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It's going to be chaos today.
Some were blocking those who had paid so now everyone is lumped in together.
Brilliant haha
What a complete bozo
no it's 5D chess or something like that
Is this the polymath guy?
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I suppose so; If by freedom of speech you mean "I want to be able to say 'i hate the blacks/Jews' without it impacting my career".
dholliday
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any evidence that such posts are tolerated by Musk's Twitter?
They are rightly against the rules. Kanye famously got banned for a similar comment.
Free Speech = the right to say or debate anything you like, within reason (i.e. don't spread hate against folk).
The most hate i've seen has been from the Far Left types mad at JK Rowling, Trump & the unvaccinated. It's a significant problem which curiously doesn't get the same kind of airtime as other types of 'hate'.
Elon has redressed this balance somewhat. Whatever else you think of him, at least be thankful for that. Imbalance is unhealthy.
Musk’s claim about a fall in hate speech doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
CCDH shows hateful slurs including the N-word have increased on Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover.
The highlights:
In the week beginning October 31, the first full week under Musk’s ownership, there were:
- 26,228 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur n**ger, triple the 2022 average
- 33,926 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur tra**y, up 53% on the 2022 average
- 21,903 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur fa**ot, up 39% on the 2022 average
- 2,598 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur k*ke, up 23% on the 2022 average
- 1,256 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur w*g, up 62% on the 2022 average
- 935 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur sp*c, up 67% on the 2022 average
On the first line - yes, in fact recently the source code was leaked and it showed it downplays any kind of non-right wing platforms. The fact he keeps unbanning them for violating said rules is also a very good hint. "Free speech that Elon Musk agrees with" is much more accurate.
On the second - yeah, he famously also didn't stop and attacked Musk. He'd have been banned much later if he hadn't.
On the third - this is exactly what Musk's twitter is doing and it's utterly wild anyone can't see that lol
On the "most hate" - just follow anyone with MAGA or a Trump photo quoting and owning "libtards" and calling most/any of the lgbt community pedos, or saying how women just should've not been whores instead of wanting abortions. Even with rape cases. In fact, or any of the Trump family. Or just go on there and say the 3 magic words - "Hunter Biden laptop" - and it'll show you what's actually trendy.
Elon has absolutely given homophobes and racists a great platform to shout down at anyone, true. This isn't balance, it's promotion of intolerance for the sake of clicks.
This isn't "equality" or "free speech", it's just whatever will get clicks and whatever Musk can profit off of. Sure, it's a way a business should work, whatever, but this isn't a business - it's a platform that gives a lot of fake information and doesn't really stop abuse. His true character showed when, as soon as he got into any sort of social sway/power, he started BS-ing and pandering to the right more and more lol
I know what you'll say to all of this - "it's just allowing a balance", but this isn't a balance, and it never will be with him. It's profiteering at best, immoral at worst.
Coupled with the copious greedy lies and people actually drinking his kool aid - he's the furthest from the word "balance" you can get.
Musk’s claim about a fall in hate speech doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
CCDH shows hateful slurs including the N-word have increased on Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover.counterhate.com
The highlights:
In the week beginning October 31, the first full week under Musk’s ownership, there were:
The figures show that despite claims from Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, that the platform had succeeded in reducing the number of times hate speech was being seen on Twitter’s search and trending page, the actual volume of hateful tweets has spiked.
- 26,228 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur n**ger, triple the 2022 average
- 33,926 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur tra**y, up 53% on the 2022 average
- 21,903 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur fa**ot, up 39% on the 2022 average
- 2,598 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur k*ke, up 23% on the 2022 average
- 1,256 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur w*g, up 62% on the 2022 average
- 935 tweets and retweets mentioning the slur sp*c, up 67% on the 2022 average
Not sure Musk's weird little fanboys would consider those to be slurs
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1 of 2 things:
He owns a ton of it and need fools to take him to the moon or,
It was supposed to be an April fools and his company is a joke.
1 of 2 things:
He owns a ton of it and need fools to take him to the moon or,
It was supposed to be an April fools and his company is a joke.
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