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• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 12:13pm

  I find this funny because conspiracies occur all the fucking time.

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 12:12pm

  Who got shot on Jan 6th, again?? (there was one person)

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 12:11pm

  Actually, leftists love to do that, they either think conservatives are super upset by emasculating language or they're projecting, not sure, but no, I really don't care. They also like to use diminutives. (I get called "little" a lot, or as that one guy keeps on saying "bratty Matty") Or they'll call you gay at the same time they call you a homophobe, it's all super ironic. Anyway the point really isn't that he got the gender wrong so much as he was incredibly ignorant about the entire situation yet refused to educate himself even a little before arguing with supreme confidence.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 12:03pm

  Should me water company get to dumbp me cuz of what I say on the internet? The irony here is you guys LIKE fascist shit, when it goes your way.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:59am

  Exhibit A

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:59am

  Maybe you should stop calling everyone you disagree with a bigot, then, I dunno.

• On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:55am

  You just gave three reasons for why the location of the plane isn’t personal. Well done.

  You mean how a home address isn't personal? Like you're literally just making shit up, here. I am not always home, but it damn well is personal and is doxxing. Ditto if you had a constant location on my car. Ditto on Musk's plane. How fucking dumb are you?

• On the post: Saudi Government Narrative Control Efforts Now Include The Jailing Of Wikipedia Administrators

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:51am

  The laptop has been confirmed so you're just wasting breath at this point.

• On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 11:50am

  Can you point to a single example of ADSB being used to stalk anyone?

  Irrelevant. It could

  And, it’s nothing like “doxing” which is revealing private info about someone.

  Literally incorrect, per the actual definition. Think before you speak

• On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 11:10pm

  Did you think before posting? Clearly not. Doxxing is dangerous because it exposes potential targeting information to a VAST amount of people, some of whom are probably crazies. Most people have no idea how to do that, same way they have no idea how to get a home address from the DMV website, even though that isn't hard. Fuck, most of them aren't within 500miles but they're all on twiiter. By posting the info you magnify the threat exponentially. Elonjet even packages it up all nice. It's quintessential doxxing. I've seen some whoppers on this site but I think that takes the top for dripping with condescension and yet being so fucking stupid and missing the point.

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 10:12pm

  My genuine apologies for the error.

  STFU, misgendering is fine, the relevance is that you know nothing about her and are still willing to smear her despite no knowledge to do so.

  “Being a journalist” is not sufficient. It only demonstrates that she is a journalist. Working for a not-credible publication like the NYP weighs against her being credible

  Hrm. Well, for starters, she has never worked for NYP. (like any successful journalist syndicated pieces could wind up wherever) She DID work for the NYT, however. Y'know, that rag? Also, guilt by association? Damn, dude. Association that doesn't even exist? Double damn. Furthermore, I'm quite sure you'll take any old “Being a journalist” at face value if they come from a sufficiently liberal organization. I have no idea how you "prove" to someone of your emotional thinking how a source is credible, but you first. You claim NYP isn't credible? Prove it None of which has anything to do with Bari Weiss.

  "But seriously, I know you want to pretend everyone and every publication you disagree with “isn’t credible”, but you don’t actually get to do that"

  And I don’t do that.

  100% sure you are doing exactly. Unfortunately I think you don't realize it which is kinda sadder.

  The NYP has a long history of making demonstrably false claims

  Oooh, been looking forward to this bit: [Citation Needed]

  In this case, the NYP has a vested interest in making Twitter look bad, so it is not a credible source when it comes to claims about Twitter, specifically, even if it may be credible on other things.

  Oh, I really this, this is the best part: You preannounced your goal post moving! Most excellent. SO if you even if you are proven wrong about everything you've said about NYP and Bari Weiss (you have been so far) you're still going to complain it's illegitimate somehow......even tho it's just a collection of citations of the twitter files, which you would know except your too lazy to check it out, or for that matter to google Bari Weiss.

  if you don’t have an alternative, that really isn’t my problem.

  It really kinda is, doncha you think? Everything you've said has been either a massive logical fallacy, completely unsupported premise, or just mind-bogglingly ignorant, things that could have been cleared up by a literal 10 sec google and wiki skim. Massive embarrassment that could only happen through a unique combination of initial lack of knowledge combined with no motivation to improve that situation and the completely unearned confidence to keep on opining without checking any of your assumptions in any way or at any level. I didn't care about your opinion before, but I sure don't feel any obligation to meet whatever "standard" you think you get to set now, right? Your rant was so unhinged from basic facts that it had nothing to do with anything I or for that matter anyone else was talking about. Bari Weiss. Not a dude. Never worked at NYP. And you want people to only post sources that fit YOUR knowledge of things? Why? "What do you even know?*

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 09:32pm

  he would remove any Musk-story from Mike without hesitation – just like how Musk removes content that upsets him.

  I might, but only because of the dramatic irony. /s Trying to compare my (purposefully) hyperbolic "STFU" that in an of itself is only speech with actual (private) censorship is a super hot take, tho.

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 09:27pm

  Again, revealing a home address is the classic example of doxxing and that information is nearly always available publicly in some way. It not only CAN be publicly available info but usually is.

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 09:22pm

  Every parody is an exaggeration in order to point out the nonsense. If it were closer, as you apparently want, that might actually be a strawman. That was way too many words to not say much, man.

• On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 08:47pm

  well THAT isn't true. What is this, grade school "denial is the first sign"?

• On the post: Latest Twitter Problem: Its API Has Been Down And No Info Has Been Provided

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 07:27pm

  Giving real time information to anybody listening is the whole point of ADSB.

  And combining that info with a particular owner people might want to stalk is not It's just a null argument. My phone is "meant" to tell the cell network where I am at all times. Just broadcasting that shit out there, and it's even pretty to read with the right equipment. But if you used that to tell all the internet where my phone is at any particular moment that very clearly would be doxxing and also quite dangerous if anyone meant me harm. Ditto a cellular connection on my car, or the EZ-pass transponder, oh and all that is combined with an easily read license plate. Doesn't make it OK to tell the internet where my car is at all times. Absolutely meaningless to say "giving real time information" is the point of it. Yeah, for air traffic control purposes.

• On the post: The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 07:14pm

  Ooooh, points for creativity. But no, Fusion GPS having other clients doesn't mean they funded the dossier, and Wikipedia doesn't say I'm wrong, quite the opposite, and in fact it lays that all out very explicitly just a couple paragraphs down under that big, bold heading:

  Research funded by Democrats produces dossier

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier#Research_funded_by_Democrats_produces_dossier Were you misleading on purpose or is your reading ability that poor? I almost admire the guts to make that stretch but you gotta go with something more believable. Seriously Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS who hired Steele (who wrote almost all of it based on hearsay by Danchenko neither of them believed) this is all pretty inconvertible at this point, much of it from testimony in court. The head guy at Fusion GPS was even married to one of the Clinton inner circle people.

• On the post: Saudi Government Narrative Control Efforts Now Include The Jailing Of Wikipedia Administrators

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 06:54pm

  It's sounds like you don't know much about how computers work AND you don't know anything about the story of the laptop or the thousands of pictures on it. Seriously, 100% confirmed to be Hunter's laptop. It was mostly known and confirmed at the time (which is why spiking the story was such a travesty) but it's 100% confirmed now. Claiming to doubt it is not credible. Willful ignorance is not a strategy.

• On the post: Saudi Government Narrative Control Efforts Now Include The Jailing Of Wikipedia Administrators

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 06:47pm

  It's not my fault context is lost on you.

• On the post: Saudi Government Narrative Control Efforts Now Include The Jailing Of Wikipedia Administrators

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2023 @ 06:45pm

  OK, so I already know you're not a serious person based upon other comments, but that whole line of reasoning is disingenuous. "Ban these people" is a paraphrase, but why else would the FBI send a list of people that violated TOS if it didn't want them to be banned? Were they just being helpful, doing Twitter's data work for them? No of course not. Those were accounts that they were asking to be banned. "Ban these people". That twitter only listened to them sometimes isn't terribly important, the crime isn't theirs anyway, it's the FBI's They were a government entity directing the suppression of speech. Heck you could argue that twitter ignoring them in some cases meant they weren't actually violating TOS and the FBI was lying, but that doesn't change much either. It's a government entity directing censorship. It's the FBI, threat is inherent. Nevermind that Rep Schiff's office and others were much more explicit in their demands. So no, they said implicitly (some offices explictly) "Ban these people" and the comparison is pretty direct.

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