Elon Musk restores Donald Trump’s Twitter account

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, stevenl said:

Why do you think Trump is not going to use it, because he said so?

Must have been on the other thread, but I said that he might change his mind.

 

Don't attack the messenger. It wasn't my opinion. I was just passing on what I heard.

[James105]

24 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

La la land stuff......lol

 

"During the poll, Musk acknowledged that the vote numbers were being affected by automated bots, which are not operated by people, and suggested there was a need to clean up Twitter polls from being influenced by “bot and troll armies”.

 

Last week, Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and praised Musk, saying he had always liked him. Nevertheless, Trump also said Twitter suffered from bots and fake accounts, and that the problems it faced were “incredible”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/20/twitter-lifts-donald-trump-ban-after-elon-musks-poll

 

You don't need a phone to sign up for twitter, throw away email addresses are what bots use, one bot can make thousands of new accounts daily, that's just one computer, a botnet working together can make thousands of multiples of the original bot, each programmed to vote via spoof IP's

 

Bots are just one of the numerous issues already highlighted in this thread.

Both sides used bots.  The left think that only their bots should be valid.   I'm sure once the bots were taken away the result would be the same if not higher for reinstatement of Trump as the majority of people still believe in the concept of freedom of speech.

 

It's only the reinstatement of a Twitter account that Musk could easily enable with or without a poll.   Quite why people work themselves up into a frothing mess about this is beyond comprehension.   

[Bkk Brian]

3 minutes ago, James105 said:

Both sides used bots.  The left think that only their bots should be valid.   I'm sure once the bots were taken away the result would be the same if not higher for reinstatement of Trump as the majority of people still believe in the concept of freedom of speech.

 

It's only the reinstatement of a Twitter account that Musk could easily enable with or without a poll.   Quite why people work themselves up into a frothing mess about this is beyond comprehension.   

I'm sure bots are used by many including hostile countries, the whole point is the poll is not representative and proven to be fraudulent no matter what the outcome.

 

Musk could indeed have reinstated Trumps account without the need for a poll but he decided to publicize the event on his twitter as a deciding factor.

[RichardColeman]

20 hours ago, ozimoron said:

This just isn't going to fly with many advertisers who know they will be fingered by liberals. There aren't enough pillows in the world to keep the revenue going.

Hmm, Disney's liberal woke approach is killing them financially, so it works both ways does it not ? 

[thaibeachlovers]

8 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

No , it wasn't an election on Twitter , it was a poll on Twitter 

No point using facts on here. They'll be ignored.

[swm59nj]

This can be the start of something big.  If Trump gets his chance to run for President.  Maybe Musk could be his running mate for Vice-President.  Then all the Trump supporters could say America Will Really Be Great Again 

[JonnyF]

Good move Elon. Freedom of speech must prevail above the silencing and cancel culture of the left.

[jcmj]

Musk will run twitter to it’s end. There will be another platform stepping in and up soon. Just wait and see. 

[Tug]

Sounds like musk aka the  space Karen is getting a bit desperate trying to boost traffic on his site but hey I don’t think old Donald can tweet from prison anyway

[newnative]

'The people have spoken.'   What a crock.  The fanatical followers of Musk's twitter account have spoken.  I have a twitter account but I am not on much and I was not even aware of the poll being taken before the results were posted and the decision made.   Talk about rigging the outcome. Originally, Musk said a panel was going to decide if Trump was reinstated.   What happened to that idea, I wonder.   

[bendejo]

1 hour ago, swm59nj said:

This can be the start of something big.  If Trump gets his chance to run for President.  Maybe Musk could be his running mate for Vice-President.  Then all the Trump supporters could say America Will Really Be Great Again 

Gotta be born in US to be president.  Otherwise, there would have been a President Ahnuldt by now.

 

 

[Berkshire]

I think Mark Cuban said it best, good for Twitter, not so good for Trump.  Tweeting as an ordinary citizen is not the same as tweeting while President.

 

[“Smart marketing move for @twitter,” Mark Cuban said in a Tweet. “Now everyone comes to see what trump does. Awful for trump. The pressure is on him to entertain. Tweets hit different as the President vs now being [the former guy].”]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mark-cuban-reacts-to-huge-donald-trump-news/ar-AA14kNyM?ocid=wispr&cvid=2016c7dce04a4f7a9926bfeae52ec4c5

[hotchilli]

On 11/20/2022 at 9:40 AM, Bkk Brian said:

From the linked article:

NAACP President Derrick Johnson

 “If Elon Musk continues to run Twitter like this, using garbage polls that do not represent the American people and the needs of our democracy, God help us all.”

The poll was a free vote.. what's your problem..

you don't like democracy?

[blazes]

On 11/20/2022 at 11:08 AM, Sparktrader said:

 https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/12/the-free-speech-crisis-is-not-a-right-wing-myth/

Excellent article.  spiked is one of the best sources of independent radical thought available in the English-speaking world.

[JimboB4]

No it hasn’t at least not yet anyway as of today November 21st. Why do you all always spread misinformation? You have been trying to do it with cannabis since they first started legalizing it a few years ago. 
 

Trump hasn’t been reinstated on Twitter yet. 

[DezLez]

5 minutes ago, JimboB4 said:

Trump hasn’t been reinstated on Twitter yet. 

?????

What does the title of this thread say?

[Foghorn]

Cry dems cry

[blazes]

23 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Now can I expect a similar outrage from you the next time someone is criticized for allegedly suffering cognitive problems?

Never thought I would ever hear anyone on Asean News confessing to "cognitive problems"....

[blazes]

23 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

15 million unverified accounts, no way to know which country they came from, how many bots and fake accounts and certainly not representative of an authenticated poll or survey

Excellent insight (for once).  So, now you see why Musk wanted to take over Twitter and maybe discover precisely how  many bots there are in that quagmire.

[Bkk Brian]

39 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

The poll was a free vote.. what's your problem..

you don't like democracy?

The poll was a free vote for fake accounts from anywhere in the world and from bots. Is that what you call democracy?

[pomchop]

Two little boys that grew up with a silver shovel in their mouth tweeting together....how cute.

[Doowat]

On 11/20/2022 at 10:58 AM, ozimoron said:

Expect me to help prevent this site from becoming a platform for hate speech and intolerance. If that doesn't succeed, I'm out of here and you can have it.

Fact: hate is part of the human condition as is jealousy, envy and a host of other undesirable traits. Deal with it. We are heading for a sanitised world where people of a certain political persuasion will exploit restrictions on freedom of speech to close down debate. 

[Bkk Brian]

5 minutes ago, Doowat said:

Fact: hate is part of the human condition as is jealousy, envy and a host of other undesirable traits. Deal with it. We are heading for a sanitised world where people of a certain political persuasion will exploit restrictions on freedom of speech to close down debate. 

The Guardian, New York Times, CNN and more were barred from ‘gaggle’ hours after Trump once again called much of the media an ‘enemy of American people’

[Eric Loh]

8 minutes ago, Doowat said:

Fact: hate is part of the human condition as is jealousy, envy and a host of other undesirable traits. Deal with it. We are heading for a sanitised world where people of a certain political persuasion will exploit restrictions on freedom of speech to close down debate. 

A debate is a formal discussion. Hate speech, lies, deception and misinformation play no part in a debate.  

[blazes]

7 hours ago, NanLaew said:

And for those who insist that truth can only be firmly built on facts, we can thank then U.S. Counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway for introducing the concept of "alternative facts" on January 22, 2017.

"alternative facts" is what Her Majesty the Queen characterised as "others will have different recollections" and what Megan Markle calls "my truth."

[LosLobo]

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Good move Elon. Freedom of speech must prevail above the silencing and cancel culture of the left.

I am all for Freedom, for speech and also for not cancelling a women's freedom of choice.

[Isaan sailor]

Always liked Twitter—and now even more.  Free speech rules.

[Phoenix Rising]

Nickname For Elon Musk Goes Mega-Viral On His Twitter

 

"A stinging nickname for Twitter owner Elon Musk trended this week on his own social media platform: “space Karen.”"

[Eric Loh]

5 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Always liked Twitter—and now even more.  Free speech rules.

But banned books and lesson on race and gender issues. Free speech as the radical rights see it. 

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

A debate is a formal discussion. Hate speech, lies, deception and misinformation play no part in a debate.  

The problem is that The Left define hate speech as any opinion that they disagree with. Then try to ban it on that basis (while simultaneously hating on the likes of Donald Trump, Elon Musk etc.). ????