Twitter’s mass staff purge are over and the company can now begin hiring new talent again, billionaire CEO Elon Musk reportedly told employees Monday.
Anders Hagstrom for FOX Business:
Musk made the announcement during an all-hands meeting at Twitter, following weeks of terminations that left roughly two-thirds of Twitter’s original 7,500 employees out of a job, The Verge reported Tuesday. Musk says the company is now looking to make hires in engineering and sales, the outlet reported.
Musk emphasized that his leadership was a “moderate” not “right-wing” takeover of the company in response to a question about whether the company might move to Texas.
“If we want to move the headquarters to Texas I think it would play into the idea that Twitter has gone from being left-wing to right-wing, which is not the case,” he told employees. “This is not a right-wing takeover of Twitter. It is a moderate-wing takeover of Twitter.”
“To be the digital town square, we must represent people with a wide array of views even if we disagree with those views,” he continued.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds familiar.
Twitter can be made valuable, worth far in excess of $54.20 per share, if the platform is returned to an open “town square” marketplace of ideas, sans heavy-handed, one-sided censorship, shadow-banning, etc.
Hopefully Musk will be an agent of change for a platform that should, at this point, be considered a public utility that allows for all viewpoints to be openly discussed.
Elon Musk is a doer. — MacDailyNews, October 21, 2022
The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. – Steve Jobs
A few more quotes:
• Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ― Benjamin Franklin
• To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. ― Aung San Suu Kyi
• Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost. ― Neil Gaiman
• Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. – Potter Stewart
• Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ― United Nations
• If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ― George Washington
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Stop. Musk is a right wing elite who lies about everything he ever did. Big fraud and it’s going to be another Parlor, meaning the end of Twitter. The free speech crap is just that. He is another Fox News traitor to American values. An election liar, a Trumpite and big on white grievance. His motto is the GOP’s, accuse your enemy of what your are doing. How insanely stupid of you to think this is about free speech … it’s about hate speech because that is how media makes money today.
Hey H, your H-bomb fizzled. Just go back to being the left wing applecynic nut job you clearly aspire to being. Please stop your H-ate speech, it’s pathetic.
I don’t think I’ve sent 10 tweets ever.
You send email not tweets dork
You send Tweets as well or have not noticed that phenomenon?
So tell me… what do you get when you cross a Dork and a Nick? Is it a Dick?
Just about to shut down the work for today and thought I would take a peek at the MDN. Maybe a discussion of OS nuances or a hint of when M3 Macs will be available. No. Instead, once again, the seer cover is lifted and the self-aggrandizing scum unit First Then crawls out to inflict his own cretin level dogma on unsuspecting Mac lovers. One of Elon Musk’s companies is a customer of mine and I have a front row seat to his business management approach. No politics, just hardball business management. No different than Iacocca or Welch from the old days. Not a God but certainly a tough and disciplined business manager. How surprised, you sear dweller, you would be to find your political vitriol is not part of how they do business. They work hard to make money. Put your f**cking mirror down and grow up or choke on a turkey bone. You are nothing special and your message is for yourself. No one gains from it except the others living in the mental sewer with you. You know, that world where everything you think is right and there is nothing to learn from anyone with a different perspective. Happy Thanksgiving.
Leftists are scum 👆
Hey First Then,
To clear my head of your inanity, I’ll listen to that old song written just for meat sacks just like you…
Lunatic fringe
I know you’re out there
You’re in hiding
And you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming
And we know what you’re after
We’re wise to you this time
(We’re wise to you this time)
We won’t let you kill the laughter
Lunatic fringe
In the twilight’s last gleaming
This is open season
But you won’t get too far
‘Cause you’ve got to blame someone
For your own confusion
We’re on guard this time (on guard this time)
Against your final solution
Oh no
We can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No, you’re not going to win this time
(You’re not gonna win)
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway (along the walkway)
Lunatic fringe
We all know you’re out there
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?
Oh no
Yes, Cumshot, we know you’re out there. Hard to miss you, boy.
Reminder yet again. The depth of libturd stupidity is staggering
And their gay psychopathy
H: We are trying to guess what the H might represent; best guess so far is “HELLUVA” FOOL! Everything you wrote is exactly what your communist team has been doing for 30 years in the US. 🤣 Now we know, when we see your posts it’s an instant MORON ALERT! 🤣 🏆🏆🏆
sigh. Can we Puh-Lease send this guy to Mars already?!?
How about we send YOU to Mars? Maybe you should effoffski to Pluto, where your small cold heart and brain would fit in quite nicely?
Elon Musk discovered Twitter secrets a closet fulls of black T-Shirts which printed
“STAY WOKE”. https://rumble.com/v1wkitm-elon-musk-makes-crazy-discovery-in-twitter-hq-closet.html
this guy is a walking pile of sewage
The depth of libturd stupidity is staggering
MacDailyNews Take……(various Freedom of Speech quotes)
Except for the minor detail that nobody’s FoS was taken away in any manner whatsoever.
President Trump was banned on Twitter, BRAINLESS.
Along with many social conservatives and news outlets. If any Leftist was banned from Twitter, which only happened on the right, would you say the same.
Waiting for your tortured semantic crap attempting to deflect and change reality free speech was not banned on the right, by woke black tee shirt wearing leftists…
GeoB, Trump was banned, but that’s ALL that happened. His rights to free speech were never violated just like any Conservative who was ever kicked off/banned from Twitter.
I don’t know if you know this or not GeoB, but the first five words of the First Amendment are as follows: Congress shall make no laws
Congress. Which means the Government, and NOT private businesses that you voluntarily sign up for and agree to their terms of service, is unable to infringe on your rights to free speech.
And yes GeoB, were any left-leaning people banned from Twitter I would (and incidentially have) said the same.
“His rights to free speech were never violated just like any Conservative who was ever kicked off/banned from Twitter.”
I called it in ADVANCE!
“Waiting for your tortured semantic crap attempting to deflect and change reality free speech was not banned on the right…” You did not disappoint.
Twitter removed Trump’s account and pay attention. That’s called BANNED, CANCELLED, SHUT DOWN, DISCRIMINATED, EXCORIATED, REMOVED and made Trump a PERMANENT PARIAH on the platform before Musk bought in. Hello?
Therefore, ALL of Trump’s historical free speech posts were BLOCKED and REMOVED from the social media site, never to be read again. Hello???
Hear you loud and clear, unwavering support for private TECH businesses to censor/ban free speech and employees inside their walls when it does not match their politics. What you didn’t say EXCLUSIVE to tech firms afforded Section 230 immunity from prosecution.
The MAJORITY of private businesses do not have the same special carved out protections passed during the Clinton Administration. Denny’s was not so lucky and we shall see if Harvard is allowed to discriminate against Asian students with highest entrance test scores.
Typical woke leftist stupidity, struggling to defend the indefensible. ‘Bringing’ SPIN while attempting to REWRITE REALITY is more of the same laughable BS you excel in…
He’s not allowed in my house either, am I violating his civil rights?
Unless you’re a Christian baker of cakes in Colorado…
That was a conflict of rights, under which the bakery prevailed. Why are still pissed about it?
Your crystal ball gazing at my emotions is faulty and in need of service. Suggest the Geek Squad at BB may have a holiday special coupon… 🤣
Private enterprises are under no obligation to support freedom of speech. That’s a constitutional thing that applies to the Government of the USA, and to no other country or entity
Don’t forget, their customers can also hold the companies feet to the fire.
Free market rules….
And that’s why we need regulations…
Yes, but here is what you didn’t say: because of Section 230 law, no other businesses are afforded, tech companies have special blanket immunity protections from lawsuits and prosecution, FREE to DISCRIMINATE at will, BAN and CENSOR conservatives until the cows come home.
If the tables were turned and Twitter banned only Leftists, they would be screaming bloody murder ENDLESSLY while media championing their side writing editorials and daily news coverage EVERYWHERE to REPEAL Section 230.
Leftists only win with stacked decks, ballot boxes and bad law they themselves pass, a total disgrace to fair and equal society..:
I don’t think anyone should be banned within reasonable and tolerant (woke to you) terms of service, provided that in exchange for immunity service providers trigger suspect posts to authorities and the poster bears full responsibility for their posts.
That would include the deplorable despicable former POTUS*.
Lock em up!
No, woke to me is not tolerant that’s next to impossible and a contradiction of reality. Woke is WORST and least INTOLERANT.
Applaud your tolerance for not supporting banning your favorite president and exactly how all sides should seek solutions and simply do what is right for everyone. 👏🏻
This is where we consistently agree. Unlike what the legacy ACLU and watchdog media used to do for decades up until the 80s. Both sold out and totally abandoned their missions to become defenders/promoters working extension of the Democrat Party.
With movement woke relentlessly pushing for one voice, one party dictatorship rule for EVERYONE, critical times call for defending everyone’s rights, our country and preserving our Constitution… 🇺🇸
Don’t even call him my favorite snake, not even in jest.
And how convenient to a liberty defending organization an extension of the Democratic Party, when Republicans have made liberal causes a bad thing? Like me, they have nowhere else to go.
I will only give you this… both the right and the left are pushing a culture war, but only the right is attempting to legislate it.
to be calling a liberty defending….
“This is not a right-wing takeover of Twitter. It is a moderate-wing takeover of Twitter.”
To the utter lunacy that IS the Far Left, Moderates are the right Wingers.
Matter of fact, anyone who practices common sense on genders, border issues, elections, medical stories or energy is a Fascist.
Unless the solution contains some type of 2+2=5 idiocy where no rules apply except the rules they make and change daily, then you are a racist.
There is not one FUCKING issue in America that the Left hasn’t made worse or broken in the last 15 years. Even the problems that were bad enough before were at least getting better until the Asylum took over the Swamp.
There is no discussing real issues with the Leftinistas. Their lives are so utterly devoid of reality they can only be happy when everyone else’s reality is shredded.
It’s not about race, or weather, or health….it’s all about THEM!
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving….
😉
Sounds like Maggie needs farmhands, but would Dylan go?