Getting the exact same thing.
Elon Musk | Owner of X
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Righto. Silly me. No deplatforming whatsoever since individual, well known politicians haven’t been silenced.
Don’t know what I was thinking.
But you did not have any answer what "deplatforming the left" means, so you just googled it and you posted two random links! And on top of that you added "narcissism"!
Gave you three examples, they didn’t rise to your lofty standards of deplatforming as they were just laypeople, so here we are.
Hence the ‘narcissism’ add.
It is not that the AOC, Bernie, Warren have not been silenced.
It is that they don't complain or mention this "deplatforming the left". They continue using Twitter as usual.
I am just saying that for me to believe that "deplatforming the left" is a real thing, I need some kind of proof, perhaps someone I know about (like Bernie, AOC, Warren) has to talk about it.
Edit: I don't consider "proof" random links on google for people I know nothing about.
It is that they don't complain or mention this "deplatforming the left". They continue using Twitter as usual.
I am just saying that for me to believe that "deplatforming the left" is a real thing, I need some kind of proof, perhaps someone I know about (like Bernie, AOC, Warren) has to talk about it.
Edit: I don't consider "proof" random links on google for people I know nothing about.
Guaranteed for me is that within the first 3 tweets in my feed is someone I've never heard of with an $8 tick kissing Elon's arse and saying how he's a hero bringing back free speech. It's a joke at the moment.
It must be a settings thing because I still only see people I follow, but I have only ever seen those anyways. I did notice that "for some reason" in my privact settings the "Share Data with Partners" was magically checked. Weird since I am 1000000000% sure I disabled that when I joined and rechecked it a few weeks ago.
It should tell you why you're seeing those tweets, if you're not following them. My Twitter feed seems to work normally.
Same here.
It's been a dramatic and inexplicable change that has to be very deliberate.
The top for my feed is now constantly full of horrible people and awful takes.
Musk is so so so high up on the list of people with incredibly punchable faces. He could save Twitter by a pay per view of Mike Tyson decking him. I’d pay.
I never liked any of musk's tweets but everytime I log in, one of his latest tweets is at the top
I recommend the 'tweak new twitter' extension if you want to filter out the crap.
It does. It says Elon Musk in the subject line, and I can click it and tell it I'm not interested in the subject, but despite repeatedly doing so and blocking Musk, it's the same shit every time. Some no-mark subscribed to Twitter Blue practically rimming the guy is invariably the first thing I see.
I guess im using deplatform as shorthand for limit the reach and visibility of. The tweet thread above my post being one example. It seems the only plausible strategy at this point (beyond musk being spectacularly stupid). I could definitely be wrong, i haven't being paying that much attention.
Thats my interpretation anyway, he bought it so he could destroy it.
he is stupid. he overpaid it using a weed joke, didn't think he'd have to go through with it, tried to legally get out of it, is now stuck with it, has added even more debt onto it to be able to buy it for the weed joke amount, and is now forced to try and boost revenues with lame ideas like blue ticks which won't work. the guy is a businessman ultimately, although clearly in this case not a particularly savvy one, and there's no way he wants to waste $20b of his own money and saddle tesla with added debt just to destroy twitter. that's insane. i mean, he used it all the time before buying it, he clearly likes it.
Try changing your feed from “home” to “latest” so recommendations don’t play into it you just get your followed accounts in chronological order.
Musk is such a badass for restoring the thing he idiotically overturned for no reason, despite people telling him it would end exactly like it did.
CNN is apparently laying off 100’s of people today and their ratings are in a nosedive. It’s almost like these right wing assholes have no idea that all viewers are not racist/bigoted assholes who want that as content.
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T-6 minutes im so excited.
5PM EST on a Friday s definitely the best time to release this damaging and massively important information. #youdontknowwhatyouredoing
He is fishing. Lets see if trump bites
My thoughts as well... a desperate roll of the dice to try and tempt trump into tweeting
I'm confused. Why are people still on twitter? It seems like it is going to shit as predicted, with Musk now not really pretending to be a centrist anymore, as if anyone but his gullible cultists believed it. He owns the platform and despite his "Town square" bullshit, he's going to bend the platform to his worldview and nothing anyone with any semblance of a reasonable voice can say will do bugger all about it. He's clearly not interested in reading any genuine criticism, just wanting it to fan the flames of internet arguments and media coverage.
So what's the point in the playing the game? Isn't documenting and critiquing his actions on twitter just people screaming into a void they're already sucked up in?
Maybe I'm just overly cynical and defeatist. But if all those critics left the platform it would surely have a bigger impact than continuing to give it material and increase its numbers. Let it become a horde of bots circlejerking and a bunch of sadsacks saying how great Musk's and Jordan Peterson's (those two shitheads seem like they'd get on great guns) new technical wellbeing plan to deliver a bullet into each of their bollocks will provide a revolutionary solution to treating mental disorders and help them find the self discipline to keep their rooms tidy.
I'm sure I'm wrong in all of this somewhere. It's just sad seeing these tweetpeople document something so fecking obvious, or tweeting sneering, predictable jokes about Musk, and wondering why they think they're helping anything.
I'm going to regret posting this.
So what's the point in the playing the game? Isn't documenting and critiquing his actions on twitter just people screaming into a void they're already sucked up in?
Maybe I'm just overly cynical and defeatist. But if all those critics left the platform it would surely have a bigger impact than continuing to give it material and increase its numbers. Let it become a horde of bots circlejerking and a bunch of sadsacks saying how great Musk's and Jordan Peterson's (those two shitheads seem like they'd get on great guns) new technical wellbeing plan to deliver a bullet into each of their bollocks will provide a revolutionary solution to treating mental disorders and help them find the self discipline to keep their rooms tidy.
I'm sure I'm wrong in all of this somewhere. It's just sad seeing these tweetpeople document something so fecking obvious, or tweeting sneering, predictable jokes about Musk, and wondering why they think they're helping anything.
I'm going to regret posting this.
Why don't you just block him then? Pretty simple solution.
Compared to all the shit the trump mafia have got upto, the hunter Biden laptop stuff is a drop in the ocean...and yet to the right wing it's like the be all and end all. So self declared centrist Elon decides of all the issues to focus on.....
I'm still on twitter because despite the nonsense it's still the best social media site. I've just managed to avoid enough of the nonsense.
We’re literally living in a centrist paradise I’m so happy
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Mate, read more. Ffs
This is slightly interesting in the context of Alex Jones, who will remain banned. Musk said that the amnesty was for everyone except spammers and those who have broken the law. Jones lost a civil trial, and I guess there's some ambiguity about what that means, but Anglin is currently hiding in Thailand to get out of paying for several judgements againts him. There's also a warrant out for his arrest.
I don't mind Jones being banned, of course, but it does show that Musk does not have any free speech ideal he's following. Not that this wasn't obvious before, though.
I don’t use Twitter ‘properly’.
I don’t follow anyone. I don’t let anyone follow me.
Pre Musk, the home page and trending page and responses to tweets were daily balanced. Lots of nutty shit, both left and right. But the same tweet several hours later would look different.
Now?… Nutty right wing bent tweets with lots of interaction just sit there. The first 20-50 replies are almost exclusively right wing nuts.
That’s an anecdotal response. It’s not a study. But it’s really weird. The site is now pointless for me. PMQ’s didn’t event appear for me this week. Javids resignation didn’t register.
The highest performing shit is mental right wing shite. No idea if that’s the experience of all users.
Matt Taibbi? 