Musk’s X blocked links to JD Vance dossier after hearing from Trump campaign
Musk’s X blocked links to JD Vance dossier after hearing from Trump campaign
Report: Trump campaign “connected with X to prevent the circulation of links.”…
These last few months, each picture of Elon looks like another transition snapshot of Smeagol turning into Gollum.
155It's a common tactic of news outlets to choose bad pictures of people they're against and good pictures of people they're for. Once you see it, it cannot be unseen.
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So basically the wildest conspiracy theories about Twitter pre-Elon are true now, but in reverse
37Every accusation is a confession
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Oh wow, the trump campaign doing shit it accused the Democrats of doing?!?!?!
I'm 10000% unsurprised.
41I thought he was a free speech absolutist?
116"Free speech" just means "I want to spout garbage without pushback (like fact checking) or consequences."
96Just like undecided voter in the US means in the closet right wing.
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Only for nazis
18He is absolutely for his free speech.
38I mean he made it very clear this was not true on like day 3 when he banned the one person he explicitly said he would not ban (the guy reposting public info about the travels of Elon's Jet).
Since then it's become abundantly clear he only wants "free speech" for things he likes and not for ones he doesn't. He wanted control and influence.
5No, no. Bullshit absolutist.
12Nope. Just a piece of absolute shit. The nastiest shit always floats to the top and gloms together.
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Immigrant interfering with American elections
22“fReE SpeEcH” 🥴
49Freeze peach
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Recent JD Vance interview went something like this:
Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "Senator, yes or no: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?"
JD Vance: "Let me ask you a question. Is it OK that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysts have said cost Trump millions of votes?"
Lulu Garcia-Navarro: "Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?"
JD Vance: "Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested cost Trump millions of votes? I think that’s the question."
🤔
71This always cracks me up. He's mad about big tech censoring political information, but wants HIS political information censored. Probably not even bright enough to realize how pathetic he sounds.
48It's unbelievable how nearly half of America wants this guy to be their next VP.
23They should have just ended the interview there, aired that bit and then said "since Vance refuses to answer questions honestly and keeps using weasel words and counter questions there is no honest conversation to be had. JD Vance ducks couches and puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher.... He is a monster.
20I mean they never should have started it. I watched the first couple minutes of the Presidential debate and right away Kamala was dodging questions. That's just what politicians do. No point in asking the questions in the first place. If you actually hold their feet to the fire and force them to answer, they'll just never talk to you again.
Fortunately the presenters wasted everyone's time trying to argue with Trump and Vance, so neither of them will ever come back.
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That was an excruciating interview to listen to. He started off kinda sounding sane, but as time went on, more of his fringe ideas started showing, culminating to that point.
18If Hunter is so bad, wait til he hears about Trump's children
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"Muh free speech, muh Twitter Files, muh government censorship Hunter Biden laptop."
14Why don't we just let Twitter/X die? It's not like it's an essential platform, there are other places to post short-form bullshit opinions. Twitter/X is not the sole supplier of any resources except their own brand name. Just walk away and let it burn. Without massive public engagement, it's just a more expensive to run Truth Social.
11Don't know why people keep asking this. It's a simple answer: the network affect. People are there because people are there.
14Exactly, Twitter still has over 200 million DAU. Thread has about 30 million, Bluesky has less. Mastodon is worse.
Things like my city’s metro communication is still on Twitter. People aren’t going leave anytime soon.
6Exactly. So if people stop going there, then there is no reason to go there. Full circle, people go there because they go there. Let's just stop fucking doing that.
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I remember when people called him a beacon of free speech.
7He is a bacon of freeze peach
10You misheard, they said "beacon of Fire Speech". They burn books in that gathering of failed, divorced, didn't even peak in high school but still peaked in high school chuds.
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elon just gives off such a horrible ick
20Every accusation is a confession
5FEC is FECkless.
2I mean i guess this is related to technology??
1File under "abusive uses of technology"
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Not saying this is the right thing to do. But it does seem like social media consistently suppresses the spread of “hacked” (whatever their definition of hacked might be) material related to political candidates, regardless of party. The same thing happened with the Hunter Biden laptop stuff, which was pretty much impossible to spread on social media. Although Elon Musk is obviously all in on trying to help Donald Trump win, the decision to suppress this information is not surprising. Meta is also suppressing the links.
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