Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter)

[C. Lee]

Twitter Will No Longer Enforce Covid Misinformation Policy – Deadline

What an effing piece of crap he is.

 

[Lily Adler]

What an effing piece of crap he is.

Remember he questioned the vaccine and the effectiveness of masks during the pandemic.

 

[Iceman]

Remember he questioned the vaccine and the effectiveness of masks during the pandemic.

All his views follow a very obvious pattern which isn’t surprising given where he gets his news. He pretends to be an independent thinker and then every view happens to miraculously fall on one side of the fence on all issues.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Musk cheered the anti-vaccine blockades in Canada aimed at installing the Canadian Cons into power (by force or otherwise).

Reuters - Anti-vaccine Canada truckers roll toward Ottawa, praised by Tesla's Musk (January 2022)

 

[Lily Adler]

Just another conservative tech bro.

 

[C. Lee]

Remember he questioned the vaccine and the effectiveness of masks during the pandemic.

Nope, don't remember.....because until he was everywhere on the news cause of the whole twitter thing, I didn't pay the slightest attention to him.

 

[squeekness]

Time to add an "r" to the title of the thread: "Elon Musk to bury Twitter".

 

[squeekness]

What an effing piece of crap he is.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the spectrum. He does seem to be way out there.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk made hurtful comment to fellow pupil, who left him hospitalised, father says | Business (June 2022)

• Errol Musk credits his son's uber-macho "South African boy" upbringing with driving his ambition.
• He says Elon once made a hurtful comment to a schoolmate about his father's suicide, and that the boy pushed his son down a staircase at school, injuring him so badly he had to be hospitalised.

Boston Herald - Elon Musk's changes to Twitter are a public health concern: [Senator] Ed Markey [D-MA]

 

[Teelie]

Well if McCarthy says people should stop... that means it must be the right thing to do and continue putting pressure on Musk.

 

[Iceman]

Dozy bastard.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Elon Musk feuds with Apple as Twitter moderation, payroll, child protection teams collapse

Elon: I'm inviting all the banned hate groups and white supremacists to rejoin Twitter, I've fired almost everyone in the company tasked with preventing our site from displaying child pornography, and my new plan includes hosting adult videos for money.

Advertisers: But we don't want our brands to be displayed next to child porn and Nazi calls for genocide.

Elon: THIS IS A VIOLATION OF MY RIGHTS AND, NAY, AN ASSAULT ON AMERICA ITSELF. YOU WILL SUPPORT MY NAZI AND CHILD PORN SITE OR I WILL UNLEASH MY GREASY ADMIRERS UPON YOU ALL.

 

[squeekness]

Dozy bastard.

Freedom to spread disinformation, doncha mean?

 

[Lily Adler]

DeSantis says Congress should act if Apple follows through on Elon Musk claims and bans Twitter from App Store

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

DeSantis says Congress should act if Apple follows through on Elon Musk claims and bans Twitter from App Store

‘Positively dystopian’: Florida judge blocks DeSantis’ anti-woke law for colleges (November 2022)

Federal judge deems parts of DeSantis' 'Stop Woke' law unconstitutional (August 2022)

 

[Teelie]

DeSantis is an idiot. Like all Republicans he respects the Constitution only so far as it works for him and no one else.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk’s Twitter Politics Add to Pressure on Tesla’s Brand Image

On Nov. 7, for the first time since YouGov began tracking Tesla in 2016, more respondents in the U.S. reported a negative perception of Tesla than a positive view. The brand perception has eroded further since, according to YouGov data.

Scores for other major U.S. auto makers have held steady during the same period, with each brand consistently scoring higher than Tesla on net favorability ratings from January 2020 until the present, according to YouGov data. Net favorability is the percentage of respondents with positive perceptions of a brand minus the percentage with negative perceptions.

 

[:eek:]

Jim Carrey Says He’s Leaving Twitter And Shares New Cartoon – Deadline

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Auto News - Tesla losing EV market share to sub-$50,000 rivals

 

[Iceman]

Auto News - Tesla losing EV market share to sub-$50,000 rivals

Great. A lot of people will avoid Teslas now just because of Elon being such a ****.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Great. A lot of people will avoid Teslas now just because of Elon being such a ****.

It’s gone without saying but Apple has been developing an electric car project (that may or not come to fruition or longevity if it does) and Musk probably isn’t happy about that either.

Apple Car: It's no secret, Apple's actively working on Car tech
Apple Car | Release Dates, Features, Specs, Rumors
Apple electric car project - Wikipedia

 

[Iceman]

It’s gone without saying but Apple has been developing an electric car project (that may or not come to fruition or longevity if it does) and Musk probably isn’t happy about that either.

Apple Car: It's no secret, Apple's actively working on Car tech
Apple Car | Release Dates, Features, Specs, Rumors
Apple electric car project - Wikipedia

Nice. Would explain his ridiculous attitude to what was Twitter's biggest customer. How many CEOs berate their customers?!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Financial Times: “Breaking news: The EU has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be banned in Europe unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation https://on.ft.com/3AX3oUM”

Europe (other places outside of Europe as well) has stricter laws on hate speech, copyright, employment, libel, obscene images and videos, and others than the U.S. does and Musk has essentially said ‘**** you’ to all of them.

 

[Iceman]

Financial Times: “Breaking news: The EU has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could be banned in Europe unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation https://on.ft.com/3AX3oUM”

Europe (other places outside of Europe as well) has stricter laws on hate speech, copyright, employment, libel, obscene images and videos, and others than the U.S. does and Musk has essentially said ‘**** you’ to all of them.

This has been the case from the beginning. Everything Musk has said makes out that he treats Twitter as a US company rather than an international one having to abide by rules in many different jurisdictions. Some countries are not as easy to influence as others. I wonder what Twitter would be worth right now if it was still a listed company.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - Ex-SpaceX Employee Said He Was Shoved Aside to Make Way for Younger 'Frat Bro' Staff
A former ‘hardcore’ engineer at SpaceX alleged ageism in the the way the company transferred work to younger employees who expected him to ‘retire or die.’