cambridgeshire canary 6,756 Posted April 25, 2022 https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-and-twitter-reach-agreement-for-44bn-takeover-12598608 Wish I could just drop 44 billion on something like it's nothing.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,802 Posted April 25, 2022 Interesting until I saw w⚓s like Lawrence Fox getting excited. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KernowCanary 214 Posted April 25, 2022 God, this horrible invention of “Social Media” is never going to die isn’t it? :(. Life was so much better before it came along. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littleyellowbirdie 2,565 Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, KernowCanary said: God, this horrible invention of “Social Media” is never going to die isn’t it? :(. Life was so much better before it came along. Social media is the friendly face of data mining and manipulation of people's thought processes to achieve the ends of the highest bidder; it's a tool for hacking people's thoughts and behaviour en masse. Tim Berners-Lee has developed a personal data ownership platform called Solid, which is aimed at giving internet users ownership of their own data online that they can grant and revoke access to at will where compatible platforms do not actually store any user data themselves. It seems to me that a platform as large as Twitter going this way would be massive. No idea if this is what Musk is thinking, but the guy seems to be a free-thinking libertarian at heart so I do wonder. Edited April 26, 2022 by littleyellowbirdie 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keelansgrandad 6,679 Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) Beggar, he beat me to it. I'll have to go for Chelsea instead. Edited April 26, 2022 by keelansgrandad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KernowCanary 214 Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) Awful website full of idiots “reacting” to recent events in soaps, leading to a brainless idiot of a journalist to search for example “Eastenders” and then embed the tweets of their choice into a report, with the seemingly compulsive and annoying phrase “Fans took to Twitter” before going ahead with the quotes. Then these idiots get all trippy because their tweet was featured. There was even a report about people complaining on there about the sound quality on A Place in the Sun!. What makes these morons think that’s newsworthy!?. It’s the same all the time and nobody has picked up on how annoying it is. The “SM” tool itself is just one huge status update, while everything you post can be seen by everyone, which just sucks. Its the worse of the “SM” sites I think. When all this started it was perfectly harmless with MySpace and Bebo, but now it’s one of life’s demons. Don’t even get me started on the annoying phrases it’s created like “Karen” and “Stacey” to insult someone, let alone the racism problems that the companies do diddly squat to prevent. Shut them down I say, but there’s too much money involved. Edited April 26, 2022 by KernowCanary 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rock The Boat 1,332 Posted April 26, 2022 Interesting that so many lefties are upset that Elon Musk promises to allow free speech on Twitter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
horsefly 4,310 Posted April 27, 2022 5 hours ago, Rock The Boat said: Interesting that so many lefties are upset that Elon Musk promises to allow free speech on Twitter What isn't remotely interesting is that you find that interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,802 Posted April 27, 2022 It's amusing that all these right wingers are on every platform whining about their lack of free speech. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tetteys Jig 830 Posted April 27, 2022 Dunno what Laurence Fox is getting excited about, he’ll just get called out for being a total **** even more. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KernowCanary 214 Posted April 27, 2022 (edited) Don’t tell me the latest phrase on the media street being “Vampire Device” is social media driven. In the meantime, let’s all “Take to Twitter” and moan about our team’s season, while hoping some local media website will find our “Tweets” and feature them on their latest Norwich City report!. Really does sound pathetic reading that back, and that’s was “SM” is…. pathetic. Edited April 27, 2022 by KernowCanary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,802 Posted April 28, 2022 It's starting to look all fur and no knickers this buy out. Musk is very rich but it looks like most of his money is tied up in other companies who are beholden to large shareholders and other entities. This may still happen but looking less likely by the day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
littleyellowbirdie 2,565 Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) I think Musk made a fair point in describing Twitter as 'the de facto town square' of the digital political world. The fundamental issue with Twitter censoring anything on Twitter is that it's a private company that's accountable to nobody dictating who may or may not say something. Once you've established that it's okay in principle for the company to act like that at all then that's a lot of power in Twitter's hands that it can wield however he likes, which is harmful to democracy. Edited April 28, 2022 by littleyellowbirdie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159 Posted April 28, 2022 I shall never join twatter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Herman 9,802 Posted April 28, 2022 6 hours ago, nevermind, neoliberalism has had it said: I shall never join twatter. There are now a few relieved users....... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
(Hoola)Han Solo 324 Posted April 28, 2022 6 hours ago, nevermind, neoliberalism has had it said: I shall never join twatter. Stick to those conspiracy theory sites mate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
