Iāve seen it many many times on Twitter where people post a screenshot of the notification they get when he blocks them. I donāt take screenshots of those, so I cannot provide an example. If youāre on Twitter enough, you see these pretty often when his name comes up.
Anyone on Twitter can block anyone. I will often block accounts that are clearly bots. I blocked one poster who used abusive language towards me. The ability to block is an important one under those circumstances.
Exception to blocking rule:
Courts have ruled that elected leaders should not be able to block their constituents. One account sued Margorie Taylor Green for blocking them and they won in court. She had to reinstate them and pay a $10,000 penalty, which they then donated to a charity.
yeah, AWS is an awesome system. That said, there is no love lost between Bezos and Musk. Elon might shift over to Microsoft servers if he and Gates get along? (or is Oracle still in this game?)
Yes, a move to MSFT is a good guess. Bezos is going to be under some pressure. New is, sales are way down at AMZN and hiring isnāt growing.
Iād love to see some of those dollars shift away from Bezos and co. back into small local businesses post Covid. Musk likes to tweak everyone whom he feels needs it esp Bezos and some others. It makes Musk both annoying and fun to watch. LOL.
Elon and BG are not exactly best buds. Especially after the recent Elonās Twitter mocking of BG. But BG is no longer MSFT.
(This is the thing I was referring to.
Blocking is exactly what should be used. Heās not deplatforming or banning those posters, heās simply blocking them from his feed. Everyone else is still free to read those tweets.
So blocks not bans. Got it.
Ignoring comments or opinions you disagree with (or even worse), while allowing them to be spoken seems like the very essence of free speech. Banning doesnāt.
Yep, 1000%. You donāt like it, you block it. But you donāt stop the person from having their say. I donāt watch a lot of stuff thatās violent, but I also donāt stop others from watching it.
Looking forward to see what he will do with Twitter. Itās always fun to watch his moves. Saying that, I would not want my kids working for one of his or Bezos companies.
I am hearing rumblings that Musk might back out of the deal.
Hmmmmā¦are there any news articles about this?
Same.
Ahh, Bezos owned so Iād take that news with a grain of salt. If either Musk/Twitter backs out of the deal thereās a 1 billion dollar penalty. Thatās a lot.
I donāt block anyone just because I donāt like what they have to say or I disagree with them. Why would I do that? If they are engaging in racist, profane, or violent rhetoric, sure, but not if they just happened to have a differing opinion or they dispute a post of mine. In any case, I donāt own Twitter. Neither did Musk all of these years that he exercised his right to block people.
But once he does own it, the question arises that if he is so quick to block opinions he doesnāt like, is this going to extend to how he handles Twitter? Will people be banned for speech he disagrees with?
Should have clarified. Iām not on any of those social media accounts. If I had a choice to block or censor, Iād go with blocking. But honestly, I agree with you, why even bother to block someone/something just skip over it. I think people who have a lot of followers can get trolled by many people saying some crazy stuff so they likely need to block. IF you have just a few followers its probably a different story.
A few years ago during a rough time for the country, there were tons of angry posts that I came across on FB. I ended up deleting the account. Couldnāt stand that people I liked had such an ugly side. Honestly, I liked the people who avoided certain topics and kept to their kids, family and travel photos.
I agree completely with regard to FB. I have friends and relatives that post nothing but angry political stuff and I miss the days of seeing cute pics of peoplesā kids or tasty recipes, jokes, etc. I only keep my page to see my Dad and what he is up to. His lady friend keeps us all apprised of their activities together and I love seeing her posts. Someday when he is gone, Iāll probably delete my account.
Same. I just block posts of friends that post political stuff often. I just want to see family photos not politics posts
If it is a lock then why is the stock $5 off the purchase price?
Well, actually Iāve been watching it closely since I bought it. It hasnāt gone up to the $54.20 Musk has offered. It only gotten within about $5. Itās unlikely that it would. Thereās no real upside at this point so why buy? You canāt make more than a few bucks a share and there is always a risk it goes down or deal falls through. So the $5 differential is the risk factor the market has priced in. If he wasnāt taking it private, I think it would be through the roof. I certainly would have bought a lot more. But small upsides arenāt that interesting esp on a deal this size. Guess weāll see.
I was hoping to cash out before Oct 1 ( which I think is the date itās supposed to go through).