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#135557
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — After posting a Twitter poll that seemed to indicate most Twitter users want him to step down from Twitter's leadership, Elon Musk has revealed that millions of mail-in ballots sent in yesterday confirmed most people want him to stay.

"Initially the poll seemed to indicate that the majority of users and bots wish me gone, but that was a mirage," said Musk as he emerged from a dark, windowless room with stacks of ballots. "It looks like we got an overnight dump of 2 million mail-in votes that all say they want me to stay in charge of Twitter! Imagine that! Vox Populi Vox Dei!"

The dump reportedly came after millions of people around the world realized they had missed the Twitter poll and desperately sent in hand-written appeals begging the eccentric billionaire to keep running Twitter. "Please Mr. Musk! Don't leave! Twitter is fun now! PLEASE!" read one earnest note.

Officials with the FBI are reportedly outraged that the mail-in results were enough to overturn their expensive Chinese bot farm and are demanding a recount.

Twitter users are being urged to accept the results of this "free, fair, and totally secure" election — unless they want to be given the shameful label of "election denier."
#135563
Yup, one of the first big things Musk did after taking over Twitter to 'restore free speech' was to ban a bunch of reporters from the platform because they wrote things he didn't like.

Who could have seen that coming, eh, johnny? Musk enforcing the same sort of rules that previous owners had enforced.

So much for your fake contempt for Twitter "deplatforming" posters who break the rules, eh?
#135572
There was apparently systematic censoring and deplatforming at Twitter at agency behest, which would seem violative of the First Amendment.

Revealing jet plane flights to endanger an individual, nobody sane supports that.

Even I would not reveal the details of Clowntroller's trips in his 1956 Dodge pushbutton.
#135575
In other words, now you support Twitter 'deplatforming' posters for breaking the platform rules.

That's what I said.



Incidentally, the reporters Musk 'deplatformed' hadn't revealed Musk's jet location. Read their articles.

And it doesn't matter whose "behest" it was previously. If the posters violated the platform rules, they violated the platform rules and are subject to being shut out.
#135586
When will johnny learn that people are not 'deplatformed' for being "wrong"? Nobody cares if what they post is "wrong" as a moral issue as you are pretending matters in this case. Trump is morally wrong about what he posts and you still think he should be allowed to post on Twitter. And if he hadn't broken the rules, he would still be there.

People are 'deplatformed' for breaking the rules, not for being "wrong." You agree to the rules when you sign up, you bear the consequences for your behavior under the rules.

As it was then, so it is now. Nothing has changed under Musk. Get a clue already.

Twitter is (and always was) free to shut off anyone they choose, for whatever rule violation a poster commits.

When are you going to learn the basics of contract law, johnny?
#135595
Nonsense.

People with MD and PhD training were banned from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook for differing from blather about 6 feet of social distance and face masks.

HCQ, if used early, was associated with a 69 percent reduction in mortality risk, but that info was censored out.

Censoring by Twitter affected the 2020 election, as polls show.
#135601
No, it doesn't confer some inherent right to post, but it means those people had more expertise on covid than the young morons who censored them.

Agrawal and Roth both had PhDs, so they were not devoid of intellect, but the CEO was not born in the US and was ignorant of the 1st Amendment.

Roth admitted to having a private "dirty" account where he pursued "musclebears," whatever that might mean in the dark depths of depraved demented dens of fetid Frisco.

The kid Roth had some sort of doctorate in communic from Penn, but his thesis was on gay web sites.

Sure, that might be edifying to a simpering socialist such as Clowntroller, but to the rest of us it was not.

The net effect was that Twitter's censorship, like that surely of YouTube and Facebook, was based on politics and not medical science.
#135604
"The net effect was that Twitter's censorship, like that surely of YouTube and Facebook, was based on politics and not medical science."-john"howstupidcanyoube?"forbes

Twitters censorship is based on platform rules, dimwit, not science or politics or anything else. PLATFORM RULES.

Every last poster on Twitter agreed when they signed up that Twitter could ban them for breaking their set of arbitrary rules.

Shockingly enough, Twitter also bans people merely for denying the holocaust. But you hypocritically couldn't care less about that infringement of their rights to free speech. You haven't started a single thread about it.
#135617
johnny, I just can't emphasize strenuously enough that you shouldn't get your medical information from internet gossip sites.

I don't care what Dr. J, Dr. Dre, Dr. House, Dr. Laura, Dr. Seuss, Doc Severinson, or Doc Marten has to say about a pandemic, vaccines, or anything else for that matter. And no one else should either.

Anyone getting their medical information from unvetted 'experts' posting on gossip sites is a moron. Don't you remember that's precisely how you got into that QAnon problem you have. Some guy claimed to know the truth so you believed him without question, and look where that got us.

Follow the science, dimwit, not someone with a lot of Twitter "likes".
#135621
The sad thing about the covid episode was that the most important "scientist" was Lord Acton, who noted that power tends to corrupt.

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter became the modern public square.

When a private company censors at agency behest, that company becomes a "state actor" and is violating the First Amendment.

Twitter interfered in the 2020 election, and that is now just a fact.
#135710
I've been waiting for the outrage from johnforbes over this egregious case of ballot harvesting and voter fraud from a Republican:

"Republican candidate's wife arrested, charged with casting 23 fraudulent votes for her husband in the 2020 election"

"The wife of an Iowa Republican who ran for Congress in 2020 was arrested Thursday and accused of casting 23 fraudulent votes on behalf of her husband.

In an 11-page indictment, prosecutors allege that Kim Phuong Taylor "visited numerous households within the Vietnamese community in Woodbury County," where she collected absentee ballots for people who were not present at the time. Taylor, who was born in Vietnam, then filled out and cast those ballots herself, the indictment alleges, "causing the casting of votes in the names of residents who had no knowledge of and had not consented to the casting of their ballots."

Taylor is also accused of signing voter registration forms on behalf of residents who were not present. In all, prosecutors allege, she engaged in 26 counts of providing false information and voting, three counts of fraudulent registration, and 23 counts of fraudulent voting. Each charge carries a maximum 5-year prison sentence."-Business Insider


This is a state run by Republicans, not Democrats. We can see how Republicans mysteriously "find" ballots and votes.

johnforbes will now express his disgust that Republicans committed voter fraud and sillydummy will express his grave concern over the Iowa elections being "stolen" by Republicans... :O

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