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Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 3:51 pm
by BurtReynolds
spike wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
spike wrote: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!

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 3:54 pm
by 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!

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 4:01 pm
by 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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 4:49 pm
by ---
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

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 4:50 pm
by JuanHamm
The regime lol

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 11:00 pm
by BurtReynolds

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Tue April 26, 2022 11:06 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Making a spectacle of reinstating banned accounts should go over well

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 1:28 am
by elliseamos
That's not real, ehr.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 2:02 am
by E.H. Ruddock
I don’t watch these things

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 2:44 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Did you watch it yet?

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 2:50 am
by spike
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I don’t watch these things
You probably should.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 3:12 am
by E.H. Ruddock
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote: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

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 3:18 pm
by washing machine
Ruddo kind of illustrated online discourse in a nutshell here.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 3:28 pm
by BurtReynolds
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote: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!

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 3:39 pm
by 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?

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 7:26 pm
by simple schoolboy
BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
spike wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote: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.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 7:28 pm
by 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

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 7:32 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I don’t think it was all his money though. He had an investment package. He’ll still buy it

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 10:09 pm
by Mickey
Yeah we're talking about a guy who has never backed down from doing something he'd publicly committed to.

Re: Social Media: The God That Failed

Posted: Wed April 27, 2022 10:12 pm
by Rob
BurtReynolds wrote: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.