(Tom Fitton: my concern is the govt corruption...are you concerned about the retaliation, and do you see evidence of that already?)
"The govt is slow to act. They are not nimble. There probably will be some actions, but they'll happen slowly. There are probably a few nefarious things in the works right now. We'll just expose them on Twitter, and see what happens. I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I commit suicide, it's not real!"
(Clay Travis: what process is in play for the govt to ask someone to take down Tweets?)
"We will do whatever we are allowed to do, within the boundaries of the law, and to be as transparent as possible. We will push to have the law modified, if we find there are constraints. We have to push for free speech [foundation of our democracy.] In the coming months, you will see an improvement in the transparency of Twitter. It will get better, in an accelerating way, provided I don't suicide myself. Which I don't plan to do."
(What message to you have for all the haters and losers out there?)
"Twitter is alive baby, more alive than it's ever been. Thanks guys. Bye!"
But but what about AJ and Kayne? Nothing else matters. Who cares if the right can organize who cares if we can get our message out there. It's all about two guys or nothing.
You're welcome. I did miss some stuff (left out the Kanye stuff and some nueralink stuff that creeps me out, to be honest.) But hopefully pedes that can't listen to the hour or so will get the drift.
I guess we have to wait for Bari Weiss now, to go through more Twitter files, and publish something...? I have to be patient.
Bari Weiss is sort of in a no-man's land. She used to write for the NYTimes, and resigned in 2020. Although she's a liberal, she's not on board with a lot of the woke insanity, and saying so has caused her to be despised by progressives, who see her as disloyal.
She's also not trusted by some on the right, because of her background. After she left NYT, she started writing her own articles in Substack. I agree with some of her takes. She's not on board with cancel culture, or the loss of free speech, and she ticked off the left when she went on Bill Maher's show and criticized Covid restrictions.
I think Musk may have picked her because she wrote a scathing letter when she quit the NYTimes. Some of her former colleagues raked her over the coals on Twitter, and she wrote that "Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times, but Twitter has become its ultimate editor." She wasn't a fan of the way Twitter has been used to keep people "in line" on the liberal side of the fence, so she'll probably enjoy going through the Twitter files.
inorite? I want to see more receipts. Not for me, necessarily, but so I can see them floating through the internet where people can see them and get a little taste of reality.
Some will ignore it. But some... some will reach out and take the red pill.
(Any info on advertisers threatening to leave Twitter if they don't adhere to certain policies?)
"The advertisers mostly are quite rational in that they don't want to be...in some super negative sort of hate-speech [place.] In general it's been okay; some over-zealous responses from activist groups I thought were unreasonable. But I think it will trend in a good direction. Looks like it. Advertisers are returning to Twitter. Apple is back. They read the MSM and had the wrong impressions of what was going on. And now they admit "actually it seems fine using Twitter now." And it is fine."
"Twitter does need to be a more welcoming environment for new users. Where they come online and learn things that are interesting and funny. We need more of that. Advertisers want that. Over time, people will choose what kind of experience they want, like we can choose a radio station. To each their own. That will be important, for Twitter to appeal to a broad audience."
"The goal of the colored check marks is to quickly convey to users what they are seeing. So people can see, as they scroll, okay this is actually a person from Stanford, actually a person from Coca Cola. There will be a strong policy against impersonation and deception. People who deceive users will be suspended."
(Plans for crypto Twitter payment?)
"We do want to have Twitter enable both regular payments, and make it easier to transact with crypto."
"There appears and emphasize it appears. I'm not saying this is definitely the case. There appears to have been a double standard where Democrats were not censored, left causes were not censored, but right causes and Republicans were. And it was, and I think this is frankly obvious to anyone who uses Twitter without any extra exposure of Twitter files, it was not even handed and and it's frankly the the behavior that is to be expected from an organization that is that is based in San Francisco which is far left so from their standpoint, it wouldn't seem like that they're being unfair from their standpoint, it's simply, uh, how they see the world. I mean, I think Matt posted like political contributions of Twitter being over 99% Democrat, so. Well, what kind of viewpoint would you expect people to have then?"
What I think is amazing is Elon said in the beginning he has about 30 minutes when asked how long he was available by Mario (Kim dot com). Elon has been there for over an hour. I do appreciate his time with the audience.
"I think we're about a week away from restarting the verification process. We're taking additional steps. You'll have to be phone verified with a known good phone carrier, payment verified, and with proof that you are actually affiliated with an organization. We need to have granularity and nuance in regard to what verification means. So you can actually trust what you see."
(The first amendment issue by Matt Taibbi...will there be more smoking guns?)
"There are issues if there is election interference; it would appear that Twitter falsely claimed there was not election interference....yes, there will be more smoking guns, because we have to look at what happened after the election. We'll have to check with Matt."
(Do you have any proof that people on the right lost a ton of followers? Was that a strategy on Twitter's part?)
"My understanding is limited. I will leave it up to Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss and others. my best guess is there was a very different standard applied to Repub candidates as opposed to Dem candidates. Appeared to be a double standard, where Dem candidates were not [censored] and others were. This is to be expected when Twitter is based in San Francisco, which is far left. This is how they see the world. Contributions from Twitter are over 99% Democrat. Twitter was basically a distillation of San Francisco politics."
(Is there any progress with the advertisers that left Twitter?)
"Apple has fully resumed advertising; they are the single biggest advertiser on Twitter. We are seeing some also resume their spending. The problem is they read the stories in the media about Twitter being a right wing hellscape [influenced them.] I think it's actually way more fun. They are seeing it's safe to get back in the water. That's a good sign. The more concerning factor is the entire industry wide drop in advertising....which Twitter is not immune from."
Elon brought it up. He said Matt Taibbi and now Barri Weiss former head editor at NYT has all the internal corporate comms and will be doing a few articles over the next few months.
It is an important beginning but we already know almost all of this already. Now though there are many parties that have data that are usable in a court of law.
Actionable knowledge is much more important than theories. Shit's about to go down. I think Elon may not have even realized the full extent of the repercussions this could have. It's definitely a turning point we can never come back from. This will solidify MAGA for the far future and will be the beginning of who knows what.
"If it's the last thing I'll do, I'm going to defeat the damned bots and trolls. It's war, and we're going to win that war, big time."
"I've been on the job a month, I'm very good at software, and I was good back in the day at defeating the scammers. The bad actors had free reign in the system before. They will not have that in the future. I look forward to shining a bright light on that."
(Did you find any inauthentic activity in Twitter, relating to pro-Ukraine actors?)
"We have to build the tools to see what's going on in the system. Over and over, it's like Twitter doesn't know what is going on in Twitter. We have to build the tools to see where there's evidence of large scale manipulation. Things like, all these accounts are acting in concert, faster than a human being could link them. Then we have to expose them. Those software tools need to be written. They haven't been written yet, but they will be."
"There are problems on many levels. It's too cheap to have a bot, or a troll. You can have a warehouse with banks of phones, operated by people. The challenge is, you have to make it more expensive to have bots and trolls."
"If it was clearly a question of money, they could overcome a budget challenge [of $8 per user] but they're using a huge number of phones and credit/debit cards. It's very hard to find the logistical connections between hundreds of thousands of phones and credit cards. Twitter can't be so heavily dependent on advertisers, so this is an attempt to kill two birds with one stone. We must build a source of income that is not so advertiser-dependent. And use the payment system to be able to identify and stop the large scale manipulation of the system."
"It's good the House will be Republican...it's not a good idea for the House, Senate, and Pres to be all one party. At least one branch in another party will check the worst excesses in both parties. I'm a huge moderate, actually, is what I am.
"You want to have the govt pass laws in the best interests of the people, not just a small segment of the people. So a mixture of parties in control...is more likely to be in the interest of the people.
(Asking about Dr. Shiva's lawsuit, uncovering the back-end government portal between Twitter and the government. Is that portal still available to the govt?)
"I have to dig into the Trusted Partnership thing. Obviously that has some Big Brother vibes. Twitter will adhere to the law. I'll dig into that and find out what is going on.
(Did you find any relationship between Facebook and others that were in collusion with political parties? Collusion between Twitter and other social media groups?)
"I'm not seeing it yet. Matt Taibbi has seen way more of the Twitter files than I have. I'm just focusing on getting Twitter financially healthy, fix the engineering, fix the capabilities, improve transparency. I've not read hardly any of the Twitter Files. Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss [are reading those files.]
"I told Matt, whatever you see, if you think the public should know about it...just post it."
(Will you give access to other journalists?)
"yeah maybe at some point we should just put it all out there. At the beginning probably better not to have a million stories all at once, that would get drowned out in the flood of thing. Once the critical stories have been told, probably the best thing is to provide a data dump, and go through it to see what was missed."
I think he's somewhat wrong. It's bad for current Democrats to be in charge anywhere in the country. They are the biggest problem in America. They need to go back to the drawing board. Otherwise, anywhere they lose is good.
He’s wrong in seemingly thinking the dems aren’t all commie baby fuckers who want to destroy all of us.
He’s right in that it’s better to not let one party control everything. Or it would be in the perfect world at least, where politicians aren’t out to destroy us and enrich themselves.
I tried listening to some of that and it was painful. Not Elon, those others.
I did read between the lines and the swamp will make Twitter's free speech goals difficult by making demands of it to censor whatever they want based on made-up things like supposed investigations concerned about supposed worries that secret messages will be posted on Twitter to trigger terrorist attacks and whatnot. .And when needed, the Democrats will make those concerns come true.
"The intent is to release all the files. So it's not anything is hidden...
"This is like truth and reconciliation. If you want reconciliation there must be truth. The intent is to make clear what was happening. Provide transparency about the past, and in doing so, build trust about the future.
"I think both past and future take down requests should be made public. Sunshine is a great disinfectant. If there are content take down requests that were embarrassing, there will be less of them [in the future.]
"The overarching goal here is that on balance Twitter is a force for good, for the future of the civilization, and for the expansion of consciousness.
"A lot of the EU rules call for things I agree with...transparency, and for users to have a clear process, and for appeal. it's mostly good, we ought to watch the implementation and make sure it's not bad for the people of Europe. Most of it I agree with, transparency and accountability. we just need to make sure it's not warped into a bad direction.
(What role can Twitter have with China, Iran, other countries in relation to freedom of speech?)
"We'll do whatever is possible within the balance of the law."
"People on Twitter have crowdsourced and helped with the child exploitation [issue.] And we're going to keep doing that. Kids can't defend themselves, we must do it. More has been done in Twitter to help with child exploitation in the last month than has been done elsewhere in the last ten years."
(What made you want to buy Twitter?)
"If i had been able to buy it sooner, I might have. But there had to be a situation where my liquidity was enough, and Twitter's value...a closing price...that wasn't the case until recently. I guess it just felt like everyone had been bullied for some time. It wasn't just a sudden thing. More and more, group think amongst the media, towing the line among social media companies, more traveling the path of suppression of free speech. it was just getting me concerned. The trends were very bad. Unless something was done to reverse that, I thought everything might just be shut off. People would be ostracized, and their voices would be cut off.
"It wasn't exactly one thing. My biological neuronet said it was important to buy Twitter. You can't exactly explain it...the collective of the neuronet concluded it was important to buy Twitter. If not, it would be a danger for the future of the civilization, and that's why I bought it."
Is there any way to expand it to see the comments/transcription from the right-side corner? It's like 1" tall and almost impossible to read- no way to expand to full screen?
heh - I'm between keyboards so I"m using one of my crappier backups. After I gift myself this xmas I'll be back up to speed (I need those ultra flat leaf switch ones).
The CSS doesn't show more than 5 lines and they scroll too fast to be useful (for me anyway). The replay is still available on the link so I'll listen to that while grinding on some game late nite.
(paraphrasing because I'm typing on the fly so I'm condensing here and there) re: why he bought Twitter
"if I was able to buy twitter sooner I'd have done it - but there was liquidity and closing price gaps" "It's not like because of Babylon Bee getting banned - it the groupthink in the media and the social media companies"
"we were seeing more of the suppression of free speech and the trend was only having communication with group think and your voice would be shut off"
"it wasn't any one thing - I can't exactly say 'why' but my own mind said 'it's important to buy Twitter' - the collective result said this is the right action. If Twitter wasn't going in a good direction it'd be a danger to civilization - so that's why I bought it"
If they clap Elon I whole heartedly believe he would be the martyr to kick this thing off.
We don't need Elon offed.
And he would not be a martyr, he's a billionaire.
I agree we don’t need him offed nor do we want him offed. I still believe if something were to happen to him it would ignite.
Thought it was a great Q&A personally
Holy shit I hate 90% of the people asking questions in there now.
So many funny questions that weren't even relevant to the Twitterfiles lol
(Tom Fitton: my concern is the govt corruption...are you concerned about the retaliation, and do you see evidence of that already?)
"The govt is slow to act. They are not nimble. There probably will be some actions, but they'll happen slowly. There are probably a few nefarious things in the works right now. We'll just expose them on Twitter, and see what happens. I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I commit suicide, it's not real!"
(Clay Travis: what process is in play for the govt to ask someone to take down Tweets?)
"We will do whatever we are allowed to do, within the boundaries of the law, and to be as transparent as possible. We will push to have the law modified, if we find there are constraints. We have to push for free speech [foundation of our democracy.] In the coming months, you will see an improvement in the transparency of Twitter. It will get better, in an accelerating way, provided I don't suicide myself. Which I don't plan to do."
(What message to you have for all the haters and losers out there?)
"Twitter is alive baby, more alive than it's ever been. Thanks guys. Bye!"
But but what about AJ and Kayne? Nothing else matters. Who cares if the right can organize who cares if we can get our message out there. It's all about two guys or nothing.
Kanye is a psyop
They both helped ruined trumps chances, even who he can hire fuck both of them
No I'm making fun of the people saying Twitter is the same and fuck Elon over that dumb reason.
Free speech
"If I committed suicide its not real!"
HAHAHAHA
https://files.catbox.moe/kze6bc.mp4
This is the greatest.
Thank you.
Wow, this is the longest thirty minute interview I've ever heard in my whole life! LOL
Space man works on different planetary time. :D
BTW thanks for your transcribing of his answers through this. Very much appreciated.
You're welcome. I did miss some stuff (left out the Kanye stuff and some nueralink stuff that creeps me out, to be honest.) But hopefully pedes that can't listen to the hour or so will get the drift.
I guess we have to wait for Bari Weiss now, to go through more Twitter files, and publish something...? I have to be patient.
Is Bari Weiss on our side?
Bari Weiss is sort of in a no-man's land. She used to write for the NYTimes, and resigned in 2020. Although she's a liberal, she's not on board with a lot of the woke insanity, and saying so has caused her to be despised by progressives, who see her as disloyal.
She's also not trusted by some on the right, because of her background. After she left NYT, she started writing her own articles in Substack. I agree with some of her takes. She's not on board with cancel culture, or the loss of free speech, and she ticked off the left when she went on Bill Maher's show and criticized Covid restrictions.
I think Musk may have picked her because she wrote a scathing letter when she quit the NYTimes. Some of her former colleagues raked her over the coals on Twitter, and she wrote that "Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times, but Twitter has become its ultimate editor." She wasn't a fan of the way Twitter has been used to keep people "in line" on the liberal side of the fence, so she'll probably enjoy going through the Twitter files.
O the irony
inorite? I want to see more receipts. Not for me, necessarily, but so I can see them floating through the internet where people can see them and get a little taste of reality.
Some will ignore it. But some... some will reach out and take the red pill.
(Any info on advertisers threatening to leave Twitter if they don't adhere to certain policies?)
"The advertisers mostly are quite rational in that they don't want to be...in some super negative sort of hate-speech [place.] In general it's been okay; some over-zealous responses from activist groups I thought were unreasonable. But I think it will trend in a good direction. Looks like it. Advertisers are returning to Twitter. Apple is back. They read the MSM and had the wrong impressions of what was going on. And now they admit "actually it seems fine using Twitter now." And it is fine."
"Twitter does need to be a more welcoming environment for new users. Where they come online and learn things that are interesting and funny. We need more of that. Advertisers want that. Over time, people will choose what kind of experience they want, like we can choose a radio station. To each their own. That will be important, for Twitter to appeal to a broad audience."
"The goal of the colored check marks is to quickly convey to users what they are seeing. So people can see, as they scroll, okay this is actually a person from Stanford, actually a person from Coca Cola. There will be a strong policy against impersonation and deception. People who deceive users will be suspended."
(Plans for crypto Twitter payment?)
"We do want to have Twitter enable both regular payments, and make it easier to transact with crypto."
I want someone to ask something about future DOGE implementation. ^__^
someone heard you
hahaha, so ironic.
Good questions Scott Presler aka ThePersistance
"There appears and emphasize it appears. I'm not saying this is definitely the case. There appears to have been a double standard where Democrats were not censored, left causes were not censored, but right causes and Republicans were. And it was, and I think this is frankly obvious to anyone who uses Twitter without any extra exposure of Twitter files, it was not even handed and and it's frankly the the behavior that is to be expected from an organization that is that is based in San Francisco which is far left so from their standpoint, it wouldn't seem like that they're being unfair from their standpoint, it's simply, uh, how they see the world. I mean, I think Matt posted like political contributions of Twitter being over 99% Democrat, so. Well, what kind of viewpoint would you expect people to have then?"
What I think is amazing is Elon said in the beginning he has about 30 minutes when asked how long he was available by Mario (Kim dot com). Elon has been there for over an hour. I do appreciate his time with the audience.
The crazy part is Elon is conducting this interview from his private jet leaving Paris.
Yep. On his starlink!
"I think we're about a week away from restarting the verification process. We're taking additional steps. You'll have to be phone verified with a known good phone carrier, payment verified, and with proof that you are actually affiliated with an organization. We need to have granularity and nuance in regard to what verification means. So you can actually trust what you see."
(The first amendment issue by Matt Taibbi...will there be more smoking guns?)
"There are issues if there is election interference; it would appear that Twitter falsely claimed there was not election interference....yes, there will be more smoking guns, because we have to look at what happened after the election. We'll have to check with Matt."
(Do you have any proof that people on the right lost a ton of followers? Was that a strategy on Twitter's part?)
"My understanding is limited. I will leave it up to Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss and others. my best guess is there was a very different standard applied to Repub candidates as opposed to Dem candidates. Appeared to be a double standard, where Dem candidates were not [censored] and others were. This is to be expected when Twitter is based in San Francisco, which is far left. This is how they see the world. Contributions from Twitter are over 99% Democrat. Twitter was basically a distillation of San Francisco politics."
(Is there any progress with the advertisers that left Twitter?)
"Apple has fully resumed advertising; they are the single biggest advertiser on Twitter. We are seeing some also resume their spending. The problem is they read the stories in the media about Twitter being a right wing hellscape [influenced them.] I think it's actually way more fun. They are seeing it's safe to get back in the water. That's a good sign. The more concerning factor is the entire industry wide drop in advertising....which Twitter is not immune from."
Anyone brought up the Scamdemic and will he release all the info he has on it?
Elon brought it up. He said Matt Taibbi and now Barri Weiss former head editor at NYT has all the internal corporate comms and will be doing a few articles over the next few months.
NYT guy, huh,
It's a woman I believe.
I think that "guy" is sort of all-encompassing.
NYT is the issue.
Yeah I liked it better when it seemed these journos weren’t responsible for policing their own.
This is so mindboggling huge that the repercussions aren't even comprehensible yet.
It is an important beginning but we already know almost all of this already. Now though there are many parties that have data that are usable in a court of law.
Actionable knowledge is much more important than theories. Shit's about to go down. I think Elon may not have even realized the full extent of the repercussions this could have. It's definitely a turning point we can never come back from. This will solidify MAGA for the far future and will be the beginning of who knows what.
Idk $44B makes sense when you know you are buying not a company but all the evidence.
There is a certain leverage to it. $44b to have a takeover level of affect on a $30T economy.
Yuuuge!
Thank You for the obvious question Sebastian G
https://www.playerup.com/accounts/twitteraccount/ - Twitter accounts for sale. Sites like this is probably where the CIA and other governments buy propaganda accounts.
Elon handles all this cross talk like a pro... I'd be so annoyed
So no drop just a bunch of dipshits on the worst live stream ever. Shit they cut out every other sentence.
I was listening on The Quartering and the interviewers are so bad I had to shut it off
"If it's the last thing I'll do, I'm going to defeat the damned bots and trolls. It's war, and we're going to win that war, big time."
"I've been on the job a month, I'm very good at software, and I was good back in the day at defeating the scammers. The bad actors had free reign in the system before. They will not have that in the future. I look forward to shining a bright light on that."
(Did you find any inauthentic activity in Twitter, relating to pro-Ukraine actors?)
"We have to build the tools to see what's going on in the system. Over and over, it's like Twitter doesn't know what is going on in Twitter. We have to build the tools to see where there's evidence of large scale manipulation. Things like, all these accounts are acting in concert, faster than a human being could link them. Then we have to expose them. Those software tools need to be written. They haven't been written yet, but they will be."
"There are problems on many levels. It's too cheap to have a bot, or a troll. You can have a warehouse with banks of phones, operated by people. The challenge is, you have to make it more expensive to have bots and trolls."
"If it was clearly a question of money, they could overcome a budget challenge [of $8 per user] but they're using a huge number of phones and credit/debit cards. It's very hard to find the logistical connections between hundreds of thousands of phones and credit cards. Twitter can't be so heavily dependent on advertisers, so this is an attempt to kill two birds with one stone. We must build a source of income that is not so advertiser-dependent. And use the payment system to be able to identify and stop the large scale manipulation of the system."
Thank you for cutting through the shit to show up some good answers. 👍
So many leftist scumbags coming in here to shill - we must be stirring up the nest. Good time to be alive!
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"It's good the House will be Republican...it's not a good idea for the House, Senate, and Pres to be all one party. At least one branch in another party will check the worst excesses in both parties. I'm a huge moderate, actually, is what I am.
"You want to have the govt pass laws in the best interests of the people, not just a small segment of the people. So a mixture of parties in control...is more likely to be in the interest of the people.
(Asking about Dr. Shiva's lawsuit, uncovering the back-end government portal between Twitter and the government. Is that portal still available to the govt?)
"I have to dig into the Trusted Partnership thing. Obviously that has some Big Brother vibes. Twitter will adhere to the law. I'll dig into that and find out what is going on.
(Did you find any relationship between Facebook and others that were in collusion with political parties? Collusion between Twitter and other social media groups?)
"I'm not seeing it yet. Matt Taibbi has seen way more of the Twitter files than I have. I'm just focusing on getting Twitter financially healthy, fix the engineering, fix the capabilities, improve transparency. I've not read hardly any of the Twitter Files. Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss [are reading those files.]
"I told Matt, whatever you see, if you think the public should know about it...just post it."
(Will you give access to other journalists?)
"yeah maybe at some point we should just put it all out there. At the beginning probably better not to have a million stories all at once, that would get drowned out in the flood of thing. Once the critical stories have been told, probably the best thing is to provide a data dump, and go through it to see what was missed."
Much like it would not be good to have one world government with no quid pro quo when power makes the elites stop caring about little people.
I would agree, if the opposing side wasn't one of mutilating and having sex with children.
I think he's somewhat wrong. It's bad for current Democrats to be in charge anywhere in the country. They are the biggest problem in America. They need to go back to the drawing board. Otherwise, anywhere they lose is good.
He’s wrong in seemingly thinking the dems aren’t all commie baby fuckers who want to destroy all of us.
He’s right in that it’s better to not let one party control everything. Or it would be in the perfect world at least, where politicians aren’t out to destroy us and enrich themselves.
I tried listening to some of that and it was painful. Not Elon, those others.
I did read between the lines and the swamp will make Twitter's free speech goals difficult by making demands of it to censor whatever they want based on made-up things like supposed investigations concerned about supposed worries that secret messages will be posted on Twitter to trigger terrorist attacks and whatnot. .And when needed, the Democrats will make those concerns come true.
FINALLY, someone is asking about the FBI portal Dr. Shiva discovered. Only took over an hour to get a real question.
Link on this?
Damn. Late to the party. I'll have to listen to a recording.
Moderates are people who haven't decided how they feel about raping children.
Ian Miles Cheong is annoying as hell.
He goes by all three names in public. That's all the proof you need to know he's an insufferable douche.
he's a lib playing pretend because it's convenient for him like that beanie hat guy cept he's asian
The beanie guy is also Asian, just less so. Lol fail
Beanie-man claims he's 1/2 Asian.
It is great to really be able to hear how Elon talks to people and not just from short videos.
There are plenty of long interviews he's done. JRE, Lex, babylon bee
"The intent is to release all the files. So it's not anything is hidden...
"This is like truth and reconciliation. If you want reconciliation there must be truth. The intent is to make clear what was happening. Provide transparency about the past, and in doing so, build trust about the future.
"I think both past and future take down requests should be made public. Sunshine is a great disinfectant. If there are content take down requests that were embarrassing, there will be less of them [in the future.]
"The overarching goal here is that on balance Twitter is a force for good, for the future of the civilization, and for the expansion of consciousness.
"A lot of the EU rules call for things I agree with...transparency, and for users to have a clear process, and for appeal. it's mostly good, we ought to watch the implementation and make sure it's not bad for the people of Europe. Most of it I agree with, transparency and accountability. we just need to make sure it's not warped into a bad direction.
(What role can Twitter have with China, Iran, other countries in relation to freedom of speech?)
"We'll do whatever is possible within the balance of the law."
"People on Twitter have crowdsourced and helped with the child exploitation [issue.] And we're going to keep doing that. Kids can't defend themselves, we must do it. More has been done in Twitter to help with child exploitation in the last month than has been done elsewhere in the last ten years."
(What made you want to buy Twitter?)
"If i had been able to buy it sooner, I might have. But there had to be a situation where my liquidity was enough, and Twitter's value...a closing price...that wasn't the case until recently. I guess it just felt like everyone had been bullied for some time. It wasn't just a sudden thing. More and more, group think amongst the media, towing the line among social media companies, more traveling the path of suppression of free speech. it was just getting me concerned. The trends were very bad. Unless something was done to reverse that, I thought everything might just be shut off. People would be ostracized, and their voices would be cut off.
"It wasn't exactly one thing. My biological neuronet said it was important to buy Twitter. You can't exactly explain it...the collective of the neuronet concluded it was important to buy Twitter. If not, it would be a danger for the future of the civilization, and that's why I bought it."
Is there any way to expand it to see the comments/transcription from the right-side corner? It's like 1" tall and almost impossible to read- no way to expand to full screen?
oh is that how these quotes are being made? I'm just transcribing by hand. I Agree that interface for CC is the suck.
Me too, just listening and typing, and wishing I was a better typist.
heh - I'm between keyboards so I"m using one of my crappier backups. After I gift myself this xmas I'll be back up to speed (I need those ultra flat leaf switch ones).
I think its an AI auto transcription but its so tiny on my big monitor its almost unusable.
The CSS doesn't show more than 5 lines and they scroll too fast to be useful (for me anyway). The replay is still available on the link so I'll listen to that while grinding on some game late nite.
(paraphrasing because I'm typing on the fly so I'm condensing here and there) re: why he bought Twitter
"if I was able to buy twitter sooner I'd have done it - but there was liquidity and closing price gaps" "It's not like because of Babylon Bee getting banned - it the groupthink in the media and the social media companies"
"we were seeing more of the suppression of free speech and the trend was only having communication with group think and your voice would be shut off"
"it wasn't any one thing - I can't exactly say 'why' but my own mind said 'it's important to buy Twitter' - the collective result said this is the right action. If Twitter wasn't going in a good direction it'd be a danger to civilization - so that's why I bought it"
Thanks for linking. Interesting conversation.
Still nothing concrete. Gives us the concrete, for their boots.
Pretty good questions being asked.