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[–] 127 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Brazil first, Australia 2nd and hopefully EU third nail in the coffin for that clown's platform

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oh, X is banned in Brazil and Australia? Or what happened in those countries?

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Banned in Brazil, forced to pay 10% of global earnings per day until stopping misinformation posting in Australia.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    10% of global earnings? Isn't it losing money? Makes it sound like they're paying him.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Of course, of course. The people fighting against fascism are always the real fascists. According to the fascists, anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The people fighting fascists do look a lot like, and behave like fascists. Why don't we just stamp out twitter ? They are unredeemable and detrimental to existing. Just shut it down. And all forms of social media along with it.

    None of it has any worth, burn it all diwb.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    I'm not sure that word means what you think it means, Elon. Regulating scam sites is a pretty typical government thing.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    Good thing he gutted Twitter's content moderation teams in the name of "free speech", eh?

    If I had a dollar for every time a billionaire loses more money than I could ever dream of because their hubris got in the way or they misunderstood a concept or were just plain dumb -- well, I guess I'd be a billionaire too.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    stop proposing and just do it. if they don't pay; then ban twitter from operating in your country. enough tip-toeing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So, we're not doing Section 230 anymore ?

    So, are we giving the right to twitter, no, the mandate, to delete everyone we and they don't like ?

    I mean, this is what's going to happen and is already happening. Just the most powerful people on earth become the arbiters of Truth ?

    Like, isn't anyone else seeing this is bad ?

    I mean, the worst outcome possible that we've seen coming for 40 years kind of bad ?

    I think just kill all social media, would be a much preferable solution. Maybe cut every optic fiber instead !

    Just don't give these monsters that power, I think global thermonuclear war is a cakewalk compared to this prison we're building around us.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So, we’re not doing Section 230 anymore ?

    That's a part of a US law, and as such doesn't throw a shrimp on the bar-b in Australia, mate.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    "They go low, we go high! Let's give the people who want to one day undo freedom of speech the freedom to spread misinformation, so they can undo freedom of speech one day."

    One thing I had to learn through the years of my life, if you turn the other cheek, you might make someone flinch the first or second time, but after a while, they'll be expecting you turning the other cheek for the second punch, and call you "uncivil" and "unfair" the very moment you don't turn the other cheek. Just replace the "turning the other cheek" with the whole "they go low, we go high" mantra.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone needs to put that asshole in his place. Eat the rich.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There are only two ways to do this:

    1. Him becoming destitute and poor

    2. Him being dead

    Neither is likely to happen anytime soon, so we’re stuck with this piece of shit for some decades longer. If the human race could collectively just ignore him, stop buying his cars and stop thinking he’s some kind of genius, then perhaps there’s a third option. But that relies on the human race having the capacity to critically think, which is even more unlikely than option #1.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    [projection intensifies]

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    hit dog will holler

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How many positions on free speech does the kama sutra actually have? Just wondering.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago*

    "The true fascist are the people who try to place control on disinformation being used to prop fascists!" - Musk, probably

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Elon Musk used the word fascist? In Elon's response to this Australia bill noted above.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I guess his PoV is that Xitter is his property, thus when he does whatever there, it's not censorship, but when state demands from him to do whatever there, it is.

    But his position would be easier to defend were he not Elon Musk.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Being under someone's boot isn't so fun, is it dumbass? Almost as if we should be working towards a society as if you don't know who you'll be in it.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unrelated to the article:

    I read this title as "Fascifacts" instead of "Facists"...

    I think that instead of calling it fake news, we should start calling it "Fascifacts."

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