Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[HVC]

Hadn't he given plane guy a internship at Twitter? Or am i misremebering?


 

[Syt]

Hadn't he given plane guy a internship at Twitter? Or am i misremebering?


 

Maybe. I only read a story that he offered him $5000 for the account, but plane guy refused.

[FunkMonk]

Possibly the weirdest thing is Elon's mother scolding his critics on Twitter. 

Also, Elon redoing the poll in which he asked if he should unban these journalists until he got the answer he wanted lol

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[HVC]

This thread is less fun without someone defending musk.

[Eddie Teach]

This thread is less fun without someone defending musk.

What makes the muskrat defend his Musk? Courage!

[Josquius]

There's surely a subredit out there full of fans you can play with?

[Zanza]

Instead of blocking such an account, the better question would be whether such data should be out in the public domain or not in the first place (which is definitely a matter worth discussing IMHO).

Apparently there is a US federal court case that decided that flight records are public and publishing them is protected under the 1st Amendment. You can of course still ban this information from your private social media platform.

[grumbler]

This thread is less fun without someone defending musk.

I think the types who would defend Musk's behavior left here a long time ago.

[mongers]

So Musk's big effort to secure free speech on twitter is to ban critics?

That doesn't make any sense.

This is going to create a huge hole in the market and some competitor will pop up and all the journalists will just go there. It's not like it is going to seriously inconvenience anybody it is just going to hurt himself.

This is clearly personal for him and not business. It is like he just hated twitter, the company and a lot of the customers and just decided to take it down. Nothing of value is really lost because people will just elsewhere. I don't get this, even as a personal vendetta and I certainly don't get it as a business move. There is not even some moral crusade against banning people on social media since he himself is doing it.

A whole bunch of money wasted and sturm und drang for no particular reason.

He thought we was buying a giant continent spanning megaphone ( bullhorn ) , instead of just renting it off of someone else.

[The Minsky Moment]

This thread is less fun without someone defending musk.

You guys just don't get he's playing 4-dimensional chess.
Two dimensions consist of the chess board, the other two are sativa and indica.

[Zanza]

He would if he could...?!?

[Habbaku]

He absolutely would if he could.

[Zanza]

Apparently fake though. Sorry.

[Legbiter]

Let's assume for a moment that Twitter was a valuable service that is not worth destroying.  If that is the case, then I think the whole Twitter saga is revealing some flaws in the ideology of "the shareholder value is paramount".  The people running Twitter were put in a perverse position where they had to force Musk to vandalize their company, because the shareholders would get a bigger payoff for that than for any other outcome.  It's like lawyers sentenced to death appealing to the court to have their sentences carried out, for the sake of rule of law.

The current social media model mostly dying out and being replaced with many smaller tribally-affiliated networks would be ideal I think.    The big platforms mostly promote narcissists, endless high school drama and ever ratchetting sociopathic hysterics to drive engagement. Since the effects now regularly spill into real life with various toxic effects that would be for the best I think.

[mongers]

Let's assume for a moment that Twitter was a valuable service that is not worth destroying.  If that is the case, then I think the whole Twitter saga is revealing some flaws in the ideology of "the shareholder value is paramount".  The people running Twitter were put in a perverse position where they had to force Musk to vandalize their company, because the shareholders would get a bigger payoff for that than for any other outcome.  It's like lawyers sentenced to death appealing to the court to have their sentences carried out, for the sake of rule of law.

The current social media model mostly dying out and being replaced with many smaller tribally-affiliated networks would be ideal I think.    The big platforms mostly promote narcissists, endless high school drama and ever ratchetting sociopathic hysterics to drive engagement. Since the effects now regularly spill into real life with various toxic effects that would be for the best I think.

Indeed, here's hoping Leggy that you're right.