movielover said:

---

The mixed news is that the monopoly may end. We'll have...

- Twitter (mainly free speech)
- Truth Social
- GAB
- GETTR
- Etc.

---

You've had all those already. Where is the monopoly if all points of view have their outlets?

oski003 said:

---

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

---

movielover said:

---

The mixed news is that the monopoly may end. We'll have...

- Twitter (mainly free speech)
- Truth Social
- GAB
- GETTR
- Etc.

---

You've had all those already. Where is the monopoly if all points of view have their outlets?

---

And Google can censor whatever it wants because people can use duck duck go! SMH....

---

These are all private businesses that have first amendment rights (thanks to the conservative supreme court's ruling in citizens united) as well as businesses to run.

By far the least inclusive social media companies are the right wing ones - see how easy it is to get banned from Truth Social, Parler, Gettr, Gab, etc. As Elon Musk is learning (and investors in the right wing extremist oriented companies have already figured out), advertisers don't like being associated with extremist content. That's why they regularly pull advertising from controversial TV programs and it's not a new concept. I suspect that Truth Social will shut down in the next few months because Trump is the only one with any real economic interest in it and unlike real billionaires he is unable to either fund it or convince anyone else to lend his venture money. Parler, if acquired by Ye, will also likely shut down soon thereafter.

Google has a business to run and will decide what it wants to promote based on a variety of factors but none of them would rely on the fact that they can choose not to highlight something because other search engines will. Google is not a US government entity and is a beneficiary of the first amendment, not restricted by it.

Guess when you work with the US government to do an end around on the first amendment, I'll have no sympathy for you. These morons even created an app to fast track US gov't requests to remove content. Good news is though McDonald's is hiring, so they have a backup option.

Unit2Sucks said:

---

oski003 said:

---

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

---

movielover said:

---

The mixed news is that the monopoly may end. We'll have...

- Twitter (mainly free speech)
- Truth Social
- GAB
- GETTR
- Etc.

---

You've had all those already. Where is the monopoly if all points of view have their outlets?

---

And Google can censor whatever it wants because people can use duck duck go! SMH....

---

These are all private businesses that have first amendment rights (thanks to the conservative supreme court's ruling in citizens united) as well as businesses to run.

By far the least inclusive social media companies are the right wing ones - see how easy it is to get banned from Truth Social, Parler, Gettr, Gab, etc. As Elon Musk is learning (and investors in the right wing extremist oriented companies have already figured out), advertisers don't like being associated with extremist content. That's why they regularly pull advertising from controversial TV programs and it's not a new concept. I suspect that Truth Social will shut down in the next few months because Trump is the only one with any real economic interest in it and unlike real billionaires he is unable to either fund it or convince anyone else to lend his venture money. Parler, if acquired by Ye, will also likely shut down soon thereafter.

Google has a business to run and will decide what it wants to promote based on a variety of factors but none of them would rely on the fact that they can choose not to highlight something because other search engines will. Google is not a US government entity and is a beneficiary of the first amendment, not restricted by it.

---

I expect that after Musk finishes tossing out the dead wood and the people who know how the underlying software operates, he'll have Twitter running just smoothly and efficiently as Truth Social, Parler and Gettr.

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Guess when you work with the US government to do an end around on the first amendment, I'll have no sympathy for you. These morons even created an app to fast track US gov't requests to remove content. Good news is though McDonald's is hiring, so they have a backup option.

---

If content moderation really bothered you, you wouldn't keep returning from your temporary bans here like a lapdog.

Just like Trump will rush back to twitter within minutes of Papa Elon restoring his access, you talk a big game and have no conviction. If you were a real free speech warrior you would join all your like-minded souls on Truth Social for the next few weeks until it runs out of money or some other dark hole on the internet but instead you come here to troll between bans.

But please continue to pretend like you are aghast at moderation.

we all have the free speech right to advance republican political priorities

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 4, 2022

Twitter appears to be suspending accounts that parody the new CEO.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 4, 2022

movielover said:

---

DiabloWags said:

---

Looks like GM, Audi, Pfizer, General Mills, Volkswagen and other big names are wary of potential changes to Twitter's policies as well as departure of top executives.

Musk may well know what he's doing when presiding over an EV company.
But he certainly looks like a fish out of water when it comes to running a Digital Media company.

Advertisers continue to flee Twitter as civil rights groups call for a boycott (yahoo.com)

---

Elon. Name names. Let us counter boycott.

---

Cancel culture has always been a conservative mainstay. Punishing corporations for protecting their businesses by avoiding sponsoring objectionable content is as Republican as complaining about government spending while taking advantage of it every which way possible.

Unit2Sucks said:

---

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Guess when you work with the US government to do an end around on the first amendment, I'll have no sympathy for you. These morons even created an app to fast track US gov't requests to remove content. Good news is though McDonald's is hiring, so they have a backup option.

---

If content moderation really bothered you, you wouldn't keep returning from your temporary bans here like a lapdog.

Just like Trump will rush back to twitter within minutes of Papa Elon restoring his access, you talk a big game and have no conviction. If you were a real free speech warrior you would join all your like-minded souls on Truth Social for the next few weeks until it runs out of money or some other dark hole on the internet but instead you come here to troll between bans.

But please continue to pretend like you are aghast at moderation.

---

Stay mad

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Unit2Sucks said:

---

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Guess when you work with the US government to do an end around on the first amendment, I'll have no sympathy for you. These morons even created an app to fast track US gov't requests to remove content. Good news is though McDonald's is hiring, so they have a backup option.

---

If content moderation really bothered you, you wouldn't keep returning from your temporary bans here like a lapdog.

Just like Trump will rush back to twitter within minutes of Papa Elon restoring his access, you talk a big game and have no conviction. If you were a real free speech warrior you would join all your like-minded souls on Truth Social for the next few weeks until it runs out of money or some other dark hole on the internet but instead you come here to troll between bans.

But please continue to pretend like you are aghast at moderation.

---

Stay mad

---

His comment was angry and mean-spirited, along with another posters' usual following cheering on of it.

oski003 said:

---

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Unit2Sucks said:

---

MinotStateBeav said:

---

Guess when you work with the US government to do an end around on the first amendment, I'll have no sympathy for you. These morons even created an app to fast track US gov't requests to remove content. Good news is though McDonald's is hiring, so they have a backup option.

---

If content moderation really bothered you, you wouldn't keep returning from your temporary bans here like a lapdog.

Just like Trump will rush back to twitter within minutes of Papa Elon restoring his access, you talk a big game and have no conviction. If you were a real free speech warrior you would join all your like-minded souls on Truth Social for the next few weeks until it runs out of money or some other dark hole on the internet but instead you come here to troll between bans.

But please continue to pretend like you are aghast at moderation.

---

Stay mad

---

His comment was angry and mean-spirited, along with another posters' usual following cheering on of it.

---

They don't even argue anymore, they just "Do the opposite of them" now. Unit is like "No, we love the government using private business to quell dissent!!" absolute bootlickers.

"Very fine people . . ."

- - - Donald Trump

okaydo said:

---

Everyone seems to have a theory on whether Musk is purposefully trying to destroy Twitter or is taking directions from a foreign government, but you're overthinking it. Musk is simply America's dumbest oligarch. He got in over his head and there's no government payout coming.

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) November 5, 2022

---

Did someone think there was a government payout coming? This is a dumb tweet.

Young entitled Liberals seem upset that:

1. Their playpen has been taken away
2. Mass censorship of Conservatives *might* end
3. Employees upset they might lose meditation pods, mental health days, & 40 hour work weeks

movielover said:

---

Young entitled Liberals seem upset that:

1. Their playpen has been taken away
2. Mass censorship of Conservatives *might* end
3. Employees upset they might lose meditation pods, mental health days, & 40 hour work weeks

---

not really, most are just upset that republicans embrace the worst that humanity has to offer and literally define the word hypocrite. When the christian right embraces a man who openly brags about assaulting women and mocks the handicap, its not hard to see how far they've strayed from the teachings of Jesus Christ. They are hypocrites to an extreme. There is a special place in hell for people like that.
But yeah - the playpen thing.