Elon comments on this thread, hilarious

Yishan@yishan

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.

So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)

I think if Elon takes over Twitter, he is in for a world of pain. He has no idea.

There is this old culture of the internet, roughly Web 1.0 (late 90s) and early Web 2.0, pre-Facebook (pre-2005), that had a very strong free speech culture.

This free speech idea arose out of a culture of late-90s America where the main people who were interested in censorship were religious conservatives. In practical terms, this meant that they would try to ban porn (or other imagined moral degeneracy) on the internet.

(Remember when it seemed very important to certain people that we ban things like this?)

Insert photo dummy

Many of the older tech leaders today (

@elonmusk

,

@pmarca

, etc, GenXers basically) grew up with that internet. To them, the internet represented freedom, a new frontier, a flowering of the human spirit, and a great optimism that technology could birth a new golden age of mankind.

I believe that too.

But I also ran Reddit.

Reddit was born in the last years of the "old internet" when free speech meant "freedom from religious conservatives trying to take down porn and sometimes first-person shooters." And so we tried to preserve that ideal.

That is not what free speech is about today.

It's not that the principle is no longer valid (it is), it's that the practical issues around upholding that principle are different, because the world has changed.

The internet is not a "frontier" where people can go "to be free," it's where the entire world is now, and every culture war is being fought on it.

It's the MAIN battlefield for our culture wars.

OMG it goes on and on and on, no wonder Elon tweeted the attached comment…kek

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514939157931454466?s=20&t=9D3lfQFuZPo3uhIfFvAROg

Joshua@JBW90

If you were Jesus, how would you have came out the tomb? Memes/Gifs only.

9:49 AM · Apr 17, 2022·Twitter

Joshua

Me and Peter would’ve been stunting on them dirt roads like this https://t.co/sVijqKubaJ

https://twitter.com/JBW90/status/1515688806485303298?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

https://twitter.com/JBW90/status/1515693973704171528?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

>>16094448

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FQjQYv9XsAkdB_V?format=jpg&name=small

>>16094448

A Wholesome African Male

@B_Kam03

Replying to

@JBW90

“Y’all thought I was dead?”

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FQjQ5evXwAEKXwa?format=jpg&name=360x360

>>16094448

Black Lloyd Christmas

@ImJoeBlow_1980

·

5h

Replying to

@JBW90

Taking my time, everybody gonna see me!!💀

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1515693028324872194/pu/img/CyDLRv5nmBX7EsQk?format=jpg&name=900x900

>>16094448

If you were Jesus, how would ypu comb out of the tomb

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1515694208375525387/pu/img/eFmM7ersH4YDgbvq?format=jpg&name=small

>>16094448

If you were Jesus, how would ypu comb out of the tomb

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1515695831822835713/pu/img/d84MsL6j1dENi11r?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1515694208375525387/pu/img/eFmM7ersH4YDgbvq?format=jpg&name=small

>>16094442

>>16094442

Shit thats funny

>>16094455

Nice thought and digits

>>16094481

>>16094481. Kekkity, grammar kitty is that you???

>>16094506

Hahahaha liked that

That makes sense in an odd way

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1515709633201115144?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1515689642699501572?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

They never should have gone to college because they never had the IQ, so they can’t answer that questionand college only made them stupider.

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1515442788397195267?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

I still contend, Bidan was ordered to hire the most corrupt of the corrupt

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1515002615318425613?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1514786066271637516?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

Remember how POSO said rumors of DiFi died after Jan. 2021, has anyone seen her in hearings etc? What about her question jackson, anyone seen her, like in video?

Then we get reports she’s got dementia last week. Why did that come out? Who was voting for her? Why didnt they want Newsom not yo appoint her replacement?

Honest question, has anyone seen her on real life or confirmed senate hearing this year or last?

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1514764608006934532?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

Bet she’s taking DiFi’s place on judiciary

https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1514753252826492928?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

I guess that a compliment to crazy people like us, but hazing Ben Collins

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1514668743514734595?s=20&t=KmFvYmqVMA–TvYPtxbbhw

NY has had an illegal gun problem since the 40’s and they’re blaming on Republicansnot passing gun laws. Which only takes guns out of citizens hands to be shot by criminals

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1514453964275789830?s=20&t=d2a3xWuIjyMWzsVTtR7YuA

>>16094770

Which fucker the shill who wrote the thread?

>>16094540

He ran reddit and he spouts these philosophies that dont equate to the statistics and only lefties are reading his Bs. As examples

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514940383960059909?s=20&t=brfFHFr9VOMpPvyd1hDlAg

The groomers just don’t get it. Once in a lifetime opportunity to be fondled by a perve, the kids are excited

https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1515450580931600387?s=20&t=brfFHFr9VOMpPvyd1hDlAg

>>16094876

Oh shit guys I found a progressive thread that is support Disney, the comments are delusional.I heard about these creatures but I didnt know what jungle they lived in

Very strange reading the multitude of resoonse

https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1515450580931600387?s=20&t=brfFHFr9VOMpPvyd1hDlAg

>>16094900

A fucking lot and he’s full of shit

>>16094898

They are delusional and he was sent in for his disinfo thread. And people gather round to reinforce the dogma

>>16094897

But Durham wants to nail them, he’s on a truth mission whereas Mueller was on a disinfo, misdirection, delay and destroy mission

>>16094891

Btw the outraged leftie found out there were 5-6 other gates letting people in

>>16094874

No one in this and previous generation understand hoe the Bulger name is associated with organized crime and death

We have very stupid and uneducated masses out there, its a big task for we have