Reality vs Adventure Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Tell me, should freedom of speech have a charge now? Freedom of speech has just been bought. News is next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Elon Musk is a complete pansy. He has way too much money, and now he's turning Twitter into another Truth Social. Before long, he's going to make Adolf the VP of the company so he can do whatever the hell he wants with it. That's my prediction anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality vs Adventure Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 The richest guy in the world buys Twitter, makes it private, and now wants to charge people to have access to Twitter. Is freedom of speech something that should be paid for? This seems like the direction of class warfare having social media something you can't use if you are poor. One day it's $8 and next thing you know it's $50 a month. Since Musk took over, bigots immediately went to their hate speech to test Twitter. Meanwhile, Musk has gotten rid of Twitter's humanitarian and ethics AI researchers. Advertisers are now leaving Twitter and a Federalist Society lawyer Mike Davis told Musk to threaten any and all advertisers by verbally shaming them and boycott any advertiser that leaves Twitter. Mike Davis on Twitter: "You have nearly 114,000,000 Twitter followers. Name and shame the advertisers who are succumbing to the advertiser boycotts. So we can counter-boycott them. And get your $8 monthly subscription going asap. So we can start to makeup for lost revenue now." Musk's Twitter response: “Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.” A thermonuclear name and shame if an advertisers chooses to not advertise? Of course you have the right to boycott for whatever reason, but to name and shame them for not wanting to advertise for non moderated hateful bigotry? Why would you want your company advertisement next to "N" this and "N" that? By the way Mike Davis is a Federalist Society member who is an extreme far right group and our U.S. Supreme Court conservatives are Federalist Society members who have the lowest American confidence in this supreme court for the entire history of the country. Even recently House speaker Nanci Pelosi's husband was attacked in his own home with attempted murder by a QANON far right terrorist who had zip ties on him and was looking for Nanci. This is a huge attack against our government and Musk openly engages in misinformation on Twitter: “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.” He's referring to new conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi. Then Musk leaves a link to Santa Monica Observer known for misinformation. SMO has also said that Hillary Clinton is dead and that there is a doublet taking her place. This is the guy who runs Twitter now. Sick world of narcissism we are in now. And of course MAGA worships the guy now and even 4chan underground terrorist social media is getting jealous. Dangerous times ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 The saddest thing is that, technically speaking, he isn't breaking any laws. Morality laws, you bet your ass he is. But laws that are on the books at the state and federal level, he's in the clear. Twitter is still a privately owned company, so Musk can do whatever the hell he wants with it. As for advertisers pulling out, I 100% support that. Take away his revenue. That's at least part of why he is charging for it now. He dropped $44 billion on the site, so he's going to want to make that money back and turn a profit. But if the 114 million users all pay that $8, that only brings him in $912 million. That's assuming no users leave or get banned for voicing their opinions. Facebook and Instagram would most definitely end up seeing a surge of new users as Twitter loses its users. And the people already using Facebook would start using it more heavily for all their cute little blurbs of nonsense and bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality vs Adventure Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 4 hours ago, The Blackangel said: The saddest thing is that, technically speaking, he isn't breaking any laws. Morality laws, you bet your ass he is. But laws that are on the books at the state and federal level, he's in the clear. Twitter is still a privately owned company, so Musk can do whatever the hell he wants with it. As for advertisers pulling out, I 100% support that. Take away his revenue. That's at least part of why he is charging for it now. He dropped $44 billion on the site, so he's going to want to make that money back and turn a profit. But if the 114 million users all pay that $8, that only brings him in $912 million. That's assuming no users leave or get banned for voicing their opinions. Facebook and Instagram would most definitely end up seeing a surge of new users as Twitter loses its users. And the people already using Facebook would start using it more heavily for all their cute little blurbs of nonsense and bullshit. Yeah he has the right to do what he wants as a private company and charge people. He also can allow all dangerous conspiracies, hate speech, and inciting and plotting violence and allow politicians to abuse their authority. And when enough people do it, who are you going to arrest? At what point? If you have millions of people planning a second attack on the capital for coup 2.0 on Twitter, then what can anybody do when that is their idea of free speech? Another thing about paying for free speech is what happens if something happens to your country like a war or some kind of disaster? Social media is extremely important to shine light on situations and paying a monthly subscription will just make humanitarian efforts that much harder than it already is. As far as laws, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States could possibly investigate the acquisition as they would have the right to since Saudi Arabia under Musk’s Twitter is now the second largest shareholder. Plus Quatar and China now currently holds a lot of stake in Twitter as investors. So it’s funny how Muskets and Trumpets worship Twitter’s free hate speech that is financially operated a large part by foreign assets. Could that influence the direction of Twitters free speech and national security? As far as fake truth social, there is no telling what dark money goes into that and frankly I consider it a terrorist site like 4chan. And fake truth social censors opposition that talks bad about orange messiah lol. And talk about conflicts of interest having an ex president who is running again and a bunch of investigations including running off with classified documents owns a social media. He’s already declared the FBI as enemies and incited others to threaten lives of FBI members and their family and led to a terrorist attack at an FBI building by a shooter who was killed. All that was incited by trump and republican members of congress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality vs Adventure Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 Well this is interesting. Musk has done a voting poll to ask around 17 million people on Twitter if he should step down as head of Twitter and he says he will abide by the results of the poll. 57.5% said yes he should step down and 42.5% said no. Now he is thinking about only allowing those who pay $8 subscription to be able to vote in polls. Not only that, but it seems he wants to weed out any people who vote against him and then run the vote again. Just watch... Musk is treating Twitter as a dictatorship. Very interesting indeed. He is already in hot water for banning reporters on Twitter. So I ask the question again, should social media charge people for their free speech? We are about to witness all the dangers of it with Musk and Twitter. He is bringing forth the days where only the rich have free speech access. Think it will stop at $8? No, this is the beginning of class warfare against free speech for all. These republicans sure do know how to turn everything into a shit hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality vs Adventure Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 I was right. Mark Zuckerberg has now began to charge a subscription service for Meta which has just started in New Zealand and Australia. So now, both major platforms are charging a subscription. Just so you guys know, social media is about to change big time. The supreme court of the USA is about to make a hefty decision about how much responsibility social media has on what people post. What may end up happening is social media will be in lawsuit after lawsuit, forcing them to charge subscription service to use social media to make up funds from lawsuits. Free speech will now have a price. And when disaster happens and you need social media for awareness on what goes on, you won't be able to post if you can't pay. If you are poor, you got no voice. Social media is becoming just another benefit and power tool for the rich. $15 now, and 10 years from now you have to pay $50 to use social media. 20 years from now it's at $90 to use social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) Was free speech a thing? I can't seem to recall. Also how long is it going to be before the government tries to charge @DC for running VGR and in turn being forced to charge to use the site? He would never go for it, and probably tell the government to piss off, but I can unfortunately see them trying. Despite it being a video game site, they would probably lose their shit if any games they didn't approve of were mentioned. No more GTA. No more RDR2. No more COD. We would be limited to sports and bible games. If that. Edited February 22, 2023 by The Blackangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality vs Adventure Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 1 hour ago, The Blackangel said: Was free speech a thing? I can't seem to recall. Also how long is it going to be before the government tries to charge @DC for running VGR and in turn being forced to charge to use the site? He would never go for it, and probably tell the government to piss off, but I can unfortunately see them trying. Despite it being a video game site, they would probably lose their shit if any games they didn't approve of were mentioned. No more GTA. No more RDR2. No more COD. We would be limited to sports and bible games. If that. The government wouldn't force VGR to charge a subscription, but republicans are pushing for the supreme court to allow people to sue all social media. Would that include gaming sites? No doubt a far right bigot who doesn't like the sharing of ideas, progressive ideas, equal rights and all that would embolden that bigot to sue if they were allowed to. That is the whole point. Sue all social media to hell so it all gets broken down and what you are left with is state run media of all forms. We are seriously facing this supreme court decision right now to hold social media responsible for what people say and be able to sue. Ironic though because republicans complain about censorship, but now want to hold social media responsible for what people say? Doesn't that idea drive social media to censorship so they don't get sued??? Even democrats want to hold social media more responsible for what people post, but their reasons are so that social media stops allowing terrorism and inciting violence, and those algorithms and advertisements that drive people more extreme. Especially sites like 4chan, 8chan, and now probably fake truth social and even Musk's Twitter after he turned far right. And that lead me to another issue. Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch has bypassed laws on how much media an immigrant can own. The U.S. government made a law that a nationalized American cannot own more than 20% of American media. But Murdoch is from Australia and owns Fox News and other media which is well over 20%. And Musk is from South Africa and now owns a major social media and I don't know what percent of social media Twitter is. The law was put in place for a reason, to basically prevent foreign entities from controlling American media and abuse it to destroy our democracy. Fox News is in a major lawsuit with Dominion voting machines because Fox deliberately lied about a stolen election and lied about Dominion. Rupert Murdoch abused his citizenship to turn a major news media treasonous and damage our democracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
