Musk was always going to do this. It's amazing how many times Musk lies and people just keep believing anything he says. It's not surprising that Musk likes Trump. Both are pathological liars.
I deleted twitter around the time Elon's bid got approved. I was thinking about it for a while, as the app is just another way to get pissed off at the world.
These moves seem odd given that Elon isn't even the owner yet and still has some ways to go to get it all done.
I am getting the feeling twitter will be dead in a couple of years. End up like Tumblr or something. It will still be there, but it will have lost it's place in the top 20 social media platforms.
I don't have much to add to this, but Facebook couldn't go away faster for me. My account is still active, but I deleted the app on the phone and probably only check my home page once every two weeks.
My friends and family just aren't that interesting when they post stuff or it's awful content. I find myself sharing everything with people I want to interact with over text.
Zuck is a sociopathic asshole, so I hope Facebook fails miserably.
I am glad she was found guilty, but there are a few concerns. First, she was only convicted of lying to her investors, not the actual patients, which is laughable.
Second, she is supposed to get up to 20 years for EACH of the counts (they will be served concurrently so she won't get 80 years). And I am curious as to how much time she will actually serve.
Third, what kind of sociopath has a baby in the middle of a trial where she could go to jail and not see the kid for years???
Fourth, what kind of person meets her, googles her, thinks "it's all bullshit", then proceeds to get in a relationship with her AND have a kid with her. Man this woman is a con artist.
She should get 20 years for the lies she spread and damage potentially did. Messing with people's blood tests for CANCER. So wrong.
> Fourth, what kind of person meets her, googles her, thinks "it's all bullshit", then proceeds to get in a relationship with her AND have a kid with her.
> what kind of sociopath has a baby in the middle of a trial where she could go to jail and not see the kid for years
The same sort who would lie to cancer patients about their blood test results, and very probably lead a few to their deaths along the way? Sounds exactly like the Holmes we've all come to know.
Matt Levine has a good article [1] about Theranos that goes into the irony of why she got caught on defrauding investors and not the pafients. His hypothesis is that in court of law, it's easier to make the case for damages when it's easily quantifiable (e.g. $10B in damages) rather than 1000 possibly wrong blood tests.
We kicked out a bunch of traitors from Congress during the Civil War era, so banning a person from twitter who is actively trying to foster a Civil War by promoting lies and misinformation seems pretty mild.
Banning her or anyone like her who spreads lies is perfectly within Twitter's terms of service. The issues is doing it consistently.
I can't tell you how many times I have reported lies about elections and Covid on twitter and almost always it's "We found nothing wrong with this".
There is a lot going on with this guy. He says a lot of the "right" things and it's pretty clear he has a point with our system being really messed up. The problem with founding a new party is that it has to have a base that is based on something organic and I don't think this guy realizes that.
At best, he can only hope for a party base derived from his personality, which is lacking. Other than that, I don't see any demographic group that he can consider his core group of supporters.
At the very least, it will make people think about the current system and how to change it.
I know people here are (rightly) worried about censorship by Facebook and other social media companies.
The problem is that Trump and other fascists, don't give a shit about being fair or moderate or playing by the rules. Trump and his supporters care about power and control. They will use and abuse the rules in their favor to get as much power as possible.
This is page ONE of the fascist playbook, manipulate the rules to gain an advantage. Trump does not deserve to be treated like an honest part of the political landscape, he deserves to be banished from public office and thrown in jail for his many crimes.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you let people outright lie about things that are clearly the opposite. There is almost zero evidence of election fraud, yet Trump continues to lie about it every chance he gets. Trump wanted to steal the election and then tried to stage a coup when it didn't happen.
