Elon Musk | Owner of X

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It's absolutely unreal that this stupid sign flashes every twenty seconds directly at a block of residential apartments.
 

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DO NOT VIEW THE VIDEOS IF YOU"RE EPILEPTIC AND/OR PRONE TO SEIZURES

I can no longer see the replies but I gather Musk's oddball fanbase are just telling this guy to 'deal with it' or just leave .
 

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He's already being sued by like twenty companies whose bills he stopped paying. Not for any reason, he just doesn't pay. He's also in a constant dispute with perhaps every single building owner he rents from, including the one with the big X.
It’s astounding he gets away with it
 

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Twitter Threatens to Sue Hate-Speech Research Group Over Claims That Hateful, Racist Content Has Proliferated Under Elon Musk’s Ownership

Elon Musk has taken legal aim at the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an independent research nonprofit group, over the organization’s findings that since the multibillionaire acquired Twitter (now called X) hate, racism and disinformation on the social platform has substantially increased.

“Musk and his legal team, led by attorney Alex Spiro at Quinn Emanuel, have engaged in an aggressive campaign to intimidate, bully, and silence CCDH,” the organization said in a statement released Monday. “While Elon Musk proclaims to be a ‘free speech absolutist,’ his actions against CCDH show the lengths he will go to silence those who seek to hold him to account.”

The Center for Countering Digital Hate publishing findings that Twitter failed to take action against 99 of 100 Twitter Blue accounts the organization reported for hate-speech violations. A July 20 letter from Spiro to the organization called the CCDH’s research “false, misleading or both” and said X Corp. is “investigating whether CCDH’s false and misleading claims about Twitter are actionable” under U.S. law. In addition, he wrote, the company has “reason to believe” that the CCDH is “supported by funding from X Corp.’s commercial competitors, as well as government entities and their affiliates.”
I mean given the reporting of the ad revenue issues that continue to plague the platform after Elon took over. And we know the majority of that exodus is specifically from companies and organizations that do not want to be associated with the increasing racism and hate speech that his tenure has allowed to run rampant. It makes sense that he tries to threaten any groups that try and quantify or show in any tangible way that uptick.

But as the response to the threat shows he will open himself up to discovery. One more legal front to fight if they go through with it. And they will likely have to show their hand on internal tracking of these hate speech accused accounts. Are they actually letting more continue? What are they doing about it internally. Is it being encouraged now even?
 

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Considering the logo and name are not copyrightable, has anyone made an app yet with exactly the same logo and name?
 

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It's so funny that after all these terrible decisions, he still saved by far the worst one for last. Pissing off the advertisers, firing 80% of the staff causing the site to break in new ways every weak, bringing back all the worst people on the right - that's all bad. But then he decided to change from one of the most recognizable names in the tech world, with one of the most recognizable logos. A name that has such reach that it's spawned genuine words from it such as "a tweet" and "to tweet". Something basically any company which isn't Google can only ever dream of.

But that's still not the worst part. The worst part is X. Not only does it say nothing about the business, it's near universally connected to online pornography. It's also completely useless for visibility and search results, being a letter of the alphabet.

It's so dumb. And this is the man certain people called a genuis not that long ago on this forum. A fecking genius :lol:
 

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X-Station.... But I'm sure there's a better name, I'm sure it will come to me in a minute.....

I'm also starting up a new version of the Olympics, but for the more dangerous and risky sports, some might call them more extreme... But I can't quite think of a good name for the events.... I'm sure that will come to me soon too....
 

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It's so funny that after all these terrible decisions, he still saved by far the worst one for last. Pissing off the advertisers, firing 80% of the staff causing the site to break in new ways every weak, bringing back all the worst people on the right - that's all bad. But then he decided to change from one of the most recognizable names in the tech world, with one of the most recognizable logos. A name that has such reach that it's spawned genuine words from it such as "a tweet" and "to tweet". Something basically any company which isn't Google can only ever dream of.

But that's still not the worst part. The worst part is X. Not only does it say nothing about the business, it's near universally connected to online pornography. It's also completely useless for visibility and search results, being a letter of the alphabet.

It's so dumb. And this is the man certain people called a genuis not that long ago on this forum. A fecking genius :lol:
He's such a loser that I would not be surprised if this was part of the inspiration as far back as when he wanted to change the name of paypal to this. Either that or he thinks it's cool.
 

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He's either jacked up on drugs or he's trying to destroy Twitter.

He's not exactly a rocket scientist (yes I know he owns SpaceX), but I don't think he's this dumb. He is a grotesque, petty troll though, and if he'd have fired himself into orbit with the Tesla roadster back in 2015 or whenever it was, both his legacy and the world at large would have been a lot better off.
 

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So many cry babies in here, why is everyone so upset by a company that you can boycot if you dont like them
 

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So many cry babies in here, why is everyone so upset by a company that you can boycot if you dont like them
Because they wield great power and are trying to subvert democracy. :boring:
 

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The re branding is that bad it you'd almost hope it's a piss take. fecking idiot.
 

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Bohoo he has a big sign on a building, how dare he… too many self rightous knights of the good fight
Just a big sign.

That they didn't get planning permission for. That they are holding in place with sandbags. That they refuse to let city inspectors look at. That flashes extremely bright LEDs at the apartment buildings across the road every ten seconds, 24 hours a day. That's on top of a building that Musk hasn't paid the rent for in months.

It is indeed just a sign. A sign that Musk is an absolute thundercnut of the highest order. A guy who clearly doesn't think the rules apply to him. And he wants you to put one of his chips in your brain and drive around with your family in one of his cars.
 

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So many cry babies in here, why is everyone so upset by a company that you can boycot if you dont like them
Escobar in 1932: So many cry babies in here, why is everyone so upset by a political party that you can vote for someone else if you dont like them
 

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And I'm all out of bubblegum.

For those who don't know, Fjordman is the alias of a far-right fascist shitc**t, and also the main ideological inspiration for Anders Behring Breivik, another fascist shitc**t.

Edit: shitc**t has its own filter separate from cnut? At least the kids won't be exposed to my bad language, the little twats.