[Fasces]

Following Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign announcement, users on Elon Musk’s platform, X (formerly Twitter), discovered they were unable to follow the vice president’s political campaign account.

Attempts to follow @KamalaHQ, Harris’s official rapid response page, resulted in an error message stating “something went wrong” or that users had reached their follow limit, preventing them from following any more accounts.

Musk responded by posting a screenshot of the error message accompanied by a gloating remark: “Sure did.”

https://dailyboulder.com/elon-musk-accu ... wers-on-x/

Gee, Guess What Twitter Just Did to Accounts Critical of Elon Musk?

X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday temporarily suspended the accounts of multiple prominent journalists and left-leaning commentators and comedians, many of whom were critical of X owner Elon Musk.

The social media platform gave no explanation for the sudden purge, saying only that the accounts “violate the X rules.” The X rules prohibit violent or hateful speech, child exploitation, private information sharing, and fake information.

https://newrepublic.com/post/177936/twi ... -elon-musk

Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments

The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaigns

In the year prior to Musk taking control, Twitter agreed to 50% of such requests, in line with the compliance rate indicated in the company’s last transparency report (none have been published since October 2022). Following the change of ownership, that figure has risen to 83%, according to the analysis of the data by the technology information portal Rest of World.

https://english.elpais.com/internationa ... ents.html#

One exception:

Lawyers for X-formerly-Twitter are, for some reason, refusing to provide one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims with information from her own account.

As Business Insider reports, attorneys representing artist and Epstein victim Rina Oh Amen have repeatedly tried to get the Elon Musk-owned social network to provide them access to her locked-out accounts.

[Rancid]

Musk is an absolute fucking moron.

[Wellsy]

One of the many good cases against having capitalists with their own fiefdoms.
Many a turf floats the top.

[Istanbuller]

It was probably due to spamming policies of X. So many people tried to follow and account at the same time and they were flagged as spammer due to that.

Elon Musk does a terrific job. X became a place of free speech, not hatred and false information when leftists was in charge.

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[froggo]

I see now why he bought Twitter; so he can be the next Rupert Murdoch among the many other hats he is trying to wear.
Hopefully this sort of behaviour will plummet the number of users willing to participate in such an environment.
Sometimes i wonder; does he legitimitaely believe all of the things he says, or is it all about making-money? (oh, all the liberals have bought my teslas, i better get the republicans to buy them now) kinda thing. Do you think he will end up isolating everyone eventually (if he backs out of the Republic-stance, they will never forgive him), or is this Trump-loving stance, convenient for his current ambitions, going to be a consistent outlook for the remainder of his existence?

[Fasces]

Sometimes i wonder; does he legitimitaely believe all of the things he says, or is it all about making-money?

Tesla
shares plummeted the most since 2020 after the electric vehicle maker reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and another drop in automotive revenue.

The stock closed down 12% on Wednesday at $215.99. It’s now down 13% for the year, while the Nasdaq is up 16% over that stretch.

Tesla on Tuesday said auto revenue declined 7% from a year earlier to $19.9 billion while margins also fell. Total revenue increased 2% to $25.5 billion.
Tesla shares close down 12% after earnings miss for biggest slump since 2020

[froggo]

I was just about to correct myself and say that Tesla was a rough example (though long-term, with other players in the EV field, perhaps a loyal Republican base might prove beneficial)
More of what I meant to say was 'why garner the support of a critical-thinking consumer-and-investor base, when you can get the loyalty of the most gullible consumer-and-investor base'

[Verv]

Everybody is aware how mass reporting of accounts can sometimes result in bans due to the sheer volume - it turns edge cases of rules violations that would be ignored into ones where action is taken.

Mass reporting has been a long time issue on Twitter.

My guess is that the whitelisted accounts are not actually immune from much of anything, but are rather accounts that have suffered from mass reporting.

It also seems to be the case that Antifa accounts regularly disappear, often due to sharing material that was obtained through hacking or due to concerns they themselves might have when arrests are being made and they posted information that could be used in a negative light for their own case or that of someone else. For instance, content and entire accounts often disappeared from Portland and LA antifa as criminal cases emerged.

But I don't know.

I do think Elon Musk is very hypocritical - like his banning of the "from the river to the sea" stuff, and I find that to be very weak and wrong.

[Potemkin]

I do think Elon Musk is very hypocritical - like his banning of the "from the river to the sea" stuff, and I find that to be very weak and wrong.

We’re all hypocrites, @Verv. It’s when some of us pretend that we’re not, that problems arise. Elon Musk clearly doesn’t think he’s a hypocrite. And that’s the problem.

[Verv]

We’re all hypocrites, @Verv. It’s when some of us pretend that we’re not, that problems arise. Elon Musk clearly doesn’t think he’s a hypocrite. And that’s the problem.

Well said.

There's nothing more embarrassing than someone who thinks their shit doesn't stink.

[Rancid]

Musk can suck on a big black rubber dick.

Seriously though, how is twitter doing anyway? like financially?

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[AFAIK]

Oh yes the free speech absolutist who fires people who disagree with him, hates unions and banned the twitter account that posted publicly accessible information about the flights made by private jets (including his).

[Istanbuller]

Those leftist guys probably get banned for violating X's rules.

Those leftist guys want everybody get banned except themselves. However, under Elon Musk's admin, you are free to whatever you want on X. That is what makes Elon Musk superior to those guys who don't understand concept of free speech.

Oh yes the free speech absolutist who fires people who disagree with him, hates unions and banned the twitter account that posted publicly accessible information about the flights made by private jets (including his).

It is his private company. He is free to choose who he wants to employ.