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Philip Sewell's avatar

Because anonymity on the web has no drawbacks at all

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CellyBlue - I Do Know This!'s avatar

Why are sane people using that site I don’t get it

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Daniel's avatar

"I believe in freedom of speech, which, ideally, means nobody ever has to defend their beliefs because they voice them as part of a faceless mass."

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KO in LA's avatar

Musk: Everyone must have the right to post whatever they want on X - free speech!

Also Musk: People on X should be able to like offensive comment in secret!

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Dawn's avatar

They probably need to hide from employers, or potential employers, that their moral and ethical standards lean toward Nazism. Or, hide that information from a girlfriend, or her parents. Who would want their daughter dating a man who thought highly of a rapist?

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Daniel's avatar

Probably a Huckabee?

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tiefer$taat's avatar

Huckabee's also eat lecterns at every meal, I heard.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

“True, but it’s a major election year and Musk’s new policy helps Republicans show their support for extremists without transparency.”

Yep, and those greedy takers sure do seem to get all kinds of boosts for free!

Also, I am happy to learn that Julia Duffy appears to be as delightful IRL as she is onscreen.

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Amy's avatar

"X-rated klan bake plagued by spam and harassment" sums it up nicely.

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Vincent J's avatar

Network effects aside, it's possible, even healthy IMO, to just never use twitter ever again.

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Addison Kovlowski's avatar

I hate this change sooo much! Open likes were a huge part of the twitter experience and a clear source of joy and solace.

Clearly Musk is trying to weedle his way into an "X" made solely for him and his ridiculous safeguards.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Also negates "ratios" which show you when someone's got a really inflammatory or ridiculous tweet and they get mocked. Protects clowns like him.

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Daniel's avatar

Musk is on record as hating that ratios were possible.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Well Apartheid Clyde found the cheat code exploit for being a shitbag; vendor lock-in. Because people still keep giving Apartheid Clyde clicks, his shitty website can continue going. And we'll just go from outrage to outrage knowing that we'll still have outrages to seethe about while he laughs all the way to the bank. It's the Microsoft/Adobe Principle.

I think I'm one of my only friend group who has not even logged back into Xitter.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Same here btw

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Make Privacy Great Again's avatar

It’s time for all decent people to delete the app….and FB, IG, TicTok, etc. You are ingesting poison concocted by algorithms. If you all leave, the only advertisers will be the MyPillow Guy, Balance of Nature and boner pills, just like Faux News.

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Sherry's avatar

Yet another reason why I am glad I quit that shithole. Granted there were some really great posters there. Even made friends with Cecilia and we shared our gardens and homemade jams and cupcakes with one another. That was a nice feature.

Otherwise I have no desire to see negative propaganda and horrible hatred on the regular. Life is too short to wallow all day long in the crap that crazy people say.

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Brando's avatar

That's the only thing keeping me there--interacting with other tweeters who I grew familiar with. But the site is becoming right wing garbage and misinformation.

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Sherry's avatar

You’re a braver person than I.

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Eva Porter's avatar

Elon doesn’t want you to know he likes goat porn

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Bruce's avatar

𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙮 goat porn. Is it wrong toe speculate? It's wrong NOT to!

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Eva Porter's avatar

😂😂

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Mary Veron's avatar

Elon’s a deeply troubled little man.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

Amazing how a few deeply troubled dudes with beaucoup bucks can fuck up (pretty much) the whole globe. Aren’t they scheduled to colonize Mars soon, and GTFO of our precious planet?

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Musk is such a delicate, little ❄.

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Manic Pixel Dream Girl's avatar

“For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be ‘edgy’ in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image.” - Straight up Naziism is just “edgy” now? Well swastikas are quite literally ALL edge, really so, sure. I’ll allow the euphemism. 🤬

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