Elon Musk

[wilts rover]

Wont be long now it seems:

I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.

Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442

This is actually not quite true, this guy is joking, or shitposting in twitter lingo. However they have locked their offices because of musk's bone headed decision to send out an email to all staff basically asking them to click an opt in link to continue working there. He said doing so would need them to be "hardcore".

Unsurprisingly most staff did not engage with this, with around 75% of current staff expected to leave as a result. Having that much of your workforce effectively resign at once means they aren't able to keep track who actually still works there and they need the weekend to figure it out.

Arguably that's worse that what you posted because it means there aren't enough staff to fix things if they break and the site could fall over at any time.

Thanks Macho. That will teach me to repost things before checking. (reader - no it wont).

[MachoMadness]

Don't blame you to be honest wilts - one of the big problems since Musk took over is knowing what's true or not on the platform.

End of an era for Twitter, sadly.

[Sprotyrover]

Wont be long now it seems:

I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.

Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442

This is actually not quite true, this guy is joking, or shitposting in twitter lingo. However they have locked their offices because of musk's bone headed decision to send out an email to all staff basically asking them to click an opt in link to continue working there. He said doing so would need them to be "hardcore".

Unsurprisingly most staff did not engage with this, with around 75% of current staff expected to leave as a result. Having that much of your workforce effectively resign at once means they aren't able to keep track who actually still works there and they need the weekend to figure it out.

Arguably that's worse that what you posted because it means there aren't enough staff to fix things if they break and the site could fall over at any time.

Thanks Macho. That will teach me to repost things before checking. (reader - no it wont).

The gullible are easily taken in, eh Wilts!

[BillyStubbsTears]

So now he's reinstated Trump on Twitter after running a poll, after which he crowed "The people have spoken".

A poll where Musk has no idea if the accounts that voted are real or fake. No idea if they are based in Virginia or Vladivostok.

He really is a f**king bored child playing with matches.

[ncRover]

So now he's reinstated Trump on Twitter after running a poll, after which he crowed "The people have spoken".

A poll where Musk has no idea if the accounts that voted are real or fake. No idea if they are based in Virginia or Vladivostok.

He really is a f**king bored child playing with matches.

Perhaps the owner of Tesla and SpaceX actually knows what he’s doing?

[idler]

So now he's reinstated Trump on Twitter after running a poll, after which he crowed "The people have spoken".

A poll where Musk has no idea if the accounts that voted are real or fake. No idea if they are based in Virginia or Vladivostok.

He really is a f**king bored child playing with matches.

Perhaps the owner of Tesla and SpaceX actually knows what he’s doing?

You can be very qualified and able in one field but poor in another though.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Why exactly should a man who invested in an electric car company have any more idea than the rest of us how to deal with a would-be dictator?

[ncRover]

Why exactly should a man who invested in an electric car company have any more idea than the rest of us how to deal with a would-be dictator?

He’s running a business and is obviously rather good at it.

[BillyStubbsTears]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

[phil old leake]

Why is it wrong to allow D Trump to return to twitter. 15,000,000 people voted the majority wanting him reinstated

[wilts rover]

Trump has repeatedly said he doesn't want to return to twitter as he has his own social media platform. Why do some people wish him to become a hypocrite?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Why is it wrong to allow D Trump to return to twitter. 15,000,000 people voted the majority wanting him reinstated

1) Who were they?
2) He was banned for inciting an attempted coup at which a number of people died. Is that now just a "meh" thing?

[ravenrover]

But they thought they were voting for Daniel Trump from Nantucket

[SydneyRover]

Why is it wrong to allow D Trump to return to twitter. 15,000,000 people voted the majority wanting him reinstated

cos amongst other things he suggests people inject themselves with bleach phil

[phil old leake]

BST and Syd.  I’m not saying I agree with some of his actions or comments. I’m just pointing out he has a right to a voice.
Would you ban the likes of Tony Blair and George Bush who lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction and took the west into a war that has cost
Millions of lives.  Would you ban the extinction rebellion for their behaviour of inciting riots that deliberately endangers people. Would you ban J Corbyn who has openly stood alongside terrorist in their support.
Where is the line drawn

[SydneyRover]

where is the line drawn ........ hmmm ....... woke people? ......... magistrates you don't agree with .......... anti-establishment people?............. but don't whatever you do criticise the police.

[River Don]

BST and Syd.  I’m not saying I agree with some of his actions or comments. I’m just pointing out he has a right to a voice.
Would you ban the likes of Tony Blair and George Bush who lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction and took the west into a war that has cost
Millions of lives.  Would you ban the extinction rebellion for their behaviour of inciting riots that deliberately endangers people. Would you ban J Corbyn who has openly stood alongside terrorist in their support.
Where is the line drawn

I'd say it's a very tricky line to draw. Absolute free speech is not a good thing, the freedom to spout racism and incite hatred and violence are freedoms we can do without.

This causes a tremendous challenge for Twitter, when realistically they have a small team of kids trying to police such a vast platform and when interpretation can be very nuanced.

It looks to me like Elon has spent billions on a platform that will always struggle to be profitable. Which is why he seems to be keen to add lots of new features to monetise the platform that get away from its core service.

[i_ateallthepies]

Trump has repeatedly said he doesn't want to return to twitter as he has his own social media platform. Why do some people wish him to become a hypocrite?

Become a hypocrite?  Think you're way behind the curve there, Wilts.

[phil old leake]

Twitter boss Elon Musk keeps conspiracy theorist Alex Jones off platform https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63701423

Now this the type of idiot that needs banning

[ncRover]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

A social responsibility for free speech.

[River Don]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

Elon Musk (sounds like a Star Wars character doesn't it?) is discovering pure free speech is not desirable. Much as he would like to not have to pay for people to police his platform

A social responsibility for free speech.

[BillyStubbsTears]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

A social responsibility for free speech.

Yes of course. Or do you think free speech comes with no social responsibility?

[ncRover]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394?s=46&t=koWTHl8n7hlNkcDs4tm39A

[BillyStubbsTears]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

A social responsibility for free speech.

Yes of course. Or do you think free speech comes with no social responsibility?

It's happening. Right in front of our eyes.

Musk has just restored the Twitter account of the editor of the fascist conspiracy site The Daily Stormer. A man who is on record saying he hates women and they should be beaten, raped and kept in cages.

Free speech comes without social responsibility eh?

[phil old leake]

BST who is this person and what has he actually said about women.

I’ve Never heard of the Daily Stormer. 

[Janso]

If only an engine where you could search the internet existed. They could even call it a search engine. You know, where you could put in something like "editor of Daily Stormer".

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=editor+of+daily+stormer

Ah, neo-Nazis.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Phil.

Google Andrew Anglin


YOU may never have heard of him. Plenty of people who he has trolled and abused have heard of him. Including one Jewish American woman who he attacked for years. The court who fined him $14m for this has heard of him


YOU might never have heard of him. That's not the point. The point is that Musk has decided that a fascist with a record of abusive action should have the right to spew his hate all over Twitter.

[scawsby steve]

Genuine question, guys. Why isn't this pr*ck, Anglin, in prison?

[ncRover]

And that's all Twitter is? A business? No social responsibility?

A social responsibility for free speech.

Yes of course. Or do you think free speech comes with no social responsibility?

It's happening. Right in front of our eyes.

Musk has just restored the Twitter account of the editor of the fascist conspiracy site The Daily Stormer. A man who is on record saying he hates women and they should be beaten, raped and kept in cages.

Free speech comes without social responsibility eh?

Have you not got anything to say about the Twitter thread I linked above?

Imagine if Donald Trump Jr had been found to be a crack and prostitute user and have shady dealings with foreign countries just before the election. And then, a biased Twitter suppressed this story so as to not harm Trump’s election chances. You would rightly be outraged, wouldn’t you?

Also, is it your view that an individual can be moralistic without religion? I would guess that your answer would be yes to that. So why, do you think that every aspect of dangerous speech should to be censored, as if people would just blindly follow it?

I too have never heard of the Daily Stormer. But I have heard of Kanye West, and he has had his account suspended.

[wilts rover]

Agreed ncRover. Imagine if Joe Biden had taken highly classified secret documents to his private residence in a breach of national security, putting hundreds, if not thousands of US operatives at personal risk - you would be perfectly correct to castigate him and Musk for censoring this story as you do in the post above.

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