At this point, I fully believe the conspiracy theory that Elon Musk is just a scapegoat/shill who is intentinally destroying twitter because it was a good tool for people to organize against companies and governments.
Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three
Submitted 1 year ago by tintory@lemm.ee to workreform@lemmy.world
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-twitter-verification-elon-musk/
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cantsurf@lemm.ee 1 year ago
4am@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Those are the motivations of his sponsors (the Saudis etc). He thought it contributed to his trans child’s “woke mind virus” and he definitely threatened to buy it out of rage and then once forced to decided he’d fucking destroy it
variants@possumpat.io 1 year ago
and to try and sell teslas to the right
4am@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Those are the motivations of his sponsors (the Saudis etc). He thought it contributed to his trans child’s “woke mind virus” and he definitely threatened to buy it out of rage and then once forced to decided he’d fucking destroy it
roofuskit@kbin.social 1 year ago
My biggest problem with all the conspiracies is they don't seem to account for his very obvious incompetence.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll buy that as a motivation, but I think he’s destroying it because he’s a petty bitch who can’t handle that he was forced by the courts to do something, namely buy Twitter.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stop dead naming Ten.
zoe@infosec.pub 1 year ago
join Mastodon! : the commie twitter alternative
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
the petty little shit this asswipe pulls is just fucking pathetic.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like we are starting to see more direct actions between members of different classes.
StarServal@kbin.social 1 year ago
Every action taken without repercussions emboldens their next.
It’s been awhile since the last feast, so the rich are losing their fear.
markstos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The article was updated to say it was an automated change because the profile pic changed and the blue check has sense been restored.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
I must say it is amusing watching the same people who cheered Twitter censorship the last few years suddenly realise why giving companies the power to sensor is a bad idea. Eventually the gun gets turned on you.
dmonzel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- “Free speech” refers to the government, not private companies.
- There is some speech that has no place in the public square. Hate speech, threats, and harmful conspiracies, as examples.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
You’re confusing the U.S. Constitution with free speech. The Constitution only prospects some kinds of free speech, and only for American citizens. I’m not American. Most people are not America. Surely you realise there are many others countries out there, and other kinds of speech?
You say “harmful” speech has not place in the public square. Who adjudicates that? Right now it’s Elon Musk. Are you really happy with that?
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
That’s the “American and legal” version of free speech. Was there. No free speech before they wrote the constitution ?
chaogomu@kbin.social 1 year ago
The "censorship" from before Musk took over was mostly banning hate speech, death threats, and calls for violence. Sometimes all three were in the same tweet.
Now it's banning union organizing and people wanting to be paid a fair wage for a day's work. Totally the same.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
Most people agree with censoring hate speech and death threats. The problem is they expanded well beyond that, all while people cheered. The chants of, “it’s a private company!” were deafening. So now they can lie in the bed they made.
alvvayson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Private companies moderating content != censorship.
And I think you have a wrapped few of how it went down.
Pre-musk moderation was a necessary evil to combat spam, fake news and hate speech. Nobody was cheering, except when some notorious idiots got the boot. Then we were just laughing at the idiots. Fine, call it cheering if you want.
Now, we are mostly just all laughing at Musk destroying his investment.
I don’t care if he censors the UAW or whatever. Go ahead and censor everyone except dogecoin evangelists.
And yeah, people can say stupid shit I disagree with. But I reserve the right to laugh.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
Can I follow you around with a siren, that I turn on every time you attempt speak, or will you accept that free speech always inevitably has limits and like most rights those limits are reached when your rights impinge on those of others and vice versa.
JasSmith@kbin.social 1 year ago
Using a siren to silence me is just another form of censorship.
skweetis@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm not going to hang out in a bar that allows Nazis to hang out. You can if you like, but people are going to call you a Nazi supporter, and they will be right. If you don't allow Nazis in your bar, they can still stand out side and freeze peach as much as they want, you are not curtailing anyone's freedom. So, yes, I cheer business that don't allow Nazis and I am critical of bars where the management trolls unions, and that's not hypocritical in any way because there's a difference between good things and bad things. Anyway, enjoy your Nazi bar, weirdo.
DarkGamer@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think exceptions need to be made for obvious propaganda, gaslighting, and hate speech. Dangerous lies and calls for violence do not need a platform. That's quite different from silencing people for merely having a different opinion.
TheGoodKall@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying, but it seems too easy for those definitions to get spun off into just “things the majority dislikes” which isn’t great. I would hope that dangerous lies could be countered in the comments, and the platforms are then setup to always include this conversation rather than letting the first poster hog the megaphone
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 1 year ago
Tom Nicholas referred to Musk as the "World's Oldest Teenager" and he's not wrong.
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It suprises me that people are still on Twitter. www.join-mastodon.org.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At this point is just Musketeers and bots.