Elon Musk Twitter X

[quote] The Brazilian Supreme Court justice issued orders to comply earlier this month. Twitter closed its local offices to avoid compliance. Now the Justice is escalating by ordering the naming of a legal Rep for Twitter in Brazil or else they will suspend twitter and levy fines.

[quote] It's likely that Twitter could be suspended in the second largest democracy in the western hemisphere before the end of the week. Honestly, good for them. I'm glad countries are saying enough to Elon's bullshit and sticking it to him. Let's hope the EU is next.

So the government gets to determine what constitutes fake news?

Fuckin prick.

Him, dump, dump's minions are all from the same cesspool in hell

Why is it always the wrong billionaires that die at sea?

Because they are generally minding their own business and enjoying themselves instead of trying to coordinate a coup with fascists or force everyone to their warped way of thinking.

Love the smell of burning lithium in the morning.

He's trying to cover up the Trump Arlington story by labeling links to the NPR story as "unsafe"

This is what the US should have done as well.

Elon's trashing voting by mail...even though he has voted by mail

Me too neither umph!

It's great that he posts his pearls of wisdom every time neurons in his brain start firing, probably prompted by new drugs he's taken. Is he still copped up with Grimes, getting high?

Send the prick back to South Africa if he doesn't like the way we do things here.

[quote] Brazil blocked the social network X on Friday after its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with a Brazilian judge’s orders to suspend certain accounts, the biggest test yet of the billionaire’s efforts to transform the site into a digital town square where just about anything goes.

[quote] Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, ordered internet providers to block access to X across the nation of 200 million because the company lacked a necessary legal representative in Brazil.

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[quote] In an unusual move, Justice Moraes also froze the finances of another Musk business in Brazil, SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet service, to try to collect fines he has levied against X. Starlink — which has recently exploded in popularity in Brazil, with more than 250,000 customers — said that it planned to fight the order and would make its service free in Brazil if necessary.

[quote] So the government gets to determine what constitutes fake news?

And therein lies the problem. Americans don’t get that the rest of the world doesn’t believe nor guarantee free speech.

But we won't get any more of the funny twitter Portuguese translations anymore.

I think he should bend to the Brazil judge's will. I think that will set a marvelous precedent.

I'm surprised the EU hasn't him with something similar. Their anti-hate speech laws are very strict. Fingers crossed.

Mail voting for me, but not for thee.

Go back to apartheid South Africa you white supremacist asshole, and stop meddling in US affairs.

r21 An EU Commission investigation into Twitter has been ongoing since December, but they released their preliminary findings last month that Twitter is in breach of the DSA. Should be wrapped up this year.

[quote]If the Commission's preliminary views were to be ultimately confirmed, the Commission would adopt a non-compliance decision finding that X is in breach of Articles 25, 39 and 40(12) of the DSA. Such a decision could entail fines of up to 6% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the provider, and order the provider to take measures to address the breach. A non-compliance decision may also trigger an enhanced supervision period to ensure compliance with the measures the provider intends to take to remedy the breach. The Commission can also impose periodic penalty payments to compel a platform to comply.

[quote]The Commission has also opened formal proceedings against TikTok in February and April 2024, AliExpress in March 2024, and Meta in April and May 2024.

Official Eurovision team will no longer use Twitter. It has a huge young following who will now switch over to Threads for the new season next year and hopefully even stay there for good.

I am not understanding why you are linking to the platform

Yeah, linking to it while shitting on it makes zero sense.

[quote] Moraes’s ruling will reportedly set a daily fine of around $8,900 on anyone who tries to access the X app via VPN, starting next week. We doubt anyone feels the urge to tweet “come to Brazil” that badly.

free speech for not me!

Elon's not really a fan of "free speech" either...he censors the word "cisgender" for crying out loud

He also censored anything anti-Erdogan during Turkish elections. He's also censoring a number of Saudi accounts.

[quote] O’Connor was also overseeing a recently filed antitrust lawsuit by X against a global advertising association and its member companies like Unilever, Mars and CVS Health. O’Connor then recused himself from the lawsuit. Although he didn’t provide a reason for the recusal, a recent financial disclosure showed that the judge invests in Unilever.

This is why Musk files all of his cases in Texas regardless of relevant jurisdiction

Because that what the talibangelical twats do, r31.

A bunch of unqualified trumptard Heritage cunts who don’t GAF about the LAW, just their twisted talibangelical bullshit.

They all should be hauled out and thrown into the sewer where they came from.

Oh, was it that super MAGA judge with a Polish last name?

[quote] Oh, was it that super MAGA judge with a Polish last name?

Reed O’Connor, not Matthew Kaczmarek

Sadly, there’s multiple of them.

He rolled over fast for Turkey – a much smaller country than Brazil – because Erdogan is a right-wing authoritarian. He's bothered by Brazil's left-wing government and supreme court majority, hence this fight to the death.

It's crazy just how much his trans kid broke his brain/ego. Not helped by daily ketamine abuse, of course.

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This would explain a lot; he's not so much concerned with free speech as he is with creating chaos to increase his profit

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[quote] Musk doesn't care about free speech but he does likely care about mining lithium deposits in Brazil so he can make himself and his cabal more wealthy, which is why he's pushing to destabilize the country to install a right-wing government that'll secure it for him at a bargain.

It will be interesting to see what happens to the stock price after losing the 7th most populous country in the world.

He's now accused this judge of helping subvert the previous presidential election and is in the process of "gathering evidence". So he's 100% trying to destabilise Brazil.

I hate what a single fucker can do just because he's amassed billions of dollars. What a disgusting system we live in.

He needs to have his assets frozen, his citizenship stripped and be deported back to South Africa. Period.

He is a threat to global stability and you’d think the Tesla stockholders would get pretty fucking sick and tired of his asshattery tanking their stock price and boot him.

[quote] Brazil allows sealed court orders which are non-public, and before this, no information have been released about them by either parties. Good chance the Musk did violate that law too ...

With friends like that fuckwit, who needs enemies?

[quote] Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers

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[quote] @garrisonh zeroes in on Musk's obsession with an account that dresses up racist misinformation about minorities’ intelligence and physiology in charts, data, and short but direct posts.

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[quote] In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate —an online civil rights group— found that racial slurs against Black people had increased three times the year’s average, with homophobic and transphobic epithets also seeing a significant uptick, according to the Associated Press. More than a year later, Musk made headlines once again for tweeting racist dog whistles in a potential attempt to “woo” a recently fired Tucker Carlson.

r45 Proving every racist stereotype about white South Africans in the process.

(Oddly, the WaPo article won't post here. Strange, huh?)

He’s getting more comfortable being an open fascist

He must be cumming right now after those election results in Germany.

Maybe we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place were he able to cum, r49

he threatened the judge for nothing

No, he’s a fucking dweeb cosplaying as an edgelord.

"Democrats are the party of criminals," says the man supporting a 34-time Republican felon for president.

[quote] “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.”

[quote] Saw my first cybertruck in a parking lot last weekend, and it's funny bc on the one hand, it is a genuinely unique design in an era of brutal over-optimized sameness, and that's kind of neat.

[quote] it absolutely looks like a 1st grader inherited an auto company, drew a picture of a truck with crayons, brought it to the first board meeting, and shouted "truck! truck!! TRUCK!!" until the engineers relented and built him the truck

Elon caught promoting the "Tenet Media" Russian asset scam

[quote]A record number of firms plan to cut advertising spending on X next year because of concerns that extreme content on the platform could damage their brands, dealing another blow to the financial fortunes of Elon Musk’s social media company.

[quote]A global survey by market research firm Kantar found that a net 26% of marketers plan to decrease their spending on X in 2025, the biggest recorded pullback from any major global ad platform.

Yes, Elon Musk and DJT, the two most famous spoiled and coddled nepo babies in the world, are going to ensure that we live in a meritocracy 🙄

X may be the harbinger of fake news, horrific verbal attacks by demented people and what have you but censorship is not the answer. Who are you, who is anybody to decide what I may or may not read?

Isn't there a ledge somewhere you should be on, R63, screaming into the void?

The article he shared is claiming

[quoite] 20,000 non-citizen Haitians destroy a town in Ohio and reportedly kill and eat people's pets

If true, THAT would be a legitimate story. Possibly, reporting that someone said this is what happened and there is an investigation also might be a story. But repeating crackpot allegations without any proof is akin to slander.

As the saying goes, it is not the media's job to repeat whatever one side says without wading into the fray, sussing out the details of both sides and attempting to find the true. It is not censorship to withhold that what you cannot verify or, at the very least, provide notations/context.

And, since you want to use an international platform, R63, you'll have to have it comply with the laws of the countries in which operates, such as the EU. In short, in spite of your stupid expectations, fuck your feelings cupcake!

If anyone ever deserved to be stomped…

Someone needs to mercilessly knock the fucking stink off this terrorizing prick, Brooklyn style.

These are the racist lies he is helping to spread

For every fake news and fucked up comment on Twitter there's an equal response challenging it. Which one should be censored?

This is from TikTok. I hope Elon loses his government contracts. I fucking loathe him.

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Apartheid cooties 🤢

JoeMyGod

[quote] Elon Musk channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Texas PAC he primarily funds to try to unseat a Texas prosecutor earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with his involvement, as well as FCC filings and corporate documents.

[quote] The Tesla CEO used Save Austin Now, a self-described “nonpartisan citizen’s group dedicated to Austin’s quality of life,” to oppose José Garza in the Democratic primary race for Travis County district attorney in March, per the outlet.

[quote] The PAC attacked Garza with texts, TV advertising costing over $650,000, and flyers, some of which featured a bloodstained teddy with the message “José Garza is filling Austin’s streets with pedophiles & killers. The next victim could be your loved one,” the outlet reported.

Dara Kerr

"I went to Memphis to see Musk's xAI supercomputer and learn how it got fast-tracked. This whole story is bananas. The city council didn't know, the utility company signed NDAs, it doesn't have permits for methane gas generators... And all this is for Grok"

[quote] This data center will supply the compute power for Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI. It could be a test case of this technology’s groundbreaking advances, and also its unintended consequences. AI requires more electricity to complete even simple tasks compared to typical search queries. In the U.S., about 60% of that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, which is the primary driver of climate change.

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[quote] Garcia, Pearson and other environmental justice advocates fear that xAI will add to the pollution burden of this already overburdened community, because of its high demand for energy. They say it’s particularly concerning that the project has had little government oversight and the community has been left out of the process.

[quote] When the supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year. Last week, Musk posted on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, that Colossus was brought online over Labor Day weekend, saying “from start to finish, it was done in 122 days.”

[quote] “Moreover,” he added, “it will double in size.”

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[quote] The cancer rate in South Memphis is four times higher than the national average, according to a ProPublica report. And a 2020 University of Memphis study found the life expectancy here is 10 years lower than other parts of the city. South Memphis also has elevated asthma rates, and the American Lung Association gave it a failing grade for air quality. Experts say this is largely due to the neighborhood’s proximity to Memphis’ industrial zone.

[quote] Garcia, Pearson and other environmental justice advocates fear that xAI will add to the pollution burden of this already overburdened community, because of its high demand for energy. They say it’s particularly concerning that the project has had little government oversight and the community has been left out of the process.

He’s such a fucking prick!

Can’t we blast him into space and rid the world of this fucking menace before it’s too late?

R78 He ain't wrong.

He is VERY wrong. He’s encouraging a lunatic to “even the score.”

I mean Tom Nichols isn't wrong. Elon is ALWAYS wrong.

US Secret Service should pay this fucker a visit.

Fuck that, r82.

The IRS should confiscate his businesses as he is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Confiscate his properties, cancel all of his government contracts and sweat him in Gitmo.

Otherwise, he is going to continue to ramp up his attacks in this country and our government.

What an embarrassment he is.

No, it turns out jokes are a lot less funny when they are obvious veiled threats to our elected officials.

I'm gonna enjoy watching this fucker slide into shameful irrelevance after November, having to parade his tucked tail in the Senate for the next four years.

[quote]JD Vance says the United States’ support for NATO should be contingent on Europe’s support for Elon Musk and Twitter.

Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa The parallels between South Africa then and the US today are striking

[quote] Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks, the venture capitalist who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump and a troll of Ukraine, left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)

[quote] In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence. I say that as a fiftysomething white man whose formative experiences include childhood visits to my extended family in apartheid South Africa. (My parents left Johannesburg before I was born.) We’d swim in my grandparents’ pool while the maid and her grandchildren lived in the garage. These experiences were so shocking, so different from anything I experienced growing up in Europe, that they are my sharpest childhood memories. This article was featured in the One Must-Read newsletter, where we recommend one remarkable story each weekday. Sign up for the newsletter here

[quote] So what connects these men’s southern African backgrounds with Maga today? Southern Africa under apartheid offered an extreme version of some of the main themes of American life today. First, there was tremendous inequality. The mine where Thiel’s father worked was “known for conditions not far removed from indentured servitude”, writes Thiel’s biographer Max Chafkin. “White managers, like the Thiels, had access to a brand-new medical and dental centre in Swakopmund and membership in the company country club.” The mine’s black migrant workers lived in work camps.

[quote] To whites of a certain mindset, this inequality wasn’t due to apartheid. They thought it was inscribed in nature. Certain people were equipped to succeed in capitalism, while others weren’t. That was simply the way it was, and it was pointless to try to mess with nature. Two of Thiel’s contemporaries at Stanford in the 1980s recall him telling them that apartheid “works” and was “economically sound”. His spokesman has denied that he ever supported apartheid.

The apple doesn't fall far from the rotten tree.

And the mother who's selling herself as a "wellness influencer/model" is a real peach. Though better at hiding her social media footprint than her neurodivergent incel addict son.

That’s appalling, r87!

I shouldn’t be shocked, but I am.

[quote] 7 years ago, we bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall.

[quote] But this year, an even richer, more racist billionaire— @ElonMusk —fucked that land with tractors and garbage, so we’re suing for $15 million.

Attending the Super Bowl as a guest of Rupert Murdoch, Musk had one of the most luxurious seats in the house, but rather than watching the game, he was glued to his phone in dismay. Both he and President Biden had sent tweets chee on the Philadelphia Eagles, but even though b had far fewer followers than Musk on the platform, the president's tweet garnered 29 million views to Musk's 8.4 million.

Livid, Musk demanded that his engineers find out why his tweet was underperforming Biden's. He left the game early to fly back to his San Francisco office, where dozens of employees were summoned to meet him on a Sunday night.

Eventually, to placate their boss, the engineers tweaked Twitter's algorithm to boost Musk's posts, pushing them into users' feeds whether they follow him or not. "In effect, Musk's tweets would have higher priority over any other post," write Conger and Mac, technology reporters for The New York Times.

[quote] After defying court orders in Brazil for three weeks, Mr. Musk’s social network, X, has capitulated. In a court filing on Friday night, the company’s lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift a block on its site.

[quote] The decision was a surprise move by Mr. Musk, who owns and controls X, after he said he had refused to obey what he called illegal orders to censor voices on his social network. Mr. Musk had dismissed local employees and refused to pay fines. The court responded by blocking X across Brazil last month.

[quote] Now, X’s lawyers said the company had done exactly what Mr. Musk vowed not to: take down accounts that a Brazilian justice ordered removed because the judge said they threatened Brazil’s democracy. X also complied with the justice’s other demands, including paying fines and naming a new formal representative in the country, the lawyers said.

Read the full article. The cult is furious.

He’ll just do it anyway, once the site is restored in Brazil.

It’s what EVERY fucking country should do. Block that hell hole.

R93 He did it because the EU is considering the same move, to fine the hell out of X and potentially ban it.

Good! I hope they do, r95.

Just to hear that pathetic little bitch squeal like a pig!

The cultists are big mad about this

Interesting opinion piece, claiming that Musk's Twitter takeover has trapped the right-wingers in an online echo chamber, much like the Dems in 2016.

r97 Awesome. I just wish she hadn't mispronounced "sycophants", kinda ends on a needle scratch.

Elmo looks like a burn victim.

So glad Congresswoman Plaskett called him out for being an apartheid cunt.

Who are the "cultists" R97 and R93?

Perhaps there's something in the works but I'm genuinely surprised that the UK hasn't blocked Twitter or severely restricted Twitter after what Musk did to spread misinformation and fuel, stoke and encourage the violence during the recent UK riots. Then Musk decided he would get into a fight online complete with admonishments to the British PM. At the time, a lot of UK politicians on the BBC and other UK news services were specifically pointing to Musk as being responsible for spreading false misinformation and encouraging violent rioting and the politicians were in bipartisan agreement (Labor and Tory) that it had to be sorted out.

I blocked Musk long ago on Twitter (I refuse to call it X) but he does things to get around the block so I keep seeing his fucking nasty, insane, racist and homophobic tweets. If someone came up with a new platform which wasn't owned and manipulated by a billionaire then Twitter would die out completely in 2 weeks. And anything from fellow billionaire Zuckerberg does not qualify. Oligarchs.

[quote]Who are the "cultists"

The Musk fanboys who've been licking his ass since he got his plugs and became an aspie a little over a decade ago. If you look at his profile, he's surrounded by rightwingers (and sometimes just plain neo-Nazis) fawning over him and competing for his attention.

[quote]If someone came up with a new platform which wasn't owned and manipulated by a billionaire then Twitter would die out completely in 2 weeks

BlueSky, Mastodon. Lots of people have migrated there already, no one I know is on X anymore. And anyone who still is has no right to bitch about Musk while directly lining his pockets.

Musk should be drawn fatter and with less hair.

R104 "Am I missing something here?"

Yeah. Free speech applies to only that which aligns with Elon's twisted views.

Those wishing for Twitter to die will get that for an early Christmas present

This is what an oligarchy looks like with Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg and others.

I blocked Leon months ago and I block all the blue check MAGAbots that I can. But if this motherfucker is going to force everyone to see that fascist & racist shit, I will finally delete my account.

“On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a lengthy diatribe about Democrats being the real “threat to democracy.”

In short: Almost every claim in the tech CEO's rant is factually incorrect.”

Of course it is, r110.

Elmo is just a spoilt brat stomping his feet and shaking his grimy fists.

He needs cunt punted to Mars

Elon Musk’s X is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, Fidelity estimates