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(Rolling Stone)   Twitter is shutting down Chinese activists' accounts. Tesla makes most of its profits its China subsidiary. These two facts are totally unrelated   (rollingstone.com) divider line
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1362 clicks; posted to Politics » on 09 Dec 2022 at 12:35 PM (15 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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snocone [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-09 11:36:26 AM  
Think you are crazy enough to understand what the Musk is doing/thinking?
Step right up and prove it.
 
brax33 [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 12:03:13 PM  
But freeze peach!
 
DarnoKonrad
2022-12-09 12:15:56 PM  
Funny how Musk needs to outsource car production to China when VW and Toyota can turn a profit building them in the United States.
 
austerity101
2022-12-09 12:35:48 PM  
Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists' Accounts?

Because Elon Musk is a fascist. I thought that was clear.
 
Blathering Idjut
2022-12-09 12:37:10 PM  
But Musk says he is a First Amendment advocate.  Are dick pics the only speech he recognizes?
 
mistahtom
2022-12-09 12:37:29 PM  
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BlazeTrailer
2022-12-09 12:37:37 PM  
Eh, we've seen the big tech companies, including social media, bend to China's authoritarian preferences. This may well have happened without Musk (if Twitter planned to continue business in China anyway)
 
Psylence
2022-12-09 12:37:38 PM  
Musk is a criminal and needs to be treated as such. fark him and his supporters.
 
AxiomJackson
2022-12-09 12:38:20 PM  
Billionaires are inherently immoral. Moose out front should have told, ya.
 
Bandito King [OhFark]
2022-12-09 12:38:48 PM  
Wow, dude. Not even pretending.

fark that shiatgoblin.
 
The Bestest
2022-12-09 12:39:07 PM  

DarnoKonrad: Funny how Musk needs to outsource car production to China when VW and Toyota can turn a profit building them in the United States.


My understanding was that Teslas built in China are just for the Chinese market, mainly to get around tariffs.
 
GoldSpider
2022-12-09 12:42:39 PM  

The Bestest: DarnoKonrad: Funny how Musk needs to outsource car production to China when VW and Toyota can turn a profit building them in the United States.

My understanding was that Teslas built in China are just for the Chinese market, mainly to get around tariffs.


Yes one way to get around tariffs is to not import the thing you're selling.
 
Kris_Romm
2022-12-09 12:42:40 PM  
Musketeer is such a transparent lil' beyotch.
 
special20 [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 12:42:59 PM  
Musk since he bought twatter.
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PerpetualPeristalsis
2022-12-09 12:47:46 PM  

austerity101: Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists' Accounts?

Because Elon Musk is a fascist. I thought that was clear.


Sperglord Elmo von Freezepeach
 
Majin_Buu [OhFark]
2022-12-09 12:48:58 PM  
Profitieren Über Alles
 
asmodeus224
2022-12-09 12:56:29 PM  
quick! to my twitter account to complain!

*eye roll*
 
DarnoKonrad
2022-12-09 1:02:18 PM  

Blathering Idjut: But Musk says he is a First Amendment advocate.  Are dick pics the only speech he recognizes?


First they tried to force dick pics on Twitter and I said nothing. . .
 
Peter von Nostrand
2022-12-09 1:03:22 PM  
Sold my tesla a few days ago. I know it's too little, too late. Got the ID.4. It's freaking awesome. Well worth the wait for delivery.
 
Professor Duck
2022-12-09 1:03:27 PM  

asmodeus224: quick! to my twitter account to complain!

*eye roll*


Seriously. I ended up in a contentious debate with someone on Facebook over the fact that people on YouTube biatching about YouTube's policies on YouTube only gives more money to YouTube via ads and gives them no impetus to change.

/YouTube
 
Mambo Bananapatch [BareFark]
2022-12-09 1:03:54 PM  

snocone: Think you are crazy enough to understand what the Musk is doing/thinking?
Step right up and prove it.


He does and says things that are understandable, although perhaps not to you.
 
AAAAGGGGHHHH
2022-12-09 1:05:08 PM  
My Twitter feed has been really short these past few days. Was it really just me, Elon, and a bunch of bots this whole time?
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 1:05:27 PM  
So where's that farker that was adamant that musky was a Free Speech Absolutists? I wanna see the goalpost-moving gymnastics needed to explain this little situation.
 
sigdiamond2000
2022-12-09 1:11:07 PM  
I'm sure Matt Taibbi is getting to the bottom of this!
 
trippdogg
2022-12-09 1:11:23 PM  
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Rage Against the Thorazine [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 1:11:59 PM  
This was the goal all along. Why does everyone think the Saudi's and Qatar are Twitter's top investors? All of Musk's antics are just a distraction from what's happening internationally. At best Musk is a useful idiot that's easily manipulated, at worst they have kompromat on Elon and he's been compromised.
 
MattytheMouse
2022-12-09 1:12:14 PM  
oh no way who could've saw that a censorious manchild with a literal child's understanding of free speech and a disproportionate ego would not live up to his principles?
 
ProbablyDrunk
2022-12-09 1:12:48 PM  
I known firefighters can't use water to put out a flaming Tesla, but has anyone suggested using Musks lifeless body to squelch the flames?
 
whidbey
2022-12-09 1:15:12 PM  

Smoking GNU: So where's that farker that was adamant that musky was a Free Speech Absolutists? I wanna see the goalpost-moving gymnastics needed to explain this little situation.


Free speech--for nazis, traitors and fake communists.
 
Fireproof [OhFark]
2022-12-09 1:15:15 PM  

mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]


I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.
 
MattytheMouse
2022-12-09 1:16:35 PM  

Rage Against the Thorazine: This was the goal all along. Why does everyone think the Saudi's and Qatar are Twitter's top investors? All of Musk's antics are just a distraction from what's happening internationally. At best Musk is a useful idiot that's easily manipulated, at worst they have kompromat on Elon and he's been compromised.


Honestly...? I'm willing to settle on Elon Musk just being an idiot. Far too often, we tend to assign this machiavellian genius to the people in charge, when really, it's blatantly obvious that the emperor has no clothes.

That being said, I have no doubt that oppressive regimes jump aboard as Elon's investors because this was his literal stated goal.
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Very free speech.
 
Klyukva
2022-12-09 1:19:26 PM  

austerity101: Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists' Accounts?

Because Elon Musk is a fascist. I thought that was clear.


He showed he was a fascist when he banned a black man for posting the star of david.
 
MattytheMouse
2022-12-09 1:19:50 PM  

Fireproof: mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]

I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.


It's one of those things where, despite the fact that Twitter is going down in flames, there's not a whole lot to replace it. As much as somebody like me would like to jump ship, where the fark would I go. Gab?

Until Mastodon becomes more user friendly, I'm just going to stay on Twitter and make sure it stays unprofitable.
 
Marcos P
2022-12-09 1:21:02 PM  

snocone: Think you are crazy enough to understand what the Musk is doing/thinking?
Step right up and prove it.


Does Elon?
 
Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 1:21:51 PM  

Fireproof: mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]

I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.


I swear, Drew, if I see 306 or 307 more Twitter links, I'm outta here!
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2022-12-09 1:22:16 PM  
*I AM NOT DEFENDING MUSK*

penis
 
rzrwiresunrise
2022-12-09 1:22:42 PM  
Jack Dorsey when fan the shiat hit
 
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2022-12-09 1:22:58 PM  
That's very interesting, but the more things change ...  pre-Musk, Twitter had the same deal with Pfizer.
 
bigbadideasinaction
2022-12-09 1:24:28 PM  
Only the freest if speeches.

I wonder what account he's got set up for direct deposits from hostile nations?
 
chasd00
2022-12-09 1:24:49 PM  
the headline bait and switch is getting really egregious. Read the article, it only contains a lot of "may/might/could" where the headline implies Twitter is actively silencing Chinese dissidents right now because of Musk.

/hate twitter anyway but, really, the headline is just click bait
 
Fireproof [OhFark]
2022-12-09 1:24:49 PM  

MattytheMouse: Fireproof: mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]

I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.

It's one of those things where, despite the fact that Twitter is going down in flames, there's not a whole lot to replace it. As much as somebody like me would like to jump ship, where the fark would I go. Gab?

Until Mastodon becomes more user friendly, I'm just going to stay on Twitter and make sure it stays unprofitable.


I mean, sometimes Twitter is the only place to find or post something. But just for an experiment, I went and found the first Twitter link on the main page. It's a story about a mall explosion/fire in Russia. Then I googled it, and there's absolutely no shortage whatsoever of outlets covering that, some of which seem to have video of it.
 
The Perineum Falcon
2022-12-09 1:25:31 PM  
I highly doubt Musk is worried about profits from Twitter.  This has become an ego thing for him.  He shares a trait with Trump that he would have the world go down in flames than ever admit fault or wrong.

To remedy this, all we have to do is stop giving them a platform.  Easier said than done, especially as page clicks with media sources drive decisions.

Without The Apprentice, Trump would have faded into obscurity.  In regards to Elon (and actually Trump falls into this as well), he has not allowed himself to be in a situation where someone can b*tchslap them and call them the NeinEnFuhrers, to coin a phrase, that they are.
 
Palined Parenthood [TotalFark]
2022-12-09 1:26:22 PM  

Klyukva: austerity101: Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists' Accounts?

Because Elon Musk is a fascist. I thought that was clear.

He showed he was a fascist when he banned a black man for posting the star of david.


you farking dumbass
 
MattytheMouse
2022-12-09 1:27:06 PM  

Fireproof: MattytheMouse: Fireproof: mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]

I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.

It's one of those things where, despite the fact that Twitter is going down in flames, there's not a whole lot to replace it. As much as somebody like me would like to jump ship, where the fark would I go. Gab?

Until Mastodon becomes more user friendly, I'm just going to stay on Twitter and make sure it stays unprofitable.

I mean, sometimes Twitter is the only place to find or post something. But just for an experiment, I went and found the first Twitter link on the main page. It's a story about a mall explosion/fire in Russia. Then I googled it, and there's absolutely no shortage whatsoever of outlets covering that, some of which seem to have video of it.


Oh you know what? Yeah, posting links to stories DOES have a viable alternative. Sorry, I wasn't thinking of that when I posted.
 
ElwoodCuse
2022-12-09 1:28:52 PM  

Rage Against the Thorazine: This was the goal all along. Why does everyone think the Saudi's and Qatar are Twitter's top investors? All of Musk's antics are just a distraction from what's happening internationally. At best Musk is a useful idiot that's easily manipulated, at worst they have kompromat on Elon and he's been compromised.


it could be both, he's dumb as a box of rocks and also epstein-adjacent
 
MattytheMouse
2022-12-09 1:29:06 PM  

chasd00: the headline bait and switch is getting really egregious. Read the article, it only contains a lot of "may/might/could" where the headline implies Twitter is actively silencing Chinese dissidents right now because of Musk.

/hate twitter anyway but, really, the headline is just click bait


I'd have no doubt it is happening, 'cause Musk is banning leftist activists at Andy Ngo's suggestion.
 
Explodo
2022-12-09 1:29:31 PM  
Musky likes authoritarian Rs, so you'd have to figure that he's down with the silencing of dissent.  There you go.
 
moothemagiccow
2022-12-09 1:32:12 PM  
Most of those [automations] used some heuristics based around both technical information on accounts and their origins as well as English/Mandarin keywords.

Yes I definitely understand this
 
LordJiro [OhFark]
2022-12-09 1:35:10 PM  

MattytheMouse: Fireproof: mistahtom: [Fark user image 425x327]

I'm honestly annoyed that Fark is still linking to Twitter as often as it is.

It's one of those things where, despite the fact that Twitter is going down in flames, there's not a whole lot to replace it. As much as somebody like me would like to jump ship, where the fark would I go. Gab?

Until Mastodon becomes more user friendly, I'm just going to stay on Twitter and make sure it stays unprofitable.


Same. I'm also keeping an eye on Cohost, but mostly I'm just waiting for the collapse and to see where people end up going.

Naturally, I'm also blocking every ad/"sponsored" post I see, and staying the Hell away from the "home" timeline because fark that algorithm bullshiat.
 
iaazathot
2022-12-09 1:41:57 PM  

Mambo Bananapatch: snocone: Think you are crazy enough to understand what the Musk is doing/thinking?
Step right up and prove it.

He does and says things that are understandable, although perhaps not to you.


Perfectly understandable, and it is clear he is a twat waffle.
 
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