Having an account on X supports this shit whether you like it or not it.
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Elon hasn't said a word, but we will.
Fucking emerald spoon clown.
That is the most accurate description for him. Zero notes, pitch perfect.
Fuck you rocket Kiko hahah
I'm so down to calling him Kiko from here on out.
Thanks to Brazil for making this possible!
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Just you wait til Rocket Kiko knows about that and tells everything to his mom! As soon as he's done crying on the corner...
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Brazil didn't shut down "X". They did it themselves so X wouldn't have a Brazilian entity subject to Brazilian court orders. That is why Starlink got caught in the mess.
- Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
- Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts
Gotta say, this is new information to me. I’ve briefly looked at the stories and the banning of twitter, but I never realized this was entirely because Elon wouldn’t ban accounts as he does for right wing government.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy
Hot take!
I mean it genuinely is because of the "kinda" and "seems"
"Elon is a shitty guy" is one of the coldest takes out there at this point
Elon should have received additional fines for his taunts and threats, honestly.
But remember kids, he's some sort of business and tech genius!
The real life inspiration for super genius Cave Johnson from Portal.
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Local press and lots of people in Brazil criticize judges because, due to flaws on local laws and 80's redemocratization efforts, they have some perks, privileges and exceptional powers no democratic country would give to them. There are cases ranging from content showing them traveling overseas being not visible on local internet and TV people being given cease-and-desist orders for disagreeing with some judge decision, to people being detained by Federal Police agents for criticizing justice system inside a plane that happens to have a judge among the passengers - not to mention those FBI agents detained at Rio de Janeiro airport for containing a judge's wife who got unruly in a plane for drinking too much during the fly.
This time however he asked for it, and our justice system toke the right decisions. Elon Musk should know how ridiculously overpowered our judges are before acting like that.
they have some perks, privileges and exceptional powers no democratic country would give to them
wait until you learn about the supreme court in the USA
He acts literally like a fucking toddler.
Perhaps even a toddler in a tantrum.
Now that's just kind of rude toward toddlers. He acts like what he is... a Ketamine addled, narcissistic billionaire, who got lucky in life and thinks he crafted his own destiny all by his own hands.
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uuh, new users for the fediverse. looking forward to y'all ;-)
Twitter is now removing the block function next. It ought to bleed users like crazy.
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Because he is a bitch.
Why, oh, why, Bluesky and not Mastodon
Because outside of the Fediverse, literally no one has heard of Mastodon. No one has heard of the Fediverse either.
Mastodon has more users than Bluesky. (I fear it won't stay like that for a long time anymore though as Bluesky has a bigger growth rate.)
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Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.
Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.
I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.
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Mastodon has serious UX problems that even other federated networks don't have. I'm pretty well tech literate and love Lemmy, for instance, but I just couldn't ever get Mastodon to stick for me, like it just didn't have the right feel and wasn't fun to use. And if it's not working for me then it's never going to take off with a more general audience.
Bluesky is a lot better. It still has some issues that I feel keep it from fully replacing Twitter, especially Twitter before Elon screwed it up. But it does manage to keep me checking it, even though it's probably only once or twice a week max.
Cause all the Linux people, FOSS people, and communists are already here.
I think one of the biggest reasons is that the Fediverse is often a pain to get into and sometimes a pain to use.
Bluesky and Threads "just work."
Some people say it's marketing and in Threads' case I can believe it, but I haven't seen any example of large marketing campaign by Bluesky.
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He wants Twix to be Truth Social, but also profitable, and doesn't understand why he can't have it both ways.
Back in late 2022 I was in an argument with my (adult) nephew about how the government isn't limiting free speech on Twitter. I was explaining how "the free market" is deciding whether Elon will sink or swim. He just could not understand how the government -wasn't- responsible.
....idfk
(Yes, there were some Governmental take down requests, but none of them seemed very sus to me)
I had a similar discussion with some people at a barber shop back when Pre-Elon Twitter banned Trump. They were complaining about free speech and I asked if they knew what it actually meant (in the US). When I explained that we are ONLY guaranteed free speech from the gov't, and that Twitter was a private business and could ban whoever they want, the same way this barber shop could tell someone not to ever come back everyone got real quiet like "oh shit I have to rethink my whole world view". I actually got thanked at another time by one employee for telling them how it actually works.
That's dope. It's rare to get through to people like that.
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I still prefer to refer to him as “Leon.”
In South Africa, we call him Melon Husk.
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I wish I had his problems.
It beggars belief, how one who grew up in the abject lap of luxury, surrounded by prolific and successful businesspeople that negotiate billion dollar deals for a living, how that child grew up to be one of the most illiterate fools on Earth when it comes to economics and business administration. It just further reinforces my belief that the $22B he took from MBS for the purchase of Twitter was part of a larger plot to destroy its reputation and make it unusable for any would be revolutionary group to use to organize. Like, assume for a second that he ran his mouth and then was forced to buy Twitter (as the popular narrative goes). Why would MBS be cool with giving Elon $22 BILLION for his fuckup?
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