- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Elon Musk’s X is blocking links to the JD Vance “dossier” containing the Trump campaign’s research on the vice presidential nominee. X also suspended Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who published the dossier that apparently comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.
- Sort of funny when you consider all of the information in the dossier was public information already… 
- What a unwavering free speech absolutist that he claims he is. 
- I’m so fucking glad he bought the site to protect free speech… 
- At this point he’s just pushing potential users away. I wonder if he’s given up on it and is just holding on to it until the election is completed. - At this point it’s starting to look like she’s intentionally tanking Twitter to remove a major platform where people can organize. - He’s making moves intentionally stupid that destroy the Twitter brand that was built up. - Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire. - Unless tou know they are malicious narccisists, them attributing it to malice is the logical thing to do. Plus hate and pig-headedness are common movitators for malice… - Pissing away 40bn - 15% of your net worth to own the libs by destroying a company you were forced to buy requires an incredible degree of stupidity. Imagine the damage a remotely competent malicious narcissist could do with that kind of money. - For context, the 2016 election cost $6.5bn - for both sides, presidential and congressional elections - that comfortably buys you a quarter century of elections - and if the GOP has power for that long, at this point, there won’t be another election to fund. - Musk clearly has sub-normal IQ - there’s no shame in that, but he has no shortage of other reasons to be ashamed of himself. 
 
 
- He might be doing both, but mostly with a dash of the fact he’s a spoiled self-destructive moron. So if he can’t have it, no one can. - Cool. Do Facebook next. - 😅 
 
 
- People have been saying this since he was forced into buying the platform. I initially thought that could be true too. - As time has gone on, however, I’m starting to think he’s just that incompetent - Nah, he is just too incompetent to completely run it into the ground. 
- Yes, this is what spoilt brats do. There is no masterplan here. 
 
 
- It’s 7-D chess. He wants to use x-Twitter as a tax wire-off. 
 
- For profit speech absolutist. 
- Oh look twinsies 
- Can someone link to it here, since this site’s not controlled by a neonazi? - Or a summary would be nice. 
- deleted by creator - I’m actually surprised at how benign this report is. It’s all stuff we more or less already know. I wanted to see the couches. 
- Just to add, link to the author’s article here https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier 
 
 
- Oh noes, suspended from Shitter. 
- Classic free speech move 
- I love to see free speech absolutism being so unshakable. 
- “Freedom of Speech” 
- I love myself a bit of Streisand effect in the late afternoon 









