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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

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  • #5402
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,131 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    do people really want unmoderated social media?



  • #5403
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,834 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120012701#Comment_120012701

    He'll probably try to get Mike Pence to overturn this Poll



  • #5404
    farmingquestion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭farmingquestion


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013938#Comment_120013938

    I'd rather unmoderated to overly moderated, yes.

    The whatsapp groups are great. People can post whatever they like. That's good for news and gossip. Not good for discussion though.

    For example over on r/ireland, I remember there was a video of a young black lad stabbing the **** out of another lad. Video got removed.

    But when it was a far left activist who was hit, then there was multiple videos and discussions around it.

    During the abortion referendum, when yanks commented against abortion, they were called astro turfers. But all the pro abortion yanks were welcomed.

    Few months ago, anyone wanting a cap on Ukrainian refugees was called a Putin apologist. Thankfully now that people are seeing the effects, they're now admitting these people were right and are turning around now.



  • #5405
    UsBus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭UsBus


    There must be serious pressure coming from Tesla board/investors. He's gone missing since this debacle started. The workload involved in being in charge of one of these companies would be off the charts, let alone 3 of them. Whatever your opinion of Tesla, it's outrageous the effect he is having on the company selling huge share volume to fund this mess.

    I think the ultimatum has been laid down to him that he can't run all companies competently. The pole give's him an out that was already planned.



  • #5406
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    He’s got what? Less than 10% of Tesla? The shareholders should just oust him. The whole thing’s ridiculously damaging to the brand and to its value.

    I mean what does he bring to the brand? Chaos is hardly something desirable.



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  • #5407
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,899 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014053#Comment_120014053

    I think that is absolutely on the cards in the near future.

    Tesla has lost $640B in value over the last 12 months which is over 50% and despite Musk trying to blame it all on the Federal reserve interest rate hikes , the collapse in the Telsa stock price has far far outpaced the general decline in the Stock market.

    In the last 6 Months the Nasdaq is down about 2% whereas Tesla is down 31% in the same time-frame.

    Either he starts to at least look like he's spending the majority of his time focused on Tesla or the stock-holders are absolutely going to kick him out.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #5408
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,917 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014296#Comment_120014296

    And that's where Musk's biggest lie will be fully exposed. His claims about social media, protecting free speech, and defending democracy through protecting Twitter as a public square.... it'll all become a fart in the wind when he chooses to protect his money instead. The Twitter poll was always going to result in a vote for him to step down as CEO, that much was clear after his previous poll with the loaded question about unsuspending journalists who dox his family's location went against him.

    To try and secure new funding for Twitter and try to stabilise the platform for advertisers, as well as trying to protect Tesla and go back to focusing on it to prevent shareholders ousting him, stepping down from being so involved with Twitter would be his best move even if he retains ownership. He will always value his wealth over everything else.



  • #5409
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,131 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i wonder does he really think that 'putting it to a poll' equates to 'free speech'? hard to guess what his thinking is.



  • #5410
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014389#Comment_120014389

    Presumably like the patina about "free speech", this is some facade of "direct democracy" to give his ego an out from this whole debacle. Oh well if the people say I should leave...



  • #5411
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    Twitter will probably financially collapse and he’ll just blame poll, the Twitter community of users who voted and whoever is stupid enough to put themselves into the CEO position … and no doubt continue to berate the advertisers as biased, because they won’t touch it with a barge pole.

    He started the dumpster fire and will just away… It’ll cost him billions, but it’s all about ego and face.



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  • #5412
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014692#Comment_120014692

    I still maintain we won't know the true change in Twitter's value & success until a couple of years pass; it's entirely possible Musk might step down, insert someone without a giant McCain oven chip on their shoulder & the new boss claw back some monetary purpose for the site.

    This online poll over Musk's status (JFC, 2022 everyone) was a surprise and if he's serious it reads like he wants an out via the convenience of letting "the people" decide.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #5413
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    He hasn't tweeted in 13 hours. I take it that that is unusual for him these days?

    Bit like when Bolsonaro lost that Brazilian election and there wasn't a peep out of him for days.



  • #5414
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013992#Comment_120013992

    Your example of reddit being over moderated is them removing a video of someone getting stabbed!?



  • #5415
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,917 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014733#Comment_120014733

    Well with sleep and likely travelling back from Qatar, it's probably understandable. You'd think though he would have set the poll to end at a time he could respond to the results.



  • #5416
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    Probably accidentally banned himself and has had to move to Mastodon.



  • #5417
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120013938#Comment_120013938


    They say that they do but, as Musk as shown, what they really want is for "their side" to be free to say what they want while clamping down hard on the rights of the other side.

    It's analogous to football managers saying that all they want are consistent referees when what they really want are for the refs to not make 50/50 decisions that go against their teams (if they make them in favour of their team they won't be complaining about consistency then).



  • #5418
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120014748#Comment_120014748

    But doesn’t he only sleep for 6 hours a night? And doesn’t he own a satellite internet provider that will be providing internet communication to the airline industry in 2023? Be strange if his own private jet doesn’t have it already, either from Starlink or another provider.



  • #5419
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,364 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    This is the most expensive forum moderator meltdown the world has ever seen. We’re about a day away from him posting ‘hacked’ dick pics of himself with a sock puppet account.



  • #5420
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    15 hours without a tweet - for someone who tweets as frequently as him he's very likely explicitly trying to stay off the platform at this point. I can't see his resolve lasting too long. Apparently when Trump was kicked off the platform he was practically going through withdrawals from not getting his tweeting fix in.



  • #5421
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015023#Comment_120015023

    I saw that happen one Christmas day, except the offender wrote a script to replace all his own posts with child porn.



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  • #5422
    xxxxxxl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭xxxxxxl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015256#Comment_120015256

    I hope that was reported to the Garda.



  • #5423
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015265#Comment_120015265

    It was a FUBRA, the user had thousands of posts. The form was run from Australia, hosted in the US and the offender lived in the UK. What made it worse was the police did not want the posts deleted, as they were evidence. In the end, I believe the UK police called to his house and he got a warning.



  • #5424
    xxxxxxl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭xxxxxxl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015314#Comment_120015314

    must have been lucky then not having the images on the machine just hyperlink to a database. Even so that should be a red flag.



  • #5425
    joseywhales
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,370 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    So will he hire Jack Dorsey as CEO? lol



  • #5426
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    This is turning into a bit of a ‘will he? .. wont he?’ high drama. The only thing that I can certainly see is he’s getting a LOTS of attention…



  • #5427
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,073 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015531#Comment_120015531

    True and that'll likely be his go-to spiel after the dust settles, that it was all an "act" to draw attention to the business and get more users.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #5428
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Well. From 17 million accounts, 57.5% told Musk to step down. What comes next will be a fascinating latest twist in this lurid, bizarre tale.



  • #5429
    Commoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Commoner


    The hard left are having a tough time finding an alternative to Twitter! Looks like these activists failed to get the desired effect from pressuring advertising companies to dance to their tune.



  • #5430
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,798 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120015683#Comment_120015683

    Yep, it was all a conspiracy from activists and nothing to do with Musk's mismanagement.

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  • #5431
    Colten Little Bellboy
    Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭ Colten Little Bellboy


    I’m predicting: “They’re all bots! It was a fix 🤖”

    It’s a well trodden path!



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