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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.

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[–] Gingerlegs 102 points 1 month ago

Classic free speech move

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can someone link to it here, since this site's not controlled by a neonazi?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] andrewth09 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Linkerbaan 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Frozengyro 5 points 1 month ago

Or a summary would be nice.

[–] demizerone 22 points 1 month ago

For profit speech absolutist.

[–] inclementimmigrant 20 points 1 month ago

What a unwavering free speech absolutist that he claims he is.

[–] MushuChupacabra 18 points 1 month ago

Oh noes, suspended from Shitter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm so fucking glad he bought the site to protect free speech...

[–] frazw 17 points 1 month ago

I love to see free speech absolutism being so unshakable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I love myself a bit of Streisand effect in the late afternoon

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NocturnalMorning 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

At this point it's starting to look like he'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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] krimson 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, this is what spoilt brats do. There is no masterplan here.

[–] spankmonkey 3 points 1 month ago

Nah, he is just too incompetent to completely run it into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HowManyNimons 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] WaxedWookie 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire.

[–] spankmonkey 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] WaxedWookie 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s not some brilliant 4D chess he’s just a fucking idiot nepo baby.

[–] ms_lane 9 points 1 month ago

"Freedom of Speech"

[–] EtherWhack 4 points 1 month ago

Oh look twinsies