Techdirt Podcast Episode 340: The New Abnormal On Twitter
from the it-never-ends dept
It seems the madness just never stops on Elon Musk’s Twitter, and it’s almost impossible to keep up. Recently, Mike joined the Daily Beast’s podcast, The New Abnormal, for a discussion with host Andy Levy about just what exactly is going on with Twitter under Musk’s erratic leadership. The conversation first appeared as part of The New Abnormal’s latest episode, and now you can listen to Mike’s segment here on the Techdirt Podcast.
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none of you know anything about twitter
forget the topic exists.
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[Projects facts contrary to extensive evidence]
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its the daily beast, what else didja expect from a spook shop tasked with sculpting public discourse?
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Hey Matthew,
You seem kinda angry.
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Why would that surprise you? You’ve been wrong for years about twitter censorship, and now proof is released showing that you’re wrong, you just deny it exists. I am coming to this site solely to tell you to fuck off.
There is DIRECT evidence FBI directing censorship, and your pitiful response boils down to “FBI said these people should be shot, they didn’t actually order twitter to shoot these people”. Which you know makes no legal difference.
It’s just disgusting.
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I like that you haven’t gotten there yet, but lets play in your space.
Twitter’s TOS says that in the case of xyz, you should be shot. The FBI goes to twitter and accuses you of saying xyz. Twitter then decides to shoot you.
Where is the problem, precisely?
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That would literally be incitement to violence or possibly conspiracy to commit murder. Especially if the FBI said, “by your rules, you should shoot these people” which is exactly what they did.
What part are you not getting, exactly?
Re: Re: Re:3 No?
So, you’re telling me that if I report a murderer to the police, I should be put in jail for conspiracy to commit murder?
Do you understand how TOS, rules, or laws work as concepts? Sadly, I am beginning to see why your reputation on this blog is dog water.
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You’re getting better and better at projecting!
No. There’s direct evidence of the FBI sending removal requests to Twitter. I know you struggle to understand, but those are two different things.
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Because you’re literally wrong about everything and you seem really MAD at me for debunking every single one of your lies.
No. It turns out I’ve been entirely accurate. Again, for anyone who can comprehend English, which does not seem to be one of your strong suits.
Now, the proof showed I was right. The problem is that you believe grifters and nonsense peddlers lying to you, rather than the actual evidence.
There is not. I literally went through that evidence, and explained why it does not even come close to saying what you say it does.
That was not my response at all. I am curious, Matthew, how you get by every day when you seem to have no ability to comprehend basic English words.
Matthew, I am sorry that a bunch of grifters lied to you. I am sorry that you are a gullible pathetic person who falls for nonsense and lies. I am sorry that you are so convinced by the false things those people who are taking advantage of you that you feel the need to IGNORE THE EVIDENCE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES that you are wrong. And I am sorry that the brain worms that have taken hold of your faculties then leads you to come and yell at me for debunking the nonsense your brain is now convinced of.
I wish there were a way for you to realize how deluded you have been and how you have been taken in by fools. But it appears you are committed to your bit. It’s a shame.
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So I find this cute as a rhetorical foil used by leftist media types, the idea that I have somehow been mislead, am the victim of “misinformation” but in this case it’s pretty dumb, and actually pretty infuriating, as you continue to lie to my face (proverbially).
The FBI gave ban lists to twitter. That’s it. It doesn’t matter that there’s no “or else” attached, they directed censorship, and thus was the first amendment violated. There’s all sorts of other very shady business going on, like dozens of very recently ex-FBI agents being employed by twitter, but that alone is a smoking gun.
And it really DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER how many pages of texts you devote “explaining” how the FBI giving lists of people to ban isn’t the FBI giving lists of people to ban, it still is. And you trying to somehow smear me as “a gullible pathetic person who falls for nonsense and lies” in that light is just extra galling.
You are lying, full stop. Fuck you, on a deep and personal level.
I am only grateful that you are barely if ever quoted in the tech news anymore. Probably cuz of nonsense like this.
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This “rhetorical foil” being… facts?
Also, I’m not a leftist, so it’s weird that you feel the need to lump me into that camp. It again suggests an inability to discuss the facts.
They literally did not. But we’ve already told you this and you keep repeating the lie. That’s why I said someone misled you because the only people who are claiming this are lying.
So why are you?
Dude. The only one lying here is you. Full stop.
Lol. Yeah, in the last week, I was quoted in the Washington Post, CNN, the Daily Beast, and had requests to go on 2 different TV programs (which I turned down). No one pays attention to me at all. I’m sure you’ll dismiss all that because of “leftist media” or whatever excuse you want.
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…projected the angry ignoramus.
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You first, terrorist.
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I don’t get you at all. Are you trolling? Are you that unhinged?
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I’m not the one using terms like “lying” and “gaslighting”.
I’m not the one threatening Mike to shut down his blog.
I’m not the one running a one-man harassment campaign.
And I don’t fit the FBI definition of a terrorist. YOU DO. You white supremacist fuck.
And yes, I am that unhinged against white supremacist assholes who pollute, harrass, slander and intimidate people.
Normally I’d start hurling worse things at people like you. because honestly, your ilk deserve to be shot.
And people keep lumping old-school trolls, ie, people who have a sense of humor and know when to back off, with your treasonous ilk, who know nothing but bile, hate and marching lockstep to a dangerous ideology.
You are NOT a troll. You come here to spew garbage, pollute the comment section, and try to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt because you’d rather have white people murder all the undesirables.
Please do not fucking lie about how you’re not white or anything. The fact YOU thought Jan 6 was not an insurrection, or a “self-coup” in CIA terms, tells me enough of what you want.
Fucking LEAVE. That is all I ask. And your final warning.
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lol, we all know that isn’t going to be your final warning. Or ours. Pissing in the cornflakes of conservatives is the funniest, edgelordiest shit we get up to.
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again, the fact I get flagged and you don’t is an indictment of this community.
But no, not leaving.
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And I’m not stopping calling you, or people who do things like you, terrorist.
Because it’s the only term that fits you and your ilk.
The problem is that I am legally not allowed to do any more worse than that. And you and your ilk certainly deserve far, far worse. Like BEING SHOT.
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You give me an erection, you know that?
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No reasonable person could possibly jump to such a conclusion.
Reading Comments First. Why? Just Because.
Why Twitter Why are you doing this to me? I have been hanging around Twitter a while. I was fine with it before the celibs and politicians got onboard, of course with baggage and thin skin.
BEFORE MR ELON:Twitter was what it was. Useful to me and I my squeal control is set high.
AFTER MR ELON: All the stuff you were talking about in December plus an abundance of the person ya’ll tried to talk to in this section. The closing third party apps while EM makes changes I’m OK with.
The FTC stuff is in my Not-My-Problem shelf. That said Ii added EXIBIT A and wonder how that is going work. The Governor of Florida dealt with activist teachers in grade school and that was noisy, right Evil Corp Theme Park. Between the Pronoun Cult and Trans Activists I doubt MR ELON is ready something like Maryland SB 844.
EXIBIT A: Children
The same burden of estimate child’s age. Assessment per AG rules, if approved the online product (clumsy descriptor) can then be put online. All the stupid you can expect including the part where the product has science fiction level of understanding of the child’s ability and the product will not do harm, list of harms goes here, TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE unless the product is at the state of a fictional device in a television series – (CBS) Person of Interest. (Note: The series did good job of not jumping the shark.)
Begin SB 844 clipped text from URL;
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023rs/bills_noln/sb/fsb0844.pdf
SENATE BILL 844
By: Senators Kramer and West
Introduced and read first time: February 6, 2023
Assigned to: Finance
A
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning
Consumer Protection – Online Products and Services – Children’s Data
BY adding to
Article – Commercial Law
Section 14–4501 through 14–4513 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 45.
Maryland Age–Appropriate Design Code Act”
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2013 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement)
End of SB 844 clipped text from URL;