Twitter preps poison pill to preclude Elon Musk's purchase plan Twitter on Friday said its board of directors had unanimously approved a plan to prevent a hostile takeover, something that became a distinct possibility after billionaire Elon Musk offered $43 billion to buy the social media network. The poison pill, or "Rights Plan," the biz said, "will reduce the likelihood that any entity …
Considering that the media uses Twitter are they primary aggregator, generating interest for their stories by their tweets. Allowing twitter to arbitrarily shutdown any media outlet publishing a story is no different than the British Army shutting down Thomas Pain speaking in the public square! You can use the "private business" all you want but a political movement using corporations to further their political goals is nothing short of Fascism!
Elon Musk's inevitable crash is going to be almost as much fun as Donald Trump's. More, perhaps, because Trump will almost certainly do a Maxwell on us an die before the really juicy stuff comes out. Musk, on the other hand, is only 50, which means we have a good chance of seeing him sentenced to decades in prison, or bankrupt, or both.
The new left is so mentally bankrupt, they favor censorship (they call it moderations now -- so clever) over free speech. Why? Because their arguments are so weak and they have grown up in safe space where their fragile feelings are not hurt.
In the past, it was the liberals promoting free speech. But now, the traditional liberals are now "right wingers" and must be censored (ahem, I mean moderated) out of the public square. It's a fascinating turn of events.
For the exchange of ideas. Not for conspiracy to sedition, to promote actions likely to result in injury or death to yourself or others, etc. You are free to say what you want. But you are not free to use someone else's platform to do it. If you break the house rules, don't act shocked to find yourself outside the door.
It's just hilarious how fast so called defenders of capitalism and business and free speech pitch a fit when they discover that breaching a business's rules gets them turfed out. The crying, the complaining. The wailing at the unfairness of it. "Conservatives are being censored much more often!" And they're probably breaching the ToS much more often, cause and effect.
What was that said about snowflakes, and feelings? Act civil. Show some actual respect. Bring some actual evidence. Discuss things on the merits as found by those that actually know what they're talking about, not Dr Oz or Franzie on Facebook.
A personal attack on a group of people you disagree with is the weakest argument of all. .... iron
A personal attack on a group of people you don't disagree with is worthy of a vengeful response from appropriate forces from which one does not recover or survive in the most extreme of valid cases. Methinks such as a common default result would be more than just a Great Game Changer being as how it would decimate and clear the politically incorrect landscape of all manner of parasite and pariah providing weapons unable to not do deadly harm to innocent civilians.
Oh dear. So much stupid to digest from one post!
Unfortunately, right wingers have proved what utter morons they are. They follow the herd, treat politics as a team-sport, and cheerlead for their glorious leader, bleating in unified agreement to everything he says."
I'm sure the rest of us would love if this wasn't the case, then we wouldn't have to act to protect you from yourselves.
Do you think Fox would still be running if you lot could think for yourselves? How about the Russian bots? They only exist because they work - they can continue to spew out all sorts of propaganda - however ridiculous - and you guys lap it up, with no critical thought.
I'm sure we'd love to be in a world where it would be ok for these people to lie, because no-one would believe them and would just ignore them, but whilst people like you exist, you need protection from yourselves.
That covers lying / propaganda / "misinformation"
As for "feelings being hurt", you're projecting again, dear. You whine about cancel culture and censorship, but when the shoes on the other foot, you revel in it. Remember "boycott Nike?" "Cancel Kaepernick", the list goes on.
Just last week, winner of thickest person to ever exit, Marjorie Taylor Greene reported Jimmy Kimmel to his bosses, and complained to the police, over a JOKE https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511816972610244615
Is she a weak leftie now?
Finally, free speech. So you'd be comfortable for someone to post your name and address to a Q-Anon list accusing you of being a paedophile? Especially if it's someone influential in the maga-moron universe?
You're just a hypocrite. You guys:
- believe in freedom (to do whatever the hell you like to others, but they shouldn't have the freedom to retaliate)
- believe in freedom of religion (as long as that religion is Christianity)
By the way, here is a list of just some of the things Trump has tried to cancel. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump-cancel-culture-boycotts-firings/index.html>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/fact-check-trump-cancel-culture-boycotts-firings/index.html</a>
Now, I know you'll say "CNN fake news" without even looking, but be bold. Everything they post is easily fact-checked, if you care to think for yourself for once.
HTH. HAND.
Just last week, winner of thickest person to ever exit, Marjorie Taylor Greene reported Jimmy Kimmel to his bosses, and complained to the police, over a JOKE https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511816972610244615Is she a weak leftie now?
You just won the Internet.
...or would have, were the Internet populated with a sufficient number of folks whose IQ is above room temperature...
"I'm tweeting more or less stream of consciousness," Musk answered. "It's not like, 'Let me think about some grand plan about my Twitter or whatever. I'm like literally on the toilet or something. I'm like, 'Oh this is funny,' and then tweet that out."
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That's what one assumes.
Not sure why the article chose to highlight this tweet, but panic was the cause of a lot of problems. Supermarket shelves were emptier than they should have been because people were panic buying more than they needed
Disagree with a lot of things he said, but that's not really one of them
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to help freedom in the world
I doubt this. First, Twitter has indeed an influence when it's about manipulating people and trying to rig elections. Manipulation is the opposite of Freedom.
Next, Twitter is blocked in countries where Freedom is limited (and this is an understatement). Therefore it cannot help freedom where it's the most needed (supposing Twitter really helps Freedom)
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