So much for free speech
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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At this point we just need a large compiled list of every instance of it. There's so much that I can't think of an example right away.
Still not what free speech means.
But baby trust fund dipshit is begging to get sued again.
It’s not what free speech means, but they’re using his own words against him. Of course we clearly can’t expect any consistency from conservatives, “free speech for me” etc.
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Ah, the "free speech absolutist" doing completely free speech stuff.
Elon Musk is an incompetent sociopathic scammer who got very lucky.
He is not a great engineer, he's a dumbass who got fired from his own company for being incompetent. When the company was bought he raked in the cash from the shares he had, that's all. All his "great ideas" are face palmingly stupid.
He's petty and vengeful. When rescuers were risking their lives getting kids out of a cave denied his stupid idea, he called them a pedophile just because fuck you. That is musk in a nutshell.
He doesn't give a shit about anything or anybody but himself. He forces people to work in near slave like conditions. Do it or get fired and lose your house, or maybe deported. Unions? Fuck your unions, here is a chain lulz.
He. Lies. About. Everything. Probably the only person worse than Trump when it comes to continuous lying. Every promise he made is bullshit. Tesla will.... nope.
He was the bright light behind the decision not to use flame diverters (standard tech from the 60's) when his next SpaceX toy was launched, because it would take too much time to build and it would not be needed... a decision which utterly obliterated the launch platform, pelted even cars on a parking lot 5 kilometers away and polluted the entire surroundings. All because he needs to show the world how big his dick is. Then when the rocket blew up over Mexican territory (nice self destruct that didn't even work) everyone cheered because rockets.. should.... Blow up? Oh yeah, that was by design. WTF?
And as always, he just laughs it off and his fans laugh with him because "it's Elon man, he's cool! He walked in to Twitter with a kitchen sink!" And then proceeded to run the company he paid twice too much for into the ground, it now being worth, what? 30% from what he paid? So like 15% from what it was actually worth? From the second he started he just did the stupid. Firing so many people without even checking if they were needed, causing people to be locked in the buildings, the blue check mark scandal... twitter (not X) is a shit show and will be bankrupt very soon as muskie won't be able to afford to pay back the billions he had to borrow for his little toy.
Fuck everything about this guy, may he step on a Lego every day he gets out of bed.
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Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech
Excellent decision sir, human rights are overrated anyway
- probably some blue check person
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If you are still on X, then you deserve the world you are struggling in.
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It's time to put some of these billionaires in their place. Nationalize his shit, seize his assets, and revoke his passport and citizenship. Fuck Musk, sick of his childish attention seeking bullshit.
I would say we give him the French treatment. Fucker is just wasting oxygen
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Nationalize SpaceX for sure. Let him keep Twitter though, at this point it's such a dumpster fire that it's more of an albatross around his neck than an asset, we don't need the tax payers carrying that shit.
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Hey the auto workers are striking now... can we just like... do a general strike already?
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lol does he not realize that he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?
I'm sure they do not care.
he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?
Again?
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Capitalist does captitalist things.
Free speech absolutist censors free speech.
Speech is free, as long as it is positive or neutral irt his assets.
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Xitter ! love it, now lexicon
Usage: Can’t wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.
Could we please pronounce it was "Shitter"? Thanks.
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"To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, "Busy now, please check back later." (To be fair, in this case "check back later" is a good summary of what happened.)" 😂
This whole incident probably took place from automation. As others have stated they changed the profile photo and the system needs verification. The software probably has a hash value for the photo and when they changed the photo the hash value changed triggering the chain of events. You guys are really hung up on hating him but he probably had nothing to do with it other than the initial design verification.
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The real story here is that a union was willingly giving money to Elon Musk
That is not the real story at all. Unions work with organisations, that's the point.
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Elon heard something called Unify or Utigy was taking all the bad press and he had to fix that.
Why should anyone care? I thought the blue mark doesn't have meaning anymore?
Well, I think this might, but probably not, technically qualify as an anti-union action in violation of state and federal laws. Basically, if you do things to silence or discredit the union and advocates then you've broken the law. That said, companies get away with a lot worse, so something as minor as the blue check disappearing is not likely to have any real backlash.
Definitely shows where he stands on these issues if it ever wasn't clear. Musk is unfortunately a person with a lot of influence on business and politics.
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