Elon's Folly

I can't imagine being able to travel the world at my leisure eating the finest foods mankind has to offer and saving millions of lives through charitable donations and yet wasting my life, money, and time picking losing fights with governments while defending indefensible shitbags on the internet.

Must just be something about billionaires I don't understand 🤷‍♂️

- I could do it easy peasy
  It's called supporting the arts. I'd just set up artist funds all over the country so that artists - visual artists, musical artists, theatrical artists, circus artists, writers, you name it - could learn, create, and share their work without struggling to get by.
  But then, I'm a human and not a capitalist lizard masquerading as human, so art actually means something to me.
- Someone who puts money over ~~customers~~ people

Billionairism is a serious disease.

It's like hoarding. Surprised Elon isn't more emotionally stricken when he loses gobs of ~~money~~ self worth score.

So hitting him in his bank account is how to get him to do your bidding? So let's impose some more embargos and demand his account be banned for lies.

Rocket Kiko is such a wimp he cares about a tiny amount like this, when he's the richest child in the world.

It's pretty sad that the new users are going to Threads, when the Fediverse without Facebook control is right here.

The masses aren't ready yet. Hell, I'm a technical person and can't figure out for the life of me why the mastodon instance I'm on can see some things from another instance but not other things. To see the things I want on pixelfed I've got to have multiple accounts on multiple servers.
I obviously like the fediverse. I'm here on multiple services. But let's not pretend that any idiot can figure out which instance to sign up for and just automatically see all the things they want to see and talk to all the people they want to talk to.

It warms my calloused, embittered heart to see this.

But he’s a brilliant businessman. /s

You love to see it.

I love how this story converges with this community's logo

I'm of two minds here... On the one hand Musk can suck it - but on the other I'm dismayed at how many people are jumping to defend a nation demanding the silencing of political opponents like this just because it injures Musk.

They can both be wrong. One side doesn't need to be "right" here.

Poking around I can’t find anything talking about the election being rigged at all, only older articles talking about Bolsanaro falsely claiming that the voting machines could be hacked and rigged.
The accounts that were requested to be suspended seem to have all been in relation to their own version of Jan. 6 and were spreading conspiracy and lies about the election. That’s a pretty major national security risk, honestly, if they’re trying to incite people to respond against a fairly elected government with violence.
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Free speech is all well and good but not everything that flaps out of someone’s gums is protected. Hate speech isn’t, defamation is a crime in most places, fraud is a real thing, etc. If these people are using their platform to heat the waters in an attempt to tear down a democratically elected government that’s no fucking bueno, my dude.
X also has a history of banning left-leaning accounts just because. He’s perfectly happy to silence political opponents for the right.
- Hate speech isn’t,
  In the US it is. Yes it really is - just stop it with this. At least read the wikipedia article. I'm so sick of seeing this claim as the first response to any "free speech" discussion. Do you ever wonder how the Westborough Baptist Church still exists?? Daily Stormer?? Other hate groups???
  That’s a pretty major national security risk, honestly, if they’re trying to incite people to respond against a fairly elected government with violence.
  Ahhh, the "national security risk" defense - always the safe haven of the totalitarian. This is how China justifies quieting dissidents to great effect. Speech that is dangerous to the government isn't always a bad thing. Imagine somebody who thinks your speech is dangerous is in power.
  Letting the government decide which speech is dangerous to it or not is a very risky thing.
  If these people are using their platform to heat the waters in an attempt to tear down a democratically elected government that’s no fucking bueno, my dude.
  Oh you don't think so? What if that "democratically elected government" is Putin? Because guess how many votes he got in the last election.
So the X accounts belonged to legitimate political opponents, they weren't spreading disinformation?
I don't know about the judicial system in Brazil but they don't seem that corrupted...
- BoTh SiDeS!
- So the X accounts belonged to legitimate political opponents, they weren’t spreading disinformation?
  I don't want the government deciding who is or is not a "legitimate political opponent". That double-edged-sword swings both ways and cuts very easily.