mccDec 18, 2022

Week 1: We will finally bring free speech to the Internet

Week 8: Linktree is illegal

Show threadmccDec 18, 2022
Now given I am sure that if I posted this on Twitter I would have five people with grecoroman statue heads as avatars explaining that in order to protect free speech it is in fact logically necessary to ban Linktree
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 18, 2022

@mcc there was somebody on there trying to justify this as a GM car dealership not letting random people sell Ford shirts in the lobby.

I thought earnestly comparing a site that they were formerly claiming should serve as "the town square of the world" to a car dealership was a rather spectacular self-own that nobody on that thread seemed to grasp.

Show threadNushka🏳‍🌈Dec 19, 2022
@csilverman @mcc probably got the idea from his mum.
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 19, 2022

@Nushka @mcc did...did Elon Musk's mother just let it slip that Musk now considers all Twitter users to be official representatives of his company?

That's one justification for this that I did not anticipate.

Show threadmcc
@csilverman @Nushka It's just so horrifying that "Elon Musk's mother" is now a thing we all have to be aware of
Dec 19, 2022 at 4:53amWeb
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 19, 2022
@mcc @Nushka I'm not sure what this says about me, but my immediate kneejerk reaction to Nushka's post was "wait, Elon Musk has a *mother*?", in pretty much the same way I'd react if someone said "and in the next episode, Skeletor's mother expresses her opinion that..."
Show threadNushka🏳‍🌈Dec 19, 2022
@csilverman @mcc that made me audibly chuckle.