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

That's the thing the Brexiteers still don't get, if you want international trade without undue friction you need agreed standards, you need a means of adjudicating disputes (a supra-national court) and you need a means of enforcing penalties for breaching the agreed rules.

Their refusal to submit to any 'foreign authority' e.g. European Court of Justice means they'll ultimately end up trading only with themselves.

I don't like the phrase "common market" though, a 1970s British invention intended to make the idea of doing business with Johnny Foreigner more palatable, but the EEC / EC / EU never made a secret of the commitment of member states to "ever closer union" which has been in the Treaty of Rome since day 1. It's not all just about trade and never has been.

It's the single market which ironically was largely a creation of the UK. Even Thatcher could see that flag-waving was a poor substitute for making it easier to do business.

Another country we perceive as allergic to regulation, the US, wasn't always like that. They broke up the huge trusts like Standard Oil in the early 20th century. They brought in federal vehicle safety and emissions standards well before Europe did. They created an Environmental Protection Agency long before we or most other European countries did. Of course since Reagan let the religious right take over the country, all of the above has at best been rendered inefffective.

Not really sure what your point is. Would you be happier if the colours were reversed? I imagine the equivalent graph for Bsky is all blue.

From the quoted post:

"Your participation is not going to change this graph"

That really is the point isn't it? Turn it into a left-leaning site as opposed to a right leaning one. Failing that, just do what you can to get all lefties off it.

By the way, I haven't seen a post from Elon Musk on X since I muted him a few weeks ago. So, you can ignore him if you want to.

It could be argued that they never actually have anything positive to say or add. They thrive in the negative no solutions or answers zone. Almost existing to make everything so much more abysmally worse.

Self centered and self interested.

It does illustrate that they're very much so promoting far right accounts that are prone to disinformation. Libs of TikTok for example has resulted in the likes of libraries facing bomb threats.

The funny thing about that is that Libs of TikTok (Chaya Raichik) gained fame and notoriety not for posting disinformation, but for doing nothing more than reposting the content posted by other (crazy liberal) people. Check the wikipedia article about her if you don't believe me.

On the assertion that she caused libraries to face bomb threats, well that's exactly the same thing as Trump's claim that the "fake news" (as he sees it) caused the assassination attempts against him. Yes, you may be able to draw a causal link between the words of one person and the actions of a demented person who heard them. But, I'm sure you wouldn't argue that criticism of Donald Trump should be curtailed because some lunatic took a pot shot at him because he was offended by such criticism.

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

Elon removes pictures of himself using is AI scanner all the time.

Elon also bans accounts all the time, including journalists ones. Sure you were given an example of a ban on here.

You're making stuff up when you say the site doesn't protect people from other opinions. It most definitely does it shuts down opinions it's owner doesn't like and amplifies ones he does.

Its a lie to claim that the scales aren't tipped and equally that he doesn't remove or censor content.

You claimed that you can't mute Elon Musk and I proved you wrong. I'm not going to call you a liar but you're not credible. I think you (along with a lot of other people) have drunk the kool-aid, and jumped on the Musk hate band wagon, because you don't like his political views, and you don't like the fact that right wing views are widely disseminated on X (as post 12844 shows). This campaign to get people and organisations to leave the site is only going to polarise society even further.

Musk hate band wagon ?

There's a bang wagon?

I've my own personal reasons for thinking the man is an international fraud, scam artist , thief, manipulator, evil, self absorbed, egotistical, fool and an extreme racist .

But he also thinks he can meddle in Irish politics (and no not just this week) .

He fck all the way off and when that gimp Trump is gone I hope he gets everything coming to him on merit he should be up on treason charges in the US.

But you probably think he's golden because he got rich

Is this like when the free man of the world tried to sue companies for not advertising on his racial Nazi proliferation engine.

Sure he's so open an free if you don't want to be there he will try get you in court.