Elon Musk’s Hostile Twitter Takeover
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Putin is an African-American?
Oh no! Elon Musk wants to bring free speech back to Twitter! What an evil villain!
See, here's the problem with that: Every online platform that is moderated (including this forum) has some speech that they won't allow.
The problem is Twitter refusing to enforce their speech rules uniformly.
There was a debate that occurred here on that very issue just recently. This is not a perfect world. No one is perfect, even in terms of how they enforce their own ToS.
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Plus ... people that use Twitter are Twits.
That explains why Trump was all over it.
Perfect? Not only does Twitter not make an attempt to be perfect, they are deliberately biased against conservatives.
That's debatable. Plenty of conservatives on Twitter right now. Clearly, they aren't being censored for their conservatism. So right-wingers who've been banned from Twitter were banned for other reasons.
So why is the left so afraid of Musk?
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Because he's a far right ultra conservative white nationalist racist Trump supporter
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You forgot to include "supremacist" in there somewhere.
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Trump & MTG hardly qualify as "conservative thought", or any thought really...
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How so? Trump was warned enough times before being booted and MTG is a complete wingnut etc. Don't act like a crank and you won't get banned, pretty easy.
"Afraid" is the wrong word. They just don't want Musk to turn Twitter into 4Chan. Do you want child porn with your QAnon?
What evidence do you have that Musk will turn Twitter into 4Chan?
“Twitter works because it has limits, terms of service, rules. A ‘free speech’ board where anything goes will immediately be infested by spam, scams, racism, Nazis, trolls with nothing else to do, and hate speech,” conspiracy theory and QAnon expert Mike Rothschild tweeted.
Analysts warn that making Twitter a free speech free-for-all could harm its business. They say if there was no buffering of hateful, offensive or extremist posts, individual users would be less likely to use Twitter.
Advertisers and publishers, concerned about their messages being paired with problematic posts, also want content standards even if that means the platform has fewer users and is less popular, said GroupM analyst Brian Wieser.
“We think that free speech absolutism on Twitter and Musk’s preferences would likely lead to a worse business, and worse platform for advertising for large brands even if Musk were otherwise able to find ways to grow usage or users on the platform,” Wieser wrote in a blog post.
Twitter under Elon Musk: What Twitter would look like if Tesla and SpaceX billionaire CEO was running it
Musk says he wants to take over Twitter. So what would change under Musk? Will he open the free speech floodgates? Reinstate Donald Trump? Ban ads?
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