1. Forum
    1. Unresolved Threads
  2. Gallery
    1. Albums
    2. Map
  3. Members
    1. Users Online
    2. Team
    3. Search Members
  4. Dollar
  5. Protest Watch
  • Login
  • Register
  • Search
This Thread
  • Everywhere
  • This Thread
  • This Forum
  • Articles
  • Forum
  • Gallery
  • Pages
  • More Options
  1. Argentina Expats
  2. Argentina Chat
  3. In The News

Elon Musk - defender of freedom of expression or megalomaniac?

  • Splinter
  • December 16, 2022 at 7:57 PM

There are 11 replies in this Thread which has previously been viewed 1,676 times. The latest Post (December 4, 2023 at 5:31 PM) was by Splinter.

  • Splinter
    Admin Thread Author
    Likes
    2,494
    Posts
    15,687
    • December 16, 2022 at 7:57 PM
    • #1

    He's just suspended numerous journalists for allegedly sharing his live location, yet has reinstated Trump's account which most people acknowledged as a source of disinformation at the very least.

    I'll never understand why Twitter exists in the first place, except for bitching, grandstanding and soap-box opera. But is seems that this is what Musk is all about in the end.

    Is he really any different to the very people he so despises?

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

  • GlasgowJohn
    Likes
    2,069
    Posts
    5,952
    • December 17, 2022 at 2:46 PM
    • #2

    Bloody suspended my Twitter account for allegedly selling counterfeit products.

    All very strange as I dont sell anything on Twitter.


    I have asked them three times for proof of this alleged offence and no bloody reply .

    Beginning to loos patience

  • serafina
    Moderator
    Likes
    1,368
    Posts
    6,286
    • December 17, 2022 at 3:05 PM
    • #3

    Recently, I received an email from Facebook saying that my ad account was under review and was temporarily on hold. The reason was a clueless "infringement of ad rules". There is a review process, which I took advantage of since I haven't advertised anything on FB for many years. I was asked to upload a DL to verify my identity. Did that and my ad account was suspended forever.

    Not sure what I did nor what prompted the suspension. Many years ago, I tried to use FB ads to promote my services, but services weren't allowed to advertise back then. I think it is still the same to this day. Anyway, I didn't get any business so I never repeated the ad campaign.

    Social media are not transparent or fair, at all. I wonder if also crypto currencies will take the same path (starting as fairer than current government and ending up being way worse).

  • Splinter
    Admin Thread Author
    Likes
    2,494
    Posts
    15,687
    • December 17, 2022 at 3:51 PM
    • #4

    Facebook banned Dave's Computer Tips, the blog that I write for, over 18 months ago, citing violations of conduct or some other bullshit and we haven't been able to make contact with a human ever since.

    They're all the same - faceless monsters.

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

  • Splinter
    Admin Thread Author
    Likes
    2,494
    Posts
    15,687
    • December 19, 2022 at 4:50 PM
    • #5

    Twitter users have voted to have him stand down as the boss of the company, in a poll which he himself instigated!

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097/

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

  • bebopalula
    Likes
    194
    Posts
    320
    • December 21, 2022 at 6:13 PM
    • #6
    Quote from serafina

    Social media are not transparent or fair, at all. I wonder if also crypto currencies will take the same path (starting as fairer than current government and ending up being way worse).

    There is no world-wide right to access to social media as far as I am aware. There is no right (again, as far as I am aware) for any American to be able to speak freely through any privately-owned medium. All there is AFAIAA is the constitutional duty of the Government of the USA not to impede the right to free speech of its citizens.

    So the private owners of these privately owned social media can do whatever-the-heck they want to and, in the interests of the bottom line can change their minds about anything, any time.

    That's why I'd be very cautious about running any sort of business that was completely dependent on the goodwill of social media companies: even worse, to make oneself completely dependent on the goodwill of just one social media company alone. The whole business could be wiped out overnight on a whim. And unlike the social media companies which seem to exist in the virtual world, banks and other creditors are very much real-world institutions and will come looking for their real-world debts.

  • GlasgowJohn
    Likes
    2,069
    Posts
    5,952
    • December 22, 2022 at 9:04 AM
    • #7

    Mr Bastard Musk and his troops have refused to reply to my missives.

    As I mentioned earlier I was banned for selling counterfeit products.

    I have asked for evidence and of course, there isn't any , but they just don't reply.

    Would love to see his empire crumble right now.

  • Splinter
    Admin Thread Author
    Likes
    2,494
    Posts
    15,687
    • November 30, 2023 at 9:03 AM
    • #8

    Is he trying to kill X?

    Elon Musk hurls defiant, profanity-laced retort at fleeing advertisers
    At New York event Wednesday, X owner had choice words for Walt Disney and others who pulled ads over antisemitic content
    www.theguardian.com

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

  • Rice
    Likes
    1,977
    Posts
    16,215
    • November 30, 2023 at 9:31 AM
    • #9

    He seems to suffer from that incurable illness that disproportionately affects the powerful and ultra-rich: its technical name is I’m-So-Important-I-Can-Do-Absolutely-Anything-Including-Sitting-on-My-Own-Grenade.

  • aficionado
    Likes
    440
    Posts
    1,002
    • December 4, 2023 at 3:17 PM
    • #10

    I had been reading that many were advising X CEO Linda Yaccarino to leave after the advertisers paused two weeks ago. Seems she is on-board. with memo to employees to stick with it even after Musks latest follow-up rant.

    Yaccarino: “Our principles do not have a price tag”

    X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview
    "Elon's interview was candid and profound," Yaccarino writes in memo to staff.
    arstechnica.com
  • Rice
    Likes
    1,977
    Posts
    16,215
    • December 4, 2023 at 4:38 PM
    • #11

    She clearly has a lot to lose if Elon succeeds in taking the company down the tubes. But the average employee is undoubtedly looking for the exit lights.

  • Splinter
    Admin Thread Author
    Likes
    2,494
    Posts
    15,687
    • December 4, 2023 at 5:31 PM
    • #12

    In the mornings I flip through Twatter just for the hell of it and it reminds me that it's all about bitching.

    I wouldn't miss it one bit.

    A Brit In Buenos Aires

Thank you for the support!

Beer to be spent?

Donate now via Paypal*

*Forwarding to PayPal.Me

Donation Goal

10% reached

Today’s Birthdays

  1. vanessa90

    Mar 7th 1990 (36)

Hosting by Prostack UK.

Tags

  • elon musk twitter
  1. Privacy Policy
  2. Legal Notice
  3. Contact
Powered by WoltLab Suite™ 6.2.0
Argentina Expats Forum in the WSC-Connect App on Google Play
Argentina Expats Forum in the WSC-Connect App on the App Store
Download