Twitter Death Cult
*X taking legal action against the Centre for Countering Digital Hate- a non-profit*
“Reporting negatively on us is equivalent to suppression of free speech”, says organization in full control of everything that is posted on their own platform.
I feel like filing a lawsuit against an organization named the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" is one of those things that should make a sane person stop and have an "Are we the baddies?" moment. But, well, Elmo.
Here's the org's reply
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Letter-to-A.-Spiro-from-R.-Kaplan-re-CCDH.pdf
ElonX literally took people's handles away from them.
What the fuck freedom of speech do you have if you don’t even get to keep your own goddamn name?
Even the people that pay eight dollars a month aren’t buying Elon's shit in the comments lol
Roberta Kaplan is representing them. she's the one who fought pro-bono for gay marriage to be recognized in the us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor (yes I know that Obergefell v Hodges forced its legality but recognition was an important first step)
also the person who bankrupted the people behind the unite the right nazi rally in charlottesville
and most recently won the defamation suit against trump for raping e jean carroll (and yes, the judge specifically ruled that while the legal term was sexual battery, he cannot counter-sue for defamation if someone calls it rape https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T )
so she has a history of taking on pieces of shit and winning, even if they were as powerful as the former president of the us
his entire plan is to just use discovery to find out who the secret cabal of leftists planning his and x's destruction are
this will be fun 🍿🍿🍿
Ai Weiwei is good again
It's like he's screaming continuously to try to drown out his own thoughts telling him he's a cowardly loser, and also all of the other people telling him that.
Zuck should challenge him on top of a staircase. Because it seems the first time didn’t take.
There's something grossly and genuinely wrong about watching a grown man with far too much wealth and power to ever get a genuine comeuppance, delivering a bragging replay of his own childish behavior to his online friends with the sweaty, obvious dishonesty of a nasty little boy of 11 or 12 relaying to the other boys how he totally owned some rival in the playground.
Cringe is too small a word.
Is it just me or is there a 100% chance Trump talked to his advisors about sensitive stuff via DM?
https://politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410
An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 1
An analysis of the US vs Twitter case for the subpoena of Trump's tweets - Part 2 - How obvious Elon's simping for Trump was and just how much Twitter is a dead company walking with no real institutional knowledge left
Note: Fleets were basically Instagram/Snapchat stories
It's absolutely wild that Musk is just consistently going "I'M A NAZI! !! AT THIS WHITE KID BEING BULLIED BY EVIL MINORITIES! I'M A NAZI! HELLO HELLO NAZI HERE!"
Meanwhile the media is like "Damn what are his politics? A true enigma worthy of the Riddler!"
Turns out he's fine with blocking people from viewing the concert they paid for
Extreme “going to your ex girlfriend’s wedding” levels of sad
Block also makes it so they cant see your posts or interact with them in anyway (no QTs) obviously they can just log out or if you are locked into "followers only" mode, make another account to look at your content but it does make it harder to harass someone.
It is funny seeing him reap the consequences of making the site even shittier. People will use the block more when its filled with nazis, scammers, bots, and weird guys who post CP to own the libs.
LOL Elon had them make a bunch of fake accounts to boost his follower count
They changed the setup so that you are required to follow at least one account when you're signing up and Elon is always the first suggested account so every bot on the platform is following him
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data
Elon continues to make genius moves with Twitter
Think how much space those links took up!
Elon's on a bender again
Holy shit what an incredibly thin skinned baby
He actually managed to piss off the chuds, amazing
Lol at Musk unblocking a guy 3 years later just to make a snarky comment.
Tons of people (correctly) talk absolute shit to Musk on Twitter and he ignores most of it. This is a guy he blocked for being annoying and three years later remembered him and unblocked him just so he could reply to their 3 year old tweet.
The article doesn't contain the original tweet (and honestly why would you want to see it based on the described contents?) But yeah, holocaust denial. Terrific. Very healthy for a platform.
"According to a post on X by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, it had reported the offensive reply but received a response saying that after viewing the "available information" the platform had decided no rules had been broken."
Ronan Farrow published a long profile on Musk:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
"Tesla for a time included in its vehicles the ability to replace the humming noises that electric cars must emit—since their engines make little sound—with goat bleats, farting, or a sound of the owner’s choice. “We’re, like, ‘No, that’s not compliant with the regulations, don’t be stupid,’ ” Cliff told me. Tesla argued with regulators for more than a year, according to an N.H.T.S.A. safety report."
How does he keep coming up with these genius ideas????
"According to a source with knowledge of the matter, the change is being pushed directly by X owner Elon Musk. The primary objective appears to be to reduce the height of tweets, thus allowing more posts to fit within the portion of the timeline that appears on screen."
Seems like a good way to get news agencies to completely stop posting to your platform.
I love how much Musk begs people to post on X. Just a massive stink of desperation.
He has no idea why people are so unenthused about posting directly on the platform where said idiot owner is destroying a major feature every 2 weeks.
"please post on this platform where i could pay you $200 if i wake up from a ket trip and happen to see your account on my phone, and if it doesn't make me mad or sad, which could be anything (unless it's child exploitation which makes me very happy indeed!!)"
so this past week he's proposed removing blocks, then after a sideshow of blocking everyone who pointed out that's a stupid fucking idea he's now proposing removing link embeds
just insane that at the same time fb is stepping into their own shit by moving away from news on the feed, musk is making yet another huge unforced error that will drive away the people who actually attract users to twitter
"its where i get my news" is literally the only good thing people have to say about twitter
it's weird how all his plans to "improve" twitter revolve around taking away basic QoL features that were massively important to the platform's perception as the social media platform of choice, verified users was removed, tweet length limits removed, banning of nazis who share child porn removed, block button for stalkers and harassers to be removed, link embeds to be removed
soon opening twitter will just redirect to AI spambot generated timecube
he is becoming increasingly isolated
“His life just sucks,” one colleague told The New Yorker. “It’s so stressful. He’s just so dedicated to these companies. He goes to sleep and wakes up answering e-mails. Ninety-nine per cent of people will never know someone that obsessed, and with that high a tolerance for sacrifice in their personal life.”
I wonder if they skipped the flame diverter because Elon is a fucking idiot
There's only two options: He's tweeting as his mother, or he is having his mother defend him on his own platform at 52.
I'd take the Lowtax way out for either of those.
Speaking of nazis...
You can be called any time by any number of people you can't fucking block!
None of this will go wrong or be useful for stalkers!
X, the everything app
Yacc’s inner monologue is just the hampster dance on loop
I guess it's now doing the thing where it doesn't show the URL anymore
(if you'd like to read it, and you should: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/39371 )
Oh and it looks like Musk giving Raichik special status has now gained her a body count
not the first, won't be the last, and people have been screaming about this for years
it's infuriating
https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos-videos-secret/
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do not read if you want to be happy afterwards
More Musk loving nazi pieces of shit
I think the Swiss court might have actually done it for the incitement of discriminatory hatred, particularly given Alain Soral is better known for repeatedly denying the Holocaust so much he was jailed in France for said denialism (a reminder denial of the events of the Holocaust are jailable crimes in France and Germany, hence why Twitter had the is_nazi tag).
soral is a dangerous piece of shit
We're at the penis pills stage
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format
Oddly specific. Wonder if they offered companies deals on advertisement just so musk can say they are advertising on the platform again.
Or maybe someone at visa forgot to turn off auto-renewal of a twitter blue account
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Catherine is not complacent
Sevachina@cspam
Once Twitter suspends your account, they won't let you delete it. I know because it happened to me, twice.
It would be interesting to learn how many so-called "active accounts" are actually permanently suspended accounts. I bet there are at least a million
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Pēteris Krišjānis
skua@cspam
Yep, Elon's projects advance through instances like the total destruction on landing of his StarShip and launch facility, autopilot cars killing pedestrians, his children taking legal action to sever all ties with him, and the flogging of Twitter into it being, and smelling like, a dead horse.
If the test had caused airplanes to plummet THEN he'd understand and see it as unremarkable.
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JerameeSection 230 protects platform moderation decisions as long as they are made in good faith. It seems that Elon is testing that limit.
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Hannu Ikonen, MD@cspam Frankly Maye Musk should be in prison with Elon.
At least Rupert Murdoch's mom acknowledged she raised a soulless monster.
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Matt Baggott
Thunderstrike@cspam It was obviously too liberal and soft and coddling. The real world is harsh and unsympathetic and will suck the marrow from your bones, so Twitter needed to follow suit.
/sarcasm
Jonathan HendryJust look at the clothes he’s wearing in the “Elon’s McLaren is delivered” interview video.
Him trying to run a social media site is the same as him trying to put together that outfit.
Yorgus (Old white Guy)When did he get rid of the view count on Tweets?
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