May the odds be ever in your favour.
https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1557713456098312195
May the odds be ever in your favour.
https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1557713456098312195
Ex police officer Harry Miller slams the police for arresting an elderly veteran for "causing anxiety" over a tweet, and compares officers to the Stasi:
"The police tried to operate outside of the law by conducting an illegal shake down."@JuliaHB1 | @HarryTheOwl101 pic.twitter.com/Ap3vOzys9X
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) August 1, 2022
We wouldn’t be able to speak at all.
Homicide? Rape? Assault? Just hold your horses we’ve got memes to deal with.
Harry Miller- The Facebook police
The homeowner, or suspect, is not the originator of the offending image — it’s been reposted thousands of times and even made an appearance on GB News — but this small detail does not trouble the officers. A crime has been committed. Section 127 of the Communications Act, to be precise, citing a definition from a different act, entirely.
They remind the suspect that this is their third visit, having previously intervened pursuant to a joke about Tom Daley’s knitting, and the reposting of a Hitler in a bunker meme. The meme has been doing the rounds since the late noughties but this is immaterial to the police officers who are keen to exercise their powers of Three Strikes and You’re Out.
Laurence Fox has video of the whole thing.
In case your curious here are the violent crime statistics for England and Wales.
Violent crimes in England and Wales increased to more than 2.1 million offences, according to police recorded crime statistics, a huge increase of more than 1.5 million when compared with 2012/13, when there were just 601,141 violent crime offences.
Change my mind: Twitter Begins Censoring Anti-Pedophile Term After Left-Wing Pressure Campaign
In lieu of @ElonMusk walking away from @Twitter's transaction, my team did an analysis on Twitter's user base as of this morning. The last two stats are the most "telling." pic.twitter.com/oKlJB5GDpT
— Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) July 9, 2022
Its not over yet.
ZeroHedge- Elon Musk Terminates Deal To Buy Twitter; Board To Pursue Legal Action
Twitter’s Board of Directors said on Friday that they intend to close the transaction with Musk at $54.20 per share, and that they plan to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement, Twitter chairman of the board Bret Taylor tweeted following the news, adding that the board is “confident it will prevail in Delaware Court of Cancery.”
And the new boss has questions.
I wish I could, @elonmusk, but the settlement with @Twitter prevents me from doing so. However, in the near future I hope and expect to have more to report. https://t.co/vela05eY1K
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 6, 2022
Trent Loos: Some ready shading business happening in North Dakota with Bill Gates.
Details here.
New York Post, October 2021 – A former federal election official on Thursday called the $400 million-plus that Mark Zuckerberg spent to help finance local elections a “carefully orchestrated attempt” to influence the 2020 vote…
Reuters, July 2022 – Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30% this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday, as he warned them to brace for a deep economic downturn.
Good and hard.
Rick McGinnis: I’m sure it’s not just because I have COVID as I write this, but I’ve found it hard to escape the sensation that modern life – society, culture, whatever you want to call it – is a lot less fun that it used to be…
Partisan pollsters as well.
There are sharp political divides on perceptions of this matter. As in the United States, where right-of-centre politicians cheered Musk’s potential acquisition, a majority (63%) of past Conservative Party voters on this side of the border believe it will be beneficial to free speech were the sale to go through. Three-quarters (74%) of past Liberal voters and seven-in-ten (70%) who voted NDP worry about the proliferation of abusive speech.
and
Two-in-five (38%) women under the age of 35 say the negative impacts of social media on their mental health is why they quit a platform. Three-in-ten (31%) men that age say the same. However, for young men, more (37%) are likely to say they didn’t agree with the content or opinions on the platform and that’s why they left:
Is it social media affecting their “mental health” or is it more like uncomfortable truths?
The most singular aspect of the rise of Woke mumbo jumbo is its relationship with the astonishing technological development that sustains it; enabling what may be called a ‘sword and sorcery’ regime. Quasi-theocracies are upheld by technology so advanced it appears to be magic, at least to the general public, who have only a vague and awestruck knowledge of the mechanisms involved. “This man is woman,” a counter disinformation bureaucrat might intone, and all would nod in asset. Those in the virtual crowd who disagree will remain mute, for they know that with a gesture, the functionary can zap any dissenter with cancelation, so that he can be excluded from the metaverse entirely, through a process few understand but all fear.
Meanwhile, a former CBC columnist tugs at her strings.
THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: The head of Facebook’s fake science fact check group, Science Feedback, is ‘hiding in Paris, terrified of appearing in court’
… Dr. Jeremy Faust has been studying the outbreak in Europe and discovered that all 89 confirmed cases have something in common.
In the way that SUVs are known for plowing into parades, this virus may originate in saunas.
After yesterday’s tell us something we already know drop by Veritas, this is more like it.
[Alex Martinez, Lead Client Partner for Twitter]: “Right now, we don’t make profit. So, I’m going to say ideology, which is what led us into not being profitable.”
Martinez on free speech: “The rest of us who have been here believe in something that’s good for the planet and not to give people free speech.”
Martinez on censorship: “People don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out — correct things that are supposed to be out in the public, right?”
Martinez on Musk: “Elon Musk as a person is whatever. I don’t, like, he’s a loony toon. He has, he has Asperger’s.”
Martinez on Musk: “He has Asperger’s… So, he’s special. We all know that. And That’s fine. So here, no wonder he’s going to say some f***ing crazy sh*t because he’s special.”
Happy job hunting.
Exposing Twitter as a cesspool of censorious communists is like secretly filming a highway billboard. But they did it anyway.
A senior engineer at Twitter has admitted the social media giant has a strong left-wing bias and they routinely censor conservatives.
Siru Murugesan was recorded saying the company culture is extremely far left where workers are ‘commie as f**k’ and they ‘hate, hate, hate’ Elon Musk’s $44billion takeover.
In a shockingly frank conversation, filmed over several encounters, he said the firm ‘does not believe in free speech’ and even started to turn him left-wing when he joined.
Veritas video here.
20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher.
My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.
Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%.
This deal cannot move forward until he does.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2022
The Trash is hereby notified that the taking-of-itself-out shall begin immediately.
JUST IN – Elon Musk says he would reverse Trump's suspension from Twitter, adds that the ban was "morally wrong" and "flat out stupid."
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 10, 2022