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Alexandra Marshall
@ellymelly
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#Pfizer pulled its enormous marketing budget from #Twitter.

#Musk pulled the 'Covid-misinformation community guidelines'.

It's almost like those 'safety guidelines' were nothing more than paid corporate protection to silence the victims of vaccine injury...

https://notthebee.com/article/twitter-has-officially-gotten-out-of-the-covid-censorship-game

In December 2020, Twitter started actively suppressing any COVID-19 information that did not align with official government statements, which if you'll recall, changed regularly: Don't mask, mask, double mask, masks don't actually work, we made up the whole mask thing to make people feel better, etc.

To build public trust in Covid vaccines Twitter will be upping the censorship. Because that's how you build trust, by hiding things.
The medical experts and arbiters of truth at Twitter are continuing their fight against the open exchange of ideas on their platform with an update to their Covid-19 policies.

https://notthebee.com/article/twitter-says-they-are-going-to-begin-censoring-vaccine-misinformation
It was hard to keep up with the government channels on what the latest Covid vogue was, and over 11,000 Twitter users got deplatformed for not towing the line.

But now, Twitter is under new management, and Elon Musk's free speech view of the company is shaking things up.

With very little fanfare, a note was added to the Covid policy page:

Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.

Musk promised to start a period of amnesty for all the people who were banned by Twitter this week.

stfu says

Patrick says

Musk responded, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.”

It would still need a carrier network though, right? Pretty Sure Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are all woke so he would have to use StarLink if feasible.

No, carriers and phones don't have to be connected.

If you don't do math well, you might consider it worthwhile to purchase a phone through your carrier or to buy insurance on the phone. Basically, it's just rent to own. The iPhone is TERRIBLY over-priced through, so the only way to sensibly purchase it it through a carrier plan, but that's an extremely bad deal as well.

Essentially, if you are spending over $400 for a phone (and I don't care what phone you bought), you're over-paying for it. Of course the manufacturer needs to make a profit, but I doubt there's a single cellphone in existence that costs over $200 to produce. These are basically just low cost computers. They pale in comparison to the $100 disposable laptop I bought from Walmart - which I admit, was a good deal. I probably bought that near at cost to build, probably over-stock.

npc media is effective. comment sections are now flush with anti-elon posts. some are likely bots, but I do think the left has lots of legit "online virtue warriors" who receive instructions via antenna and then see to it, posting propaganda they think will be helpful. like this one:



IMO this comment is part of the greater "let's hit elon in the pocketbook" NPC campaign, where we also see them encouraging advertisers to cancel him.

richwicks says

No, carriers and phones don't have to be connected.

I think it would be very hard to sell many people a phone that cant connect via LTE/cellular. Wifi phones have been around a long time, but almost nobody uses them in the first world.

One could use a different lte device as a hotspot, and then connect via wifi the elon phone to it, and use wifi calling, but very few would do that.

wifi + starlink on the other hand could compete imo. but I worry he would be suicided before they let that happen.

richwicks says

I doubt there's a single cellphone in existence that costs over $200 to produce.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx

The cost of making an iPhone 13 Pro, Apple's latest iPhone, is $570.

The expensive Samsung phones are about as expensive as Apple phones to make.

zzyzzx says

The cost of making an iPhone 13 Pro, Apple's latest iPhone, is $570.

I don't believe it. What could possibly make an Apple iPhone so expensive? The screen? Camera? What?

Once you get past $200, basically all phones are functionally equivalent.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/waiting-for-bluebirds

elon held a vote.

he said the people had spoken and those who were not spammers and had not broken laws would be re-instated.

discussion was about “this week.”

so far, nothing has happened. there seems to be no plan or process that has been shared.

we’re all just waiting.

So it seems Elon actually id NOT reinstate all the unfairly banned accounts.

Patrick says

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/waiting-for-bluebirds

elon held a vote.

he said the people had spoken and those who were not spammers and had not broken laws would be re-instated.

discussion was about “this week.”

so far, nothing has happened. there seems to be no plan or process that has been shared.

we’re all just waiting.

So it seems Elon actually did NOT reinstate all the unfairly banned accounts.

No, he didn't.

I'm waiting for Ryan Dawson to be allowed back on.

https://www.ancreport.com/

I have a small list of people who have been banned, IF they are returned, I'll believe Elon Musk, and I do not believe him. I think Musk is a headfake, and that he's tightly connected to intelligence. He's the false promise of hope, kind of like Obama was - who promised to end all these stupid fucking wars the Neocons create, and then went on to bomb 5 new countries.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HNKpg9SImGI

Patrick says

So it seems Elon actually id NOT reinstate all the unfairly banned accounts.

Quite a few are back on, from Sargon to ALX to the Bee.

I'm laughing at all the people fluffing Kanye, who donated millions to Shotgun Grabber Arbery, Fentanyl Floyd, and Gangbanger Taylor activists and campaigns, as well as to Hillary 2016 and the DNC, because he praised their Mighty Hero 88. Just after he knowingly set up Trump, which I will post in the appropriate thread.

KANYE KNEW!

So Ye is banned again? Free speech my ass.

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-reads-tweet-he-disagrees-with-dies

"I just can't believe he's gone," said housemate Lester McNutt. "I told Alex so many times to just watch MSNBC and stay off Twitter. But he wouldn't listen, and now he's dead. How many more people does Elon Musk have to kill before we ban speech once and for all?"

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

All about how censorship at Twitter was a sleazy operation specifically designed to stifle political dissent.

https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-vows-to-reveal-governmentmedia-collusion-once-he-figures-out-where-these-red-dots-are-coming-from

I hope they waterboard and deport that Indian bitch who ran the censorship at Twitter.

clambo says

I hope they waterboard and deport that Indian bitch who ran the censorship at Twitter.

Prediction: if she ends up having to testify in front of congress, media will say "she was surrounded by angry raycis whyte old men trying to harm her. they dont like to see a brown woman rise like she did."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?ref_src=patrick.net

The JournaList Talking Point: Taibbi sold out to do PR for the Richest Man in the World.

Of course, what does that make the Bezos Washington Post?

Twitter Botswarms converging like clouds of disinformation locusts. Will Elon ever get rid of all of them?

Patrick says

It's clear we don't have a legitimate administration anymore

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1599110949080039425?ref_src=patrick.net

Dudes, I am afraid that our man might get the jfk treatment, in one way or the other.

mell says

It's clear we don't have a legitimate administration anymore

Sycophancy is the foundation of politics and government work.

Elon Musk gambled big on Twitter. Tesla is going to pay the price. There is one troubling option for Elon Musk to try and keep Twitter afloat: siphoning cash from Tesla.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12

DD214 says

Elon Musk gambled big on Twitter. Tesla is going to pay the price. There is one troubling option for Elon Musk to try and keep Twitter afloat: siphoning cash from Tesla.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-could-use-tesla-money-prop-up-twitter-2022-12

Elon Musk is intelligence. His job is to make Twitter appear to be fair, not to make it fair. He's getting money from the government to do this. They'll just shovel money into SpaceX to pay for it.