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[Sgt.Asher]

This is the worst case of Hitlering I have seen. Registers as an 9.5 on the Hitler scale.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This is the worst case of Hitlering I have seen. Registers as an nein.5 on the Hitler scale.

FTFY

 

[Catphish]

FTFY

 

[Vicetrailia]

The writing was on the wall as to why he purchased that stock. It was not for a pump and dump. He can do far more on a return pumping and dumping low end crypto.

I just noticed the rabble responses like it was the "trend of the day" with select users who came in to repeat the hashtag script all in the same timeframe.

He has done enough pump and dump to expect him to do more, that's a reasonable expectation until they asked him to come to the board when he got his 15% or whatever it was.

 

[vpance]

I bet there will be a "Reesetera Twitter" made asap in aftermath of this.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

"The amount of social damage this is going to cause cannot be overstated."

 

[DeepEnigma]

I bet there will be a "Reesetera Twitter" made asap in aftermath of this.

Will they call it, Reeeter?

 

[Spukc]

I bet there will be a "Reesetera Twitter" made asap in aftermath of this.

We already have this it's called the Ganges located in India

 

[///PATRIOT]

 

[Spukc]

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

I just hope Nobody_Important was able to get a refund on his CNN+ subscription cause that tanking in combination with this news is gonna be a bad week for him.

#thoughtsandprayers

 

[DeepEnigma]

They didn't even move to the great white Canada last time.

 

[vpance]

Will they call it, Reeeter?

No clue, but it's happening for sure. Maybe someone like Bezos will lead the charge.

 

[haxan7]

 

[DeepEnigma]

No clue, but it's happening for sure. Maybe someone like Bezos will lead the charge.

Save us daddy, save us!

 

[cormack12]

So what will trumps first tweet be if he's allowed back on twitter?

 

[Fake]

 

[DeepEnigma]

So what will trumps first tweet be if he's allowed back on twitter?

 

[cormack12]

I like Pump and Trump!

 

[jason10mm]

I wonder if this will trigger multi-multi-billionaires to start snapping up companies wholesale.

Imagine if Jeff Bezos starts to buy movie or music studios himself, and then rents the broadcast rights back to Amazon Prime. He can convert his tech shares into (such as it is) tangible worth in the form of owning media catalogues.

If nothing else maybe this will wake up anti-monopoly legislation to the hellscape we are finding ourselves in when we allowed such giant corps and their figureheads to accumulate so much wealth.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I like Pump and Trump!

 

[Nvzman]

I wonder if this will trigger multi-multi-billionaires to start snapping up companies wholesale.

Imagine if Jeff Bezos starts to buy movie or music studios himself, and then rents the broadcast rights back to Amazon Prime. He can convert his tech shares into (such as it is) tangible worth in the form of owning media catalogues.

If nothing else maybe this will wake up anti-monopoly legislation to the hellscape we are finding ourselves in when we allowed such giant corps and their figureheads to accumulate so much wealth.

Jeff Bezos already did this before with Washington Post and nobody gave a shit despite it being arguably more conceptually corrupt for an individual to buy a freaking news outlet. It's evidence of the hypocrisy going on.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Ree is such a great read right now, shame they deleted the specific thread about it. I was just learning how twitter is going to become 'utterly unbridled in fascist control'

 

[Irobot82]

If this does go through, I hope Elon makes them implement something like what Saylor had come up with. An orange checkmark, costs like $10. You can filter out all tweets that aren't from orange marks. This puts skin in the game and help eliminate spam.

 

[p_xavier]

They didn't even move to the great white Canada last time.

You need to be educated to move to Canada. None of them are.

 

[Kraz]

I bet there will be a "Reesetera Twitter" made asap in aftermath of this.

An interesting free speech test for twitter on the horizon.

It would be surprising if there weren't several options already in development. His talk at TED was inspiring. The town square concept was inspiring. Taken to its Athenian origin there is much that could be done to sphere the square from its current condition.

Then again, many people have changed and moved on in mind. The period of calmness has provided insights and, maybe, resiliency. It'll be interesting to see what the actual changes are and what happens.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You need to be educated to move to Canada. None of them are.

But, but you have Trudeau.

 

[Kraz]

But, but you have Trudeau.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Hosam6xavi]

Thank you Elon

 

[Wheeljack539]

Jesus Christ

I was always a fan of "Thurgood Marshmallow", myself.

 

[///PATRIOT]

Seriously though, Elon Musk has just made more enemies now. Prepare yourselves with assholes from the USA and around the world trying to pass new legislation to regulate social media to only applying regulation to Twitter.

 

[vpance]

Seriously though, Elon Musk has just made more enemies now. Prepare yourselves with assholes from the USA and around the world trying to pass new legislation to regulate social media to only applying regulation to Twitter.

I can see it happening. Battle for the internet next.

 

[thefool]

Ultimately he has the blank check. It doesn't matter if you have 100000 managers around you. The company guiding principles will be written by whoever has the check.

You're not wrong about your assumptions, which imo only reinforce the issues around the platform. At least I've heard from the horse's mouth acknowledgement of the wrongdoings and a path of transparency moving forward.

Any tech heads here have any ideas on how the platform could improve from a tech perspective, not moderation perspective?

What would releasing the source code actually do? Anything user experience wise?

Open-sourcing the algorithm will allow to understand how twitter "manipulates" what is shown/hidden to users. Anything that increases transparency is an improvement.

 

[Kilau]

Leaving.

Real talk, I've loved that song for ages.

 

[DragoonKain]

Hit piece on cue

 

[Catphish]

Hit piece on cue

 

[DeepEnigma]

I was always a fan of "Thurgood Marshmallow", myself.

Cream Abdul-Jabbar is another good one.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I can see it happening. Battle for the internet next.

They've been predictively programming us for the past 2 years on this.

Maybe he's controlled opposition?

 

[Nobody_Important]

I just hope Nobody_Important was able to get a refund on his CNN+ subscription cause that tanking in combination with this news is gonna be a bad week for him.

#thoughtsandprayers

C'mon you can do better than that. If you wanna troll then go big.


That's C-tier bait at best. I don't get worked up these days for anything less than A-tier bait. Just ask DeepEnigma

 

[Decontamination Silo]

I just wish Musk was actually the far right extremist these crazy people paint him as.

 

[Nobody_Important]

I just wish Musk was actually the far right extremist these crazy people paint him as.

Why?

 

[DeepEnigma]

C'mon you can do better than that. If you wanna troll then go big.


That's C-tier bait at best. I don't get worked up these days for anything less than A-tier bait. Just ask DeepEnigma

Go big or go home, baby!

 

[vpance]

They've been predictively programming us for the past 2 years on this.

Maybe he's controlled opposition?

He could be, wittingly or otherwise. Let's see what actually changes though after he steps on board.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

You have some racist friends

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I just wish Musk was actually the far right extremist these crazy people paint him as.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Go big or go home, baby!

Exactly. Or at least have the decency to call me a libtard or a left wing cuck.


I have standards.

 

[Kraz]

You have some racist friends

 

[OmegaSupreme]

What? You know what I'm talking about. Come on. I'm not going to elaborate further since we've already dug into politics too much and I'm not going to get myself banned.

 

[Kraz]

What? You know what I'm talking about. Come on. I'm not going to elaborate further since we've already dug into politics too much and I'm not going to get myself banned.

You were talking about your virtue signalling. But yes, we should move on back to Elon.