A day of chaos brings Twitter closer to the brink

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31 minutes ago, James105 said:

I think you are confusing 'fact-checking' with fact-hiding, as evidenced by the banning of the NY Times when they factually reported on the Hunter Biden laptop as this could have had an impact on who they wanted to win the last election in the US.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-happened-when-nbc-news-tried-report-alleged-n1245533

[ozimoron]

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No imagination?

 

Personally I'd like to incinerate every "social media" site on the internet.

Me too but we have to live with them so we may as well force some civility.

[ozimoron]

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job.

Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content.

 

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-misinformation-social-media-a469130efaebc8ed029a647a149c5049?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_10

[heybruce]

5 hours ago, James105 said:

Twitter did allow hate speech, as long as it was directed at people who didn't vote the correct way.    

Examples, with sources please.

[wombat]

5 hours ago, James105 said:

Twitter did allow hate speech, as long as it was directed at people who didn't vote the correct way.    

Reverse racism and Reverse sexism is ok in woke world 

[wombat]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No imagination?

The difference between free speech and the liable law.

 

[TKDfella]

7 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Me too but we have to live with them so we may as well force some civility.

'I don't agree with what you say but agree you should be allowed to say it'. Is that civil? What do you mean by '...force...'?

[James105]

3 hours ago, heybruce said:

Examples, with sources please.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/the-threats-and-violence-twitter-wont-police/

[bendejo]

13 hours ago, placeholder said:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-happened-when-nbc-news-tried-report-alleged-n1245533

Trump and his allies say there is evidence of corruption in emails and documents allegedly found on a laptop belonging to Democrat Joe Biden’s son. They say those and other documents show that Hunter Biden used his father’s influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine and China, and that his father not only facilitated that, but may have benefited financially.

No mention of credible sources.  In NYC's Chinatown there is a chicken that tells fortunes that has more cred. "They say," and the they is the people who said Covid is a hoax, the 1/6 riot was just well-behaved tourists, trusting Putin over US intelligence sources (is it treason yet?), just a taste of the four years of utter nonsense of a self-serving occupant of the Oval Office.

 

Rudy Giuliani, who has met with Russian agents in his effort to dig dirt on the Bidens.

Brings the old collusion word back into play.

A president who had his finger on the scale every moment of his adult life term, but the focus is on the other party. 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Me too but we have to live with them so we may as well force some civility.

More like impose a biased viewpoint. Only the "correct" opinions permitted.

[ozimoron]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

More like impose a biased viewpoint. Only the "correct" opinions permitted.

Would you support a ban on hate speech or not?

[thaibeachlovers]

I heard something interesting on radio. Apparently the staff got free meals which was costing the company millions per year. Musk has stopped that.

Perhaps he's not as dumb as I thought.

If he can make the company work with 70% less staff, it will be proof they were un necessary.

[stevenl]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I heard something interesting on radio. Apparently the staff got free meals which was costing the company millions per year. Musk has stopped that.

Perhaps he's not as dumb as I thought.

If he can make the company work with 70% less staff, it will be proof they were un necessary.

Musk said it was costing that much. The person responsible for the program has contradicted musk's statement.

[Bkk Brian]

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Publicly and Privately Challenged Him: ‘This Man Has No Idea <deleted> He’s Talking About’

The new Twitter boss, who touts unfettered speech on the social platform, apologized for ”firing these geniuses“ on Tuesday

“Free speech” apparently only goes so far inside Twitter.

New owner Elon Musk has reportedly fired several employees for criticizing his leadership publicly on Twitter and privately in internal Slack channels.

https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-fires-twitter-engineers-over-free-speech/

 

Musk Steps Up Purge of Twitter Engineers Who Criticize Him

Billionaire is rapidly changing Twitter’s corporate culture

What started as two has jumped to about a dozen people let go

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-14/musk-publicly-punishes-twitter-engineers-who-call-him-out-online

[bamnutsak]

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

The person responsible for the program has contradicted musk's statement.

 

And then, probably, she (Tracy Hawkins) was immediately fired. Unless she agreed to be his Twitter Brood Mare.

 

https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/elon-musk-claims-free-staff-lunches-at-twitter-cost-400-each-gets-fact-checked-by-former-employee-article-95516450

 

Honestly, he wants people to work 120 hours a week, of course you're going to offer free food, snacks, rest areas, etc., and anything to keep them happy.

 

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps he's not as dumb as I thought.

How dumb did you think he was?

 

 

The AseanNow crowd roasted him on the Thai Cave Rescue submarine fiasco, and his "Pedo Guy" comment. Now many of the same seem to revere this schmuck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by bamnutsak

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“buying twitter for $44 billion to make it worthless in the span of 2 weeks is the closest elon musk will get to donating money”

https://news.yahoo.com/thousands-people-tweeting-exact-same-235200090.html

[thaibeachlovers]

15 hours ago, stevenl said:

Musk said it was costing that much. The person responsible for the program has contradicted musk's statement.

Perhaps not as much as Musk said, but I never got free meals from any job I did, so if he wants to cut the free meals, he has every right to do so.

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

How dumb did you think he was?

Given his cave rescue "submarines" which couldn't go through the tunnels, pretty much.

[Bkk Brian]

 

[wombat]

9 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

 

Nothing wrong with 3 months severance pay.

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10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps not as much as Musk said, but I never got free meals from any job I did, so if he wants to cut the free meals, he has every right to do so.

And he is every right to slash pay too. What's your point? This isn't about legality.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, wombat said:

Nothing wrong with 3 months severance pay.

Nothing wrong with giving remaining staff a days notice to decide their future, no of course not.