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Patrick says

I was getting that same “freedom of speech but not reach” bullshit justification for censorship from cow-orkers at Craigslist before I left.

Suppressing audience size IS censorship.

Look, the problem isn't that Twitter is doing this shit. That's really not the problem.

The problem is that people didn't know Twitter was doing this shit.

Twitter is replaceable.

I have talked to people here, in Silicon Valley, that deny up and down there is censorship. I had to force them to sit down with a computer with me, let me log into YouTube, pull up my account, and show them my own comments. I then I had to log into a TOR network, pull up the same pages, and show them my comments weren't there.

You have any idea how hard it is to get into an argument over this to such an extent that somebody is so enraged with your accusations, that they will spend 15 minutes to "definitely prove you're full of shit" only to find out you aren't?

Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter ALL CENSOR, and the problem is, people don't fucking know it. It used to be shadow banning was the WORST fucking thing a company could do. "I don't get it, why am I getting no replies?" - there's no warning, you're not told anything, you cannot correct behavior (if you actually have bad behavior), you have no idea what you've done, just nobody can see what you've said. This is considered REASONABLE to do by Google, Twitter, and Facebook.

These are easily replaced companies.

https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-free-speech-twitter-psyop

The "Free-Speech Twitter" PSYOP

Patrick says

https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-free-speech-twitter-psyop

The "Free-Speech Twitter" PSYOP

Musk is an Offense Contractor, he works for intelligence. He was brought into give the appearance of free speech, not to implement it. They don't even try very hard, the CEO of Twitter is now Linda Yaccarino, who is a former asshole from the WEF, and previously worked for NBC Universal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Yaccarino

Stop looking up for a savior, you have to look within. These platforms have to be abandoned.

Twitter still censoring like mad.

Twitter still censors.

Patrick says

It's "psych".

OK, Elon is regaining a bit of credibility with me here:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1706681999035928994

@elonmusk
My concern was more the outrageous demand that people must take the vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was messed up.

Until the Supreme Court invalidated Biden’s exec order, SpaceX and many other companies would have been forced to fire anyone who refused to get vaccinated!

We would not have done so. I would rather go to prison than fire good people who didn’t want to be jabbed.

As for myself, I got original Covid before the vaccine was out (mild cold symptoms) and had to get three vaccines for travel. The third shot almost sent me to hospital.

How many other people out there have symptoms that are actually from the vaccine or Covid treatment, rather than Covid itself?

As for those who didn’t take any vaccine, well @DjokerNole just won a record number of grand slams …

It’s not like I don’t believe in vaccines – I do. However, the cure cannot be potentially worse than the disease. And public debate over efficacy should not be shut down.

There is also great potential for curing many diseases using synthetic mRNA, so let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
7:47 AM · Sep 26, 2023

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1707147926789554422?s=20

LibsOfTikTok finds a Diversity training video from New Prague, MN comparing Whitey to Mosquitoes
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1706917885409415372?s=20

Today: Musk tours the US Border, calls it a crisis
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1707565081750290910?s=20

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/biden-administration-reports-dangerous-african-immigrant-at-border

Lol, "Community Notes", working as intended.

Patrick says

Lol, "Community Notes", working as intended.

Please include links.

https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1710766685458702779

When I fuck up and don't do this, let a hail of stones fall upon me. I'm so vexed by this.

Also Good:

Community Notes on Ben Shapiro's repost of an incinerated baby was removed after experts criticized the use of online AI detector apps and validated the picture as genuine by reporters who had personally seen the baby displayed and took the photos.



You can see the updated community notes here:
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1712635827539554364?s=20

Now you can say the Sarin Attack was BS, but you can't say the exactly photo wasn't from that time. It's in the 2013 article.

There's always been a problem with fakeassery in Middle Eastern photography.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/07/reuters.pressandpublishing

Wikipedia reference:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1716102436123783175?s=20

I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023

zzyzzx says

I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy— Elon Musk (elonmusk) October 22, 2023

They will take him to court and get the billion. Just like twatter did. =))

https://notthebee.com/article/glorious-elon-musks-community-notes-is-a-game-changer-for-journalist-accountability

For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better. It's got to be the single greatest development in the ability of the informed to use social media to police the information gatekeepers. ...

Patrick says

For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better

By and large, it is used this way. But one time I saw it misused, so everyone bashed it in the comments. It was glorious.

The degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public… Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats," - Elon Musk


“If you've walked around downtown San Francisco, right near that X - fka (formerly known as) Twitter - headquarters, it's a zombie apocalypse. I mean, it's rough… You can't believe it until you go there,”
“So you have to say well, what philosophy led to that outcome? And that philosophy was being piped to Earth.
“A philosophy that would be ordinarily quite niche and geographically constrained, so that the sort of the fallout area would be limited, was effectively given… an Information Technology weapon to propagate what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of earth.
“And the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco. It is the end of civilization.”
- Elon Musk

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-debuts-rebellious-grok-015320778.html

Elon Musk Debuts ‘Rebellious’ Grok AI Bot to Challenge ChatGPT

I'm guessing that this new chat isn't a flaming liberal either.

zzyzzx says

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-debuts-rebellious-grok-015320778.html

Elon Musk Debuts ‘Rebellious’ Grok AI Bot to Challenge ChatGPT

I'm guessing that this new chat isn't a flaming liberal either.

Yeah. If you pay for Premium+ on X.

Looks like Elon can continue to hire Americans at Space-X.

FJB

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-08/spacex-wins-order-blocking-doj-suit-claiming-anti-refugee-bias?srnd=premium

Patrick says

For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better. It's got to be the single greatest development in the ability of the informed to use social media to police the information gatekeepers. ...

Community Notes is fucking glorious.

Also, to the Fakestine supporters, the "It's just a burned dog" response to Ben Shapiro's tweet itself got community noted; that dozens of reporters, politicians, ambassadors from multiple outlets, countries, and press services were shown the morgue and the bodies of the Hamas Massacre Victims, including the infant burned alive.

Elon Musk announces "Decolonization" will be regarded as a call to Genocide.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1725645884409401435?s=20

Whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle such as the Intifada or international pressure to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, American Jewish organizations orchestrate this extravaganza called the 'new anti-Semitism.' The purpose is several-fold. First, it is to discredit any charges by claiming the person is an anti-Semite. It's to turn Jews into the victims, so that the victims are not the Palestinians any longer. As people like Abraham Foxman of the ADL put it, the Jews are being threatened by a new holocaust. It's a role reversal – the Jews are now the victims, not the Palestinians. So it serves the function of discrediting the people leveling the charge. It's no longer Israel that needs to leave the Occupied Territories; it's the Arabs who need to free themselves of the anti-Semitism. – Professor Norman Finkelstein

https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620



https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724959688922407181

Elon to Ad blackmailers: "Go F Yourself".

https://x.com/alx/status/1729993842412126443?s=20

I’m sorry for that tweet or post. I tried my best to clarify, six ways to Sunday, but you know at least I think over time it will be obvious that in fact, far from being antisemitic, I am in fact philosemitic. - Elon Musk

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mall-miracle-thursday-november-30

After a fiery back-and-forth, in which Musk, perhaps recklessly, vowed he’d rather Twitter go bankrupt than kowtow to advertisers’ political preferences, Musk said something very profound. At one point, the conversation wandered to Tesla, because Elon was noting how Tesla captured the electric car market without advertising. Then Elon boasted — fairly — that as Tesla’s CEO, he has arguably done more “for the climate” than any other individual on Earth.

Sorkin, smelling fresh meat, immediately prompted Elon: how did he feel about being that one individual. But Elon took it in a different direction, replying by saying he doesn’t care; since he’s using an internal yardstick, he doesn’t care about how other people perceive what he’s doing. And then Elon drove a militarized bulldozer directly through woke virtue signaling:

“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. F— them."

Sorkin immediately recognized he’d overplayed his hand, that something significant had just happened, and he wasn’t sure exactly what to do about it. For a second the skilled interviewer was uncharacteristically speechless. He then adroitly changed the subject and none of the press about the interview has mentioned that quote.

But what Musk said pierced the heart of everything that is wrong with the world right now. The elites have inverted traditional ethics; they call good “evil,” and they call evil “good.” The perception of goodness is more highly valued by elites than is actually doing good. People used to be mocked for empty virtue signaling, but somehow now even obviously fake virtue signaling — not product quality — is required to keep a corporation financially viable. That’s how Bud Light wound up putting a mentally-ill, unattractive cross-dresser on its brand label.

The answer is simple: We need to get back to valuing doing good more than seeming good. Musk was right.