Hacker called Doomed delights as First Amendment debate stokes chaos on Twitter.
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Twitter suspended journalist for reporting on Matt Walsh’s hacked materials
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When you’re desperate to show that people want your product, give it away to celebrities … without even telling the celebrities you’re doing it. It’s right out of the Bowfinger school of celebrity endorsements.
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Not only that, the "your kid should be able to help you with your computer" stopped being a thing like a decade ago.
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Snarky Robot
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As I have said in other Twitter-related threads, I have some gift subs and I'm willing to give one to anyone who has left Twitter since the Musk drama began. I have some Pro and Pro++ subs still remaining. It's mostly first come first serve for the ++ ones. Just PM me (don't post in thread, I might not read it) something showing you left, and you'll get a year's subscription, until I run out. I'm obviously going to do some basic due diligence (gee, that seems relevant) and try to not give them to throw-away accounts, but this isn't going to be a rigorous evaluation. If you leave now to get the free sub, so much the better. If there's enough interest in this, I may buy another batch, but no promises on that front.
So, yeah. Money where my mouth is and all that. Ditch Twitter, show me proof, and get an Ars sub. Simple as that.
So, yeah. Money where my mouth is and all that. Ditch Twitter, show me proof, and get an Ars sub. Simple as that.
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enlightened.doggo
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Pretty bearish news for Twitter that rando far right bloggers are being treated like celebrity users. I still have no clue who the fuck this guy is.
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I hear Twitter is filming a TV commercial with Eddie Murphy. Here’s the BTS of the film crew at work:
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6yFlIQxp8g
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Why should any high profile person pay knowing that Musk will foot the bill? How far down the line does this go? Seems like a crack in the payment dam that will only grow.
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Matt Walsh is one of those anti trans « activists ». The kind of far right hate spewing morons that Musk is cultivating in his quest to…turn Twitter into Parler V2?
Twitter is dead. Time to move on. Likely to Mastodon for now, until a better option gains traction.
Twitter is dead. Time to move on. Likely to Mastodon for now, until a better option gains traction.
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I'm sort of surprised Wired (and related publications) didn't proactively suspend activity on Twitter in response.
We're rapidly approaching the point where there little benefit to major corporate media for helping prop up this increasingly bizarre little fiefdom ... and a growing real moral hazard to actively participating as journalists on a platform openly suppressing/manipulating a free press.
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From the article: "I literally only wanted his Twitter account to make stupid tweets,” Doomed told Wired. “And it worked, both sides are arguing over it."
This is too neutral or tame of a statement for an actual hacker bent on chaos. This is someone trying to chicken out of a hack and using Wired as a means to defuse a potentially nasty legal situation.
This is too neutral or tame of a statement for an actual hacker bent on chaos. This is someone trying to chicken out of a hack and using Wired as a means to defuse a potentially nasty legal situation.
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The point is that Musk is a lying liar who lies all the f@#$ing time (he's not even consistent within a single day), especially about the things he claims to value most (Free Speech), since he will happily violate those in an instant if it ends up being something he disagrees with.
Just to make it super clear for you:
- He repeatedly goes on an on about how Free Speech is what he values, maybe most, and that he's Free Speech's greatest champion. He supposedly bought Twitter to restore Free Speech to it (more lies, but it's what he's going with).
- The very next day (or same day even) after he goes on about how Twitter is all about free speech he will censor more people who disagree with him. While he unbans white supremacists, so I guess it all works out?
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Weird that when it comes to Hunter Bidens laptop, the policy seems to be “publish links to everything and make stuff up”.
Should probably take the hint about Twitter being an enemy of free press, but Matt Walsh sure is making a lot of loud and easily disproven disparaging statements, it’s going to be fun to watch him lose again.
Should probably take the hint about Twitter being an enemy of free press, but Matt Walsh sure is making a lot of loud and easily disproven disparaging statements, it’s going to be fun to watch him lose again.
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Do you think this journalist would have been banned from Twitter had he done exactly the same thing, except with a left-wing/progressive personality in the place of Matt Walsh?
I'd not be taking that bet, personally.
I'd not be taking that bet, personally.
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What makes you think he decided this áfter finding out it isn't profitable?
He said it from the beginning!
He wanted his soapbox on the central square and spent 44bln to get it.
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Seems many here are thinking that it's Matt Walsh that got suspended with all the "good riddance" comments. HE'S still there, it was a journalist that reported on it that got suspended. Not the publication that printed it either, just the reporter. Why not the publication also?
It's just a bullshit thing that Musk did...because he can. Just like giving some people blue checkmarks because he feels like it, while taking away everyone else's.
It's just a bullshit thing that Musk did...because he can. Just like giving some people blue checkmarks because he feels like it, while taking away everyone else's.
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Which may actually turn out to be illegal. It gives the false impression that people like Stephen King are endorsing Twitter Blue.
Edit: an actual lawyer speaks:
View: https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/1649280450559369222?s=20
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The number of views on their tweets are all over the place, but seem to average about 10,000 views each. I don't know how Twitter decides whether your tweet has been viewed or not (since it doesn't have to be as engaged as actually watching a 10-min video all the way through), but this implies a 1% engagement rate.
Not to mention that engagement with said tweets also seem fairly non-existent (very few likes, even fewer retweets and virtually no replies).
I won't be surprised if their follower count consists of former twitter users who long since left the platform and / or migrated to Mastodon, and not representative of the popularity they still enjoy on said platform. For context, Mastodon now has over 11 million subscribers, my impression is that they tend to be amongst the more tech-savvy users, exactly the sort of person who would read Ars.
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Right-wing shitheels are absolutely amazing at manipulating narcissists. I stand in awe at the skill with which they deftly put strings on people like Musk.
One of the world’s richest men is a mere marionette for a bunch of basement-dwelling troglodytes. It’s kind of remarkable and pathetic.
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What... Freaking hell. Musk just continues to demonstrate how sad and pathetic he is, trying to placate celebrities who have criticized his decisions. The irony is, he just made those particular checkmarks status symbols, because the celebrities got them for free for no other discernible reason.
I'm also scratching my head at this note on the Verge article:
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What a wasted opportunity. Would have been better to drain bank accounts. Went to HS with Walsh, to this day can't believe he turned out to be such a shit.
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What debate? The "debate" can be summed up in one sentence: Musk is willfully ignorant of the actual Constitution, threw a hissy fit, and blew $40 billion just so he could post shit with theoretical impunity.
The only people that think Twitter is actually noteworthy (even now) are media people who can't figure out... guess what? There's a whole world out there that doesn't give a shit about Twitter! Stop with the Twitter articles and drawing all the oxygen out of the room. Find another soapbox and move on already.
The only people that think Twitter is actually noteworthy (even now) are media people who can't figure out... guess what? There's a whole world out there that doesn't give a shit about Twitter! Stop with the Twitter articles and drawing all the oxygen out of the room. Find another soapbox and move on already.
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The Wired article may be paywalled but, fortunately, the Arstechnica article is not.
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I've mixed up Ice-T and lemonade before. That was embarrassing! People were calling me out about that one all day.
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Google is your friend, use it. I didn't remember who he was initially, but one quick search is all it took to remind me. He's a self-described "Theocratic fascist", who spends a lot of time relying to posts on Twitter and writes books and magazine columns based on his personal opinions stated as if they were objective facts.
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04/20 has come and gone, and Twi#er is still here. It looks like I lost the Twi#er bankruptcy pool. For this year, anyway.
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I’m sure the journalist has another account so he can continue his work; it just won't carry his name.
Edit: would Ars have run that article?
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A few things that should be readily apparent by now:
1. Twitter doesn't have rules or guidelines anymore. Twitter has Elon's feelings. Whatever Elon feels like doing will be what happens.
2. Elon will do anything for attention and worship. Including overpaying for a social media platform. Which leads to...
3. Elon constantly lies. All the time. Whatever Elon needs to say to accomplish number 2, he'll do.
1. Twitter doesn't have rules or guidelines anymore. Twitter has Elon's feelings. Whatever Elon feels like doing will be what happens.
2. Elon will do anything for attention and worship. Including overpaying for a social media platform. Which leads to...
3. Elon constantly lies. All the time. Whatever Elon needs to say to accomplish number 2, he'll do.
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