the phrasing of the headline is so awkward too.

    • CyberMao [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Like in this case… expert on what, exactly?

      • Puffin [any, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Dan Gainor, vice president of Free Speech America and Business at the Media Research Center

        Working at a think tank means is what makes you an expert apparently

        • NuraShiny [any]
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          2 years ago

          What do you want, they are working at the make up factory names factory. It's a living.

  • regul [any]
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    2 years ago

    Oh no! Don't let Elon Musk ruin Twitter's profitability by opening it up further to Nazis thereby making it toxic to advertisers! If you did that I would be so owned!

    • bombshell [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Twitter isn't profitable. It's losing money hand over fist. It's useful because its owners can use it to control what people think. The entire mainstream media checks their phones every two minutes for Twitter updates. It's their world.

      • regul [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        That's Hollywood accounting. Twitter is profitable in the ways that matter.

  • invo_rt [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    all this because white people want to say the n-word

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    experts

    :shapiro-gavel: :charlie-kirk: :jordan-eboy-peterson:

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I really just want to take a wiffleball bat to the guy who wrote that headline and the guy who approved it

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I don't really mind if he does do it PROPERLY. I would lament the fact that nazis and fascists would get free reign to be shit fucks but I think it would be an improvement for communism.

    I don't really think that's how it would play out in reality though.

    • CyberMao [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Nah we’ll be purged harder if Elon takes control. All that good free press the Starbucks and Amazon unions are getting on Twitter can kiss itself goodbye. Although I do agree that we would benefit from truly equal free speech protections

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        truly equal free speech protections

        That's not a real thing under capitalism or siege socialism, based on solid material conditions. The :freeze-peach: shtick is just idealist bullshit you sell the libs so they don't feel like you're taking their chance at an epic West Wing moment.

  • Mrpakiman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Isn't the only reason Elon is doing this, is because his tweets massively affect how many morons inflate his stock price.

    Seriously I doubt any of this free speach malarkey is what he cares about, just protecting the only thing that keeps his company afloat.

    It would be funny to see testla dominate the automative industry not by making cars or anything useful, but by controlling twitter, and making sure he stays viral...

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      The lords of industry and finance are attracted to media properties like flies to shit. Bezos bought up the Washington Post. Twitter seems fitting for Elon.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Virtually the same thing, I hadn't thought about it but it's kinda obvious in retrospect

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Tesla was flirting with bankruptcy not that long ago. So much of the industry is predicated on subsidies and tax credits that the Big Three are ultimately working to internalize (re: the Ford Lightning, the Chevy Bolt).

      Then there's a bunch of money propping his firm up that is purely a product of Fed cheap lending.

      All the Twitter in the world won't save Musk once the tide turns.