Elons Little Plan

hanimmal

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.

Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.” In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said only that after careful consideration, it “decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show.” It added that Lemon’s show “is welcome to publish its content on X, without censorship, as we believe in providing a platform for creators to scale their work and connect with new communities.”

In a video posted to X, Lemon declared that “ Elon Musk is mad at me ″ and said he will be airing his interview with the Tesla CEO on YouTube and via podcast on Monday.

Lemon didn’t go into specifics about the source of Musk’s alleged unhappiness, but wrote, “Throughout our conversation, I kept reiterating to him that although it was tense at times, I thought it was good for people to see and hear our exchange and that they would learn from our conversation.”

“But apparently free speech absolutism doesn’t apply when it comes to questions about him from people like me,” he added.

In a later CNN discussion with Lemon on Monday, anchor Erin Burnett played clips of his Musk interview in which the Tesla and SpaceX CEO grew testy when asked about content moderation and the spread of hate speech on the X platform.

In the clip, Lemon asked Musk if he believed that he and his social platform held any responsibility to moderate hate speech on X. He singled out the spread of the “ great replacement theory,” a racist belief that, in its most extreme form, falsely contends that Jews are behind a plot to diminish the influence of white people in the U.S.

Musk replied sharply that he doesn’t have to answer questions from reporters. “The only reason I’m in this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it,” he said. “Otherwise I would not be doing this interview.” When Lemon followed up with a question about the criticism Musk has faced over the issue of hate speech, the CEO replied, “I’m criticized constantly. I could care less.”

X announced in January a “new content partnership” with Lemon for the show, saying it would post 30 minute episodes three times a week on subjects including politics, culture, sports and entertainment. That deal was part of the struggling platform’s efforts to bolster its content offerings and attract advertisers. X also announced shows hosted by former member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard and sports radio host Jim Rome.

Lemon was fired by CNN last year after a 17-year run with the network. His ouster came a little over two months after he apologized for on-air comments about then-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley not being in “her prime” that he made during his short run as a morning show host.
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cannabineer

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awww poor Elon

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Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has sued a group of advertisers, alleging that a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the company of billions of dollars in revenue and violated antitrust laws.
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crying cause your not getting advertiser money......wonder why especially with you antisemetic rants, and your bull conspiracy theories, and on top of that letting everyone right wing russian bot have full immunity......yeah i can see why advertisers don't wanna come to your site....
 
hanimmal

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Bagginski

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I still say that letting twitter stay in musky hands is a clear & present threat to global stability & the national interest therein

“Eminent domain”: nationalize it in the public interest, fire DeJoy from USPS, let a non-partisan board of governors supervise it & the nation’s backbone(s).

We seriously need to take the role and the critical importance of tech in our culture, society, and governance - and security is only part of that
 
hanimmal

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Bagginski said:
I still say that letting twitter stay in musky hands is a clear & present threat to global stability & the national interest therein

“Eminent domain”: nationalize it in the public interest, fire DeJoy from USPS, let a non-partisan board of governors supervise it & the nation’s backbone(s).

We seriously need to take the role and the critical importance of tech in our culture, society, and governance - and security is only part of that
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I still like my idea of having out government buy out google and start a new online Federal Reserve type system to make sure us citizens have access to all of our data and have checks and balances on how it can be used.
 
hanimmal

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H G Griffin said:
Can you imagine if Trump and his thugs had access to that data ? The abuses they would commit?
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That is a big reason it needs to not be a full on under the thumb of the government. Similar to how the Fed works independently of the government. Appointments of the heads that get senate approved, and are paid for by the bank, and at the end of the day we still are the check on our politicians.

We can't trust these businesses to do the right thing, because they have proven over and over again that they can't.

I am pretty much of the mind that at least China and Russia and likely Isreal already have access to everything on such a large portion of our population. And these nations' dictators are already are able to tap into and use their citizens collective wealth to pull all kinds of shit over here. The only people that don't have access to this information is us citizens. And that is bullshit and needs to change.

But yeah we don't want to let politicians have control of that. I think of it like the Federal Reserve where you have checks and balances between the government, banks, and the citizens. No one 'entity' should have control over something this important, and politicians should not be able to get their hands on the data.


And I can totally imagine what Trump and his thugs would pull.

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