Elon Musk and Twitter

[Phishfan]

I don't use Twitter and never will. I don't find anything meaningful in it but it may be my ignorance of not joining.

I want to correct the record though, Trump was peed on by the prostitute, not the other way around 

[CF DolFan]

This obsession with Hunter Biden's laptop -- Jesus, man.  ...move on.  It's going to hurt conservatives to juggle this narrative that nobody gives a shit about.

He's a private citizen with no political power.  None of this will matter in the end and they're squandering their goodwill on nonsense.  You got the house....propose some meaningful legislation to make things better.

I just don't think you're paying attention Dave. There is some very damning information on there about our president.  Not that it hasn't been gaining steam in all media ... most recently CBS News but this came out yesterday to completely contradict your sentiments.

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell finds that 62% of Likely U.S. voters approve of the House GOP’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s overseas deals,
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/laptop_from_hell_voters_approve_investigation_of_hunter_biden

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell finds that 62% of Likely U.S. voters approve of the House GOP’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s overseas deals,
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/laptop_from_hell_voters_approve_investigation_of_hunter_biden

Wow that is amazing!  A rightwing polling organization was able to construct a poll that was sponsored by "Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell" that got 62% of the people who didn't hang up on them to say that they approved of the message being paid for by the sponsor. 

[Dave Gray]

I just don't think you're paying attention Dave. There is some very damning information on there about our president.  Not that it hasn't been gaining steam in all media ... most recently CBS News but this came out yesterday to completely contradict your sentiments.

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and Miranda Devine’s Laptop From Hell finds that 62% of Likely U.S. voters approve of the House GOP’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s overseas deals,
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/laptop_from_hell_voters_approve_investigation_of_hunter_biden

Do you, man.

This is going nowhere and it's just juggling bullshit.  Investigate all you want.  I don't give one shit about Hunter Biden.  It will go over poorly.

Pass meaningful legislation with the power you wield.


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Just as a laugh, go read the wording from the telephone and online survey poll, sponsored by "Miranda Devine's "LAPTOP FROM HELL"" -- seems like a legit source.

[Sunstroke]

I just don't think you're paying attention Dave. There is some very damning information on there about our president. 

Because you reviewed his laptop personally? Or because you know a very reliable source who heard that his neighbor "in the know" read a thread on Truth Social about it?

[Spider-Dan]

Even if he does nothing else, he removed the child porn and one sided censorship.

Well timed:

Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team
Just one person remains to enforce the company’s ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations, just one staff member remains on a key team dedicated to removing child sexual abuse content from the site, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who both requested to remain anonymous.

It’s unclear how many people were on the team before Musk’s takeover. On LinkedIn, WIRED identified four Singapore-based employees who specialize in child safety who said publicly they left Twitter in November.

The importance of in-house child safety experts cannot be understated, researchers say. Based in Twitter’s Asian headquarters in Singapore, the team enforces the company’s ban on child sex abuse material (CSAM) in the Asia Pacific region. Right now, that team has just one full-time employee. The Asia Pacific region is home to around 4.3 billion people, about 60 percent of the world’s population.

The team in Singapore is responsible for some of the platform's busiest markets, including Japan. Twitter has 59 million users in Japan, second only to the number of users in the United States, according to data aggregator Statista. Yet the Singapore office has also been impacted by widespread layoffs and resignations following Musk’s takeover of the business. In the past month, Twitter laid off half its workforce and then emailed remaining staff asking them to choose between committing to work "long hours at high intensity" or accepting a severance package of three months’ pay.

The impact of layoffs and resignations on Twitter’s ability to tackle CSAM is “very worrying,” says Carolina Christofoletti, a CSAM researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. “It’s delusional to think that there will be no impact on the platform if people who were working on child safety inside of Twitter can be laid off or allowed to resign,” she says. Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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By firing or driving away the Twitter staff responsible for cracking down on child exploitation, Elon is Actually making Twitter safer for children!  Anyway, these employees were probably just more of the people being paid to do nothing, like their HR staff, compliance department, or advertising sales team.

Another glorious win for Elon!  This is truly one of the greatest days since Elon founded Twitter, an event which we all remember.

[DenverFinFan]

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

Fairly obvious from the beginning that Muskrat doesn’t give a damn about freeze peach and this whole thing was just a way to promote right wing ideas.

[Phishfan]

Freeze peach. Yes!

[Sunstroke]

Freeze peach. Yes!

Have to admit...I had to look up the term "freeze peach" after this thread... ;-)

[dolphins4life]

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

Fairly obvious from the beginning that Muskrat doesn’t give a damn about freeze peach and this whole thing was just a way to promote right wing ideas.

I thought this was some sort of phone error.  Was it?

[Phishfan]

Have to admit...I had to look up the term "freeze peach" after this thread... ;-)

I was scared to have it on my Google

[DenverFinFan]

I thought this was some sort of phone error.  Was it?

No it was intentional. It’s a way of mocking so called free speech absolutists.

[Dave Gray]

TDMMC is not Twitter, obviously, but the idea of creating a platform where people can exchange ideas and having a terms of service to support that -- it's not all that different in the goal.  I have had very active users on here that bring a lot of loud noise, a lot of traffic, a lot of discussion...but they break the rules.  It's not even a matter of free-speech.  It's that, at some point, completely free speech is stifling to actual constructive conversation.  As much as you want to (and try) to keep these types of people on the site, you just can't.  They tear it down, the argument becomes about them, and the discussion devolves.  Obviously, Twitter doesn't want completely free speech.  That's a lie he's telling himself.

To my own point, Kanye West has now been banned from Twitter again, very shortly after being reinstated.  This is not isolated.  This will continue to be a problem will all of these kinds of people.

[CF DolFan]

To my own point, Kanye West has now been banned from Twitter again, very shortly after being reinstated.  This is not isolated.  This will continue to be a problem will all of these kinds of people.

I think Kanye, much like Antonio Brown, is much different than most people.

[Dave Gray]

I think Kanye, much like Antonio Brown, is much different than most people.

He most definitely is.

I just mean that people who are problematic for a platform don't just stop being problematic.  If you act a fool and are asked to leave because of it (whether its racism, violence, threats, doxing, libel, misinformation, derailing...whatever), you're unlikely to just come back a model citizen when you're reinstated.  There is a core element to people that they just can't kick.  You've seen it here on this site time and time again.  We have had our own version of Kanye.