when it's so difficult to have meaningful conversations on it.
     
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  5. Invisible Fan

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    I'm guessing most of these cheerleaders used parler or some other **** alternative and want to flex their newly minted dub in order to validate their hidden pain.

    It'd be funny if Elon really did piss off libs and they decided to cancel "expensively elitist" Tesla bwahahahahahaha
     
  6. cml750

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    If Musk makes it a true free speech platform then the lefties can still post as much "bullshite" as they want. The improvement will come from not censoring anything contrary to the "narrative" of the day so opposing views can have their voices heard.

    Again all that is if Musk does what he says. That of course is a big if because he could very well turn out to be just as bad or worse than the ones who have been running it. Only time will tell.
     
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    "that goes far beyond the law" ... that word "far" does give him some wiggle room here. Let's see how he uses it.
     
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  9. adoo

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    it'd help if Musk give specific egs

    for eg. under Musk, will TWTR allow postings of

    • child pornographic messages/images
    • intentional disinformation messages, such as that
      • Biden is not a duly elected POTUS
      • the 6 Jan insurrection was merely a tourist visit
     
  10. SuraGotMadHops

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    Exactly right.
     
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  12. JayGoogle

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    But what law is he talking about here? Twitter operates in countries that have strict hate speech laws, is he making a twitter for each country? I doubt it.

    This is why platforms don't just go by law but have their own laws.
     
  13. JayGoogle

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    Don't worry, it'll all be tested.

    Because Musk has made his stance as vague as possible and because people have taken from it "I can do anything I want now" people will test it.



    He doesn't even have control of it yet and they can't wait lol.
     
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    The reaction from both the rw & lw are kind of funny. Twitter has been mostly crypto bros, bots, & trolls for quite a while now. Companies have long abandoned it for Facebook, Instagram, & Tik tok. If Musk implements the verified users only idea it might clean the place up a little.

    Right now Twitter is worse than when Youtube's comments section was a cesspool of racism.
     
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  15. Ubiquitin

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    I will stick to Yahoo Finance comment sections thank you.
     
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    Strangely worded tweet from Elon Musk. Whether the story turns out to be truthful after the fact shouldn't matter. Better to substitute "credible", even though that was debatable at the time.

    Counter-argument: If story is based on hacked material that is believed to have been stolen by an enemy state that is known to be trying to disrupt our election process, and the news organization insists on using Twitter to disseminate that information, it's no longer so "obviously incredibly inappropriate".
     
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    the story at the time was investigative REPORTING. That's what newspapers are supposed to do: report. Just because that reporting might have posed a threat to a particular political party in an election three weeks off is IRRELEVANT to the question of whether a platform like Twitter is justified in censoring a story and/or a news reporting organization. That's what Musk is addressing by saying that censorship was "incredibly inappropriate."
     
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  19. Commodore

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    It wasn't hacked.
     
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