October 3, 20232 yr 41 minutes ago, vikas83 said: The article on Beattie’s site begins with a baseless claim that censorship on Twitter cost President Donald Trump the 2020 election. "Free speech online is what enabled the Trump revolution in 2016,” the anonymous author wrote. "If the Internet had been as free in 2020 as it was four years before, Trump would have cruised to reelection.” Idiots thinking Twitter = Internet...maybe it had to do with all the illegal crap he pulled, two impeachments, botching covid with millions dead, lying 100 times a day, golfing constantly, and being a bumbling idiot but nope, it's cause he couldn't call people names on Twitter is why he lost.
October 3, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Shepard Wong said: Nobody finds this shocking, right? not at all. the rich are fighting amongst each other for control and we are the collateral damage.
October 11, 20232 yr Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/10/horror-israel-hamas-war-elon-musk-x-twitter-not-fit-to-run-it Quote As numerous information specialists have pointed out in recent days, the platform now offers a forest of disinformation so dense that penetrating it has become extremely difficult. Justin Peden, an open-source intelligence researcher who found the platform valuable when covering the 2021 Gaza escalation, told Wired this weekend that it was currently almost impossible to reach the useful information. X users now pay for blue ticks, and those who do have their posts algorithmically promoted. Last weekend, such viral posts included Algerian firework celebrations being sold as Israeli attacks on Hamas, Arma 3 video game footage being presented as a Hamas attack, years-old videos from the Syrian conflict cast as contemporaneous attacks on Tel Aviv airport, and an entirely fake photo of Cristiano Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag posted by an account that poses as a blue-tick BBC journalist. Elon really has ruined the platform. It will only get worse.
October 16, 20232 yr A Tesla owner says his 'heart missed a beat' when he received a $21,000 bill after the battery was damaged by rain https://news.yahoo.com/tesla-owner-says-heart-missed-101437691.html Quote A similar incident occurred last year when a Canadian Tesla owner was told it would cost $26,000 to get a replacement battery for his vehicle, Fox Business reported. The owner, Mario Zelaya, shared his experience in a TikTok video and said he was locked out of his Tesla Model S after the battery died. Zelaya said he eventually sold his Tesla after he spent $30 getting replacement ownership papers that were locked in the vehicle. Ouch
October 18, 20232 yr X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/ That will fix things.
October 18, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Toastrel said: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/ That will fix things. He flushed 44b down the drain, he's a moron.
October 18, 20232 yr On 10/11/2023 at 7:20 AM, Toastrel said: Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/10/horror-israel-hamas-war-elon-musk-x-twitter-not-fit-to-run-it Elon really has ruined the platform. It will only get worse. Did numerous information specialists really say that? 2 hours ago, Tweek said: He flushed 44b down the drain, he's a moron. World's richest man and creator of multiple billion dollar companies "a moron" says CVONer with a south park character avi.
October 18, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, Toastrel said: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/ That will fix things.
October 18, 20232 yr Guy who got charged with making memes on Twitter got sentenced today. Free speech supporting libs to be outraged in 3...2...1...
October 18, 20232 yr Well, that's just dumb. If the Clinton campaign wanted to sue him for putting "Paid for by Hillary For President 2016" at the bottom, maybe there's a case. But that shouldn't be a crime.
October 18, 20232 yr That's a pretty misleading headline, the conviction wasn't because he disparaged HRC, it was because he was deceiving morons into thinking voting by text message was legal and valid. The Post Millenail is burying the lede in a rather big way here. I guess the most apt analogy would be like setting up fake ballot drop boxes or something to that effect. That being said, I'm not sure tricking morons into believing something obviously false on the internet should be a criminal offense resulting in a 7 month prison term, even though it would mean people like Trump, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a laundry list of other idiots would be serving consecutive life sentences.
October 18, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, vikas83 said: Well, that's just dumb. If the Clinton campaign wanted to sue him for putting "Paid for by Hillary For President 2016" at the bottom, maybe there's a case. But that shouldn't be a crime. That's not the reason why he was charged and convicted. This is the statute, same one used to indict Trump: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
October 18, 20232 yr The meme's weren't disparaging Hilary at all. They were pro-Hilary...with a real phone number where they could text their "official" vote to that would replace their real vote. It was fraud.
October 18, 20232 yr 19 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: That's a pretty misleading headline, the conviction wasn't because he disparaged HRC, it was because he was deceiving morons into thinking voting by text message was legal and valid. The Post Millenail is burying the lede in a rather big way here. I guess the most apt analogy would be like setting up fake ballot drop boxes or something to that effect. That being said, I'm not sure tricking morons into believing something obviously false on the internet should be a criminal offense resulting in a 7 month prison term, even though it would mean people like Trump, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a laundry list of other idiots would be serving consecutive life sentences. Taking advantage of idiots isn't a crime. If it were, the jails would be overflowing (even moreso).
October 18, 20232 yr Except people on social media literally have made the exact same joke without being charged. Never mind the fact that the US government didn't even attempt to prove the scheme actually worked and didn't bring forth a single "victim."
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