Earlier today President Trump noted he would not be returning to the Twitter social media platform; he likes Truth Social better:
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Additionally, with a great deal of interest in what will happen to the Twitter platform, Mr. Elon Musk has announced a diverse moderation council will be created to make content rules and guidelines. Following up with a reply, “we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies.”
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There is a great deal of interest in the outcome of the purchase of Twitter. However, it is worth tempering any expectations and taking a wait and see approach.
Is Musk independent? Does anyone really know?
From what my own research indicates, and assuming Mr Musk is entirely independent minded, I think it may take any “independent” Musk team quite a while to find out exactly what the internal networks of Twitter are all about.
My guess is, there are background connections in the Twitter code [compatibility datasets to align with other (shadow?) networks] that will take a long time to unravel.
I stand by my original inclination: Twitter is to the U.S. Govt, what TikTok is to China.
Not going to get widely diverse viewpoints until they lift the hiring moratorium on straight white males.
White, straight, christian, conservative males. Corrected it for you
why would the SEC (run by Peter Strzok’s wife) approve such a supposedly MAGA-winning move 10 days before the election?
just before the election, all the MAGA digital warriors get distracted and in a tizzy about getting their followers back, getting their Twitter mind drug back
their conversations and networks on other platforms like Truth and Telegram and Gettr get fractured and fragmented
all these MAGA Twitter users rush back to the mother ship and start uploading their private conversations and social networks into the Twitter data base which gets firehosed directly into the weaponized factions of the intel community which are Twitters biggest paying customer (data subscriptions and I assume ALSO advertising)
STAY AWAY
Its a TRap
Musk wants the MAGA networks back on Twitter so he can then sell that data to the US Patriot Act agencies
he wants to replatform because he wants more data to sell
its got nothing to do with loving humanity
its got a lot to do with loving the money that he will get from the US (And presumably other) govs
ALL of Musks businesses are subsidized heavily by the government (batteries, tunnels, EV, solar panels, rockets, satelittes and now social media)
of course he presents as independent, in reality he is a government employee
Elon Musk is the Howard Hughes of out time. This is not meant as a complement. If there were real independent deep dive journalists around in Hughes day I am sure we would have a much more jaded view of the man.
Instead ,in hindsight, we now know were informed mainly by
Woodward and Bernstein type propagandists.
Everything Musk is involved with is full of intrigue and deception. He seems to have government subsidies as the foundation of all his endeavors.
He doesn’t even own his house. Come on man.
A bit of FJB plagiarism sorry guys I couldn’t help myself. I digress.
That bullshit is right up there with the greatest inside trader of all time,Warren Buffets, I live in the house my father bought..
How is it that he could be involved with so many high tech diverse endeavors at once ,and why is it that the silent hand of Stiff competition somehow leaves him free to prosper?
Until absolutely PROVEN otherwise I’m with you Mac.
Not saying I endorse the theory, but there’s this:
Elon Musk Officially Takes Over Twitter in the Latest “Genius” Con
As many mindlessly celebrate Musk’s Twitter “acquisition” they fail to appreciate the greater Psyop at play here.
Elon Musk is quite literally a CIA creation. He made all of his money from the taxpayers. When he sells his inflated stock that was made possible by ZEV credits, grants, tax breaks, and other corporate welfare fraud he is laundering the money stolen from taxes that was then inflated by a rigged stock market.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter
Hughes was drugged and held captive by the DS/Khazarian Mafia for the remainder of his life. They raped his corporations. So..what you think is HH is not HH. Th Gemstone Files details th entire behind the scenes DS shenanigans of the pre and post WW2 era..
makes sense but with anything of this scale there are a lot of variables in that equation that are uncontrollable with potential outcomes unforeseeable.
Until proven otherwise I will take heed.
I think that the sole purpose of the entire Musk twitter exercise is to stop Truth Social.
I’m with you Mac
Good thought. I too was considering the potential trap this could be. What if by removing voices from Twitter they lost tracking capabilities and found out these folks were able to start creating alternate platforms. So, they needed a way to draw the crowd back into Twitter before that alternate crowd grew too large. To do this they needed someone to take it over who feigned being on the peoples side. Who more perfect than Musk, who says one thing about his companies but really serves another purpose hidden from you. Let’s watch and see like SD says. I’m watching with skeptical eyes but hope for the best.
Always has been a trap, baited to catch the egos of the preening set.
Truth Social is much better at getting all of a particular group under surveillance. If we wanna play gotcha games with our allies. I ain’t giving up my phone number to anybody to post on their platform.
It’s not that your phone no. is posted on a web site, it’s not;
it’s that government survellience harvests all the numbers, identifies the phone’s ISP, owner, address and coordinates of it’s location within 10′ which is your location on any road, in any store, or whether you’re in your kitchen, bedroom or mowing the grass.
Insert Admiral Ahkbar meme here.
Stay away. It’s a trap.
Exactly.
Some of us knew this all along & never “joined” any faux “public squares.” Not because we’re geniuses but because we had a healthy level of skepticism & historical knowledge of gubmint malfeasance.
How many straight, white, Christian, conservative males want to live in San Francisco?
And older people of any race, and either sex.
Im wundrin if team Musk will expose some hidden links to our benevolent US govt? The 4th branch wont like it, so expect some push back.
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Why would he do that. It’s an ace he can keep up his sleeve.
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I understand Peter Strzok was busy tweeting warnings today.
It hasn’t sunk in for many yet, but Musk also now has access to all the Direct Messages sent via Twitter.
Musk can take over for Epstein minus the underage girls.
Just sent Strzok a DM and Twitter banned me in about 1 second. Seriously.
Every company Musk has built has included govt involvement, usually funding. He’s not this white knight everyone thinks he is. He’s actually left of center.
all his businesses have completely depended on government subsidies
ALL of them, including Twitter
his independence and entrepreneurialism is a mask
he is America’s biggest government welfare, recipient
he has said that Trump would be shadow banned if back on Twitter, that the best way to neuter him is to have him back on the platform, and that deplatforming him made him stronger
Musk is a Cultural MAGA RINO supporting De Santis
While I respect De Santis’s courage, I don’t think his intellect is on part with Donald Trump’s.
Trump doesn’t understand the clot shot. Gimme a break. Trump’s gift is raw charisma and instinct, not intellect.
Neither is his character
PayPal has government subsidies?
OK List them, please.
I hate what PayPal has become and Peter Thiel was involved with it. Then again if Blake Masters and J.D. Vance win you can thank Peter Thiel.
Every major building Trump built was financed by Khazarian Mafia and banksters. Banksters and KM are the deep state. Oh the vicious holes we dig when trying to be vicious gossipmonger and turn folks against potential friends and allies.
Musk is actually WEF. Let that sink in….
This has been going for EVER! Someone says I’ve got Information and I’ll let it drop at just the right time and it NEVER comes out. Look at Sydney Powell who said she had proof the dominion machines were switching votes and she could prove it. She never produced the proof. Now President Trump’s son says we have video of the FBI rifling through the Trump estate, but won’t release it until the right time. Everything stays behind that dark curtain waiting for the “right time” and the “right time” never comes. If you have the goods drop them in the public domain so everyone can see it and start a conversation the government doesn’t want started. I’m sick of this “at the right time” stuff that never happens.
If he doesn’t in great detail and quantity very soon he will have been shown to be a fraud.
Just think how many changes/coverups could have taken place during this protracted purchase agreement.
With the financial resources he has available Musk could have taken over Twitter like any other corporate raider almost overnight.
There are reasons why these raiders operate as they do. It is to protect their future interests. But the wonder boy Musk ,the smartest man in the room made this potentially mortal mistake.
Don’t worry too much you Musk followers , I am sure , in the long run, behind the scenes everything will work out.
Heed what Mac said and be ware.
Do you think he’s really going to bite the hand that feeds him?
If there are, say, 5 members on a “Moderation Council”, how many votes will it take to will censor someone?
Only 1? A majority (3) or all 5?
This will be all the difference in the world.
Will this “moderation council” carry God like powers, or will they serve at an advisory level only?
Of course this council will assign itself God-like powers. Preening, strutting, and controlling are the only reasons a person would want a seat there.
It would be for policies, not individual bans.
“Twitter is to the U.S. Govt, what TikTok is to China.”
BINGO!
And the FBI is to the Gestapo.
President Trump cannot return to Twitter.
He started his own social media platform, Truth Social.
Returning to Twitter would acknowledge Truth Social was inferior.
I wouldn’t know.
I’m not one either.
No, it would not be an “acknowledgement that TS is inferior”.
It would just be a way to get his message out on various Platforms and therefore reach more people.
Lordy, he used to be on several. FB, Twit, etc.
Now he’s gonna limit himself to just one?
And that ONE happens to be something you can’t even READ unless you sign up for it?
Ridiculous.
Hopefully, if Twit turns out OK, he’ll change his mind about this., cuz staying *exclusively* on TS is NOT an effective way to get his message out.
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Everyone who wants Trump’s message — including the major media — knows where to go.
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I don’t!
And I can’t read it even if I did know cuz I don’t “sign up” just to read stuff.
And apparently, none of the people who DO use TS and post here at CTH are re-posting any of his TS messages.
Here you go Sunny:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump
Just copy & paste into your browser…then bookmark for future viewing.
Thank you, Word!
Can’t read replies, which is a shame. But, whatever.
Yes…sorry.
My mistake…You do have to sign up for complete access.
What’s the problem with signing up to platforms which do not censor the truth? (Rumble & GETTR as well.) Back in the day (before the big purge in 2020) I learned more from social media than anywhere else – and shared those things.
We took THEIR technology and turned it back against them by exposing the truth.
I’m not saying everyone needs to become a digital soldier, but to me, having access to all information available is a prerequisite for being an informed Patriot.
I signed up to a Trump platform in 2016. I got three or four messages daily to donate on my phone. I finally go them to stop after several unsubscribes. Ya’ all may cotten to such intrusions. I get royally pissed off and despise those doing it. If I go shopping and a clerk pester me to “help” I will leave the store and not purchase what i came for. leave me alone thanks. I don’t want your help/marketing.
Trump is being a petulant brat about this. It is his Truth platform versus Twitter/Musk. His ego is all reared up. Dude needs to drop the ego trip. I watch those things come back to bite their owners arse hard in my years on this planet.
I took a look. PDJT doesn’t seem to have near the followers he did on twitster
That’s because Truth Social is a lousy platform. So is Parler.
Not all “low information” voters have access to or even know about Truth Social.
Yeah..and you have to sign up and give them your phone number to read replies. Bogus. That is not a free and open platform. It is a closed marketng gig.
He had 100 million followers on Twitter.
He has a lot fewer on TS.
If he’s running, he’ll be back on Twitter. His exposure on Truth Social is roughly 4 million; he had over 80 million followers on Twitter.
Given Elon’s musings about ad income for Twitter, I think Truth Social and Twitter can coexist in a mutually advantageous arrangement for both of them with Trump as a bridge. Musk and Trump are first and foremost businessmen who see opportunity and reach for it.
Yes.
It’s about getting the message out.
Not some silly “I like my Platform better than yours”.
Now, if 76 million of those “followers” were Bots, then he’d have a point. Otherwise……
I seriously doubt Twitter would permit bots for PDJT.
If anything they probably artificially reduced his numbers.
Agree. 45 should never go back to birdland. They need him far more than he needs them.
Then Trump will reach fewer people. That is just plain stupid.
They’ll come to him. He’s where the action is. He’ll never go back to birdland. Ain’t going to happen..and he will win. He will never backtrack, bow down and give in to the DS or birdland. I’m thankful for that. He’ll win with his rallies. Just like before.
Are you sure about that….before the morons banned him he drove a LOT of traffic on Twitter…..TRAFFIC = REVENUE
Oh I’m not sure of anything except death and taxes. You’re right, the folks at Twitter are morons and irrational. It’s hard to predict their actions. But numbers of followers was also a measure of influence and prestige, my guess is they didn’t want PDJT to appear any more popular than he was in reality.
Exactly
Yep, Shapiro (I know) tweeted yesterday his numbers have been increasing, 40k in a few hours
This sunnydaze. The folk around here casting shade and playing partisan platform games are just limiting their sides reach of the message they want to get out. But hey. I have been watching staunch conservatives shoot themselves in the testicles since Bush Jr scammed them with his compassionate conservative BS..
I’ve said this somewhere else on the thread so sorry to repeat –but I’m not seeing this mentioned:
There is legal liability for Trump if he goes over to Twitter should people abandon TruthSocial to instead follow him on Twitter.
In short if PDJT becomes active on Twitter and it hurts TruthSocial PDJT could be liable to a lawsuit from TS stockholders.
OK
DID he really?….how many were bots?..,…they go both ways you know
He will just repost his “truths” on Twitter I think.
Truth Social and Twitter will be in direct competition with one another. This is a good thing. A little fair competition will help keep both platforms honest, and help prevent them from running off and becoming extremest echo chambers.
Nothing is going to change much in my opinion. I personally don’t care for Truth Social. I don’t like the UI and I find engagement there difficult. I like the Twitter topics I’m in better but that’s just my take. That being said not thrilled about a moderation team I think that’s dumb. Intel is not going to release its grip on Twitter though I don’t think so I’m definitely a skeptic at this point
Carrier pigeons is the only way to go.
More protein.
A bit too gamey, though.
I like my smoke signals. Tho I will admit I lose some on a windy day….
Nothing worse than a windy smoke signal…
I personally don’t care for any social media sites, and have never joined one. Notice how more divided this country became ever since these sites came into existence.
Well said!
Not on any social media sites either. They are ALL peyton places aka gossip columns.
How can you assume to know about something you’ve never experienced?!
I’m not saying some riff raff or gossip doesn’t exist – but it’s all about choice. That’s why you have a block or mute button.
The meme is the MOST EFFECTIVE tool of communication in this century.
The richest aspect of social media is we took their tools, used them to expose the truth and turned it back against them. Very effective until 2020 when heavy censorship clamped down.
Social media has been the best means to communicate throughout this information war, and is the floor for the Great Awakening.
But Satan loves how these sites allow people to center their entire worlds on me, myself, and I. You think the new “content moderator council” would tolerate any serious Biblical exposition? Or, for that matter, any genuine faith-based discussions about any religion? HA. Not likely.
Sounds like yer channeling the the old goats wishes. It cannot be a properly formed prognostication as there is nil proofs of your statements extant.
Agreed.
That’s why Trump is not going back to Twitter, in as much as he created Truth Social.
I think we should just wait and watch Elon for a little while.
Sundance, did President Trump actually just say today (10/28/22) that he wasn’t returning to Twitter? The article shows a posting from Truth Social but I didn’t see him say he wasn’t returning. But I do remember he did say that a few months ago.
Yes. He did say that today. I don’t remember in what format he posted it.
Zero reason for Trump to return. He’s got better fish to fry.
100 million followers on Twitter vs 4 million on Truth Social
Math is hard.
You can bet the 4th branch has their back door secured no matter what.
Twatter creating a “Council” to regulate will not be much different then what twatter was.
If Elon doesn’t release the truth about who was actually using (forcing) the shutting down of free speech it will continue to be a dead duck
Rob Reiner IS a meathead.
John Rich
Funny
He is “THE” meathead, nobody before or since even comes close.
He was the only one on that show not acting 🤣🤣
Apparently, he wasn’t acting.
~So left he’s gone.
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Calling someone a criminal who is not a criminal is defamation.
Defamation is not First Amendment protected speech.
Why isn’t Reiner being bounced.
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Right, where’s the fbi on this?
Not much has changed and I have very low expectations.
I remember when they were running the promos for the all-new sitcom, and even though I was only a teenager at the time, it looked interesting enough that I gave it a shot. I’ll admit I was quickly hooked, and rarely missed an episode. I still think the majority of them were really good. But little by little, over the years I’ve started to regret that, especially where Reiner is concerned. Because I know that in my small way I helped build his fame and fortune (as did millions of others)… and for that I feel awful.
His father was funny and talented…. and quite a success.
That opened doors for his son.
Rob was so obnoxious as meathead, who would have thought it was Rob being himself?
All In The Family was a classic sitcom; progressive for its time.
~ Don’t live in regret.
He did do Spinal Tap though. Lol
And Stand by Me. I thought that was a great flick. And, Princess Bride — so somewhere in there was some good. It’s just diminished as he has gotten older and the leftist/angry/holier-than-thou part has totally taken over.
Don’t. Reiner never went much further than being Meathead, personally and professionally…
Ahhh fatso rob reiner, the most irrelevant slob in the US. Hey robby, try a diet blubber brain
Reiner is a close second to Michael Moore, the king of overweight maroons.
Rob says (The question for all of us is) LOL. There’s no all of us there’s just you Rob .
John Rich, touche!
Reiner is also a very ignorant man. No one could be more of an insider in the entertainment industry than Rob, yet he claimed to no nothing of Harvey Weinstein, because he never worked with him.
Did he ever work with Donald Trump? No.
He literally should try minding his own business before he shoots his mouth off against the man whom over 75 million Americans love and support.
I think he’s just being diplomatic, and placating the leftist crazies. The council will be a fig leaf. He’s not interested in shadowbanning and censoring people. His opposition to those things drove him to overpay. I think he is serious about the free speech, it’s just that one side doesn’t think that banning all speech from the other side is problematic or offensive. They need to be re-educated that free speech is laudable, not scary. At the same time, of course, the whip hand needs to remind liberals that all we have to do is take the reins they created and declare THEIR speech to be misinformation, and deplatform THEM. Thanks to Elon, this is now an option.
FWIW…
(idk if accurate, but certainly possible)
Corporate raider.another way fkeecing raxpayers money
My experience at Twitter since Jan.2021. I expressed interest on Twitter in attending the Trump rally on Jan.6.Basically just indicating I would like to go. All the while knowing that wasn’t going to happen as I help care for our Down Syndrome grandson and was doing Zoom classes with him during the school lockdown. After Jan.6 My account was locked .No reason given . Twitter asked me to verify and when I attempted to do so using the phone number I had opened my account with years before,was told that number is unsupported. It is a landline.I don’t use a cell phone.It took and still does with every lockdown several appeals to reason ,by me in emails,to get my account unlocked using the telephone number I opened the account with.They want a cell phone number.
There could be non nefarious reasons I suppose but….😒
I love her – but – shouldn’t she wait until she wins the election
before making deals as governor? Yeah, I know it is a joke, but
I was taught not to count one’s chickens before they hatch.
President Trump doesn’t have to return to Twitter, but Elon MUST reinstate him.
More importantly, will President Trump’s Truth Social account Truths be enabled to be retweeted on Twitter?
winning!
Moderation council, eh? That was a lot of coin to lay down to just go on with business as usual, Elon!
Really should be a Constitutional First Amendment Review Board.
US Constitituion.
Yes, I assume others actually know that. Maybe not any more.
At Twitter?
With Elon…
Don’t all sites have moderators? I know it sounds ominous, but we will see how it works in practice.
Trump won’t come on Twitter. But that doesn’t mean his future official campaign won’t!
GMTA!
If TS is such a great Platform, then why do we almost never see his TS posts here on CTH?
Serious question.
When he was on Twit, we saw his messages all the time.
You can find Trumps TS posts in the Presidential thread.
But cannot read replies so the whole premise behind the social media format is hobbled unless you give up a cell phone number stored on insecure clouds. This is not the definition of an open platform. Demanding a cell phone number is for tracking of one kind or another.
I love TS. I don’t post TS here b/c it doesn’t post the text, just the link, and many won’t click on links.
You have repeatedly criticized TS, yet say you aren’t on TS. Isn’t that what woke libtards do?
I surprised at you, sd. By now, doesn’t the FIB already have your cel number?
I don’t sign up for sh*t and never have. No FB, No Twit, No Nothing.
If the Platforms allow reading, that’s all I do.
But see, why hasn’t TS figured out a way to allow people to “share” the TS post r/t just the link.
This is VALID constructive criticism>>> if they want the Platform to grow.
If they don’t care, then just leave it in the lame state it’s currently in.
But, I would prefer they do all they can to expand readership.
It’s actually a very pleasant and uplifting place to spend some time.
Like everything thing 45 has done since ‘15, he’s had to do it with one hand tied behind his back. Google just let TS on, Android, and then TS is still fighting SEC, or maybe they have filed suit.
But the platform runs well. I like it.
I am also ok with the TS platform. Most of these complainers have absolutely no clue how much time and massive expense went into developing Twitter over many years before it became the app it is today. Most if not all of the cost was paid by the government (taxpayers). From its beginning in 2006 Up until 2017 it only could handle 140 characters per tweet. Then in 2017 it doubled to 280 chars.
Truth Social is privately funded and was just stood up this past spring after only about two years development. It’s a far better app after 8 months than Twitter was for a decade. In time TS will improve even more. .
Thank you for that elegant reply and explanation GB.
Truth Social is such a breath of fresh air.
I can replicate twitter with a wordpress plugin and a cloud account. It ain’t IT sorcery.
I agree GB. TS has accomplished so much in so little time. A far greater accomplishment than birdland. It can only improve, particularly re: that SEC crap. I think TS filed suit or is going to against SEC. All in due time, everything 45 touches turns to gold.
👍 👍
And I don’t even have a cell phone. Hate ’em.
You can still get a classic old landline, not an internet phone? Jealous.
said with a 🙂
you are not in the game so why do you care so much?
I’m not on any social media but do spend some time on Twitter, it’s the only one that allows access without having an account (albeit they’ve made it more difficult). I’ll admit I enjoyed it today. Babylon Bee & Jordan Peterson were two that I saw who were freed, along with some of the meme warriors. Catturd might be the first unverified account to hit 1M followers. Lots of lib meltdowns. It was entertaining.
Will be interesting to watch.
Much of Gab can be read without an account.
Yes. Gab was great when it 1st started and followed the Twit Platform of allowing people to read replies.
Then it stopped it for a while and lost readers. Lost me at that time.
By the time they started it back up, I think some damage had been done. Too many new Platforms had started up and people kind of “forgot ” about them. I know I did.
It’s a shame.
I tried Gab a few years back but it was full of rabid foul mouthed morons and I didn’t return. Then after the Twitter purge Gab got real popular and a lot of big names appeared there. But I never liked their interface.
I’m hoping w/ the Musk Takeover, Twit will go back to just allowing people to read w/o the constant “sign in” notifications.
I mean, it’s easy enough to get past ’em, but it sure was nice when they were not there at all.
I am with you on this. I do not belong to any SM platform. I often read what is linked f allowed. I will not follow TS links because there is nothing there for me except a screen that tells me to sign up to read stuff. Homey don’t play that. If the twitter link does not play the video on the web page it was inserted at i will never see the video as i won’t go to the site and sign up.
When the animosity, and anger is stripped away from Twitter, there’s an opportunity for the freedom platforms to unite together AGAINST Google and Apple. A sort of merger between Rumble, Truth and Twitter could very easily be on the horizon. A sort of interoperability between them as a means to encourage the most open, the biggest public square possible.
The public has been dragged through a very belligerent 6 years on social media by leftist tyrants using the platform to exact both political and cultural retribution and speech control.
If that begins to change, then realities and avenues open up we never dreamed of.
I’d say, let’s go the opposite direction. Let’s keep growing diverse and newly emerging platforms.
Decentralized platforms offer better protection for long-term free speech as it is harder for the government to control and more challenging for the marxists and globalists to infiltrate than a single, big interoperable platform.
Twitter and Facebook taught us what happens eventually to free speech when we are all relying on the same mega platform space, vulnerable to the distates of those in charge of our only venue for communication.
The left fears all the newly emerging alternatives because it is a harder nut to crack in achieving complete control of the desired views and narratives.
dictates not distates (those sticky keys again)
No worries, because I distaste dictates! 🙂
GETTR has a feature that allows its users to cross-post to Twitter. So anything is possible… 🤷♀️
Like a social media BRICS
Most likely Musk will still be the ultimate decision maker above this council for high profile issues and people. Acknowledged or not. And however they structure the hierarchy of powers and designate titles he would be the final arbiter if necessary.. But for day to day mundane disputes this council can probably handle things.
You would think they will come out with explicit guidelines and rules soon and give things a test run. Depending on how it goes adjustments will be made along the way. Provocations will challenge the system.
It is naive to expect everything to run smoothly at first. And disgruntled workers and activists will conduct gorilla type attacks. Including the dubious government agencies. Amplified by crtiques from competitors and the MSM.
The real big question is how the swamp deals with an iconoclastic multi billionaire with independent ideas. And how much if any compromise and accommodation ensues.
When the establishment found out Trump couldn’t be dissuaded or intimidated the horror show accelerated at warp speed. Musk isn’t as existential a threat, not running for office. And he has conducted himself within the boundaries, although straying more towards the fringes of acceptability. But if he unleashes more of a tidal wave of free thought and expression he will be dealt with one way or another.
I’ve read stories that the Twitter engineers have been locked out of making code changes while Tesla engineers are reviewing the code to tell Musk what it does.
I’ll trust it when people are let back on and don’t get suspended for being conservatives.
I do like that Cat Turd updated his Twitter bio to say Chief Turd.
Lock-outs are standard practice in mergers. No one is more dangerous to a company than insiders.
It has not yet been 48 hours … “Patience, Padewan!”
Thanks. We really do need to just simmer down and see how this progresses.
This is what we get for ever believing in a “free” “Internet”, which was, of course, invented by AlGore.
You get what you pay for!
I just noticed today I can now log into my old account. I hadn’t been on there since a little over 2 years ago. I wasn’t outright banned; I was suspended, and any time I tried to log in it asked me for my phone number and said they’d send me a code to restart the account (after declaring I had rehabilitated myself, of course). But that never worked even though I tried numerous times since then. Not sure if it was a glitch, or if it was just their cute way of saying “Oops, looks like you’re STILL suspended.” By the way, what got me suspended was asking where were the Korean shop owners when we need them (during the BLM/Antifa riots). Yep, THAT is what got me suspended.
So anyway, with all the recent news I decided today to see if anything had change. And sure enough… without me having to do a thing, I got logged into my account as if nothing had ever happened. So thank you, Elon… though I’m still not at all sure I WANT to be back on there.
Censorship > “Twitter Freed” > Moderation Council
That was quick.
I may be wrong, but I suspect Musk is gonna make it so a person has to work really hard to get banned or suspended. It’s gonna take like literally calling for people to meet at a certain place and time, armed and ready to go hunt down [whoever]. Or posting horrendous, totally valueless “entertainment” videos, say something like the “crushing” stuff that was going on a few years ago.* I really think it’s gonna take something very, very extreme before the Ban Hammer is activated.
(* And which, by the way, a guy named Donald Trump pushed to make it a federal crime.)
how about the “I make hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in my underwear in
my mother’s basement”…..could we ban those ads everywhere?
Just what Devin said!
blob:https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2f801e7a-adb2-4d49-9d76-7058900a12ac
Good to know! (Tried the link but it didn’t work for me. )
Truth social ONLY. GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP!
twatter/musk would need to prove alot. Still would never join. Nothing but peyton place in my opinion,…. NO thanks.
Amen!
Love TS. Never did nor ever will joint birdland.
Musk wiill bend the knee for corp wokiesm. Rather stay in TS.
Sure he will. Because he has been trolling them all this time. Why all the stooping to this low level gray lie BS?
In do not engage in public discourse on Twitter ever since I realized they censored. However, just tonight I was monitoring tweets simply to follow the ongoing high school football scores. That’s just one example of how ubiquitous Twitter is. Can TS or any other platform ever rise to match that? How?
Said it several times. I don’t trust Elon. I don’t know his end game, but conservatives have a pattern at jumping at any bone we’re thrown. I quit jumping, long ago.
I’m glad Musk bought Twitter, but the fat lady hasn’t sung.
No way 45 was going to jump on that band wagon again. His mamma didn’t raise no fool.
He’s in the fight for the long haul. I think Truth Social will win the day.
Yah. When Musk finds out what he really bought — sans bots and gubmint in tow — and all that comes to light…
Musk sure likes gubmimt $$$.
I don’t trust Trump. He locked me down, destroyed my just becoming successful business, allowed the clot shot to be used. Wrote authorization EO for it in September 2019. Allowed them to cut off family from dying ones. He sees Truth Social as a marketing platform and hence his friction with Musk. If he was wishing to get the MAGA message out he would use any and every platform. This is gonna backfire on him.
I trust President Trump!! He is fighting the corrupt government(s) at all levels!!
Musk is tied into us govt with his space x program government monies – also, who are the foreign offshore $$ billion’s coming from??!!
A moderation committee??!! Really, and selected – handpicked by who or whom??!!
Could that gubmnt agency in charge under Musk be Space Force? If indeed there is some connection. I know folks who have worked for SpaceX. They were much more the 4chan types than NASA/CIA/DIA types. Now, wouldn’t it be fun if the mods shut down the ISIS type accounts, child porn and trafficking accounts and BLM shills calling to kill whitey..ya know..stuff that generally piss off and/or enslave real humans and is a non-partisan issue. Musk has not proven to me he is an adversary and I will not cast aspersions based on faulty hearsay and gossipmongering. He appears to be an ally and I would be loathe to dismiss what may be a very important contribution by parroting the MSNBC crew about how dangerous this guy is because he is not totally partisan to one ideology. PTrump has harmed me by allowing them to lock me down. I will currently give him the benefit of the doubt until I am sure all the facts are on the table. MSNBC liked me being locked down. What is not right about these sets of facts?
Knowing this was coming for months there’s no way the Leftists at Twitter didn’t prepare. Even worse is that thousands of them will remain.
Twitter was worth about $500M in free advertising in 2015. He’ll be back.
Harmeet Dhillon on Tucker tonight observed that “people are policy” with respect to Musk’s hires at Twitter from this point on.
It’s a highly significant point. I’ve loved to lampoon POTATUS’ cabinet and secondary/tertiary officials (who doesn’t?), but the “people are policy” argument corrects that. The Potato in Chief and his handlers have surrounded themselves with minions trusted to carry out finely-honed policies and political agendas.
So the Cabinet of Clowns is actually so constituted for a reason.
Given the despicable way P Trump was treated by most CBC brainwashed Canadians and the entire MS media, it is not surprising that Canadians are still not able to sign up to Truth Social.
If Canucks are given the opportunity, Trudeau would likely reimplement the Emergency Act and ban Truth Social. It is possible given his anti Trump spite and effusive Biden support.
The new increasingly disappointing Conservative party leader would likely remain mute as he is on the most controversial issues like “Climate Change.” Canada desperately needs a Trump or a Lake.
I don’t think any large social media platform can sneeze without the ok from CIA and the so called intelligence agencies.
Twitter permanently banned TENS OF MILLIONS of people just by being pro Trump . Musk needs to completely rip it down and start over.
Methinks he is way ahead of you on this curve.
Musk’s most urgent job right now is fending off any advertiser boycott. We can already see that coming. GM said it was pulling ads from the platform expressing concern over unregulated content. Of course GM doesn’t want to give money to a competitor but how long before other big advertisers like Coke, Nike, McDonalds etc. boycott the platform citing “extremist” content?
This is why Musk emphasized that there is no change in moderation policies. He has to do this so that advertisers don’t get scared off but also he doesn’t want Twitter to turn into what he called a “hell scape”. Every successful online forum needs some degree of moderation or people just get out of hand and the destroy the value of the forum. It’s a very delicate balance.
Cannot have a “free speech platform” if advertisers willing do the bidding of the State to force censorship.
Advertisers aren’t scared off. They’re flexing their bloated and fake wokism. If they boycott twitter, I boycott them.
Take it to the bank that the NEW content moderation panel will STILL end up being 100% hard left communists who insist they’re pro Trump and conservatives just to get selected and than they will moderate as they always have .
It will be a miracle if anything changes.
I agree that very little will change.
The sky is falling..the sky is falling! Nothing will ever change. We are screwed. There is no hope! We are forever doomed.
Posted 10/28/2022 by the “interesting and insightful” Manuel on his site Strange Sounds; insights to think about on Elon Musk and the WEF. It’s tough when I disagree with someone I like whose brilliance makes me laugh.
https://open.substack.com/pub/strangesounds/p/elon-musk-walked-into-twitter-hq?r=m4rz8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Sorry I don’t know this, but who exactly is Musk buying Twitter from?
The stockholders.
What could be the case (Law of Parsimony suggests) is that Musk is trying to placate the advertisers. On my Twitter feed, the “stop advertizing on Twitter posts” were quite numerous since Thursday.
James Corbett, from the Corbett Report, does a great deep dive into Musk. Everything Musk does is, in some way, attached to the US government. He’s not a good guy.
OK. US guv all bad. Yet ya’ all are gonna go and vote the next version of it in..or at least it’s political frontmen. Is this some form of insanity because he parts don’t fit together well when logic is applied. Everything Trump has accomplished has financing from banksters and Khazarian Mafia.. ergo he is utterly controlled and beholden to them. See how that works when you just willy nilly apply themes based on assumptions?
Khazarian Mafia.?
Who the hell are they?
Here we go. Internet BS regarding ‘Khazarian Mafia’. Ever look this up legitimately? Of course not. Khazars were Turks who converted to Jews, and basically disappeared around 1079….only to be reborn again on the internet.
Agreed. And I think Musk is owned by CCP
I agree, Sundance. And #45 is smart enough to avoid going back. I wish Mr Musk well if his intentions are wholesome, but as you say, do we really, and CAN we really ever know?
Trump should return to Twitter and continually post “Come see what I’m saying of Truth Social” and post a link.
…other t w it s can already mention truth on t w I t
( maybe?)
( or is the truth on t w i t
a litmus test on the level of t w I t un-moderation / censoring / misinformation miss labeling )?
Twitter is still a sewer of the left, Gettr is much better, and continues to improve.
Glad to hear Gettr is doing well. Hope Twitter changes do not end up shrinking, closing all the great alternative platforms. Would hate to see everyone pile back on to Twitter and abandon Rumble, Gettr, locals, Substack, Gab, Truth Social.
These alternative gems are our defensive rampart against leftist control. The left would love it if the outcome of Elon’s Twitter takeover is the elimination of Twitter alternatives leaving us entirely depend ent once agan on one massive platform. One ring to rule them all or something like that.