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Musk: People banned from Twitter won't be restored for weeks

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After taking over Twitter last week, Musk tweeted “the bird is freed,” a reference to the site's logo.

People will be more free to post racial slurs and right-leaning conspiracy theories, but watch out for anything derogatory to the Saudi royal regime top investors.

Meanwhile, monetization schemes will proceed as Musk tries to develop Twitter into a WeChat style superapp with superior monetization potential.

Americans are so easily distracted by empty freeze peach rhetoric.

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“That would mean people banned from the site for violating Twitter's rules for harassment, violence, or election and COVID-related misinformation will not be able to return before next Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections.”

Wow. Not until after the elections. Is musk suppressing political speech? /s

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Very good, so the Trump gang would have to learn to be civilized, which I doubt they will do, lol..

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I keep hearing this narrative that it is the right and right only that are hosting, attack others, etc..

I will admit I was one that believed that for decades especially since I am a fairly socialist leaning in my beliefs.

But looking at the comments here, CBC, and other news platforms.

I have be called every nasty name possible for not 100% accepting the new Left left left agenda.

Any disagreement and you are not only labeled the enemy they will collectively go after you, they will go after your family, job, etc..the will "Cancel" you and everything to do with you.

See the reaction when people pointed out the woman king was basically historical miss information! Giving the wrong impression of who these women were.

Instead of saying "well yes it is totally fantasy and historically incorrect" it was " you are a sexist, racist that doesn't like strong women or black people".

And the MSM, Twitter all reinforced this as the new "facts".

The same was repeated with the movie "Bros". If you said you were not interested ( like I am not interested in 99% of the romcom stuff) then you are " homophobic and discriminating" "any straight person not seeing it is homophobic"

These were the word used by the actors and directors of these movies in MSN and yes on twitter.

Now reverse the roles and see if twitter or MSM would have permitted a religious based production to blanket call non believers name and make accusations (note I am atheist but this example was the easiest to make clear).

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Who is “the woman king”?

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Trump has said he won't be returning to Twitter, but can we believe anything Trump says?

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wallaceToday  09:34 am JST

Trump has said he won't be returning to Twitter, but can we believe anything Trump says?

Simple answer to that: No!

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Twitter is already losing members.

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I have be called every nasty name possible for not 100% accepting the new Left left left agenda.

Please tell me about this "new Left left left ".

I also consider myself leftward leaning, more anarcho-syndacalist socialist, so I would like to know about this triple left bogeyman.

I see very little leftist content on the interwebs.

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Not until after the elections. Is musk suppressing political speech? /s

Nope. But he fact checked Joe Biden so hard he had to delete his false tweet.

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Who is “the woman king”?

A person from history that was part of the slave trade capturing other Africans to sell to western and arabic countries.

But in the movie of that name she suddenly is an hero of anti-slavery and any mention of that fact will get you cancelled and often suspended on sites like twitter where the actors in the movie and producer openly called people "racist" and "sexist" for pointing the facts out.

University professors pointing out the historical facts, got attacked and then suspended " pending review" but not the people calling others named and making accusations because they are "special" under the social media platforms system.

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Left left left agenda

The what?

racial slurs and right-leaning conspiracy theories

You can find conspiracy theorists, racists and other assorted nonsense on Twitter. The leading figures sometimes got banned but their sheep keep regurgitating it. Letting the leaders of the flock back on may not change much in terms of the ideas but inciting them is an issue.

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Too many people condemn any opinion that differs from their own to be 'misinformation' or 'disinformation', particularly the political left. We are moving towards a digital dictatorship where, like China, only officially sanctioned viewed may be expressed.

Left-wing censorship is as toxic as right-wing censorship.

Build a system that bans a diversity of opinions, and you won't enjoy it when the politicians you support lose power, as those that take over will then use your tech model to ban your opinion.

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Jimizo

Today 10:04 am JST

Left left left agenda

> The what?

> racial slurs and right-leaning conspiracy theories

> You can find conspiracy theorists, racists and other assorted nonsense on Twitter. The leading figures sometimes got banned but their sheep keep regurgitating it. Letting the leaders of the flock back on may not change much in terms of the ideas but inciting them is an issue.

There is a difference and recent events show this.

If I had a twitter account and I commented calling Viola Davis something nasty other than perhaps bad acting ( even that may not be permitted), my account would be flagged and either suspended or banned.

But Viola Davis goes on multiple twitter rants calling all white people racist, calling anyone critical of her movie a racist, and these rants and name calling went on uninterrupted unchallenged by twitter even after complaints, instead those complaining got warnings.

The same was repeated with Bros.

If similar things said by these actors and directors were said by a republican ( not even Trump supporter) politicians the social media platforms would have blown up and demands for them to be banned would have been front and center.

I don't like Musk never have so it takes a lot for me to even slightly lean his way, but sadly after watching the situation over the past 2 years, it is time for a redress the pendulum has gone far off the left.

A bit more centre is needed, can Musk do that I don't know but it is time someone tried.

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I'm never troubled by a single Tweet because I don't read them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan

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Very glad that I keep my activity on twitter to a very minimum. I only follow a handful of Japanese photographers and graphic artists.

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Average time in minutes spent on

TikTok    45.8

YouTube   45.6

Twitter    34.8

Snapchat  30.4

Younger people are less into Twitter.

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The comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto counted almost 8.9 million followers on Twitter as of April 2022, making his account the most popular Twitter account in Japan.

Lawson and Starbucks come in at 3rd and 4th places.

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Barrack Obama is the most popular on Twitter with 133 million followers.

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If we all stop using Twitter, it will go away.

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Very glad that I keep my activity on twitter to a very minimum. I only follow a handful of Japanese photographers and graphic artists

How it should be used.

Similar to me but you are more cultured. I generally keep to footy, parody accounts and general silliness.

This kind of stuff:

https://twitter.com/nocontextbrits/status/1587403431471456256?s=48&t=8lx8K2OPbikLLzgCaybjhw

Much better than semi-literate political trolling from basements.

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If I had a twitter account and I commented calling Viola Davis something nasty other than perhaps bad acting ( even that may not be permitted), my account would be flagged and either suspended or banned.

Obviously never seem ‘Mean Tweets’.

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Many managers have left and many more employees will be fired.

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its his business so his rules.here same thing,open censorhip every day,commenst are erased as mod wants without any logic or real reasons and we are getting some 24 hrs blocks so what is problem than?

if twitter will loose clients its his problem as its private company and private owned.people will go somewhere else where they will free.same thing is happening to whastap or facebook...

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People will be more free to post racial slurs and right-leaning conspiracy theories

Ha!

Such a huge problem created by posters that doesn’t really hurt any . Sending billions and billions of dollars and weapons to support a corrupt government? No problem

Strange leap you made there given the story is about Twitter.

I think we’d be better off with fewer racial slurs and fewer conspiracy theories, but I don’t know the best way to achieve that. You can boot the likes of Alex Jones off but his sheep will continue bleating the message.

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Bill Maher had a Halloween segment that basically sums up the problem with twitter, FB, MSN, social media and the perpetually offended

New Rules: All Scolds Day | Real Time with Bill Maher

Look it up on YouTube and see how ridiculous the present generation and society has become.

Everything offends, everything is "verboten" as if in a totalitarian regime.

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Bill Maher always nails it...

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I think the comedy sketch:

Twitter Employee Undergoes Therapy Over Elon Musk Takeover.

This sums up the hysteria going on now and the fragility of the people that are upset.

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Very glad that I keep my activity on twitter to a very minimum. I only follow a handful of Japanese photographers and graphic artists

How it should be used. 

Similar to me but you are more cultured. I generally keep to footy, parody accounts and general silliness. 

chances of this being true; - (negative) 5%

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With a little luck this may cause a deep change on how the service is done, and with a lot of luck the idea that twitter becomes more like a protocol than something dependent of a single company may become closer.

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Trump should tell them to go to hell. Twitter should die an unceremoniously quick death. Mr. Musk you ****ed up on this one.

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