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

"i am a free speech absolutist" - elon musk

ive never tweeted and i dont care about twitter, but we have watched right wingers and trumpers try to spin the actions of a private company into a first amendment/free speech issue for the last few years. and now elon is banning people for doing things he doesnt like...by the standards of right wingers/trumpers elon is suppressing peoples free speech by banning them from the service that he owns. thats how it works now, right?

 

I’m really curious how people would have reacted if it was Bill Gates asking some college kid to stop posting live updates on his personal jet and he was raising a big stink about it online — including getting social media sites to censor it.

I suspect a lot of the people would be taking a very different stance with the character swap.

 

I recall "there is always a tweet" in reference to someone famous over the past few years.

BTW, I bet more than 25% of the Twitter user base is in violation NOW. It's common practice for users to include links to their other platforms.

 

This is where I get off the bandwagon. I understand the need to temper the trolling and drama and general jackassery. I am not a fan of the walled garden Apple approach of shutting out all competition.

 

Yeah, it's a bit silly. But it's just a business decision.

 

It was never about principles.

This kid has been posting tracking info for the wealthy and elite's planes for a few years now and now all of sudden he's a "Stalker" by running afoul of Elon.

"Stalkers".... "groomers"..... "pedos"..... the right has a certain rhetoric they like to employ.,

 

lolol

that free speech absolutist strikes again

 

I think Clutch also banned "rivals" when the former system administrator called Frank Swindle tried to steal the domain and start a competing service. It's understandable.

 

Now Elon suspended Paul Graham. He is not doing himself any favours.

 

Running a company by polls is I don’t know, not the way?
Policies made up on the fly? Because your feelings are/got hurt?

 

1.THREAD: Twitter Files Supplemental

2.In July of 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan tells Twitter executive Yoel Roth to expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), the inter-agency group that deals with cyber threats.


3.The questionnaire authors seem displeased with Twitter for implying, in a July 20th “DHS/ODNI/FBI/Industry briefing,” that “you indicated you had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform.”


4.One would think that would be good news. The agencies seemed to feel otherwise.

5.Chan underscored this: “There was quite a bit of discussion within the USIC to get clarifications from your company,” he wrote, referring to the United States Intelligence Community.

6.The task force demanded to know how Twitter came to its unpopular conclusion. Oddly, it included a bibliography of public sources - including a Wall Street Journal article - attesting to the prevalence of foreign threats, as if to show Twitter they got it wrong.

7.Roth, receiving the questions, circulated them with other company executives, and complained that he was “frankly perplexed by the requests here, which seem more like something we'd get from a congressional committee than the Bureau.”


8.He added he was not “comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the IC) demanding written answers.” The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.

9.He then sent another note internally, saying the premise of the questions was “flawed,” because “we've been clear that official state propaganda is definitely a thing on Twitter.” Note the italics for emphasis.


10.Roth suggested they “get on the phone with Elvis ASAP and try to straighten this out,” to disabuse the agencies of any notion that state propaganda is not a “thing” on Twitter.

11.This exchange is odd among other things because some of the “bibliography” materials cited by the FITF are sourced to intelligence officials, who in turn cited the public sources.

12.The FBI responded to Friday’s report by saying it “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.”


13.That may be true, but we haven’t seen that in the documents to date. Instead, we’ve mostly seen requests for moderation involving low-follower accounts belonging to ordinary Americans – and Billy Baldwin.

14.Watch @BariWeiss and @ShellenbergerMD for more from the Twitter Files.

Notes from the Twitter Files: Twitter and the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF)
Twitter didn't just take moderation requests from government, it made rapid attitude adjustments. More below: https://t.co/ojuxq0eboH

 

Gotta appreciate the man using predetermined polls to weasel his way around decisions.

 

LOL

Has Elon been running the DCEU too?

 

Elon is a bit out of control. I think he is doing all that tweeting from Qatar??

 

Who is he fooling with the poll crap?

 

Logged into my personal account (I do have an advertising acct I logged into more recently, last 500 days or so) for the first time in 99yrs to vote he step down. He DOES know how to boost engagement.

Last week he was supposedly looking for buyers to reduce his stake in Twitter. With him it's all smokescreens. Pretend 1 thing is the reason he has to do something so he can conduct himself as he wants.

I WONT SELL ANY TSLAAAAA. Lulz, OKAAAAYYYYbro.

CONboi

 

He tryna sell a piece.