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>don't know why it's so impossible to believe there are people who truly do want free speech. Because everybody has a point where they don't want free speech anymore. If I gathered your home address and told everyone you w
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The mental gymnastics that folks go to excuse Musk's behavior will get ever more absurd. Musk will continue to censor speech he doesn't like arbitrarily and use Twitter to promote right-wing extremists who will then hurt real peop
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Posting public info isn't doxxing, sorry.
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>Did these "attack" include realtime doxxing? Especially after TOS modified to prohibit it? Posting public information publicly isn't doxxing and until you give up that falsehood, there isn't really anywhere the conve
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>The test of the truth of a live location is trivial. The test of truth of COVID information is not. The assertion that posting a 'live location' create dangerous real world consequences is completely absurd. We know plenty abo
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> that promoting and publicising it makes it accessible to a wider audience that does have an effect on real world consequences. So you'd be okay with banning misinformation about COVID and the COVID vaccine? Misinformation and agit
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The people who cheered Musk for his "pro free speech" attitude don't actually believe or want free speech. They want free speech for themselves and censorship for people they don't like. See the terrorist attacks against
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It's state by state. I know you can collect unemployment while receiving severance in Washington.
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>That's a lot of hate and presumptions to assume about one person There is no assumption. It's based on the things he's said and done >And Elon is most definitely not a conservative. Yes he is. >He has stated he vote
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Elon Musk is an idiot who bought is own bull. This is just a case of the dog catching the car. He's never going to develop 'systems that can patrol the speech' because he's far too vain and think skinned to allow actual
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It depends I think it's extremely hypocritical of Musk to ban speech like doxxing, based on his past comments.
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There was corruption at the height of organized crime. The average Teamster is doing a lot better than than average non-unionized trucker
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>Here in slovenia, many worker unions were against the lowering the taxes on paychecks (higher net with same gross pay), because their political parties were against those, even if the workers themselves would benefit from those. You can
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If you think that's bad, look into 'non-profit' hospitals. They make money like its going out of style and get amazing tax breaks
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You can't be authoritarian if you have no authority over others. The NAACP can't force Musk to do anything. Using collective action to achieve social goals is called democracy. You should take some time to learn about that before
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>Are the authoritarians the people that want to ensure public discourse is censored to try to create their vision of an ideal society? No, people coming together collectively pressure organizations to make changes is the free market solu
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That would make the most sense to me, as the article OP linked to indicated that there was never a planned pause to the pressure campaign. Just musk being musk
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Is there a source other than Musk, who has been known to lie in the past?
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>His habits. His "habits" are asking the people with actual knowledge what to do and then sometimes ignoring them when he gets too involved in his twitter drama. >An example might be Einstein Elon had to lie about his Bachel
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Its wild how many people believe this dumb "pull up of your sleeves" photo op bullshit. Musk doesn't even have a B.S., dude couldn't understand how to build a barn door much more something like Twitter.
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Well, its a bit tongue in cheek in that I'm not proposing anything really. My overall point is that the US government massively subsidizes foreign-owned oil and gas companies https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/f
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>Saudi Arabia is key in keeping global energy prices lower by increasing global supply, and is also a key ally in a historically unstable region which impacts those prices. The key to keeping energy prices low for the US is to stop givin
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The United States is the largest producer of oil in the world. We just don't nationalize it. We give it away to foreign owned oil corporations who then gouge us at the pump.
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>as I doubt the core engineers are the ones posting Emojis in the Slack channels. Why would someone who is capable of being a core engineer at Twitter agree to be overworked after Musk destroys the majority of the company. The most talen
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>My fear is that if you’re being productive 20 hours and unproductive 20 hours a week and the work week is reduced, how do we know you won’t just end up being productive 10 hours and unproductive 20. Unless you are a cashier or some othe
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Why would high performers want to work for him at Twitter though? Twitter and the toxic person who owns it isn't really going to be appealing for high performers.
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I have a really hard time seeing the government extend the corporate welfare that Tesla and SpaceX receive to Twitter.
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>again: what the fuck happened? A global pandemic that empowered workers to advocate for themselves? There is a difference between 'hard work' and working more than 40 hours a week.
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People are liable to drop dead the same day they drink water! They must be connected!
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https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
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