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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.
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So much for free speech
There’s so much room for fascist activities!
I wonder why the guy who bought Tesla might not want the UAW represented on the platform he bought? I can’t think of why that might be
In completely unrelated related news:
One of the things their talking about is an increase for workers who deal with electric batteries…
I just hope it gives them ideas. fingers crossed
Ah, the “free speech absolutist” doing completely free speech stuff.
Just as much of a Musk hater as the rest of them, but this was posted elsewhere. UAW changed their profile photo at the same time they announced the strike, which triggered the flag on the account. Apparently this is standard with all verified accounts until the photo can be reviewed.
Anywho, fuck Elon Musk!
From the original Intercept article:
This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures. Twitter offered only an auto-response to The Intercept’s request for comment ahead of publication. The article was previously updated to note that Twitter restored UAW’s Twitter verification after publication.
Twitter offered only an auto-response to The Intercept’s request for comment ahead of publication.
By this, they mean that any media questions to Twitter get auto-responded to with the poop emoji. Because Musk is a child.
Elon is a big bag of dicks, but it looks like Twitter is no longer replying with poop emojis. From the linked article:
To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, “Busy now, please check back later.”
That’s literally no different except he got pranked to many times with people going “thoughts on tesla build quality” “💩”
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Jesus, you people really are obsessed with trans people’s genitals.
Not even on topic and you still manage to chat about them. That’s not normal.
Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech
I mean technically it’s the free speech of Elon to do whatever with his company, right? Like how the Colorado photographer didn’t have to provide services to gays and how Amazon is no longer allowing BLM.
I mean technically it’s the free speech
Legally, yes. Ethically, definitely no.
How most of society uses that term is not in the legal way, but in the ethical way, which is a topic all on its own; a weird disconnect.
No ethics or morals in a corporate world. Only the law and weighing the fines.
No ethics ir morals in a corporate world.
Society is not just a corporation.
Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech
This gives off such a movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” vibe.
It is free speech as I would define it. The UAW had decided foolishly to communicate on a platform run by and for right wing reactionaries. Those asshats are free to moderate however they like, it’s their platform.
Stop using twitter you idiots! Using twitter gives legitimacy to the platform. The platform’s spreads nazi hate speech. What possible excuse does the UAW have for giving legitimacy to a nazi platform???
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In the land of morons, I reasonable person reads the articles and finds this:
To be fair, the Arstechnica article doesn’t mention this, the Intercept article that Arstechnica refers to does, and most people usually don’t read double article in deep before commenting.
It’s time to put some of these billionaires in their place. Nationalize his shit, seize his assets, and revoke his passport and citizenship. Fuck Musk, sick of his childish attention seeking bullshit.
Nationalize SpaceX for sure. Let him keep Twitter though, at this point it’s such a dumpster fire that it’s more of an albatross around his neck than an asset, we don’t need the tax payers carrying that shit.
The socialist advocates for violence after reading one headline.
Is lemmy /pol/ for leftoids?
If you are still on X, then you deserve the world you are struggling in.
Hey the auto workers are striking now… can we just like… do a general strike already?
Sadly, it’s going to need to get a lot worse (it’s already worse) for most Americans to feel enough of the squeeze to care. Until then, the beatings will continue until moral improves…
This dude is such a pussy. I wish he wasn’t terrified to fight Zuckerberg so we could all watch him get his ass kicked.
Whatever happened with that anyways? The last update I ever remember reading was Musk saying he’d show up at Zuckerberg’s front door “tomorrow” demanding to fight.
I mean, I can guess what ended up happening (or not happening) - but was that it? No show, no reason, no follow-up? Is he even keeping up the pretense of being serious anymore?
It was a double no-show.
Please don’t even talk about it. If it actually happened, it would make so much money for them. Let’s not make those withering schmucks the biggest ticket ever.
Last think I heard on it was one of their mums saying no. I forget which one though
lol does he not realize that he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?
I’m sure they do not care.
That’s the whole point
It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s the goal. Killing the credibility of social media is a top priority for authoritarians. They can’t have people talking to each other outside of the shaped narratives delivered by their media companies. That’s why companies spend so much on bot farms, shills and influencers. In order to shape public narratives when they can’t control the media.
Elon hates that auto workers have gone on strike? I’m shocked…
“First they came for the trade unionists…”
Yes removing a blue checkmark is exactly the same as being kidnapped off the street and sent to a work camp.
before the Nazi party came to power, they would show up to rallys, protests and town squares to silence political opponents through intimidation and physical violence.
A lot of people would consider Twitter a modern day digital “Town square”. i would say it’s eerily similar, the main difference is that there’s no physical violence just the silence.I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a big difference between how people act with anonymity and how they act in real life.
There are definitely real Nazis. They are definitely bad guys. Removing a blue checkmark is not anywhere close to the same as people being deported to concentration camps in the literal Holocaust.
Do you understand how ridiculous this sounds?
Nothing is going to happen to any striking workers. No one is “coming” for the actual trade unionists.
Elon and the Twitter company are not anonymous? They’re using their position to actively bury opinions they dislike. by removing a blue check it means less people will see union organizing efforts and messaging.
The Nazi started deporting after they came into power and again they came into power and held their power by silencing their opposition. Stop being a Corpo fasist apologist.
Isn’t the comment you are responding to a joke? That’s how I read it. It’s a funny one too.
Capitalist does captitalist things.
This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.
Oh dear. Now that you’re wrong, will you update your views or double-down like a knob?
Is elon turning into alex jones? That picture is not flattering
To be fair, the lighting is unflattering. However I’m guessing he’s going to age like crap. He went bald 10 years ago, but can afford the best wizardry to reverse that (take a look at old pictures of him). Chances are he’s doing other things to stave off the appearance of old age. That shit only works for so long and then it all comes crashing down
Nothing matters about X or Twitter, it is pitiful this passes for news in this world
