Social Media: The God That Failed

[BurtReynolds]

Only Burt can be motivated by accumulation of power. Everyone else doing so is underhanded!

My road to power is promoting the ability for you to say stupid shit like this, not preventing it!

But it’s true! Your quest is stupid shit!

I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it!

[BurtReynolds]

- enslaving the human race in order to gain power.

- ensuring freedom of speech in order to gain power.

Spike: I literally can't tell the difference! They are the same thing!

[Rob]

Elon Musk is one of the weirdest rich people out there. I for one am interested to see what he does with Twitter. I think the people on the left who are worried, and people on the right who are pumped up, are both overestimating how much it’ll change. We may get a few more “deplorables” let back on, but less bots. Either way, Twitter sucks, and has for a while now. Whatever.

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all this acquisition does is move efforts to control speech and the consensus-making apparatus to other layers of the tech stack (ISPs, CDNs, DNS, browsers, operating systems)

but a win is a win, it's fun to watch the regime squirm

[JuanHamm]

The regime lol

[BurtReynolds]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Making a spectacle of reinstating banned accounts should go over well

[elliseamos]

That's not real, ehr.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I don’t watch these things

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Did you watch it yet?

[spike]

I don’t watch these things

You probably should.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I don’t watch these things

You probably should.

If i go down the rabbit hole of watching stuff Burt posts I’ll be knee deep in flerfer videos in no time

[washing machine]

Ruddo kind of illustrated online discourse in a nutshell here.

[BurtReynolds]

I don’t watch these things

You probably should.

If i go down the rabbit hole of watching stuff Burt posts I’ll be knee deep in flerfer videos in no time

Then remain ignorant!

[BurtReynolds]

They're unsuspending a lot of accounts. Basically all you have to do is ask.

The question is why? To make Musk look bad? Or to cover their tracks?

[simple schoolboy]

I don’t watch these things

You probably should.

If i go down the rabbit hole of watching stuff Burt posts I’ll be knee deep in flerfer videos in no time

Then remain ignorant!

As far as insults go, globecuck is better than flerfer.

[dimejinky99]

Elon is probably no longer buying Twitter. Tesla stock fell through the floor today in response to him buying it.

It’s on Reuters

[E.H. Ruddock]

I don’t think it was all his money though. He had an investment package. He’ll still buy it

[Mickey]

Yeah we're talking about a guy who has never backed down from doing something he'd publicly committed to.

[Rob]

They're unsuspending a lot of accounts. Basically all you have to do is ask.

The question is why? To make Musk look bad? Or to cover their tracks?

I have wondered this myself. It’s easy to say “I’ll bring free speech”… rile up the right and see what happens. Not sure the outcome is going to look pretty, and the brand probably suffers. But maybe he clears the bots or whatever and it highlights that nonsense (also some left wing nonsense). Maybe that’s good. I’m leaning on the former but still don’t think the changes will be too drastic.