It's "Twitter Freedom Friday!"

[RightField]

AJ? That you?

 

[lovecraft68]

The fact that all he's going to do is stop the shadow banning and censorship, and let everybody speak, and that's what has the left in an uproar, is yet another example of who the fascists in this country are. Anti free speech, pro censorship, and pro hate. They want to keep their echo chamber of leftists squealing, and now they'll have to deal with people with different opinions challenging them.

Imagine that.

The other thing is, end of the day, this only effects anyone there to spew politics. Most people there are posting pet threads and discussing their interests. My account there is for talking horror and comic books. The majority isn't going to notice any change. Just the politics spewers.

Musk is a better man than I am because if I took it over I'd give the left a taste of its own medicine and ban the big time hate mongers for the first thirty days before letting them back on to try and teach them what censorship is....but they'd be too stupid to get it.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The left’s enthusiasm for censorship of people and ideas they disagree with isn’t limited to Twitter. A growing list of left wing clowns comprised of writers, publishers, and editors have signed on to a letter directed at Penguin Random House calling on the company to rescind its book deal with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Their reason? Her vote with the majority in the Dobbs decision. It’s a comical read.

https://***************/document/d/...sw9lXicS3v4pXzSM8RCf0La0WSBFwnwbinDJ-Tr3L/pub

 

[LupusDei]

I joined Twitter early this year, for the explicit purpose to monitor Ukrainian voices in the war, as they are extremely underrepresented in the "mainstream". So far it's been successful if not very productive immersion. While what I follow I would, with some exceptions, consider secondary sources, I had no burning desire to dive into Telegram myself (that's where most primary information in that theater is). I have been successfully radicalized as it is, lol.

Letting that "Sink In" was just the beginning.

Yeah. Only it's very strange you celebrate your town square taken over by China.

It now will be Elon who will be the face if ongoing fight against highly sophisticated and interlinked information warfare attacks originating not only from Russia, but also China and Brazil where Musk have acute and critical business interests.

You, in your safe bubbles and little ridiculous squabbles are so naive and ignorant of the world out there thinking it doesn't matter. Well, welcome to obscurity, it will sink in a few decades from now.

How the deal wasn't shut down for interests of US national security interests and/or glaring conflict of interest I can't fathom. Seemingly one of those episodes of myopic ignorance and total lack of proactive security out of apparent lack of resources being distracted by a wholly created crisis, but would be easier to digest if it wasn't transparent continuation of the same underlying attack.

Look, despite anything I believe so far Musk has been net positive for the world, but I'm afraid in this episode his contribution to his aspired goals (however naive and/or purely performative) wouldn't be straightforward.

For now, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. He will be in for very rude awakening one way or another. Will be interesting to watch how he will manage the battlefield he's landed on, but for now it seems he's running out into no-man's land carrying a bathroom sink and shouting nonsense, and provoking friendly fire more than anything. Yes, potentially on both sides, especially if he indeed believe in his invulnerability.

He will get people killed. Literally.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The left’s enthusiasm for censorship of people and ideas they disagree with isn’t limited to Twitter. A growing list of left wing clowns comprised of writers, publishers, and editors have signed on to a letter directed at Penguin Random House calling on the company to rescind its book deal with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Their reason? Her vote with the majority in the Dobbs decision. It’s a comical read.

https://***************/document/d/...sw9lXicS3v4pXzSM8RCf0La0WSBFwnwbinDJ-Tr3L/pub

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If Penguin Random House decides her shit will be bad for their biz and drop her, she can shop her book to other publishers or drop her own dime and pub it herself.

Groups of right wing clowns lobby and flex their social muscle against the people and ideas they disagree with on the left all the time in order to impede thought and shut down voices and have been doing so since Day One.

That's just basic living in America, homey. You only know more about it happening in the contemporary now instead of the snail-speed morse code news feeds of yesteryear thanks to the internet, so you get to aggregate everything you can find, curate a listicle designed to provoke static and then pretend it's a "culture war."

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The fact that all he's going to do is stop the shadow banning and censorship, and let everybody speak, and that's what has the left in an uproar, is yet another example of who the fascists in this country are.

Who on the left is in an uproar? There are rules and laws for reason and Twitter has always been able to do whatever the fuck they want. Why do you hate free markets and capitalism?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

It's funny because most of the bots that have people's panties in bunches are pro-45/Putins.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

As a matter of fact Starlink provides the very paywall you referenced. "Buy Starlink and get a free Twitter premium account." That would certainly go a long way in reducing the bot count.

Jeezus, you really have no understanding of how bots are created and maintained on Twitter. Or the variety of purposes they currently serve. Twitter is not like Facebook, where the hope is that individual personal accounts are attached to real people. There's nothing preventing one person from maintaining myriad Twitter accounts for various purposes. And the idea of lifting Twitter's source code for AI? Hilarious.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

https://i.giphy.com/rp20b3tScfshG.gif



If Penguin Random House decides her shit will be bad for their biz and drop her, she can shop her book to other publishers or drop her own dime and pub it herself.

Groups of right wing clowns lobby and flex their social muscle against the people and ideas they disagree with on the left all the time in order to impede thought and shut down voices and have been doing so since Day One.

That's just basic living in America, homey. You only know more about it happening in the contemporary now instead of the snail-speed morse code news feeds of yesteryear thanks to the internet, so you get to aggregate everything you can find, curate a listicle designed to provoke static and then pretend it's a "culture war."

To be clear, I’m not questioning the right of these fools to write their letter, or Penguin Random House to comply or reject it. Just sharing a humorous example of how the left’s efforts to suppress opinions they don’t like isn’t limited to social media platforms.

 

[LupusDei]

I guess I’ll never understand why anyone thinks Twitter is important.
It’s not.
Never has been
At all
Not even a little
Period.

You have missed what it has become. It literally creates the narrative you eventually consume on various "mainstream" media often with several days delay as fresh "news" in dumbed down form.

Increasingly, it's even where the international relations between countries unfolds.

 

[Chobham]

It means you're just regurgitating what you've read and have no idea how Twitter works and how the bots interract and it seems like you barely have a grip on the financial side to boot. You also, according to your previous posts, should be all over Musk for his billionaire EV conglomerate

And it isn't a good investment. It would be like investing in the Pet Rock market at this point.

Still full of shit I see.

 

[Chobham]

~snip~

He will get people killed. Literally.

Twitter is already getting people killed...............literally. What happens with, and too, Twitter is Musk's business now. I merely agree with others that Twitter as a stand alone investment makes no sense.

 

[HisArpy]

It’s only become that because people think it’s important.
It’s not.
I know everyone thinks it is but it doesn’t have to be. It’s just people saying shit.
Noise.

If people believe it's important, and it's the place where they go to participate in current events, then it's important no matter how much you personally want to minimize it.

It doesn't have to be, but the fact that millions of people want it to be important, means that it is more than "noise."

 

[HisArpy]

Twitter is already getting people killed...............literally. What happens with, and too, Twitter is Musk's business now. I merely agree with others that Twitter as a stand alone investment makes no sense.

It's not just a stand alone business investment. Twitter is on the cutting edge of technology. Gains in Twitter's source code can translate directly to other electronic systems.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Fishmeal and AJ rejoice!


https://i.redd.it/6tjjsxcsknw91.jpg

 

[HisArpy]

Millions of people have been wrong before.
Remember bell bottoms?
Twitter could be fun but it never should have been important because it isn’t.

That you didn't or don't participate doesn't mean all those millions are "wrong."

It means you decided to sit on the sidelines.

 

[Rotadom]

Still full of shit I see.

More insight, lol.

 

[Rotadom]

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[LLCox]

I like Elon but will not and never have been on twatter.

 

[HisArpy]

They are definitely wrong. Period.
Nothing will change the fact that Twitter is not important in the slightest way.
I know everyone thinks it is.
Everyone thought Zeus was important.
Turns out he was just a guy with great hair.

Your insistence on the irrelevancy of relevance is noted.

 

[Rotadom]

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[LupusDei]

It’s only become that because people think it’s important.
It’s not.
I know everyone thinks it is but it doesn’t have to be. It’s just people saying shit.
Noise.

Noise is the politics and politics is the noise. Noise that "only" create laws, start and eventually end wars.

Yes, it's self amplifying, obviously. As any Town Square it is only important because it is. No different than Congress, or any other form of forum that constitutes the political discourse, but with almost anything else diminished in scale and impact as it had accelerated the discourse and thus captured it.

Can it be replaced? Yes, it can, just as obviously, and probably much easier than people seems to think, but in the meanwhile it has tangible influence. As such it is attracting attacks by actors with ample resources.

 

[LupusDei]

What I'm talking about...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1586070574110867457

Recent narratives include:

• Claims that the China-nexus threat group APT41 is instead a U.S. government-backed actor.
• Aggressive attempts to discredit the U.S. democratic process, including attempts to discourage Americans from voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.
• Allegations that the U.S. was responsible for the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions.

Examples of this include:

• Nuanced Impersonation of Cyber Actors: The campaign was found impersonating Intrusion Truth, a group known to target China-nexus cyber threat actors, to leverage the outlet’s reputation to promote DRAGONBRIDGE’s own cyber-related narratives.
• Plagiarism and Alteration of News Articles: DRAGONBRIDGE altering news articles to create fabricated content that falsely attributed APT41 as a U.S. government-backed actor, then subsequently promoting that content across social media, forums, and blogs, demonstrates a more sophisticated adaptation of the campaign’s earlier use of simple plagiarism.
• Personas Posing as Members of Target Audience: The campaign also expanded its use of personas posing as Americans by using first-person pronouns, which we observed previously in its targeting of commercial companies, to promote politically themed content.

 

[LupusDei]

Twitter should be as irrelevant as the things posted on it.

Things on Twitter nowadays:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1586358375389884417

P.S. note that Russia denied that there was any serious damages, while yanked access to public CCTV cameras... hmm...

 

[phrodeau]

Let it sink.