Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Educate yourself about the Nazis and then it will make sense

Educate yourself about the word “incite”

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Educate yourself about the Nazis and then it will make sense

Educate yourself about the word “incite”

Ok. Check on both and the ban seems perfectly reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Educate yourself about the Nazis and then it will make sense

Educate yourself about the word “incite”

Ok. Check on both and the ban seems perfectly reasonable.

Elon said he wouldn’t ban any lawful speech. That picture is 100% lawful. Elon is a hypocrite.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Educate yourself about the Nazis and then it will make sense

Educate yourself about the word “incite”

Ok. Check on both and the ban seems perfectly reasonable.

Yet Trump’s account is still up.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Educate yourself about the Nazis and then it will make sense

Educate yourself about the word “incite”

Ok. Check on both and the ban seems perfectly reasonable.

Elon said he wouldn’t ban any lawful speech. That picture is 100% lawful. Elon is a hypocrite.

we agree on that. Maybe Twitter is not for you as has been decided by many former users and advertisers. Get your information somewhere else more to your liking

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

So you are happy to have bureaucrats in Europe decide for you what is disinformation (which you are not allowed to see) and what isn't?

Oooh, “bureaucrats”. So scary!!!

Yes I’m happy to have them get rid of the riot-inciting fake stuff, the racist and antisemitic stuff, the lies that seek to undermine democracy, the porn and the harmful “content,” none of which I want to see. Thanks.

Nice you gloss over the "in Europe" part. They ban books there.

Shocking, innit? 'Cause we'd never ban books here, in the good old US of A.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Are you defending the use of the swastika? Neo Nazis layer swastiskas with a lot of different things. None of these things means anything positive when it’s mixed with the swastika.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Are you defending the use of the swastika? Neo Nazis layer swastiskas with a lot of different things. None of these things means anything positive when it’s mixed with the swastika.

No I’m not defending it. But Kanye has a constitutional right to say it, and Elon said that was the standard he’d be using and spent a lot of time attacking twitter for using their own standards.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

"Inciting violence"

How is a shirtless pic of Elon inciting violence? He's just a typical RW hypocrite - rules for thee but not for me.

It was the prior tweet. Because all of the auto moderation has been turned off, it all has to happen manually now.

How do you know which tweet? Did Elon say? In any case, how is a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David inciting violence? That makes no sense.

Are you defending the use of the swastika? Neo Nazis layer swastiskas with a lot of different things. None of these things means anything positive when it’s mixed with the swastika.

No I’m not defending it. But Kanye has a constitutional right to say it, and Elon said that was the standard he’d be using and spent a lot of time attacking twitter for using their own standards.

Maybe Twitter actually wants to retain some users and advertisers.

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

Why do you even care? Do you think twitter is a good source of information?

DP twitter is a great place to go looking for information. I regularly check to see why there’s a slowdown on a highway, what those sirens nearby are all about, to get first hand accounts of events as they’re happening. I thought everyone knew that.

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

So you are happy to have bureaucrats in Europe decide for you what is disinformation (which you are not allowed to see) and what isn't?

Oooh, “bureaucrats”. So scary!!!

Yes I’m happy to have them get rid of the riot-inciting fake stuff, the racist and antisemitic stuff, the lies that seek to undermine democracy, the porn and the harmful “content,” none of which I want to see. Thanks.

Nice you gloss over the "in Europe" part. They ban books there.

Shocking, innit? 'Cause we'd never ban books here, in the good old US of A.

Example? (That is not about school libraries.)

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

So you are happy to have bureaucrats in Europe decide for you what is disinformation (which you are not allowed to see) and what isn't?

Oooh, “bureaucrats”. So scary!!!

Yes I’m happy to have them get rid of the riot-inciting fake stuff, the racist and antisemitic stuff, the lies that seek to undermine democracy, the porn and the harmful “content,” none of which I want to see. Thanks.

Nice you gloss over the "in Europe" part. They ban books there.

Shocking, innit? 'Cause we'd never ban books here, in the good old US of A.

Example? (That is not about school libraries.)

Here’s a whole thread full of them. Not just school libraries. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1014876.page

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

So you are happy to have bureaucrats in Europe decide for you what is disinformation (which you are not allowed to see) and what isn't?

Oooh, “bureaucrats”. So scary!!!

Yes I’m happy to have them get rid of the riot-inciting fake stuff, the racist and antisemitic stuff, the lies that seek to undermine democracy, the porn and the harmful “content,” none of which I want to see. Thanks.

Nice you gloss over the "in Europe" part. They ban books there.

Shocking, innit? 'Cause we'd never ban books here, in the good old US of A.

Example? (That is not about school libraries.)

Here’s a whole thread full of them. Not just school libraries. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1014876.page

Funny, PP said not in school libraries and you literally responded with a tread on books banned in school libraries. The only books banned in the us are cp or articles with classified information. Which of those categories do you think shouldn't be banned?

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Anonymous wrote:It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with. It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.

"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2

I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information. I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation. People were killed because of disinformation. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation. The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games. I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is. That is not censorship. That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.

Why do you even care? Do you think twitter is a good source of information?

DP twitter is a great place to go looking for information. I regularly check to see why there’s a slowdown on a highway, what those sirens nearby are all about, to get first hand accounts of events as they’re happening. I thought everyone knew that.

Twitter does not need to allow posts about Nazis to be able to provide that kind of info.

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Anonymous wrote:Kanye got booted off Twitter. So much for free speech, eh?

What did he do? Insult Elon or china?

Posted an image of a swastika embedded in the Star of David.

Sounds like free speech. Why is Elon censoring him?

Elon also censored this guy’s free speech as well. Narcissists should not buy criticism factories.