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

He can buy his own Twitter.

Oh...wait.

 

It's like if there was an actual fascist movement becoming more and more mainstream in America you would have absolutely no avenue in your cognitive functions to acknowledge it.


Yes when a fascist movement becomes more mainstream it's more prevalent. This guise behind free speech is just another simple example. Love when the free market panders to your cultural sensibilities. Cry being a victim and wanting government action when the free market doesn't pander to your cultural sensibilities. Ya that is fascist like to me. Cultural hegemony for me, not for thee.

 

@fchowd0311 you are entitled to having an opinion. But let's not pretend that you actually know much about how the world works. I have been lenient on you because you obviously haven't had the education e.g. @Os Trigonum had, and you served, and you had to overcome religious indoctrination, but for the love of Allah, stop babbling about fascism.

 

Is Paul Pelosi gay man? What your Twitter sources say?

Anyways I think your issue is not understanding "banality of evil". It's not like individual humans with fascist like tendencies are literal Nazis who want to create extermination camps. No that's not how it works. It's thousands of yous spamming rhetoric that creates a thick tension of hatred for groups of people that aren't on top of the cultural hierarchy which is a very strong component of fascism, strongly defined hierarchies. That thich tension of hatred is what eventually leads to dehumanization of those at the bottom of the cultural hierarchy. You think the average German citizen that supported the Nazis over the Weimar government wanted to commit genocide? No, many of them were like "a least they aren't Bolsheviks".

 

I'm told the Onion is funnier

 

It really is. Boomer humor is kinda lame.

 

I like them both.

 

Headline is funny. Article execution lacks wit and subtlety:

[...]
"I never make a business decision without first consulting the great and magnificent President Xi, blessings on his name," said Cook in a statement. "My company lives to serve the People's Republic of China and The Chinese Communist Party, and I will resign myself to his divine will."

"If he gives the order, Twitter will be gone from the App Store."

Cook emphasized, however, that the popular Chinese spy and child exploitation app TikTok will always have a platform in the App Store. "TikTok is an essential tool for advancing Chinese interests around the world and for protecting my cheap slave labor in the country. It will never be removed."
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Can't argue with taste, I guess.

 

Lol…. Naturally Tucker Carlson is regurgitating Elon’s talking points for the boomers and seniors that don’t already know Apple can control apps on their own store….

 

I agree except when it comes to teaching that gay people exist and accurate US history that isn't a fairy tale.

Those ideas can't be expressed.

 

Damn that’s ironic considering DeSantis’s (gop wonder boy) legislation.

 

JFK was the first Bitcoiner

 

The emperor declared we shall have free speech. Praise the emperor!

 

The topic is free speech.

ps If he had the money, he probably wouldn't buy it near the peak. Smart investors tend to make those mistakes.

 

private company yada yada

 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23450967/apple-airdrop-limited-china-goverment-protests

On Apple’s iOS update placing limits on AirDrop for phones sold in mainland China:

Apple limits AirDrop in China after its use in protests

The new 10-minute limit will eventually go global, but is currently restricted to iPhones in China.

By JESS WEATHERBED

Apple has placed time restrictions on AirDrop wireless file-sharing across iPhones in China after the feature was used by protesters to share images opposing the Chinese government, Bloomberg reports.

The “Everyone” option in Airdrop is now limited to a ten-minute window for users in China. After the ten minutes have passed, AirDrop’s device-to-device sharing will switch back to “Contacts Only,” making it harder to distribute content to strangers en masse. These new time restrictions have been introduced by Apple just weeks after the service was used to spread posters opposing president Xi Jinping.


The AirDrop restriction was included in the public release of iOS 16.1.1 on Wednesday, despite nothing about it being mentioned in the release notes. 9to5Macreaders were quick to discover that the restrictions seem limited to iPhones purchased in China.

As Bloomberg notes in its own reporting, AirDrop has often been used as a loophole to get around China’s strict online censorship. That isn’t to say that AirDrop is a bastion for free speech though as the feature has also been used nefariously, from grounding planes with fake terrorism threats, sending unsolicited nudes to strangers, and uh, grounding planes with unsolicited nudes. The wireless file-sharing system can be readily abused, and not just by folks who want to troll strangers with pictures of space sloths.

Apple has previously been criticized for implementing changes meant to appease the Chinese government — such as removing VPN apps and hiding the Taiwanese flag emoji for users based in Hong Kong and Macau.

Apple hasn’t yet addressed why the AirDrop restrictions have only been introduced in China but has confirmed to Bloomberg that the new setting will be made available to global users “in the coming year” as a way to mitigate the receipt of unwanted files.
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The restrictions only appear to apply to AirDrop communication for people that aren’t in your contacts list, and it places a time limit of 10 minutes rather than remove the ability to communicate entirely.

The usage of this feature for file sharing by political activists has been widely reported, but apparently it’s been used for more nefarious purposes as well (sending unsolicited messages to strangers) and Apple is planning to make the update global.

Also, Musk has a less than stellar record on “free speech” when it comes to his other company and China, so him going after Apple (for a business decision relating to their App Store that they have every right to make) strikes me as hypocritical: https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/tesla-asked-china-censor-social-media

 

The irony.