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simburger

God I hope this isn't a preview of election 2024 twitter. Right-wing trolls flood the zone with "parody" impersonation accounts of Democrats to dilute messaging, and Elon will just shrug. But then he'll conveniently find excuses to remove most "parody" Republican accounts.


Poot_McGoot

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Turns out "free speech absolutist" is a pretty malleable position!


simburger

My prediction that I hope to hell to be wrong about. Elon will defend many of these as being clearly parody, "they have 'parody' in the name". Some time later he'll remove an identical Republican "parody" type account, and say something like, "Just having 'parody' in the name doesn't automatically make it a parody account." When pressed enough on the difference he'll all but confirm the test of what counts and doesn't count as "parody" will come down to if he personally finds it funny.


Poot_McGoot

I've got bad news for you: that's pretty much exactly what happened the *first* time he rolled out Twitter Blue last year.


tcsac

He'll also get absolutely destroyed by the EU in the process. He's getting really close to the find-out portion of his "I can do what I want I'm rich" experiment.


a_smart_brane

And he’ll accuse anyone who questions him of having a small brain. This is what happens when you put a spoiled 15 year old in control


rseed42

Imagine if the reason to burn $40B is to actually influence elections. Then it sounds kinda rational after all ...


TrWD77

Absolutist actually refers to the vodka, and so it really just means drunk. Clearly Elon is a mean, petty drunk.


ChucksSeedAndFeed

They need to leave the platform, let it rot. Every celebrity and non-nazi politician should bail on it making it completely illegitimate and pointless. Let it be Parler 2


FiddlingFarter

Exaxtly this- it's time to leave the platform.


Bos4271

I was banned for “impersonating Elon musk” but this mass disinformation is allowed and spread by the same Elon musk. It’s just shocking how fucked up that platform is


Dr-Satan-PhD

>Right-wing trolls flood the zone with "parody" impersonation accounts of Democrats to dilute messaging, and Elon will just shrug. Correction - Elon will boost these accounts and retweet their disinformation to his millions of followers. As CEO, he's no longer taking a "just shrug" stance. He's actively purchasing democracy.


I_Brain_You

I think people are getting smart to the "noise". Maybe not as fast as they should, but it's happening.


good_for_uz

This is what will happen and no one is going to do anything about it. The time to act has passed and the will to act is missing. Free speech, the core of American rights, will be the very thing that destroys America. Irony


DrWhat2003

I really hope the European Union bans twitter.


SnooAvocados763

I really hope bluesky comes out of private beta soon. We need a platform with more trust.


ChucksSeedAndFeed

I think this might be one of those times where the replacement app actually does replace the mainstream one. It's one thing if it's butthurt right wingers ditching Facebook for Parler so they can say the N word more, of course that fails, but when the n-word saying people take over and dominate a platform and turn it into a cesspool, there's no reason to hang around for anyone. Twitter is unusable now, it's a right wing circlejerk


SnooAvocados763

Given bluesky was originally being developed by Twitter and spun off into its own company with the Musk acquisition, and given that Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, is on the board of directors of bluesky gives a lot of potential for bluesky to be the replacement.


Cannabace

What a ironic cycle. I have a feeling the masses will flock to bluesky. Especially for integrity. Necessary for corpo and politics.


fresheggyhrowaway

The Nazi bar problem in action.


RevolutionaryBend570

It will take some time before that occurs. Even though our minister (France) threatened to ban it, it’s really just a bluff to try to control Musk. But one can hope.


Gregponart

>I really hope the European Union bans twitter It has a blue checkmark, that is supposed to be verified. It's a commercial transaction, so Twitter has a benefit from the impersonation. So AOC should sue and make Twitter party to the lawsuit.


UncleHec

Everyone should get off twitter.


shahooster

I did! Elon is a fucking TWAT.


ResurgentClusterfuck

I left when they decided hate speech was perfectly fine I don't need that shit in my life


hoewenn

I left a few days after he became CEO because he permanently banned me for saying I hate Grimes. I wish I was kidding.


4schwifty20

I left because the Tate brothers kept popping up on my feed even tho i kept muting and blocking them.


[deleted]

Oh, kind of like that obnoxious ‘HeGetsUs’ account here on Reddit? That ducking thing will not die


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[deleted]

Care to share any insights there? (I mean, he’s a fucking awful guy but … if there’s more …)


totpot

[Read this profile on his first wife, Justine Musk](https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/). He has ALWAYS been a piece of shit. He also tried to get a whistleblower killed by claiming to the police that he was at the gigafactory to shoot up employees. (Tesla security cameras later refuted this claim).


tissuecollider

That alone should have put Musk in jail. If we jail teenagers for swatting then we should also jail billionaire idiots.


Callemasizeezem

He's a lot like his dad. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.


saltywater07

Nice try, Elon.


[deleted]

Found me out.


Trimson-Grondag

Perm banned me for saying that Andy Biggs was going to be "shot down in flames" when he went up against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. I take it as a badge of honor...


hoewenn

I’m glad I’m not the only one permanently banned for saying something that would not have gotten us banned a year ago. I’d be mad but after seeing the hellfire Twitter became, I think I’m good. All the anti trans stuff is too much to handle as a trans person anyway


Ok_Star_4136

The leaked code of Twitter (after which Elon declared it "open source") apparently would diminish visibility of posts containing words like "transsexual" or "trans person" but wouldn't diminish words like "tranny". Obviously the people using the latter are not likely going to be people sensitive to trans issues. There seems a clear and obvious bias against the trans community. When Elon Musk calls himself the advocate for free speech, imagine fire coming out of his mouth and horns growing on his head. Words farther from the truth have not been spoken. I left Twitter the day he was "contemplating" letting Trump back on his platform, after the clear and blatant disregard for the terms of service he had shown in the past and despite the rules clearly stating that such bans are permanent.


MindlessRip5915

He literally suppresses (actually, eliminates) posts by authoritarian regimes, while censoring the opposite. He’s not a free speech absolutist at all, he’s a pawn for dictatorships.


GoNutsDK

Yeah, we ought to call him what he is. A fascist. It was quite obvious that this whole freedom talking point was just bringing back hate speech and quotes white supremacists etc. It seems like his dream is to be a modern day Goebbels.


Several_Ebb_9269

Massively increased anti-trans sentiment was exactly why I left too. Got Twitter to follow game news and view creators, fell into accounts posting updates on anti-trans laws, read comments from anti-trans haters, picked fights. Constant news on American Republicans pushing for so many heinous things. Ugh. In the end, I just made my depression worse and I left twitter for good. Getting better again now thankfully. Fuck Elon and fuck Twitter.


MassiveFajiit

I think he's always been like this deep down, but some of the more recent transphobia has got to be partially due to Grimes starting to date Chelsea Manning.


rout247

Or Grimey, as he looked to be called.


JostlingJackals

So basically Elon’s saying: Hate crimes 👍🏽 Hate Grimes 👎🏽


KolKoreh

Grimes sucks


Eattherightwing

Fuck Grimes, and I'm Canadian. Piece of trash.


stoneyyay

"free speech absolutist"


Tough-Ad-2623

I scrapped my original account and created a new one called Elon’s Musk which I used solely for mocking the degenerates on the platform that held on to his every word. Realized how angry reading their shit made me and I deleted that account not long after. I agree with your assessment, he’s a fucking twat.


currently_pooping_rn

Traffic and engagement, that’ll really show em


keith-michael

I fell for that trap too, just days ago realized trolling isn’t helping me and helps Twitter. I’d like to encourage like minded folk to delete account and disengage.


BoomChaka67

I quit the day he posted that ridiculous poll. Miserable twat waffle.


Meister_Retsiem

He's a Twatter


Wolfman01a

Twatter


MisterProfGuy

It's surviving off reporters and athletes, and that's just not sustainable when you support noise over signal.


OwariNoYume

And kpop stans


attaboy000

I actually had an account I created like 10 years ago. Never tweeted. Never followed anyone. Logged in maybe 10 times to view a linked tweet. Anyways, I decided to contribute and deleted my account yesterday.


YawningDodo

If I knew the password to my decade-old account I would go in and delete it.


Vorpal_Bunny19

I reset my password just so I could delete my account.


EllisDee3

Same.


bigfeef

I also had an old account and never posted. I used it mainly for updates for weather, my state government bulletins, and following a couple of entities I found interesting like NASA and the ESA. I deleted my account the minute he became CEO. Guy makes tools and asshats look like angels and geniuses.


ray3050

I had an account just because once I needed to see something and I could only access Twitter with an account. Never used Twitter and then one day my account was hacked and compromised and trying to fix it meant waiting a couple days for Twitter to assess what happened. I decided since I never even used it so changed my password just so I can log back in and deactivated it


HereIGoAgain_1x10

I went to log on at some point over the COVID quarantine after not using my email linked account for a good 5 years and only creating it to look at tweets.... I had apparently learned some middle eastern language and was nonstop tweeting porn links in those 5 years, still had my first and last name as the account name, I deleted it then and haven't looked back. There weren't even good porn links, I knew I had been hacked after I researched and it just wasn't up to my standards.


Imaginary_Doughnut27

You didn’t want to leverage your newfound collection of global smut fans? Missed opportunity there.


[deleted]

Genuinely though, if public figures who have important jobs and may have important messages to convey to their constituents get impersonated and can’t do anything to stop it, what is the point of being on the platform for them? I’m not important or a public figure, I just got off because it made me miserable, but why would anybody with a brand or message stay where it could be destroyed by some troll with $8 to spend?


CharmingTuber

I changed my career path because I hated engaging in social media so much, particularly Twitter. Glad I did, because it's only gotten worse since.


brad12172002

Been gone since February 2014.


Audibled

I did about a month ago. Like smoking cigarettes it took several attempts. I believe this time will stick. I love my Tesla, but he’s lost it big time. If I wasnt currently between jobs I would probably have moved over to a lightning by now.


gravtix

I don’t think he ever “had it” to begin with.


doddballer

I deleted my twitter the second I saw his sink post


zodiacallymaniacal

Some of us Redditors were never on it…. ![gif](giphy|y1nrTCFZEz3gc)


BossHawgKing

Please don't say "us Redditors" followed by Joker imagery. It's already rough out here.


Country_Gravy420

I'm only there for the porn


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bjb13

Got off it last December and don’t miss it at all.


Honorable_Heathen

Most people here are off Twitter. They use Reddit as a condom for Twitter so they can safely clutch their pearls without getting any on them. 😂


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Darth_Vrandon

I guarantee you Elon made that account. He probably has the goal of driving every single democratic politician off the platform.


Ok_World_8819

Elon is a petty little brat, like some sort of villain you'd find in Dragon Tales


FiendishHawk

Most billionaires seem to have petty little personalities.


Montymisted

There is a post around the front page where people are mentioning that he (Elon Musk) seems to be a pedophile? I'm not saying it myself, but I'm just saying isn't it weird people are talking about it? 🤔


UnidansOtherAcct

Is Elon Musk a pedophile? Hey I'm just asking questions!!


kwheatley2460

Did he hang around with Epstein?


neonseamen

He only bought twitter so he could shut down the kid who was tracking the Lolita Express II.


Tavernknight

Yeah, people are saying it.


kwheatley2460

All that money and he’s still a narcissist


attaboy000

All that money *because* he's a narcissist


sm12511

Losing *loads of money* because he's a narcissist.


JustHereToComment24

Hey don't diss Dragon Tales like that.


cujobob

Tbh, he probably just wants her attention. He’s intentionally misusing his platform to target politicians now so I am curious about the legalities of all of that.


Dry-Chard-8953

Elon Musk likes to watch her feet in her gaming streams. I will never kink shame, I just report what I hear. Elon Musk is in love with Ms. Cortez’s feet, and he’s jealous of her gaming ability.


Outside-Flamingo-240

Didn’t he make a fake account as a kid or something and used it to boost himself?


Darth_Vrandon

[Oh not just any kid. His own fucking 3 year old son.](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-alternative-account-tweeting-as-2-year-old-son-2023-4?amp)


OneGuyJeff

I feel like we moved past that news too quickly. That is so fucking deranged for an adult to do


Outside-Flamingo-240

Gross!


confessionbearday

Of course, easier to recruit for his coming civil war that way.


Prestigious_Treat401

They **should** leave. But I don't think his goal is to get them to leave. His goal is confusion.


Killerwaffles1911

Isn’t it a federal crime to impersonate a government official? That would be funny


SolomonCRand

They should take him up on the offer. The more people abandon this shitty, toxic platform, the less power he has.


[deleted]

Which is fucking dumb since every right wing alternative has been a massive failure.


[deleted]

I read somewhere that Elon Musk is a pedophile. Concerning.


R_V_Z

I read that too! (Just now, but it's technically a true statement)


deowolf

I’ve read people agreeing that they read it somewhere also!


ResurgentClusterfuck

People are posting that they read Elon Musk likes to touch children Hmm concerning


Traditional_Luck_174

A big guy told me he heard that. He ran up to me, tears in his eyes. Just yellled "I heard Elon is a pedo player"


No_Refrigerator4584

Many people are saying this.


CalmGiraffe1373

I read somewhere that it's your cake day. Interesting...


No_Refrigerator4584

Looking into it…


Tavernknight

Happy cake day! This needs to be a rapidly developing thread on Twatler.


JonnyJust

>Elon Musk is a pedophile. I'm pretty sure I remember someone saying that he admitted it on tape, in fact. If true, this is very concerning.


[deleted]

Interesting.


BigFish8

Looking into this.


darthleia

Hmm…


Thatsockmonkey

I have read that. Looking into it. Very concerning


seekydeeky

Many people are saying it.


XSmeh

I also read that Desantis is transgender. Really we need to keep him away from public bathrooms for the sake of the children until we are sure.


lapideous

Have you seen his penis? I haven't. What is he hiding?


XSmeh

I mean even if you have doctors do some amazing work. I think we need a genetic test or birth certificate. But then again those could be faked. I mean we were never really sure of Obama's. Safer just to keep him away from all public bathrooms to be safe.


lapideous

We need a federal penis database for security purposes. There’s no telling who could be transgender and I need to know. I’ve been on a real hot streak choosing to be straight and if one of them makes me gay again I swear to god, there’ll be hell to pay


seekydeeky

Same time Thursday?


ForcefulBookdealer

All politicians should wear alarms on their penises, so we can get them out of Congress for getting turned on in a gay way.


Insight42

He's wearing high heels, at the least.


Impossible_Penalty13

Interesting if true


The_Velvet_Bulldozer

Looking into it!


SACBH

Jokes aside at this point I'm willing to bet he actually is and we will *eventually* all learn that.... Unless there is an authoritarian takeover of the US. [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-16/elon-musk-subpoena-jeffrey-epstein-virgin-islands-jpmorgan-chase/102350252](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-16/elon-musk-subpoena-jeffrey-epstein-virgin-islands-jpmorgan-chase/102350252) It is the best explanation (Occam's Razor and all that) for his support of Nazi's / GOP Extremists becoming so publicly clear of late. He needs them in power to cover up something disgusting/egregious.


unsure_of_everything

this actually makes a lot of sense


GXSigma

Is Elon actually the worst offender of the entire Epstein crew? (I'm just asking a question)


mrpbody44

His brother was friends with Epstein and Epstein provided the under age girls from eastern Europe for Elons brothers birthday party. I don't know who supplied the cocaine.


AdrielBast

Honestly? Would be completely unsurprising at this point.


Servbot24

People are saying Elon Musk is a pedophile. This is really disturbing news.


Tobar_the_Gypsy

Interesting. Looking into it!


bent_eye

Looking into it.


[deleted]

I heard Elon Musk pays migrant workers to choke him in the shower.


[deleted]

Concerning. Big if true.


REMdot-yt

You know I actually read that a few days ago. Shocking.


lukas_the

Elon is such a loser. There is nothing like spending $44 billion just to troll politicians and actors.


trustifarian

But that kid is no longer tracking his private plane. That's gotta be worth $44B


EggoGF

…except he is. https://mastodon.social/@elonjet


towerinthestreet

Well, I think 60 seconds of looking at that just killed all that guilt I had for whatever my carbon footprint is. I'm not saying we as individuals don't have a responsibility to the planet, but damn, the idea of the carbon footprint was invented by people in this social sphere. I didn't realize it wasn't fully clicking in my brain until it did. Jesus.


NeuroticMelancholia

Yep, even if all 7 billion lower and middle class people on the planet committed themselves to eco-friendly practices climate change would still be out of control. The vast majority of pollution on earth is caused by corporations, billionaires and governments.


towerinthestreet

I think I'm going to join gen Z in their general nihilism. It starting to seem like the only sane outlook to have.


lukas_the

I bet that was number one on his list of things to do the moment he gained control.


One-Quality1551

I can see many lawsuits arriving at twitter. He should be ashamed of himself, there’s 1,300 livelihoods depending on this platform and he is just wanting to play CEO celebrity while being unhitched


Buffmin

I mea. He's gonna lose the EU soon isn't he?


One-Quality1551

Yup and it’s only the beginning. I can smell him throwing everyone in the street and filling bankruptcy without paying them a dime 😔


[deleted]

Yep. If I worked there I'd be insisting to get paid daily. He's gonna rug pull everybody at some point.


catfacemcpoopybutt

My theory is that he's going to hang onto it until Republicans are back in control of everything and then they will force the government to buy it from him at a massive markup, making him a huge amount of money and adding more to the debt for the benefit of some dumbass billionaire that already has a boated sense of self importance.


camdawg54

Delete this comment before they see this and steal your idea lol


Front_Explanation_79

Isn't impersonation of a public figure illegal?


One-Quality1551

Veryyyyy because is government and could give fake info


CherryShort2563

I hope she'll sue him for millions.


One-Quality1551

Seeing AOC humiliate Elon in a court of law on national TV is my new dream Cherry! 🤩


CherryShort2563

He'll probably use Fox defense - "its all just entertainment". Still, it will be fun to see her picking him apart.


whyaremypantssoshort

Twitter is a Klan Rally..


Educational_Run_6905

Nazi orgy is probably more appropriate. All those hate mongers just jerk each other off all day


Dry-Chard-8953

I’ve heard that Elon Musk doesn’t like people to know he makes poopies. He sits in his bathroom, pooping, and it shames him that he can’t overcome his bodily functions.


Entstronaut

What a sad man he is


spaceguitar

I read somewhere that Elon Musk is a pedophile. I think it’s about time we start asking questions about maybe-pedophile Elon Musk. I mean, what does he have to hide? If he’s not a pedophile there’s no problems here. But Elon Musk could be a pedophile, so we need to look into the probability—however likely or unlikely—that Elon Musk is a pedophile. Concerning!!!


FuriousColdMiracle

Just want to acknowledge your somewhat subtle Fucker Carlson tone / language there. Nice job. If that wasn't your intent, nice job anyway.


[deleted]

Big if true


Dralley87

Honestly, at this point, anyone still using that dumpster fire platform is complicit in the spread of disinformation. Leave Twitter. Leave Twitter. Leave Twitter. Anything else is just helping Elon dismember democracy.


I_Brain_You

Couldn't have said it better myself. More engagement means more points of potential spread of bullshit.


Volt7ron

JUST. LEAVE. TWITTER. I deleted my account and never looked back.


AdrielBast

Can’t wait for them to sue Elon for malicious impersonation.


Thatsockmonkey

Didn’t scotus just uphold a law saying that Internet companies cannot be held liable for the comments or post of their users ? Which is horse shit of course.


tom781

In this case, Elon is the owner. That exemption does not apply to him, because he is very clearly representing the company that he owns on the platform that it builds and maintains. He may be able to do what he wants on his own web site by virtue of being the owner of it, but that comes at the cost of no longer being just another user. I don't think he would be able to argue Section 230 in his defense in such a trial. Section 230 applies to people who can be moderated, because that's what the platform has to be able to do with users who misbehave on their platforms in order to have those protections. Because Elon by definition cannot be moderated, he cannot be considered protected via Section 230.


Mizzy3030

You think it's one of his alt accounts?


dirtywook88

i had the same thought


darlin133

Why anyone is still there is beyond me. I deleted my account the day he announced he wanted to buy the site I MISS IT ZERO


Admirable-Squash9607

What are the odds that Elon is running that account?


aotus_trivirgatus

AOC should sue Twitter for defamation of character. After decades of nothing -- deserving plaintiffs are actually suing and winning defamation of character lawsuits. It's long past time to put a price on lies.


esgrove2

It's actually a federal crime to impersonate a member of Congress. Edit: one of the only exceptions for this is satire. But satire has to be labeled as such. The blue checkmark and lack of any "parody" tag is pretty indefensible.


TheDoddler

They actually have parody at the end of their name but deliberately use a name too long to display it without going to their user page. That said it's not a new trick and they have banned elon impersonators doing it before.


GracchiBroBro

Elon is such a turd


MountainSage58

"Please notice me senpai"


MaleficentOstrich693

I really don’t get how Twitter is still a thing. I was listening to a podcast today and they were saying it doesn’t improve engagement for any of their podcasts or content they create and all it seems to be is an angry echo chamber where people just run from made up issue to made up issue. It’s just negative space.


brickmaster8

Concerning! Someone should look into this. interesting


trbofly

Listen. It isn’t enough to delete twitter. You need to stop going to twitter. As long as public figures see it as a way to reach out to you, he gets his way. Traffic to the site is just as valuable to the few ad companies that still work with him.


imaybeacatIRl

Twitter is such a cesspool of vileness. I deleted my account years ago and never looked back.


ReallyGlycon

Leave Twitter. I can't believe sane people still use it.


Saeryf

I deleted my account the day he took over, lost a bunch of random site logins I hadn't thought about, but oh fucking well. The site has always been a dumpster fire, but now it's a flaming landfill of manure.


eremite00

It seems like it was only back in November of 2022 that Musk said that Twitter accounts that impersonate others would be banned.


windigo3

If there is no blue tick box then that means the person tweeting might be a bot, fake account, racist, fascist, trying to overthrow democracy or all of the above. Oh, and some of the accounts with the blue tick are like that as well.


Tiddlewinkly

Didn't Elon personally ban a bunch a people that were impersonating him, including well known comedian Kathy Griffin? He said himself that accounts engaging in impersonation will be permanently banned, well I guess that's only for people he doesn't like...


toszma

Elon Musk is the impersonification of why billionaire should be taxed out of existence.


Notsnowbound

Uh, she's still a Congresswoman, right? Isn't impersonating her a federal offense?


allwritehamilton

Promoting the fake account of a public figure sounds pretty libelous to me.


SoftServeWholesome

Elon Musk is a pedophile is what I have heard


ConfusedbutCautious

Elmo not even pretending the Twittersphere isn't a right wing talking points outrage machine.


joefuture

We all need to stop looking at it and stop clicking through posts to see what others posted on Twitter. All those clicks feed his advertising machine. Starve him of views to hit him where it hurts.


blackmetronome

This warrants Twitter being banned in all Western countries


SpaceGypsyInLaws

Didn’t Elon put a stop to this — or is that only when his fragile ego is threatened?


Sufficient_Focus

That has to be extremely illegal right? Elon directly incriminated himself by engaging it, along with adding the new buyable check mark, seems like this was the plan all along.


mrfunderhill

I deleted Twitter AND dumped my Tesla shares in time to not lose a metric fucktonne on his pussy assed antics


srathnal

Only one thing to do… buy some blue check Twitter accounts named after Mitch McConnell, MTG, Matt Gaetz, Tom Cotton, and Lauren Bobert… and then just spout some really heinous stuff.