Just in time for Presidential Inauguration: Musk to Censor Twitter/X for Negativity.

[John Drake]

First, he removed the blue check mark verification of accounts that disagreed with him on H1Bs.

Next, he changed his personal account so that only people with those blue check marks could reply to him.

Now, he is censoring people for being "negative," as defined by Elon Musk.

Elon makes Jack Dorsey look like Thomas Jefferson.

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

Most decent-minded people have already switched to Bluesky.

[SunnyinBangrak]

10 minutes ago, John Drake said:

First, he removed the blue check mark verification of accounts that disagreed with him on H1Bs.

Next, he changed his personal account so that only people with those blue check marks could reply to him.

Now, he is censoring people for being "negative," as defined by Elon Musk.

Elon makes Jack Dorsey look like Thomas Jefferson.

 

 

X is a private company. If leftists cant play by the rules (which are primarily about not encouraging violence) they will be removed. A simple enough concept.

[John Drake]

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

X is a private company. If leftists cant play by the rules (which are primarily about not encouraging violence) they will be removed. A simple enough concept.

 

Violence has nothing to do with this.

[placeholder]

 

3 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

X is a private company. If leftists cant play by the rules (which are primarily about not encouraging violence) they will be removed. A simple enough concept.

You mean a lefty like Laura Loomer?

Laura Loomer Slams Elon Musk as Free Speech 'Hypocrite' Over X Censorship

Far-right activist Laura Loomer said Elon Musk is retaliating against her by suspending her X account, taking away her verification badge and demonetizing her subscriptions over their feud about foreign work visas.

"It's just pure retaliation at this point," Loomer told Newsweek in an interview on Thursday. "I've asked for multiple people to get back to me on this, and nobody's getting back to me."

https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1b-censorship-2008940

[John Drake]

Just now, placeholder said:

 

You mean a lefty like Laura Loomer?

Laura Loomer Slams Elon Musk as Free Speech 'Hypocrite' Over X Censorship

Far-right activist Laura Loomer said Elon Musk is retaliating against her by suspending her X account, taking away her verification badge and demonetizing her subscriptions over their feud about foreign work visas.

"It's just pure retaliation at this point," Loomer told Newsweek in an interview on Thursday. "I've asked for multiple people to get back to me on this, and nobody's getting back to me."

https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1b-censorship-2008940

 

Loomer is a looney. But she did absolutely nothing that justifies what in effect is a shadowban because she disagreed with Elon on H1Bs and tried to build opposition to Elon's candidate to become Trump's AI adviser. Meanwhile, guess who is running point to defend Musk on this issue? Alex Jones. Yes, Alex Jones, who should be in the booby hatch.

[Yellowtail]

Musk's statement: 

 

"Algorithm tweak coming soon to promote more informational/entertaining content. We will publish the changes to 
@XEng
.

Our goal is to maximize unregretted user-seconds. Too much negativity is being pushed that technically grows user time, but not unregretted user time."

 

And we are to assume from this that everyone that makes negative statements about Trump will be banned. Got it. 

 

 

[placeholder]

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Musk's statement: 

 

"Algorithm tweak coming soon to promote more informational/entertaining content. We will publish the changes to 
@XEng
.

Our goal is to maximize unregretted user-seconds. Too much negativity is being pushed that technically grows user time, but not unregretted user time."

 

And we are to assume from this that everyone that makes negative statements about Trump will be banned. Got it. 

 

 

You can assume what you like. There's plenty of evidence that Musk downgrades the X accounts of people who criticize him.

[atpeace]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

You can assume what you like. There's plenty of evidence that Musk downgrades the X accounts of people who criticize him.

There is? Point in the right direction but not to something like the OP.  Could be true but I haven't seen "PLENTY" of evidence.  

[mokwit]

29 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Most decent-minded people have already switched to Bluesky.

You spelt 'snowflakes' wrong. People who can't tolerate an alternative opinion.

[mokwit]

Hasn't he already censored content unfavorable to Israel?

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, placeholder said:

You can assume what you like. There's plenty of evidence that Musk downgrades the X accounts of people who criticize him.

Such as? 

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Hasn't he already censored content unfavorable to Israel?

No

[John Drake]

2 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Hasn't he already censored content unfavorable to Israel?

 

I believe that is secondary (by the way, I support Israel in its war against Hamas and Iran), but the main target are people who disagreed with Elon about H1Bs. Steve Bannon calls Elon a Chinese asset--or maybe assette.

[placeholder]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

Such as? 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-pro-trump-critics-222803309.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/musk-censors-press/index.html

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-pro-trump-critics-222803309.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/musk-censors-press/index.html

Two people making claims that may or may not be true. Got it. 

[SunnyinBangrak]

29 minutes ago, placeholder said:

 

You mean a lefty like Laura Loomer?

Laura Loomer Slams Elon Musk as Free Speech 'Hypocrite' Over X Censorship

Far-right activist Laura Loomer said Elon Musk is retaliating against her by suspending her X account, taking away her verification badge and demonetizing her subscriptions over their feud about foreign work visas.

"It's just pure retaliation at this point," Loomer told Newsweek in an interview on Thursday. "I've asked for multiple people to get back to me on this, and nobody's getting back to me."

https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1b-censorship-2008940

Just like that Laura Loomer becomes a trustworthy and credible source for the left! Thanks for the chuckle. Worth noting how conservatives disagree on matters unlike the cultlike liberal hivemind who 100% agree on false narratives like a certain devastating laptop being Russian disinformation. Debating and disagreeing is the sign of a healthy political movement.

[atpeace]

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-pro-trump-critics-222803309.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/musk-censors-press/index.html

I read the first ling which obviously you didn't .  Again, where is the plenty of proof?  Not a silly Yahoo article that clearly sates that the two people are "claiming" that ....  I can claim a lot of things and people like yourself might take them as fact.  Strange...

[placeholder]

3 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Just like that Laura Loomer becomes a trustworthy and credible source for the left! Thanks for the chuckle. Worth noting how conservatives disagree on matters unlike the cultlike liberal hivemind who 100% agree on false narratives like a certain devastating laptop being Russian disinformation. Debating and disagreeing is the sign of a healthy political movement.

It's not a sigh of a healthy political movement when supporters of Trump who, like Trump, vociferously criticized the H-1B movement turn on a dime and support it. Oddly enough, that turn syncs with the turn taken by Trump. It's clear that it's not about the issue with his supporters. It's all about him.

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Just like that Laura Loomer becomes a trustworthy and credible source for the left! Thanks for the chuckle. Worth noting how conservatives disagree on matters unlike the cultlike liberal hivemind who 100% agree on false narratives like a certain devastating laptop being Russian disinformation. Debating and disagreeing is the sign of a healthy political movement.

And Biden Awards the "Presidential Citizens Medal" to Liz Cheney....

 

How funny is that? 

[placeholder]

13 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Two people making claims that may or may not be true. Got it. 

You got a problem with the sources, take it up with the mods. Or try introducing counter-evidence for a change.

[John Drake]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

It's not a sigh of a healthy political movement when supporters of Trump who, like Trump, vociferously criticized the H-1B movement turn on a dime and support it. Oddly enough, that turn syncs with the turn taken by Trump. It's clear that it's not about the issue with his supporters. It's all about him.

 

FWIW, Loomer has been begging for forgiveness the past few days. But Elon is using her as an exemplary punishment. It's really sort of pathetic all the way around. 

 

 

[Cryingdick]

Most these people didn't care when the shoe was on the other foot. Life sucks when you lose your total grip on the narrative.

[Yellowtail]

56 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Most decent-minded people have already switched to Bluesky.

Most decent-minded people that own cats have already switched to Bluesky.

 

Fixed it for you...

[GammaGlobulin]

All is fair in love, war, and politics.

 

[Yagoda]

Government Censors decrying private censorship

[placeholder]

8 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Government Censors decrying private censorship

It's not private censorship that's being decried. It's the hypocrisy. Especially given that the censorship being imposed is done against critics of the person who claims he bought Twitter to rescue it from such censorship.

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's not private censorship that's being decried. It's the hypocrisy. Especially given that the censorship being imposed is done against critics of the person who claims he bought Twitter to rescue it from such censorship.

Two people making claims that may or may not be true. Got it. 

[Jingthing]

43 minutes ago, placeholder said:

It's not a sigh of a healthy political movement when supporters of Trump who, like Trump, vociferously criticized the H-1B movement turn on a dime and support it. Oddly enough, that turn syncs with the turn taken by Trump. It's clear that it's not about the issue with his supporters. It's all about him.

Yes. Fascist cult of personality.

The U.S. is SUPPOSED to be about the government serving we the people.

The perverted maga movement is about everyone serving the one dear leader, Mr. Trump, and anyone opposed being marked as an enemy of the people.

Dangerous and disgusting. 

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Deflecting much?

No, you?