Elon Musk buys Doomerboards, libs mad.

I'm glad "liberals" got owned. Elon Musk is cool for causing so much butthurt among the retarded population. However, I'll count chicken when they hatch - restoring "free speech" to Twitter might prove to be a difficult task. "Libs" (what a misnomer, you don't really stand for liberty if you're crying about "hate speech") have, sadly, entrenched their views in population and in European law. Also, there is some board now on US that will focus on combating what they call "misinformation" (which is actually truth) - the battle for freedom continues, and the freedom loses yet. I think we need someone more hardcore right than Trump to win the next US election. And definitely not a Democrat or anyone who buys into or wishes to uphold the notion of "hate speech" scam.

Also, he is definitely not a manchild, although he is still part of globalist agenda what with Neuralink, etc. I really like that he provided Starlink to Ukraine and also supported truckers of Freedom Convoy - his share of good things done and things that I agree with.

People seething about how this is a disaster for freedom of speech is hilarious levels of brainwashing. They just hate to see an African American win smh.

I hope he unbans Trump and doesn't get suicided with 3 shots in the back by the CIA.

Elon Musk is an heir to an emerald mining fortune. His dad is from England and Elon's "african american" status is a technical title as defined by the US from being born to a family of colonizers in Africa and then moving to the United States.

The way you just said that is the level of willful immaturity akin to calling people "homos" because they are scientifically homo sapiens.

Youre experiencing exactly the kind of brainwashing you think is happening but from the opposite side of the spectrum.

I'm not using any antisocial media, but if this would somehow interrupt the daily screaming contest held by the nutjobs therein it can't be bad!

it doesnt slip past me. But left uncontested, this forum will be filled with repeated wrong information.

And you only care about it in this particular topic? 

Democrats haven't been this worked up over African Americans ever since they stopped being able to own them.

I'm not sure why so many alt-rights herald Musk. His political views aren't as black and white as most people in the US. In short:
-he donates to both political parties (which is common to large cooperations)
-he supported democratic candidate Andrew Yang during the last elections
- he has described himself as a socialist, a libertarian, and as progressive right-wing at various points
- he stopped supporting Trump when the latter withdrew from the Paris climate treaty.
- his views are very libertarian: he believes the government should not interfere with companies or social issues. But he does support gay marriage, the right to abortion, making all drugs legal, universal healthcare, and universal income
- he also doesn't deny climate change but wishes for governments to do more and regulate carbon emmisions heavily
- finally, he does heavily oppose restrictions of freedom set by governments, both covid-restrictions and restrictions in free speech.

But what free speech actually means is still a hot topic of debate.

Hate speech does not equal free speech



What people are worried about is that a single person gets too much power, especially someone who has done some very whimsical things in the past.

I have quit twitter long time ago because of how it affects me psychologically. The post format is low effort-instant gratification. This plays with my dopamine, I am lazy by swiping to scroll through post, to get short bursts of highs and lows, then I want more. I also joined back then to talk about hobby stuff (coding, doom, whatever), got sucked into the politics drama. I don't like this 140 (or 280) posts where you can't express yourself, but someone writes a brain fart, they get thousand of likes and think they are genius. I prefer youtube, podcasts, blogs and forums. Btw, tik tok (which I am not going to even touch) is that but worse, expressing through short animation clips.

Recently though I entered twitter cause I wanted to observe few accounts. It had to do with some new channels on UFOs I discovered on youtube then want to follow their twitter, totally irrelevant with my previous follows. It's very close when I started a new account but it's before the acquisition from Elon, so it could seem like I did it exactly because of Elon but not true. But anyway, I still don't use it and when I tried few days ago I felt how it rots my brain again.

Now about Elon, I don't know if it will make twitter better, but I am glad to see the mainstream loosing their shit. The guy did nothing, he just decided to buy it, like every other billionaire has bought stuff. There are articles questioning whether a reach billionaire should own a platform and how horrible it is, when that was always the case. Did they only lose their minds because Elon seems (even as a meme or troll) to don't support the establishment? The way I see it, all these billionaires are like demigods on planet earth, we don't have much control, previously all of them ideologically and culture aligned with the woke, now a god out of the many revolts in a way the peasants are surprised. "Wow, I didn't expect one of the high elites to be red-pilled or something". It's something like that. Of course in reality, we don't know the end goal of Musk, and however I am glad he did that blow to the system and made them slip their masks again, I don't know what it means.

But since social media are cancer anyway, I don't care much, I just find the reactions interesting. I mean,. they had to lock the code changes in fear of disgruntled employees damaging the site. These are grown up professional working in one of the bigger social media companies, yet they are still so ideologically possesed that the management has to pause things. And I realize there are few others in there that are not aligning, just were afraid to spoke, and now they seem to come up.

About free speech btw, the left thinks "Oh these right wingers use free speech as an excuse for hate".

What I would see on social media sites, there was an inbalance of how was banned and who was not.
It's not about free speech, this is a hard topic, does free speech absolutism mean child pornography is allowed? No, there will be some moderation no matter what.
But most people are not angry at twitter for that, they don't want to use this for hate speech, they are angry that it censored certain conservative that didn't say anything remotely controversial, anything that 99% of both left and right would agree it's banable offence.
I agree that the concept of "free speech absolutism" is hard to grasp, it's like wanting to have absolutely no crime, to max this out you'd need control and you'd lose freedom, but the problem is the bar of what is considered hate speech has been lowered (but only for the right, the leftists can post disgusting things as long as they target the right group).

It's ok that Musk is left and right, it's not just the "alt-right" that like him, it's regular left-center-right people who just don't like one side of the political spectrum dominating the platform. Some people on the left have been demonized from their own people that are further left.