Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.

r0x0r@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Musk bought twitter because he wanted free speech…

  Ironic huh

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.

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    • cortex7979@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t even think he new the possibilities of what he can do with Twitter before he bought it. He bought it and after that he needed something to do with this shit pile and found the solution in manipulation and illegal election donation

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      • NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I think he had to enter into agreements about content in order to get financing from the Saudis and Russians.

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  • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.

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    • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I hate my conspiricy theory minded family but if someone told me they had proof Musk expressly bought Twitter to get right wing power in America and used the buyer’s remorse stock price manipulation attempt gone south as a cover story?

      I’d believe it.

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      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        1. He’s dumber than you give him credit for
        2. What is the point of the supposed cover story? To cover from who, about what? He’s literally paying people to vote, again. Next to that, buying a social media to influence it almost sounds democratic.

        The reason that conspiracy theory is appealing is the same for all conspiracy theories; it’s more comforting to think the powerful have a clever masterful evil plan than the sad reality that we’re all making it up as we go, even the literal Nazis.

        Relevant ContraPoints from 4 days ago

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      • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.

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  • merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He did. Free speech for bigots that is.

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  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, wanted to own a mechanism of free speech so he could control it.

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  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not ironic when you realize it’s this but literally. He wants to own all speech.

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• iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Honestly, say something useful or keep it to yourself, OK? These lil ‘gotcha’ comments do nothing but take up space and make you feel a misplaced sense of having done something (when you’ve in fact, done nothing).

  Stuff like this comment, the mango Mussolini comments, the evil Cheeto comments, it all just fucking does nothing while still making people feel like they’re being transgressive. You’re not. It diverts energy from doing/talking about stuff that affects real change.

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