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

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  • #10112
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,020 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Even Grok thinks Elon is a dìckhead

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  • #10113
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,389 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Where does he think his petty little lawsuit will go, exactly? He's targetting corporations who are more than able to fight back against his grotty little online cesspit. No judge is going to establish a precedent that boycotting something is illegal.

    A decade ago, most people would have thought of him as some sort of silicon valley entrepreneur if they knew who he was. Now, he's just another loon running mostly crap businesses and going on the sort of vile crusades you'd expect a pro-apartheid South African to embark upon.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #10114
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483045#Comment_122483045

    He's got a load of petty ongoing lawsuits iirc. They just disappear into the abyss ultimately.



  • #10115
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122482170#Comment_122482170

    Not really, YT is my primary source of entertainment and while I mostly watch gardening & DIY channels (yeah I know I'm a blast) anytime YT recommends shite on my feed its a simple case of hitting the do not recommend button. That said I really don't get much stuff like that filtering my way on youtube at all.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483048#Comment_122483048

    The DPC case is moving swiftly along in the irish courts.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0808/1464108-x-to-pause-using-european-user-data-to-train-ai-systems/

    The operator of the 'X' social media platform has given an undertaking to the High Court to temporarily cease processing the personal data of its European users to train any of its Artificial Intelligence systems.



  • #10116
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,389 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483113#Comment_122483113

    Youtube isn't really social media though the same way that X is. I agree that people can and should use the "Do not recommend channel" feature. I've had to use it a lot lately and I find it illuminating that Youtube was and is trying to get me to watch hard right, racist content.

    I've managed to mostly fix it but it's annoying see it promote these people constantly. Another example is when I watched an IGN video about the game Resident Evil 5 which features a white male protagonist gunning down Africans who have been turned into monsters by a fictional parasite. I got spammed with incel after incel whingeing about it and it took a lot of don't recommends to stop that.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #10117
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,257 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483045#Comment_122483045

    He'll likely win at the first instance, as he has venue shopped for a district with one, whackjob, judge that it was inevitable to get

    And then lose, horribly, on appeal.



  • #10118
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Youtube isn't really social media though the same way that X is. 

    Thank god, otherwise I'd be screwed. I'd have to amass a hoard of people I barely know in order to maintain a 'presence' when all I want to do is watch someone cut grass. (I have no friends) 😉



  • #10119
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,389 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483181#Comment_122483181

    Or paint a map. I can relate.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #10120
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,094 ✭✭✭corkie


    So ironically posted on 'X' by Billy Kelleher: -

    https://twitter.com/BillyKelleherEU/status/1821838748298178643

    https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2024-08-09/elon-musk-must-clean-up-his-act

    Musk has not helped things by being so vocal on things in the UK.

    @Babyreignbow Thanks for posting about the GDPR case, I edited my last post yesterday to include it.

    #Aras25 | Have your say on the two linked polls? AH & CA
    "There will be a protest vote and absolutely people’s right to do that. There is no intention to take away that right or to stop it in any way." ~ Chair of the Electoral Commission Ms Justice Marie Baker
    "Níl mé toilteanach toil a thabhairt"! 24-09-2025 09:31PM



  • #10121
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,389 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    What's the problem?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #10122
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,613 ✭✭✭Harika


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122483881#Comment_122483881

    It's not ironic, Twitter is still one of the most important social media to reach your constituency. From a professional point of view you won't get around it.



  • #10123
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122484232#Comment_122484232

    This is funny because while it's true in that it maintains it's hold over such a vast swathe of the population, I listened to a local politician talk on radio earlier this week about their twitter and other social media accounts and decided on the back of that I probably wouldn't be voting for them going forward.

    It's not solely that they have a profile there, I'm fairly sure they all do but how it appears to influence them and their realms of importance. (something to do with someone with ten followers wanting to mooch off their thousands of followers) I just don't want to vote for that.



  • #10124
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,094 ✭✭✭corkie


    @Babyreignbow about their twitter and other social media accounts and decided on the back of that I probably wouldn't be voting for them going forward.

    Strange, I am the opposite, not just 'X', but if I can not find a social media presence for a candidate, I may not vote for them. It is good to see how they are representing themselves and opinions of others.

    https://scholar.harvard.edu/sounman_hong/politicians-social-media-perceptions-risk-and-reward

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    Some politicians are good on the platform and understand how to utilize it. Others are bad when they don't understand how to use the tools of the platform and moan about abuse on it.

    #Aras25 | Have your say on the two linked polls? AH & CA
    "There will be a protest vote and absolutely people’s right to do that. There is no intention to take away that right or to stop it in any way." ~ Chair of the Electoral Commission Ms Justice Marie Baker
    "Níl mé toilteanach toil a thabhairt"! 24-09-2025 09:31PM



  • #10125
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122484604#Comment_122484604

    I expect every politician has a social media presence, in fact they have people paid to do their pr. The subject of their tweets is what I'm referring to. It was the first time I'd actually heard their policies being put forward as like I said, I don't have a presence on social media so the only way I would be able to hear their views is if they do public speaking old school style, in this case radio.

    I didn't get a feel that they had a clear cut plan but was going along for the ride. I realised they operated in the same spheres as the most corrupt board in the county and were career politicians and would no doubt be doing their best to protect their cronies once they got elected. maybe if I had X or Y I'd have already known this but I doubt it.



  • #10126
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,094 ✭✭✭corkie


    Reports the UNOFFICIAL @ukgov account is suspended but the official @GOVUK is still active.

    Below is active both on mobile app and web browser.

    https://twitter.com/X/status/1822009969610293687
    Post edited by corkie on

    #Aras25 | Have your say on the two linked polls? AH & CA
    "There will be a protest vote and absolutely people’s right to do that. There is no intention to take away that right or to stop it in any way." ~ Chair of the Electoral Commission Ms Justice Marie Baker
    "Níl mé toilteanach toil a thabhairt"! 24-09-2025 09:31PM



  • #10127
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,020 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Musk gets schooled by a cat parody account

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  • #10128
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,020 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    ⁷

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122485842#Comment_122485842

    Wow!!!

    He really thinks he's above everyone else

    Methinks this will be the find out part of F.A.F.O for Mr Musk.

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  • #10129
    Flaneur OBrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122485943#Comment_122485943

    That's not an official UK government account though, is it?



  • #10130
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,020 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122486020#Comment_122486020

    My apologies

    You are corrects

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  • #10131
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Musk very obviously using the platform to obfuscate history. Assume there's multiple archives out there but still just bizarre behaviour. Makes the platform less and less trustworthy in terms of just being a living document that can be traversed.

    https://www.mediaite.com/online/its-now-impossible-to-search-old-trump-tweets-on-x/



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  • #10132
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭Deregos.
    Time to put childish things aside.


    . .

    Post edited by Deregos. on


  • #10133
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭Deregos.
    Time to put childish things aside.


    I don't know which other countries governments he's had similar spats with, but Musk has attempted to interfere with the US, the UK and now the Venezuelan elections, whose government has just banned X for ten days.

    What other person has that sort of power to potentially influence every election result, from every country on the entire planet ? He's up there with some of the most powerful and dangerous people to have ever lived, and his interference with derisiveness is escalating.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypx0p84rgo.amp


  • #10134
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,094 ✭✭✭corkie


    Thread broken again since this morning! Maybe this post will unlock it.

    This is from a parody account: -

    https://twitter.com/Sandford_Police/status/1822225608908120363

    England’s smallest Police Farce, committed to catching crinimals & a swan. Don’t report crime. Emergency? Yes📞999 | No📞101 (PARODY/SATIRE) #TheGreaterGood— From Bio

    Someones comment in replies: - "When you can't tell satire from real life, it's damn good satire."

    #Aras25 | Have your say on the two linked polls? AH & CA
    "There will be a protest vote and absolutely people’s right to do that. There is no intention to take away that right or to stop it in any way." ~ Chair of the Electoral Commission Ms Justice Marie Baker
    "Níl mé toilteanach toil a thabhairt"! 24-09-2025 09:31PM



  • #10135
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1822352993422901402

    When you say you, you mean immigrants, homosexuals and people of different faiths right?



  • #10136
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,094 ✭✭✭corkie


    @Babyreignbow

    Thought of you when I saw that tweet and bookmarked it.

    Someone else retweet with the heading: -

    Elon can't understand that on this platform, he's the empire, and we are the resistance.

    Didn't think you where on the platform.

    Some accounts are trying to get '#blockelonmusk' to trending. Lot of sheep are following it and appear to be doing so.

    https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/hugo-weaving-slams-far-right-groups-matrix-v-for-vendetta-1234585791/ « Sept 2020

    “I was like, ‘Wow, man. That couldn’t be more the opposite of what it stands for!’ Weaving said. “The original V was based on Guy Fawkes, and these guys were trying to blow up the House of Parliament. They were young Catholic protesters who were being persecuted by their government, trying to rebel against that, and taking very violent course of action to make their cause. To me, that mask has always represented questioning the government. And somehow now it’s guys who are generally unhappy with what’s going on, or guys who think they look cool.”

    #Aras25 | Have your say on the two linked polls? AH & CA
    "There will be a protest vote and absolutely people’s right to do that. There is no intention to take away that right or to stop it in any way." ~ Chair of the Electoral Commission Ms Justice Marie Baker
    "Níl mé toilteanach toil a thabhairt"! 24-09-2025 09:31PM



  • #10137
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122489367#Comment_122489367

    Didn't think you where on the platform.

    I'm not. 😎



  • #10138
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,066 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122489023#Comment_122489023

    The ketamine is strong in this one.



  • #10139
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122488387#Comment_122488387

    Let's just remember, that Twitter happily censors content in the likes of Turkey. Musk does not care about freedom of speech .



  • #10140
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122489552#Comment_122489552

    It is really concerning that we have got to the point where a drug induced man is playing with so much power.



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  • #10141
    Harika
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,613 ✭✭✭Harika


    Was the Dawkins Facebook Ban already posted? if not below the info that Dawkins is full of cow menure …
    https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-lied-about-the-algerian

    Anyway he deleted his post on twitter after Musk and the usual suspects retweeted it. Dont hold your breath for a clarification from those lads.



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