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I'm pretty sure that's going to die soon, but it's good to spotlight it.

Yeah, he's certainly never lost a ton of money establishing a free speech zone through buying a major company.

I simplified it up to make it easier. Also cut out the sudo, etc.

It's a command used in your command line interface that allows for downloading and installing stuff, usually for use from the command line. For example, "apt install python" would download and install python on your linux machine. Similarly, on a Windows machine, instead you'd do "choco...

@AmosTrask and @TheRejectionist, Civility Rule 2e says don't accuse others of being extremists (including being a nazi/communist) without hard evidence. This goes for all threads, not just this one. Simply because we have a number of reports right now, I'm going to let this slide with just a mod...

Agreed with what the others were saying. IIRC he failed my legal opinion sanity check (quite simply: Rittenhouse legally innocent, the McMichaels (Ahmaud Arbery shooting) legally guilty).

No.

Relevant to why he bought twitter, and also how well it is doing. Also, apparently twitter is cashflow positive minus debt payments (about $1.5B/year). I expect that to get even better once the severance payments are completely dealt with, but IDK when that is.

If you believe every conspiracy theory that comes your way, you become just as dumb as those believing none of them. It's a classic horseshoe theory of how gullible someone is.

I believe you've read this wrong. First, Herzog barely has any power, as a president in a parliamentary country. He has less hard power than ministers. Instead, Elon knows he's being wrongly attacked for antisemetism, and wants to attack the ADL. To do this, he needs some shielding, and meeting...

So the Russian 'bots' never existed, but now we have proof:

Twitter Files 5 is live.

That's not even my point. My point is that doing more is objectively an awful idea. Them not even enforcing what they have (which is mostly tort law, and so for civilians to sue, not the government) is movement in the opposite direction.

No, it's honestly a good thing. The few exceptions are basically the proveable lies (lies about things that happened) that cause someone direct harm. The alternative is we have the government stepping in enforcing 'misinformation' laws.

This is not a legally accurate comparison. You are legally allowed to lie, with very few exceptions. The thing with your analogy is your example is a failure to honor an agreement. That would be illegal. But not running political ads, or even just running political ads from only one side, is...

This I doubt. They are not legally required to platform anyone they don't want to. It'd only be legally actionable if the government asked/demanded it of them. They did lie about it, but not to Congress, so that doesn't matter legally either. I still think it's bad, tbc. I just don't think it's...

Look, some people (rare, but they exist), believe in ideals. ... This was a private conversation that he had no reason to believe would ever be released. Seriously, dial back the paranoia to reasonable levels please. He could have said absolutely nothing, and been fine.

No, it was that it was wrong. That's his whole first paragraph. Then he added a sentence that the backlash would be worse, but if you are appealing to a rabid partisan, that's an argument you make. Note that all the other Dems who commented just basically went 'good'. I'm inclined to support...

Lol no. The illusion has been breaking ever since the internet existed, bit by bit. Twitter (along with social media) was a big part of that, the cathedral noticed, and tried to rein it in. That has suddenly, explosively failed, instead of the graceful fail that could have been if they had done...

He hasn't hit people for attacking the owner. The exceptions are hate speech, CP, a very large interpretation of what incitement to violence means (in terms of the Antifa hits, many of those are legal but awful) and Alex Jones. It's not free speech, but it is a guy actually taking a personal...