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When Elon Musk calls himself a "free speech absolutist", what does he think the word absolutist means?

@georgetakei vote with your feet. That’s what businesses ultimately understand.

@georgetakei Yes! I had to double check because I couldn’t believe it! This is bigger than anything he’s done to Twitter. The man has lost contact with his brain…

@georgetakei Musk throws a tantrum, people react negatively and he throws a bigger tantrum. It just screams insecurity and a desire for absolute control.

@georgetakei This one's from @godpod

@georgetakei if we were located in SF, maybe Twitter would have been a good target for a musical clown march... 🤔🤡

@georgetakei I notice that Parler and other right wing cesspools are absent from his banned list 🤔

@georgetakei Pathetic

@georgetakei removes content that contains links , but will allow cross posting. :blobthinking: Errm.how?

@georgetakei so Musk’s experiment/game continues...how much control and limits on freedom of speech will most people take? Those of us here have already asked ourself that question. Should we feel for the frogs in the steadily warming pan still over on the bird site?

@georgetakei could bei nice trolling him. Make Domains with the content, that you should move Here and spread them.

Every time he takes down a Link-Site into banning, just 5 new will appear.

@AnonNewsDE@social.tchncs.de

@AnonNewsDe@octodon.social sound like a fun job? Spread it to the international groups (don't know which one are real 😃)

@georgetakei The Internet was built on sharing between platforms. I suspect this approach will not have the result Elon Snowflake intended.

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If Elmo were to be honest, he would have called it "$8 speech" from the outset. Dude has no interest in free, never has, never will.

@georgetakei Screw dat sh*t

@georgetakei i hope everyone is sharing the list on twitter…. Free advertising for those medias

@georgetakei I’m sure it was the promotion of other sites causing the great #twittermigration and definitely not twitter being bought by an egomaniac who bought it just to break it.

@georgetakei On your Twitter page you’ve Tweeted: “Guess I have to take down my pinned tweet.”
But you don’t have to. You have enormous value to Twitter. You could refuse and yes, risk suspension, but also provide impetus for others to resist self-censorship. And you MUST know the censorship is not going to stop here. The choice is obviously yours, not mine, not that of Elon Musk. But do donsider taking a stand on this. You’re in a position to make a difference

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@georgetakei 🤦 This is getting really ridiculous.

@georgetakei Next step - links will be available if you pay the god-damned $8 🤔

@georgetakei I can’t with this loser.

@georgetakei Wow, but not surprising. Mollusk is something else, he is.

@georgetakei It’s unreal ! Twitter is a habit at this point but one that is quickly likely to end soon based on stuff like this 🫣

@georgetakei a few month ago:

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@georgetakei Well, I'm a nobody there and have never tweeted much but I have my Mastodon user name posted in my profile. Wonder how long it will take for my account to be banned?

@georgetakei Twitter has started putting sensitivity warnings on my tweets. They flagged my photos of ice cream, eclairs, suckling pig, my Feliz Navi Dad, horses, and several others of dubious dubiousness. I was able to appeal the suckling pig, but any further appeals had broken. This new policy might explain the flagging, but if so, apparently they consider Flickr to be competing and social media.

@georgetakei I am hoping significant numbers stop supporting Musk enterprises. Elon is positioning himself to control communication, transportation, media, news, and voices, in a country that seems to lack control of wealthy persons who seek unhindered power. The dawn of authoritarian rule. I'm glad I'm 70; this is a problem for everyone younger who will be living with it.

@georgetakei RIP "free speech absolutism" (June 2022 - December 2022)

@georgetakei The unhinged tyrant never intended it

@georgetakei Can the other platforms do the same in return? Can Facebook ban Twitter links? He has not banned TikTok links. Why?

@georgetakei I didn’t realize Twitter was a snowflake

@georgetakei @lcasteur

Onlyfans is not on the blacklist, I suggested we would all refer to that, overthere. 😁

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@georgetakei I'm pretty sure you already saw this @snazzyq... just so you know you decided to leave at the right time

@georgetakei Notice it is ok to post your GETR, Parlor, GAB or Truth Social account.

@georgetakei So funny how he is determined to make Twitter suck

@georgetakei that includes “Truth Social” right?

@georgetakei I've seen 2-year-olds throw more dignified tantrums 🙄

@georgetakei Oh, wow. Instagram is on the list now? 😬 Yikes! Big mistake. So many Twitters I used to follow were most referring to Instas!

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He didn't mention https://spacekaren.sucks
Seems to be a-okay with him 😎

@georgetakei the bird's circles around the drain are getting pretty tight.

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Allow me to translate:
"Certain" = Mastodon and any others that allow and promote free speech and equality for all.

i.e. in a sentence: "BS"

@georgetakei There are already people looking into maybe legal actions as this could be anticompetitive.

@georgetakei the wanton failure of a would-be oppressor shows it's colors quickly.

@georgetakei what did you expect from this #ChiefAdvocateForFreeSpeechInNameOnly

@georgetakei Free speech isn't free. It's $8/month or a weekly public bootlicking.

@georgetakei I am so happy to have migrated… 🙏❤️🕊

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So...what happens if you post a tinyURL? https://tinyurl.com/app/

@georgetakei George, that isn't fair. Anyone can post anything they like on Twitter, as long as Elon Musk likes it too!

@georgetakei it was never about free speech. It was about stroking a billionaire's ego.

@georgetakei He wants the left gone. Then the left start leaving and he's upset. What a clown and weak man.

@georgetakei didn’t know you are here too. Great to see you (and other famous people)

@georgetakei lol Elon is cringe

@georgetakei if you use a link shortener like bitly, the resulting link doesn't– for now –get blocked

@georgetakei Wow. That's some pathetic desperation from the bird app. 🤣

@georgetakei even better than this is I reported a threat of violence on Twitter and they said it was fine 😭

Posting links to mastodon/insta = bad, threatening violence = fine

😭 😭 😭

@georgetakei @steele hey at least they’re applying this equitably and not exempting platforms that happen to align with Musk’s ideological bent

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@georgetakei Yeah he is an idiot...

@georgetakei Notably absent from that list: Gab and Parler.

@georgetakei This is one hell of a midlife crisis.

@georgetakei Not surprising!

@georgetakei never going back to T platform as long as it’s a person-company

@georgetakei Elon's version of the Berlin wall. It was such a stunning success at keeping people in.

@georgetakei this is very illegal to do in EU, he will be forced to change course shortly!

@georgetakei actually I left the first day he joined and I'm not checking what he's doing there

@georgetakei I tried my best, George. Can't save everybody from the downfall, now I am here. Hope this place is less harmful, more inclusive and more committed to free speech and the advancement of all. Still on FB and Instagram, but this is my replacement for Twitter.

@georgetakei we recognize people may wish to use other boats, and they are free to do so, but we here at the Titanic are suspending any directions to lifeboats or other floatation devices.

@georgetakei what the hell is this hahahahah

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Are you seeing this
@EC_Commissioner_Breton, @@EU_Commission?

Isn't this a breach of the shiny new Digital Market Act & Digital Services Act?
I think it's high time you banned Twitter in Europe.

@georgetakei so much twitter chaos is feeding my addiction to popcorn

@georgetakei All tweeters are free but some are more free than others.

@georgetakei If it ever was about freedom of speech.

@georgetakei Nice of him to mention and promote Mastodon.

@georgetakei Elon is just figuring out that "freedom of speech" was never an option.

@georgetakei One Washington Post columnist (@taylorlorenz) was banned for doing this retroactively.

@georgetakei Twitter is in need of some serious PA advice.

@georgetakei I honestly can't say I'm surprised at this point.

@georgetakei Musk again, patooie.

@georgetakei seems like they don't like people talking about other "town squares" at the "town square".

@georgetakei IKR?!?!?! MASSIVE hyprocrisy, manipulative, lying behavior & poor little man-baby getting real scared!

@georgetakei That did it for me.

@georgetakei I think Twitter is officially the Anti-Social Media Platform now

@georgetakei o gosh I found you on mastodon. What a relief. No idea how to use this. You are a beacon of sanity and I followed you here.

@georgetakei Mean girl who clawed her way to the top of her friendship clique at high school: “Mastodon is no longer our friend. You all have to pretend she is invisible and no one is ever allowed to say her name again”.

@georgetakei No mention of Youtube? So https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBDpPVTolvs is allowed? I have got to try this.

@georgetakei for a guy who hasn't paid rent for its headquarters foe months, Elon seems very sure that he's doing an amazing job as the CEO. Can't wait for him to be removed from Tesla as well.

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This is what SCROOGE Christmas looks like. 🙄

@georgetakei Just do what I did.
S*a*m*e n-a-m-e e/v/e/r/y/w/h/e/r/e.

Right-wing lunatics have NEVER been about "Free Speech", they've only ever been about "Freedom from accountability" for them and their close friends.

Either way, as for links being blocked, https://spacekaren.sucks is a link shortener that blocks the Twitter user agent (Twitter's bots can't crawl it), so people can put their Mastodon link in it, and share it to Twitter.

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@georgetakei best avoid the whole thing and stay over here.

@georgetakei WOW! This is proof that people really are leaving Twitter in droves.