what does the success or failure of twitter have to do with free speech? Speech on the internet was way more free and open pre-twitter/pre-2009.

Twitter has done more to circumscribe speech than to free it.

you're offering me a chance to go back to the internet pre-twitter? before 2009? Hell yeah,

Twitter still has some usefulness:




why the heck would I give up twitter as long as Elon's mom is footing the bill for the bandwidth and server space? Shit's expensive AF. Keep paying for it, Ma(ye) Musk, and I'll keep using it.

I doubt it lasts much longer at this rate,



that doesn't inspire belief that Elon and his Momma can make government better or more efficient. Unless by more efficient they mean the rate at which the Musk family shovels taxpayer dollars into their accounts.


Elon's mother looks like a no-nonsense type who will indulge her baby boy having his twitter toy for a minute (or $40 million), but eventually she'll have to take it away, before it goes completely away

As a non tweeter it’s hilarious. The whole left world is so burnt they could not even say X. Now that Trump won they will bail. Lol

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And that’s great content.

Watching a grown man playing a racket sport getting kicked in the face for celebrating like a 1st grader is pure entertainment.

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Appreciate getting the money shot up front and then they go back and show us how it got to that point.
Otherwise no way I'm watching a 40 second pickleball video.

It’s been great for 10 second clips showing how non-functional Joe Biden has been for 4 years .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Okay, fine. But it seems basically the same to me pre and post the Musk purchase.

I assume the people who are howling that it is suddenly terrible dislike the fact that I can now go on there and tell the truth about a man being a man without being reprimanded or having my account shut down.

People aren't fleeing to Bluesky because Musk has prevented them from expressing their thoughts. They're fleeing because people with opposing viewpoints are now allowed to express theirs.

Why are Rats so terrified of opposing viewpoints?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

The promise of a free Internet was gone long before 2009. I remember how wild it was in the 90s. You could find all manner of weird and interesting shit. Then, for whatever reason, people decided they preferred their Internet experience under the auspices of a few giant overlords.

AOL was an early overlord. I remember futilely attempting to explain to a business partner that he didn't need to open AOL to use the Internet.

Anyway, I think there has to be some content moderation lest a site is rendered unusable. But when content moderation slides into censorship along political lines, a site is no longer a platform, but is instead a publisher. And it should lose all its platform protections.

I don't think there's any doubt that pre-Musk Twitter was being censored along political lines.

As an aside, we've been accused of censoring CFMB along political lines. That is clearly patently absurd when the guy doing the complaining averages more posts per day than anyone.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

What is this Blue Sky? Isn't it just a libtards cry about the election site?

Why are magahats so obsessed with Blue Sky? Blue Sky! Blue Sky! Blue Sky! Ay yi yi.

I've never seen this Blue Sky or Blue Cry site except for that screenshot JORR just provided; which I assume is from Blue Sky? It could be from twitter too. I dunno.

If y'all so obsessed with Blue Sky, why don't you marry it.

Y'all apparently spend more time on blue sky than twitter these days.

Do you have accounts? How is it? I might check it out but I doubt I ever will.

I'm not a blue sky or blue cry or or threads or even mastodon person. You can't follow goings on with sports teams on those other platforms (afaik). So twitter it is.

Musk basically became Trump's second running mate in this election and is joining his cabinet. It's not shocking that people that don't like Trump would seek to also not support his closest allies.

I agree that twitter has always been pretty bad. Social media is a curse on society.

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Yes, the increase in censorship has progressed with the centralization of internet spaces. Facebook started the trend of everyone visiting one site every day. Twitter came along and ramped up/ further centralized our source of information and provided a public space for calling out and cancelling people; really taking off after 2015 with MeToo and then 2016-2017 with the reaction to the 2016 election result.

It improved in recent years but, yes, it seems to have gone to shirt with the surfeit of useless noise about stupid conspiracies, chiner bots and spam thots.

Wow some novel takes here! Social media is bad? You guys come with that all by yourselves?

as far as Musk driving twitter into a ditch, if you had $100,000 in twitter stock in October 2022, it would be worth $21,000 today, 2 shorts years later:



If that's not driving a company into the ground, then I don't know what is.

Uh oh if it keeps going like this Elon might have to pick up more shifts at the plant.

Nah, Elon will just go to Mama Musk and ask for another loan to keep the twitter bandwidth and storage bills paid.


Please, please Mama Musk, don't let twitter go dark. If you don't wanna pay for Elon's hobby site anymore, sell it to someone else. We need to keep twitter around to find out the scoop on who is playing in games and for those awesome pickleball fight videos.

There are a lot of people that disagree with the idea that social media is a curse on society.

You could have just agreed with me though.

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Who? Have you actually talked to somebody who isn’t fed up with Big Tech?

Of course on the computer there are plenty of “people” lined up to defend them. You can make your own mind about whether these people are actually real or not.

Yes. I know plenty of people that use social media all the time though I guess the line between addiction and enjoyment is pretty close.

I mean, it happened on this site by people who seem to be real.

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“ harmful content” . You mean …..words ?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I'm pretty sure it isn't Trump voters who are obsessed with Bluesky.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

The Rats are the Conservatives now.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

"man eff this AOL MAGA shit, i'm going over to CompuServe! outie 3,000 peeps."

Yeah. They made Trump Social worth 15 billion dollars.

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No. They went to Truth Social after the last election when they were mad at Twitter.

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Well if they’re all over at Truth Social then why is Twitter such a “hellscape“ that liberals have to leave?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

BECAUSE MUSK!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

Going by this thread, you would think it is only trump supporters.

If you're not obsessed with it, then why do you keep posting about it?

You're posting about it more than anyone. Are you obsessed?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

search of post history, in general or this thread, says: that's a lie.

nice try, tho

He's obsessed with Musk's mom.