EU threatens banning Twitter after Elon Musk buys it

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  1. crank

    crank Well-Known Member

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    You know when someone uses the term 'hate speech' seriously (rather than in absolute contempt for the tyranny of it), it makes the person seem like a supercillious medieval monk .. whose life's work is to stamp out the 'sins' defined by a bunch of powerful elites.
     
  2. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Do not blaspheme, my son.
     
  3. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    I think we ought to have one network all on its own COMPLETELY unmoderated, where you can say whatever you may please about anyone whatsoever

    And your real name and actual present address will be automatically and unavoidably attached to every single post you make.
     
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    Ahh, here comes that left wing anger and lashing out. Prove the importance of free speech, and they start calling names.

    Sorry, you don't get to protect your fragile feelings by creating some subjective term about "hate" for anything you disagree with and use that as a means of censoring other people.

    I find you comments above very hateful and full of anger and vengeance. That's ok. I will still defend your rights to say them, even with my life. It's THAT important.
     
  5. Condor060

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    Yeah, its called the 1st Amendment and been working for adults for over 200 years.

    The only moderated speech is for children who don't know any better.

    Do you need your speech moderated or someone to moderate speech for you?
     
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    Bullshit!

    USA made peaceful Russia to become an enemy again and so is alone guilty for invasion of Russia in Ukraine! And Trump was the one made it possible at least by licking the butt of Putin!
     
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    I see. You want to make it easy to punish and round up dissenters.
     
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    Who was it that told Germany they were funding future Russia attacks when they should be funding NATO? Trump

    Who was it that was the only US POTUS to send Ukraine weapons that would stop Russian aggression? Trump

    Who was the only POTUS in the last 18 years that saw no Russian aggression against Ukraine? Trump

    Who were the people taking money from Russia and China? Democrats

    Who was the only POTUS in the last 18 years that told Germany he didn't support their pipelines to Russia? Trump

    Who laughed at the idea of Russia invading Europe? Germany

    Whose failed "Green Energy" plans meant buying all their energy from Russia? Germany

    Who wants to buy energy from countries that have huge amounts of pollution and hate the west? Leftists

    Your leftist ideology is a failure and a danger to the world.

    Trump was right.

    Germany was wrong.

    Democrats were/are wrong.

    Leftists are always wrong.
     
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  9. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    That and cowards won't be able to hide.

    Why do you want it to be easy to hurt people on the Internet? There ARE people who are actually affected by words used against them. Tell your children you think they are worthless sometime
     
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    I care because these companies represent security risks to me. They assisted in stifling the discussion on the origin of a new sickness that everyone I know has been dealing with for going on 3 years now.

    I believe they are assisting in stifling conversation on various matters in many countries. Foreigners (our tech CEOs colluding with our government) that attempt to control the political destinies of people are the kind of thing that brings war and/or terrorism to me once those people figure out what's being done to them.
     
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    Because every once in a while a nation must face hard truths. If you create an environment in which no one can handle hearing a hard truth, then when it comes time for your country to face one, you're screwed.
     
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    The thing is, by caring about Twitter, we empower it. If no one gave a damn about it, it would die on its own by alienating a large user base. I don’t even understand the point of having accounts in multiple social media platforms - I have my Facebook account from which I deleted everyone I didn’t care about staying in touch with and just post family updates there now. That’s all Facebook is to me - a tool to stay in touch with relatives, friends, former coworkers and classmates. That’s it. I don’t have accounts in other social media because I see no point and I feel like I’d have to mirror pretty much everything I post in Facebook, which targets the same audience, so what’s the point?
     
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    Elon better get the authentication process down quick. I wouldn't put it past these tyrants to flood the zone with bots spreading hate/gore/etc. so that people beg for content moderation. After that they shut down narratives that oppose them with even better efficiency than before.
     
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    I always tell people not to use them except for pure utility.

    The problem is that most people are completely uninformed on almost every issue. If their favorite celebrities on social media (again, I believe in many countries, not just US) tell them to support a cause, they will. So if the celebrities and government of any given country collude with big tech, it gives them tremendous power. Especially since, invariably, big tech picks one political side to deal with, and opposes others with all their power.
     
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    Is falsely accusing an entire race of being rapists and murderers a "hard truth"? Is the supposition that all blacks are racially inferior dullards just "unvarnished" reality? That's what just about all hate speech really is, nothing but egregious lies and vicious insults, the kind of things you say just before you start hitting people.

    Maybe hitting people is what present day conservatives think politics is really all about.
     
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    They censor more than just hate speech. Suggesting the virus came from the Wuhan lab is/was not hate speech.

    Hard truths are always offensive at first btw.
     
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  17. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    On what actual evidence beyond the almost certainly coincidental location of a virus lab in Wuhan was the "location" of the virus derived?

    Do you know how the Spanish flu was named?



    https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu

    Cherished conservative beliefs notwithstanding, Hate speech very, VERY rarely has any truth in it.
     
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    Musk owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, which represents a 9.2% passive stake in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission.

    One needs a minimum of 50.01% to have control. Ask LG (Life's Good). They used their profits from global sales to take control of Zenith who couldn't profit because of the unions, and they gained 52% and then forced Zenith into bankruptcy and then bought Zenith and shut it down.

    That's like letting government define "terrorist."
     
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    1. The location.

    2. Many scientists, including the former head of the CDC believing so.

    3. No animal population has been discovered that was infected with Covid prior to 2020.

    4. The obvious deception coming from Fauci, and the strange lack of interest or urgency on the matter coming from almost all politicians/media/academia.

    I understand hate speech is bad. What you don't seem to understand is the effort to ban all verbal offense is dangerous to society. Remember, at one time, mentioning the immorality of slavery was considered generally offensive...
     
  20. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    You might try actually READING things that are cited before you go and make a fool of yourself.

    You're right, mentioning slavery's immorality was once considered offensive, particularly to those who owned slaves.
     
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    And just whose population was brainwashed by Russia and how did this mass brainwashing take place?
     
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    :lol: ~ Elon Musk stirring the politics pot ... :wierdface:'
     
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    Because...

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    And so very true.
     
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