Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion

[Loren Pechtel]

What is the big deal about porn on X (or any social media platform for that matter) anyway? There is free acces to porn (FAP) for anyone with a computer or smartphone whether X existed or not.

This also kinda makes me wonder what porn means in the context.

I suspect I have different standards for what constitutes porn than people who gripe about what is on Xitter.
Tom

You're starting to scare me dude.

What's scary about that concept? For example, many define nudity as pornography even when it's completely nonsexual.

 

[ZiprHead]

Judge dismisses Elon Musk's suit against hate speech researchers

A federal judge has dismissed X owner Elon Musk's lawsuit against a research group that documented an uptick in hate speech on the social media site, saying the organization's reports on the platform formerly known as Twitter were protected by the First Amendment.

Musk's suit, "is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose," wrote U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in his Monday ruling, "This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech."

Amid an advertiser boycott of X last year, Musk sued the research and advocacy organization Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging it violated the social media site's terms of service in gathering data for its reports.

One of the group's findings, published in June, detailed how "racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content" from paid users went unmoderated on the site.

During a February hearing, lawyers for Musk asked if the suit could be refiled against the research group, but Breyer declined that request. The judge said claiming the alleged data scraping was harming the platform's safety and security does not "make very much sense."

 

[TV and credit cards]

MO AG sues Media Matters.
So the claim is Media Matters comes in scrolling and refreshing until they get ads next to hateful posts and then presents their findings to the advertisers.

We want to know who donates. Give us zhe names.
But of what interest are the names of donors to the state attorney general?

407.040. Investigations by attorney general.
MO statute. Personally I'm not crazy about statutes that have "he believes" in them.

Yes I want to fight right wing lies.

 

[marc]

Well his lawsuits might be a failure, but how about his cybertrucks, now that they are (incredibly) actually being made?

 

[ZiprHead]

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

Double Dealing X, formerly Twitter, has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government for greater transparency on its surveillance practices on the platform. The lawsuit continued under Elon Musk after he took over in 2022. When the Supreme Court...

sg.news.yahoo.com

Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government for greater transparency on its surveillance practices on the platform.
The lawsuit continued under Elon Musk after he took over in 2022. When the Supreme Court eventually struck down the suit in January, Musk wrote that it was "disappointing."
But now, newly obtained emails have left both X and Musk, who has long claimed to be a champion of free speech, with egg on their faces. The Intercept reports that despite railing against state spying, the social media company has been quietly profiting off it this entire time — selling a "firehose" of user data for the explicit purpose of being used by law enforcement.

 

[TomC]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

 

[Patooka]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

Its URL is still twitter.com. Also fuck Elon. He's turned the platform into a troll paradise so calling it twitter is fair game.

 

[TomC]

Its URL is still twitter.com

That's U R Lame, right?
I don't know about these things.
Tom

 

[bilby]

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.

The owner doesn't have the authority to tell the public what to call it.

He can tell his employees what to call it, and can back his demand with the threat of disciplinary action.

But the public can call it whatever they like.

McDonalds are STILL trying to persuade the poms not to call "fries", "chips".

But in a free world, if people want to say "Twitter" or "chips"; and not "X" or "fries", then the owners of global corporations will just gave to put on their big-boy pants and get over it.

Suncorp bought the naming rights to Lang Park. They put up big signs that say "Suncorp Stadium", and they pay all the commentators to always say "Suncorp Stadium", but the fans still say "Lang Park", and nobody can make them stop doing so.

 

[ZiprHead]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

That's the problem you have with the above post???

 

[Elixir]

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.

“Do Things”? You mean “refer to his Company”.
Elon is free to refer to it however he wants. He probably doesn’t even need any help. Nobody is impeding his right to “do things” however he decides.

Btw, it’s pronounced “shitter”.

 

[crazyfingers]

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.

The owner doesn't have the authority to tell the public what to call it.

He can tell his employees what to call it, and can back his demand with the threat of disciplinary action.

But the public can call it whatever they like.

McDonalds are STILL trying to persuade the poms not to call "fries", "chips".

But in a free world, if people want to say "Twitter" or "chips"; and not "X" or "fries", then the owners of global corporations will just gave to put on their big-boy pants and get over it.

Suncorp bought the naming rights to Lang Park. They put up big signs that say "Suncorp Stadium", and they pay all the commentators to always say "Suncorp Stadium", but the fans still say "Lang Park", and nobody can make them stop doing so.

I remember getting off the long flight from Tokyo to Toronto, going into a Starbucks asking for a large coffee with cream and the "deer in the headlights" look I got from the employee behind the counter. It's like she was brainwashed.

 

[Elixir]

Well his lawsuits might be a failure, but how about his cybertrucks, now that they are (incredibly) actually being made?

Looks like one tough little bugger now. Tesla shouldn't fix it, they should feature it.
Let these things come off the line looking like that! A little clear coat...

 

[ZiprHead]

Opinion | Elon Musk tried to suppress our rights. This judge had other plans.

We hope this landmark ruling will embolden public-interest researchers everywhere.

www.msnbc.com

You may be wondering: What does it feel like to win in court against the world’s second-richest man? To have exposed him as a thin-skinned hypocrite whose shrill cries of being a “free speech absolutist” were obliterated in the first paragraph of a ruling blasting him and his corporation for bringing a case that was transparent in its goal to “punish the Defendants for their speech.”

Well, as the defendants, let me tell you. It feels pretty damn good.

 

[TomC]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

That's the problem you have with the above post???

Oh hell no. I disliked Twitter before Musk came along and Xucked it up.

I do find it amusing that after all this time people feel the need to refer to X that way. Also that people get upset when that's pointed out.

I'm pretty sure that a bunch of snowflake liberals would be annoyed if I referred to Caitlin formerly known as Bruce, instead of her name Caitlyn Jenner.
Tom

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well his lawsuits might be a failure, but how about his cybertrucks, now that they are (incredibly) actually being made?

Looks like one tough little bugger now. Tesla shouldn't fix it, they should feature it.
Let these things come off the line looking like that! A little clear coat...

From the few videos I've seen, it is the finger prints that'd drive me nuts. But apparently they are coming out with an optional vinyl coating or something like that.

 

[scombrid]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

That's the problem you have with the above post???

Oh hell no. I disliked Twitter before Musk came along and Xucked it up.

I do find it amusing that after all this time people feel the need to refer to X that way. Also that people get upset when that's pointed out.

I'm pretty sure that a bunch of snowflake liberals would be annoyed if I referred to Caitlin formerly known as Bruce, instead of her name Caitlyn Jenner.
Tom

Jesus Haploid Christ that is a tortured analogy.

 

[Politesse]

"
Double Dealing
The social network formerly known as Twitter and now called X has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government"

Why do people keep referring to X as anything other than X?

It's a social media platform known as X, and has been for a while. That's how the owner decided to do things.
Why do people not just refer to it by it's name?
Tom

That's the problem you have with the above post???

Oh hell no. I disliked Twitter before Musk came along and Xucked it up.

I do find it amusing that after all this time people feel the need to refer to X that way. Also that people get upset when that's pointed out.

I'm pretty sure that a bunch of snowflake liberals would be annoyed if I referred to Caitlin formerly known as Bruce, instead of her name Caitlyn Jenner.
Tom

Jesus Haploid Christ that is a tortured analogy.

It's not a tortured analogy, it's the point. Musk himself has been making the very same analogy ever since the renaming, and part of the goal of the renaming was that so they could make that very "gotcha". Its like the attack helicopter meme, an argument they don't expect to be convincing and don't really want to convince anyone about, the only point is the momentary pleasure of watching a "liberal" sputter.

 

[scombrid]

It is a tortured analogy to make a weak point. Thanks for pointing out the disingenuous nature of it. I never would have noticed otherwise; what with the url still being Twitter.com and whatnot.

 

[scombrid]

Kind of what you expect from the “free speech absolutist” that says it is or should be illegal to notify advertisers when his algorithm places their ads alongside bad content.