Twitter reportedly nearing deal to sell itself to Elon Musk
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What a massive victory for free speech if it goes through. If he does manage to liberate Twitter, efforts to control thought will likely move even more to the Apple/Google level, as well as the national level.
If it goes through, I hope he ratchets up his disdain for the SEC, Central Banks and Wall Street brass such as Blackrock - the biggest villains who control most everything today.
Whatever he does, I just hope he fixes Tesla and doesn't get sidetracked. He's got plenty to do there- or to assign someone to do.
I will be in the market for an electric car in about 3-4 years and I want Tesla on my list for possible purchase.
I will be in the market for an electric car in about 3-4 years and I want Tesla on my list for possible purchase.
Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson today shared the COVID tweet which got him removed from Twitter well over a year ago:
"Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and an extensive side effect profile that must dosed in advance of illness."
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Not only did it turn out to be very accurate, but just think of the lie after lie from the CDC/NIH/FAUCI/BIDEN regarding the vaccine - protection from infection, transmission and efficacy.
This is exactly why we need free speech and both sides of the conversation.
"Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it - at best - as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and an extensive side effect profile that must dosed in advance of illness."
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Not only did it turn out to be very accurate, but just think of the lie after lie from the CDC/NIH/FAUCI/BIDEN regarding the vaccine - protection from infection, transmission and efficacy.
This is exactly why we need free speech and both sides of the conversation.
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So we won’t get BANNED anymore from the platform If we question the grand OLD democrat party ? And not accept senile Joe as the next messiah?
He’ll be back. Truth social will perform as well as you’d expect a hastily thrown together trump enterprise to perform.
He’s also not going to limit himself when he has a real platform to put things out on.
He wasn't banned for questioning the Democratic Party. Why make up something?
Whether you agree with his personal banning or not, it had zero to do with asking questions of anyone.
Twitter’s rules/standards have zero to do with freedom of speech. Literally nothing. It’s just not a free speech issue. It’s 100% a business decision. Don’t like their business? Don’t use it.
I am interested to see what Musk will do - he’s certainly enterprising, but I’m curious to see if he has a real plan for Twitter. The current board seems to have maxed out what they could do with the platform.
You'd expect someone that has their own platform to actually use that platform- which he hasn't done.
His stooge, former Rep Nunes was on Fox over the weekend talking about how Truth Social has more interactions than Twitter. Of course that's an obvious lie.
The interesting thing is all the Trump stooges- many in Congress like Boebert- who said months ago she was not going to use Twitter anymore and would use Truth Social. She posts all the time on Twitter to this day- and doesn't use Truth Social.
He suggested a small subscription to use twitter. That will go over like a lead balloon.
Verifying everyone that uses it? Again, that's not going to happen and wouldn't work anyway.
It seems he doesn't really have a good idea what to do right now- not that anyone else does either.
I would pay a subscription to be in a bot free platform that doesn’t censor a thing. It’s social media not a news service. It shouldn’t matter if what is said is false.
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Too much info, including false info, is better than political ideology deciding what is true any day of the week.
The problem is, most of us can decipher falsehoods from truths, however many can not, they just believe everything they see on TV or internet is TRUE!! RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA is a Great Example!!
Well than they are just idiots but we shouldn’t censor stuff on a public forum because of it. If I got out in the streets and yelled the same shit people might believe it to. We going to censor people from going that?
That's where I am. It'd be nice to have verified true sources of info, but there is no impartial entity that can be trusted to be the "defender of truth", so we can't trust people to tell us what should and shouldn't be said.
Agree in principle. Disagree in concept. The platform was protected by the government (Sec 230) and then turned around and used by them and special interest groups to block free information flow.
COVID messaging was the perfect example of this. When the Founder and CEO of the company (Dorsey) is openly talking about government overreach and "his hands are tied," it's clear there's been a breach. Indemnity was continually dangled as a means of manipulation. The same antics have also infected our medical system.
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I think it should work well. He ran alot of front-end polls on the topic over the past month and this was the most popular. The alternate idea was a one-time security deposit to rid the platform of scammers and bots. Reported bad actors & spam bots forfeit their deposit & Twitter monetizes malice.
Bill Gates once proposed charging a penny per email to eliminate spam mass mailings. Wish they would reconsider this too.
The book-burners need the number of free social media platforms to be exactly zero.
Musk just blew a major hole in their operation.
Musk just blew a major hole in their operation.
Musk just gave $44.3 billion to the former owners of Twitter which they can now use to end hunger, poverty, disease, war, & injustice.
Which they will do first?
Which they will do first?
OH HELL the Socialist/Left/Libs hate FREE SPEECH, shut down any and everyone that disagrees with them. That is why they are freaking out over this.. What other POSSIBLE reason could they have fro Freaking out??
They will do like BLM and Buy Mansions, Escalades, Gold, etc etc etc..
This is glorious watching all the libnuts melt down because Musk stole what they thought was their little playground to say whatever they wanted, while at the same time silencing any voice of opposition. Suddenly the simpletons are now horrified that the conservatives might control the conversation and amazingly are wanting the government to out in laws to put a stop to it. The lefties aren't happy that we aren't playing nice anymore.
They want every advantage!! Thank Goodness there are conservative warriors like DeSantis, Jordan and Abbott!!
You are in the minority though. Most people don't use Twitter.
I could see some reporter types paying a small fee to use it but I can't see average joe paying to use twitter.
I know tons of people that use or at least have a Facebook account. I can count on one hand the people that have had accounts on Twitter.
People often say they would "pay" for a better product on social media. But the reason it's not done is because people don't follow through with what they say they will do.
There is no chance at all twitter users will pay to use the service on any scale that would matter.
The great majority of people don't have a Twitter account compared to a facebook account.
Twitter is useful for news junky types and politicos. It's not very useful for people who like to share photos of their family or talk about vacation plans or connect with friends.
A number of us here won't pay for Gamecock news. I know I won't. Some do- but the great majority of Gamecock fans won't.
Like all platforms, Twitter has it's trash and political zombies, but there's also leaders across every industry, government, etc. Twitter is where the news begins. It's also an invaluable resource for traders and Wall Street, etc. As you mentioned, Facebook, IG, etc. are mostly glorified chat rooms, propaganda and photo sharing.
Most will happily pay for a small fee to help clean up BOTs and the aimless crowd. It will be welcomed.
All platforms are protected by 230 - protected from the writings of others in their sites. But it’s just one platform. Trump has a new platform. Do you honestly think he’s going to permit people to go on there and trash him and spread easily disproven lies? Of course not. Those people will be banned. But who cares?
Again, I don’t really care who owns Twitter. Their decision to sell is a business decision. Personally I think they’ve maxed out what they can do on the site (revenue wise) and are going to cash in and move on. Perhaps Musk has something new for the site. There was a slight spike in users over the last year, but really user growth has been pretty stagnant for close to a decade.
I think you underestimate the power of free speech. Their are tons of people that would be willing to pay to say what they want. Just look at the migration of this forum alone to on3 look at how many people paid that dollar.
Just because they don’t use it now doesn’t mean they wouldn’t move to it if it were an improvement over the other option.
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