General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread

[Adeptus Astartes]

Lots of people won't want to push the bullshyt they're pushing under their own name.

Let me introduce you to Facebook.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

Let me introduce you to Facebook.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Let me introduce you to Facebook.

Lots of people being willing to push shyt under their own name doesn't mean there aren't lots of other people who aren't. Didn't that "Libs of TikTok" person just make a big deal about being "doxxed" last week?

 

[JJ Lions]

Yeah, removing anonymity could be a big silver lining in this whole thing. Obviously the bot farms will find a way around it, but if the usual suspects want to call this a town square, let’s authenticate the real everyday users. Lets see if they are willing to talk that reckless shyt when it hiding behind usernames.

Those are 2 different things, authenticating and posting under real names. If this forum did that, it would die.

"There is a total of 1.3 billion Twitter accounts, but only 330 million are active users."

Would they have to go back and authenticate already existing accounts? 1.3 billion accounts/330 million active users. That would be quite an undertaking. Numbers would drop. Would Twitter be willing to do that, knowing advertisers like big numbers.

Now, Twitter might try to authenticate beyond clicking a link in an email to activate.

Real names tho are death to social media. If Twitter did that, it could kill them. I don't see that happening at all. Maybe some sort of authentication, and then letting you pick what name you want to post under. Using real names opens yourself up to harassment, identify theft, other problems.

A "Clear Name Internet" is a dangerous place: Why anonymity matters.

A "Clear Name Internet" is a dangerous place: Why anonymity matters.

 

[the cac mamba]

Chances are high he's going to regret this acquisition.

doesnt he have to liquidate a fukk ton of tesla stock to do this, and realize a ton of gains?

bernie must be licking his chops

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

if he does all these things it will kill the total number of registered users they claim to have.

Why?

This will literally be free advertising to Telsa and his other businesses. Just like how Jeff Bezos used the Washington Post when they were looking for a new headquarters location.

 

[thatrapsfan]

believe that South Africkan cac if you want… Mofos still waiting for the Tesla cyber truck/Tesla semi/ and boring company tunnel in Vegas lmaoo

Actually you got it twisted the claim he’s making that is less believable is the one about creating a platform with absolute free speech. The press release shows where the reality will likely fall.

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

This is going to be his first bad investment that flops

 

[Propaganda]

looks like the right is celebrating hard over this. what am i missing here? why are they suddenly idolizing this guy as some hero of free-speech?

 

[hashmander]

Why?

because if you eliminate bots that's like 10-20% of their registered user base. then the whole authenticating all humans will lead to another 10% or so saying nah.

 

[Payday23]

This dude talking about free speech today but was just complaining about woke or something last week. He aint fooling me. I remember how he acted like a straight hoe when the people got stuck in the cave and he failed at being the white savior.

He bought Twitter because of his ego more than anything. He's insecure little man

 

[Payday23]

looks like the right is celebrating hard over this. what am i missing here? why are they suddenly idolizing this guy as some hero of free-speech?

"Free speech" means they can be racist without consequences

 

[Payday23]

25.5b loan @ 5.5%

 

[Pressure]

Clearly he and his backers want to unban Trump and push for more economic neoliberalism.

They haven't been able to amplify disinformation as well and that harms the bottom line. Twitter is a cesspool and will continue to be so. Let's see if folks outraged will divest.

 

[jj23]

Clearly he and his backers want to unban Trump and push for more economic neoliberalism.

They haven't been able to amplify disinformation as well and that harms the bottom line. Twitter is a cesspool and will continue to be so. Let's see if folks outraged will divest.

In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how that backfired on the misinformation front,, that's an important point to note.

Nothing is a coincidence.