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

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  • #9122
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528413#Comment_121528413

    LOL, Well, I've no intention of clicking on the supplied link, for sure. But in my time on "X", I remember other posters saying that they knew posters that had been blocked for expressing opinions at a variance to Musks. And there is plenty of talk about "X" being very discriminatory when it comes to pro Ukrainian poste.



  • #9123
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,087 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528425#Comment_121528425

    Ahh no...pro Ukraine won't get you cancelled nor will pro Russian that's the beauty of X.

    I haven't taken any side in either Israel or Russia on X...

    You can disagree with Musk all you want and nothing will happen. Only Irish people that's gonna feel his wrath is Mehole, Leo, Donnelly, Harris and McEntee and rightly so. Irish twitter files are coming and I can't wait to see these plebs buried.



  • #9124
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,023 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528448#Comment_121528448

    You can disagree with Musk all you want and nothing will happen.

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  • #9125
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121525041#Comment_121525041

    Interesting read. They had a chance to steal a march on the big players but squandered it on short-termism to make money from shares. Ford, Mercedes, VW etc we’re always going to reel them in by their sheer size and networks. But Tesla could have been part of joint ventures etc with them and been integral to the automotive world.

    What have Tesla got going for them now? Not a luxury car, not a well built car, not a cheap car, limited dealer network, treat customers like dirt and associated so closely with a man child racist. I don’t think they’re finished but it’s not looking good.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #9126
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,087 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528509#Comment_121528509

    If you're posting than from an iPhone you've a lot to learn.

    VW, Mercedes, Ford are in trouble. No fault of their own but libtard states like California and crazy blocks like the EU and it's rules are killing their business.

    Can you show one example of where Elon has been racist? And while your at it, what's a racist. I bet you've been a racist at some point.

    Tesla is crushing it on Volume sales of EV's.



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  • #9127
    Davis Salmon Scumbag
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Davis Salmon Scumbag


    Elon Musk relies on Saudi money and anyone signed up with a verified has their details logged and stored by the Israeli government.

    The richest man in the world is bought and sold for.

    The joys of capitalism.



  • #9128
    timetogo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 892 ✭✭✭timetogo1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528326#Comment_121528326

    It was in the news later that day that twitter had been down.



  • #9129
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭francois


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528532#Comment_121528532

    "Libtard"? Grow up. Onto the ignore list.



  • #9130
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528532#Comment_121528532

    Thanks man. I really needed a laugh. That hit the spot nicely 😂😂

    Merry Winter Festival to you

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #9131
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,933 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528169#Comment_121528169

    It was Musk that used the hyperloop to campaign against funding of public transport though, a fairly despicable tactic.



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  • #9132
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528532#Comment_121528532

    In Europe, VW have sold more EVs than Tesla. On top of that, you have the likes of Byd entering the European market so Tesla is gonna get hit heavily by that. Meanwhile the likes of the cyber truck is unlikely to even sell in Europe due to safety concerns...


    Tesla were very much so top dog in EV sales and still tend to be number one in the US. But they're gonna be facing much larger EV competition in the next year or two. Recalls and reliability reports are working against them too.



  • #9133
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529257#Comment_121529257

    Worth pointing out that much of American public infrastructure is falling apart - literally. 3 year old video so perhaps Biden has tried arresting it but I'm not getting the sense the worst of the problem has been fixed.

    Musk's tactics just hasten problems he could fix - again, instead choosing to fúck the planet he claimed he wanted to save.

    https://youtu.be/EdvJSGc14xA?si=vqiqWZ01eY06b7i3




  • #9134
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528636#Comment_121528636

    Yes, I saw that, but seeing as I got a msg from them blocking my account, the downtime came after I was blocked, so I was unaware of it. Ah, well...time to look for something else!!! I could set up a new account, but that would mean creating a whole new me, and that's just not worth the bother.



  • #9135
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528448#Comment_121528448

    Well, if you want to try expressing a pro Ukraine, anti-Russian opinion on X, be my guest!!! LOL. For sheer pro-Russian propaganda, it's hard to beat X in my experience anyway. In any case, have you heard of many posters being blocked on X?



  • #9136
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,741 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529302#Comment_121529302

    Musk doesn't want to put out the fire. He wants to lock the government into contracts and grants for Musk's fire engines.



  • #9137
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,933 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    So cruel

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  • #9138
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529423#Comment_121529423

    For sure. But there was that hot minute of his pomp when he sold a good game. And you could believe it too.

    Now, he runs a company that openly OKs abuse and prejudice. It's all there in the content moderation manual; I think it was shared before but does bare repeating given how exacting the supposed "free speech" angle now is.

    Elon Musk’s X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.

    Among the examples of a post that is no longer subject to the same level of enforcement action is: “The next stop on our Poland tour is Auschwitz. Jews this is your last top. Please get off here and take all your luggage with you.”

    No longer subject to the same level of enforcement are:

    • unsolicited sexual posts sent to another user

    • posts that deny violent events such as the Holocaust

    • posts that refer to specific slurs for black, white and gay people

    • posts that harass another user by sending a picture of Adolf Hitler

    • posts that reference mass murder

    • posts that call for the denial of support to the business of a protected category

    • posts that remove human characteristics or deprives groups or individuals of human qualities.

    The changes have been made as part of X’s “Freedom of Speech, Not Reach” policy, which was announced by the company in April.

    Training documents show how moderators are told not to take action to get these posts removed from X, but instead to make them “less discoverable” for users.

    Kinda hard to do that when Twitter Blue ensures these bots and trolls get easy prominence through their subscription.

    https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/


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  • #9139
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,600 ✭✭✭francois


    Merry Xmas everyone

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  • #9140
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    GCIliHXXYAAH-9Z.jpg

    Musk is going to have to put in some serious PR to make the world forget that he's a ****. Bill Gates sort of managed it though, so maybe there's hope for him.



  • #9141
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    I’ve a few blue sky invite codes if anyone wants one. PM me.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #9142
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Musk loses anothe court case

    Elon Musk's X fails to block California's content moderation law

    Dec 28 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X on Thursday failed to block a California state law that requires social media companies to publicly disclose how they moderate certain content on their platforms.


    X, formerly known as Twitter, in September sued California to undo the content moderation law, saying the law violated its free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment and California's state constitution.


    The law requires social media companies with a sizable gross annual revenue to issue semiannual reports that describe their content moderation practices, and provide data on the number of objectionable posts and how they were addressed.


    U.S. District Judge William Shubb in an eight-page decision dismissed the social media company's request.


    "While the reporting requirement does appear to place a substantial compliance burden on social medial companies, it does not appear that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law," Shubb wrote.


    X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/elon-musks-x-fails-block-californias-content-moderation-law-2023-12-29/



  • #9143
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,741 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I do love that California basically match or even surpass EU policies much of the time. Guess Musk will have to remove Twitter in the EU and an individual state. 🤣



  • #9144
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546045#Comment_121546045

    Big, hearty ha-ha; presumably Twitter concerned that these reports are gonna, by default, show the company as enabling abuse and hate speech rather than combatting it - further eroding trust, competence and visibility as a useful tool for advertisers.



  • #9145
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Not just hate speech and abuse it took them days to take down pretty much a snuff film of the murder of an Irish gangland figure on Christmas Eve that was reported to them and it shared thousands of times before they took it down and screen shots of that were used by lots of proper media outlets.

    I doubt any advertsers want there ads above or below those kind of videos.



  • #9146
    boredyooser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭boredyooser


    He's a bit crazy.

    But give me him over Jeff Bezos anyway, who has hoovered up the world's disposable income to spend it on a gargantuan mid life crisis, with dumping his wife for a minor zelebrity, his superduperwhooper yatch and self aggrandising penis rocket.

    Never mind others on the list.

    When he is long gone, if he gets us to Mars, I think we can say that he contributed to human civilisation and advancement.

    Genius is close to madness. Crack eggs to make omelettes and all that.

    Most of history's greatest artists and musicians died in poverty of an STI, only for somebody 200 years later to recognise their genius.

    If nothing else, he is entertaining.



  • #9147
    RobbieV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭RobbieV


    Dactivated my account during the week. Found myself going down some sort of far left/far right arguing with everyone time sink. Also was feeling a bit depressed from it if I'm honest. Saying nasty things to strangers who said nasty things to me and being fed more and more of the same.

    Can't be good



  • #9148
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭Harika


    Twitter was always best by only reading tweets and not reading comments. Also withstand the temptation to answer.



  • #9149
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,936 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554787#Comment_121554787

    So you're saying that Musk will die of an STI? entirely possible I suppose



  • #9150
    boredyooser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭boredyooser


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121555552#Comment_121555552

    Yes, maybe he will die of an STI. Better, penniless, having squandered and lost a squillion of dollars on bad business decisions.

    It will be the greatest moral parable ever if only Monty Python would still be around to tell it.

    Better get that guy injecting himself with his kids blood and popping vitamins at a precise minute past a precise hour on the case !



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  • #9151
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121555683#Comment_121555683

    Peter Thiel is another **** entirely, let us never speak of him again.



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