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[Victoria Watcher]

A week later, and Twitter isn’t broken.

[dasmo]

Just people saying it is. And the media reporting it is. Sounds familiar…

[Victoria Watcher]

They literally thought it would break somehow and go offline.


This is pretty good. It’s dozens or hundreds of newsrooms across the US all saying the exact same script about how social media is “a threat to our democracy”. All the MSM news anchors were made to recite the script. Word for word:

https://twitter.com/...NIPX6VObgd8r31w

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 November 2022 - 10:38 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

It’s 2018, and Sinclair (mostly Fox and ABC), but it’s glorious.


The spot includes language painting the Sinclair-owned local news stations as the heralds of real news and refers to other media outlets as publishing “fake stories…stories that just aren’t true, without checking facts first.” The language reflects President Donald Trump’s insistence that the mainstream news media is “fake” and that certain narratives are pushed for political reasons. “Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think,'” the promo reads.


https://variety.com/...1202741019/amp/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 November 2022 - 10:41 AM.

[Mike K.]

I assume, someone ‘familiar with the matter’ told them Twitter would die. So it was definitely solid enough, and therefore fact-based reporting.

[Victoria Watcher]

Experts probably.

[Mike K.]

There are experts for everything.

[Victoria Watcher]

How does a guy get a “sizing expert” job?

[Mike K.]

You don’t have sizing experts in your friend group?

[Victoria Watcher]

[todd]

Thank God he found the right combination of MDMA and mushrooms

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

He’s opened the platform to all.

Glorious time for real free speech.

God bless him.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

 

https://twitter.com/...sk/with_replies

 

Tobi Lutke is the Shopify CEO.

 

According to the CBC article, this is the shop inventory:

 

 

 

All of the merchandise (a T-shirt and two mugs) recently listed on the Libs of TikTok online store — powered by Shopify — is branded with the words "STOP GROOMING OUR KIDS."

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 November 2022 - 04:46 AM.

[max.bravo]

Here's their Shopify store: https://shop.libsoftiktok.com/

 

I can't imagine they're making very much money from it.

[todd]

He’s opened the platform to all.

Glorious time for real free speech.

and hate and evil

Edited by todd, 28 November 2022 - 12:17 PM.

[dasmo]

and hate and evil

Already was. So nothing is really changing. But it is sure great advertising. 

[Victoria Watcher]

and hate and evil

You can’t sort through that on your own? How do you go about your day with conversations with your family, your neighbours, with strangers - with no moderator on-site?

You really need one with online people you mostly don’t know?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 November 2022 - 12:18 PM.

[todd]

I know it goes without saying

There’s lots of moderators out there