15 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Can anybody tell me what Joe Shades said?  I have him blocked.

   

39 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Can anybody tell me what Joe Shades said?  I have him blocked.

   

It was some very explicit Musk based erotic fan fiction. Pretty disturbing stuff, but surprisingly well written. Seems like he's been working on it for awhile. 

57 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

It was some very explicit Musk based erotic fan fiction. Pretty disturbing stuff, but surprisingly well written. Seems like he's been working on it for awhile. 

Been working on it for awhile, thanks for the review

53 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Been working on it for awhile, thanks for the review

Anytime. I like the title: Longing for Elon: The Musk of a Man. 

I would say you need to expand your vocab a bit. You used "throbbing" "girthy" and "my quivering hole" 276 times in chapter 1 alone. 

2 hours ago, DEagle7 said:

Anytime. I like the title: Longing for Elon: The Musk of a Man. 

I would say you need to expand your vocab a bit. You used "throbbing" "girthy" and "my quivering hole" 276 times in chapter 1 alone. 

Too much reading posts In Tate lately, maybe that's why there are lots of "sucks" and "blows" in Chapter 2

Meh.  

I respect what Elon Musk has accomplished.  

Without question. 
 

With power comes responsibility.  

Let’s see how he handles his newfound responsibility. 
 

 

 

 

17 hours ago, jsdarkstar said:

Got to hand it to Musk. One day after buying Twitter he starts posting Conspiracy theories. Sad and pathetic. Also, the racists feel free to spew hate on Twitter. 

I wonder how fast it will take Musk to ban people who call him a POS. 

As conservatives have been told for years, it's a private company that can do what it wants. You can find another platform or start your own if you don't like the content and standards.

Having said that, yeah Musk might ruin it, especially trying to charge to be verified. 

2 minutes ago, NOTW said:

As conservatives have been told for years, it's a private company that can do what it wants. You can find another platform or start your own if you don't like the content and standards.

Having said that, yeah Musk might ruin it, especially trying to charge to be verified. 

It is a private company, but that's not the argument conservatives have been making.  They've said it's the public square and should be regulated like a utility.

3 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

It is a private company, but that's not the argument conservatives have been making.  They've said it's the public square and should be regulated like a utility.

Yes there's that too. People want to tell companies what to do when they disagree with it, but when they agree with it they tell critics it's a private company they can do what they want.

People also try to apply free speech to private companies in error pretty often. 

While a social media platform should have content standards, the liberal bias of simply removing political viewpoints you disagree with is going to draw criticism. 

1 minute ago, NOTW said:

Yes there's that too. People want to tell companies what to do when they disagree with it, but when they agree with it they tell critics it's a private company they can do what they want.

People also try to apply free speech to private companies in error pretty often. 

While a social media platform should have content standards, the liberal bias of simply removing political viewpoints you disagree with is going to draw criticism. 

There's a pretty wide gap between criticism and the President calling for federal regulation over a specific private business because they don't share his viewpoints.

Just now, VanHammersly said:

There's a pretty wide gap between criticism and the President calling for federal regulation over a specific private business because they don't share his viewpoints.

Sure. 

This started with a liberal complaining there will be content on Twitter he doesn't like.  I'm just reminding him that when conservatives complain like that, they're told to use a different platform or start their own. 

33 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Yes there's that too. People want to tell companies what to do when they disagree with it, but when they agree with it they tell critics it's a private company they can do what they want.

People also try to apply free speech to private companies in error pretty often. 

While a social media platform should have content standards, the liberal bias of simply removing political viewpoints you disagree with is going to draw criticism. 

For the most part, that wasn't really happening though. People who got banned always try to paint themselves as the victim while pretending they were only posting political viewpoints in a civil manner that Twitter disagreed with.

In reality, they were almost always repeat violators of the ToS.

Just now, NOTW said:

Sure. 

This started with a liberal complaining there will be content on Twitter he doesn't like.  I'm just reminding him that when conservatives complain like that, they're told to use a different platform or start their own. 

Sure, I'm with you on that.  I'm glad more of the far right will be on Twitter.  The far left on Twitter does the moderate left no favors.  They have an outsized influence on public discourse and just make liberals all look like lunatics/poosays.  More of the far right on there will just make the right in general look more like screaming racists.  So I'm good with it.

Though I will say there's a pretty massive danger to Musk here.  You can lose as much of the right as you want and it'll have minimal effect on advertisers.  If you actually lose the left, replete with most celebrities and the vast majority of young people, advertisers will run for cover.  It's just demographics.

4 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

For the most part, that wasn't really happening though. People who got banned always try to paint themselves as the victim while pretending they were only posting political viewpoints in a civil manner that Twitter disagreed with.

In really, they were almost always repeat violators of the ToS.

That's true, some people exaggerated it like all conservatives were being banned on Twitter...which they would be ironically posting about on Twitter.  My point is their complaints (whether based on reality or perception) were met with replies that if you don't like it, find another platform.  So now if people are concerned about what Musk's Twitter will allow can be told the same thing, find another platform or start your own.

I eagerly await the death of most social media. It is generally horrible.

3 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

Sure, I'm with you on that.  I'm glad more of the far right will be on Twitter.  The far left on Twitter does the moderate left no favors.  They have an outsized influence on public discourse and just make liberals all look like lunatics/poosays.  More of the far right on there will just make the right in general look more like screaming racists.  So I'm good with it.

Though I will say there's a pretty massive danger to Musk here.  You can lose as much of the right as you want and it'll have minimal effect on advertisers.  If you actually lose the left, replete with most celebrities and the vast majority of young people, advertisers will run for cover.  It's just demographics.

Yes, and if a platform like Twitter is seen as a cess pool on both sides, people will just leave it or not engage and advertisers lose out.  Unfortunately, a lot of media or blogs will make articles out of a handful of tweets and make it seem as though a large group of people feel a certain way.  It's up to the public to tune that stuff out but people tend to eat up the drama.

When you try to gather people from the public to a platform to discuss anything even just sports or movies, it's a challenge to have content standards but also feel like it's fair and open for people as long as they don't violate the terms.  Many people felt Twitter went too far in cases like banning the Babylon Bee for saying a trans woman is a man, or censoring the NY Post news article.  

People also have a different approach to social media especially younger people that grew up with the internet.  There are people on some platforms like TikTok or Instagram that will not like people commenting on their page as if they broke into their private space, but you're posting on a public platform for anyone to see.  There's a sense of ownership and then if the company is putting limits, removing content, etc they feel slighted and like they are owed something.

14 minutes ago, NOTW said:

That's true, some people exaggerated it like all conservatives were being banned on Twitter...which they would be ironically posting about on Twitter.  My point is their complaints (whether based on reality or perception) were met with replies that if you don't like it, find another platform.  So now if people are concerned about what Musk's Twitter will allow can be told the same thing, find another platform or start your own.

Correct, there are plenty of social media platforms available. Twitter has hardly monopolized the market despite all the idiotic pearl clutching over "muh antitruss!" we've had to witness for the past 6 years.

8 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

I eagerly await the death of most social media. It is generally horrible.

There's good and bad and everything in between.  Social media can also be very good.  Connects friends and families that aren't local to keep up with, people share recipes, DIY tips, funny or cute videos.  People can also gather on discussion forums to chat about their favorite sports team or go to the sub-sub forum to talk politics.  

It took no time for Musk to clearly demonstrate what he is and how he is going to behave while running twitter.  Anyone that stays on the platform and cries about it is an imbecile.

41 minutes ago, NOTW said:

There's good and bad and everything in between.  Social media can also be very good.  Connects friends and families that aren't local to keep up with, people share recipes, DIY tips, funny or cute videos.  People can also gather on discussion forums to chat about their favorite sports team or go to the sub-sub forum to talk politics.  

Just my opinions, but I think it separates more than it brings together.

I only have FB to keep in touch with family too far to visit regularly. Twitter I only use for stupid/funny stuff. Instagram and What's App I use for family overseas (none on FB over there)

YouTube I love. Lots of recipes, music, videos and helpful tips.

Twitter is about to go in the direction of MySpace:

 

lmao of course this insane story doesn't get any run in here:

  

Sh**libs really, really hate free speech. 

dang, even @NOTW is gonna have a blue checkmark now

 

Any average moron being able to get verified by just paying $8 a month is a really dumb idea.