Herdfan
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Are you implying there is nothing to the story?
Musk offers to buy Twitter
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Are you implying there is nothing to the story?
Eric
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No, I'm implying it's not THE story that for some reason has Republicans losing their shit more than a war, more than the capital riots and more than an "actual" sitting president who spent his term sowing doubt, racism and mistrust in the entire country.
Sorry but it's just that people can't take it seriously when it's so blatantly hypocritical.
Eric
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Just caught after my post but noted, I'm done on that topic.
SuperMatt
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This is inaccurate... Twitter did NOT block their account until they removed the story. They unblocked it and left the story up. If you actually read the article (yes a novel concept):New York Post for the Hunter laptop story. Twitter locked their account until they removed the story.
Twitter Still Blocking a NY Post Story Based on Alleged Hunter Biden Emails, Newspaper’s Account Remains Frozen
Twitter is inconsistently applying policy to a series of unconfirmed reports by the New York Post about Joe Biden's son Hunter.variety.com
You know the one that came out in October of 2020 and was dismissed as Russian propaganda by most of the media. The same one that the NYT finally said it was true and the WaPo called it an "opportunity for a reckoning".
And for some reason they still don't understand why their public trust is so low.
I bolded the most relevant information for those too lazy to read something other than a headline. You ignored all the context in this story: It was based on a “hacked content” policy that likely would have applied to something like the Pentagon papers or Wikileaks too. The intent of the policy is to prevent hackers from stealing private data and use Twitter to distribute it. Twitter changed the policy after this event.
This was NOT about blocking right-wing content. But once you get the right-wing grievance machine going, there’s no stopping it. Twitter definitely made a mistake, but they fixed it immediately. Definitely a self-PWN from Twitter, but the fact that right-wingers use this as an excuse to claim Twitter is biased against them is moronic.
And maybe I’m not supposed to discuss politics here (although let’s face it - you can’t discuss big tech without it crossing into politics, which was something the Weaselbots at MacRumors never figured out), but:
A) I didn’t bring it up and
B) I do not like allowing people to spread lies without debunking them. We cannot have an honest discussion if people start with lies.
PS - To counter some other false claims in the post I replied to: The information on Hunter Biden’s laptop was, in fact, modified by others after the fact. Because of that, none of the information can be trusted to be authentic.
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Eric
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Then he'll finally be able to ban the guy who keeps posting his jet locations.
OMG, hahaha, maybe it's all about that. Option1, pay the kid $100K to remove this posts, Option 2, spend $43 billion and kick the kid off ...
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It won't do any more damage than what's already been done, but we'll get a good working example of it along the way.
He's currently worth $226 billion. I imagine there's just enough liquid assets available to him to make the purchase.
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It's all a classic Pump 'N Dump scheme for the asshole.
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OMG, hahaha, maybe it's all about that. Option1, pay the kid $100K to remove this posts, Option 2, spend $43 billion and kick the kid off ...
The upsetting thing about option 2 is if he did drop $43 billion on buying Twitter, within 6 months that $43 billion will somehow be back in his bank account (or stocks, or whatever)….and probably more than that, and probably sooner.
Can somebody please show me what 6 months of hard work worth $43 billion looks like.
Just look up some pictures of hedge fund managers.
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But:
Musk Says He Has the Means to Buy Twitter, but Investors Aren’t So Sure (Published 2022)
Elon Musk could pledge his Tesla shares, borrow from banks or team up with private equity to raise the funds. Each option comes with caveats.
lizkat
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Yeah. By the time the rabid end of the GOP gets done beating something to death with all kinds of innuendo about some murky situation --pick one, any one-- really no one cares any more except the people still waving the stick over the dead horse, and the beancounters in media still making a buck off the show.
That's a little different to the "public trust" in newspapers being low, and a little difficult to disentangle from the cause of that low trust as well.
Lately the sideshow about Hunter Biden seems to me a distraction, possibly from the fact that the fundamentals of the US economy are doing quite well in terms of jobs being added and people still spending money into it, despite concerns in the short term about inflation. I can't get too excited about this level of inflation because the fundamentals are different from inflationary periods we've experienced before.
The Fed will take rates well in hand, and even now states are considering gas tax holidays in order to take some of the pressure off kitchen table budgets. Now if we could just get that moron in Texas to quit redundantly inspecting veggies coming into the USA... maybe the tomatoes and avocados wouldn't cost quite the extra penny they are likely to in the very short run.
The other thing about pounding on Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden is pretty risky for the GOP, even though I get it that some in the GOP may regard it as a song of praise to Donald Trump. Trump may enjoy it, too, but it reminds a whole lot of other people that one of Trump's two impeachments was about his having schemed to withhold military aid to Ukraine, in hopes that Ukraine would"do a favor" to Trump and help dig up dirt to discredit his political opponent, Joe Biden.
This isn't the most politically advantageous time for the GOP to remind us that Trump tried to stick it to Ukraine and its ability to defend itself, just in hopes of making some personal political gains. But then the GOP lost all sense of logic along with its ethical compass when it rebooted its core principles to one that boils down to faking participation in the cult worship of Trump that is still exhibited by his base, all in hopes of retaining their loyalty at the polls. The USA is not on the side of sticking it to Ukraine... and the GOP would do well to keep that in mind.
Sorry to have contributed to the digression....
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Perhaps alt.noise.twitter – when was the last time you visited Usenet? Seems like 90% of the country has no idea what it even is. That is what Musk would do to twitter.
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Isn't pump and dump illegal?
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