Shocker
Isn’t that, like, illegal?
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it
No, if you are rich enough.
Still being on Twitter? Definitely immoral, but legal.
No. That doesn’t make it right though.
Maybe technically in Florida and Texas, given that they passed a law to try to stop sites deplatforming Trump.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3102.htm
“The owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with a social media website user in this State is subject to a private right of action by a user if the social media website purposely: … (2) uses an algorithm to disfavor, shadowban, or censure the user’s religious speech or political speech”.
In May 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled to strike the law (and similarly there was a 5th Circuit judgement), but just this month the US Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals judgement (i.e. reinstated the law) and remanded it back to the respective Court of Appeals. That said, the grounds for doing that were the court had not done the proper analysis, and after they do that it might be struck down again. But for now, the laws are technically not struck down.
It would be ironic if after conservatives passed this law, and stacked the supreme court and got the challenge to it vacated, the first major use of it was used against Xitter for censoring Harris!
People stupid enough to support fascism aren’t smart enough to recognize that it can be used against them
It’s the same stupid that thinks a dictator will preserve their freedom.
The same people who think a narcissistic billionaire is “one of them” because he says all the stupid things they’re thinking.
It would be ironic
It would be Fascism.
Why not both
Ironically, there is nothing ironic about fascism.
Of course not, fuck fascism, but even fascists can say ironic/moronic bullshit :)
Even without all that messing with stuff too much is bound to clash with protections those kinds of sites have around editorialising. That is, by doing such stuff X says “we’re not actually a pinboard, we’re a newspaper, we’re editorially responsible for what’s on there”, and then prosecution can come along and say “so, your newspaper published an article calling for <crime>, didn’t it? That’s your speech now, not speech of some random user, isn’t it?”.
What do they even expect? They know who’s site they are using.
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it’s a Nazi website now.
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
elon is just mad he’s stuck with the painfully dull dud jd vance
What a fucking joke of a platform
Don’t insult the Joker like that.
That would be called “election interference”
Which should be treason.
Absolutely!
A nice razor hair cut then?
The Italian kind.
I was thinking about the French rapid weight loss system.
I hear that cut right through the fat… and the bone.
Just above the shoulders, just below the ears?
Maybe we should take a page from the Trumpers here and declare it a conspiracy!
The deep state doesn’t want people following Harris! They don’t want you to know about it. They think they know better than you!
“Let me tell you, folks, I know how to follow people and this Twitter situation smells. I know all about smelling. Smells. Smelling. Smell… Ling! The word just sounds awful, right? They want you to smell things. They’re coming for your smells!”
Haha, yeah… This is Elon Musk’s X.com we’re talking about. It’s just sheer incompetence and the usual buggy bullshit. We should expect this as normal X behavior at this point. Is anyone really surprised that X is suddenly throwing errors when users try basic functionality? Come on. The platform is garbage and that’s not even taking account the garbage present on the platform.
This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.
I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
Musk and trump could share a deserted island outside the shipping lanes of the pacific and make the western hemisphere a calmer more peaceful place
Or share a small dark prison cell just about anywhere and have the same, if not better, effect.
I’ve got a wall they could share
Just don’t give them a rope.
Fuck that, keep him over the in the Atlantic.
They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!
Yeah but make sure they cant build a way back here first
I’m ashamed to say that when he was talking about that originally, I was gullible enough to think a one-way Mars trip would be worth doing.
I mean, I still think that, in the abstract, if we could make a good plan and trust the people back home. But I did not understand what massive pieces of shit billionaires all were and what a terrible idea it would be to volunteer for humanity’s very first off-world company town.
The fantasy of a pioneering life on Mars is an easy one to love, especially if we assume it’s actually well enough established that you have all the excitement of Frontier life and none of the struggle to survive. It’s not gullibility, it’s hope.
Then we think about it and ask ourselves what worker abuses Musk has perpetrated here on earth, and what would he do when Earthly laws can no longer apply. The more I think about what it would be like in the SpaceX Mars Colony, the more dystopian it gets.
I would expect somewhat of a struggle to survive even in a well-run Mars colony, but otherwise I agree in general.
And I don’t think we even need to look at Musk’s personal history, just any knowledge of what capitalists have done any time they’ve had access to a captive workforce. It’s pretty clear they wouldn’t be pioneers, they’d be prisoners.
Maybe the reason Elon broke every part of Twitter was just so he has plausible deniability while he meddles with everything and desperately tries to get his name in every discussion.
😂 Space Karen
It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.
Trump is always trending, Kamala randomly dropping from 4m posts to 8k, then a new “tag” is up full of magatards. Once the discource changes to mostly positive, repeat. Also, ruzzian propaganda is being boosted so…
…so it’s like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?
Can we please kick this dweeb back to Canada or Africa?
Hey, don’t you dare try to pawn him off on us, bud.
I don’t think I’ve ever said the phrase “Go back to Africa” unironically (as in outside of making fun of racists) in my life, but here we are.
Go back to Africa Elon…
At least I said it to a white guy.
to be fair it’s probably because twitter is hosted on a literal potato
GLaDOS would NEVER associate with a chump like Musk.
Oh, GLaDOS allowed Wheatley be a part of the team.
Trump’s going to be mad that x is becoming a direct competitor to truth social
