Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter will destroy freed om of speech, not protect it...

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On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 20:26:51 UTC+1, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:51:36 -0400, bitrex <us...@example.net> wrote:

On 11/1/2022 8:26 AM, Robert Latest wrote:
Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 4:08:20 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
Who owns the truth?

Nobody. It stands on it\'s own, which is to say on the evidence supporting it,
not all of which you can understand. Gnatguy is even more challenged.

\"Truth\" only makes sense in a context where information about that truth and
--more importantly-- the supported evidence is communicated. Thus, whoever owns
means of communication owns the truth.

Two single individuals (Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk) now personally own a
very large part of the worldwide truth. They are beholden only to their own
personal values and to their advertisement customers.

Musk plans to make Twitter \"successful\" the way almost all his ventures
became \"successful\" - a lot of money from da government.
There was a discussion about that on NPR this morning. One opinion is
that people are getting tired of things like Twitter.

Apparently a lot of sociology type research is done based on twitter
posts. That is surely a self-selected sample set, namely the kind of
people who like to twitter.

Never done it, myself.

Twitter is an old as Usenet today
We need smart communication technologies, supporting interaction, voice and group chat.

Twitter is dead horse today and no chance to survive for the next 2 years under Melon

Twitter tried to implement longer Tweets, follow-ups but failed.

The idea of time-line is old-fashioned since interactive group communication, chat is done in parallel, one to many, many to one.

I have studied interactive media at MIT, Media Lab under Negroponte
and MediaMoo offered interactive, real time chat on old ASCII based monitors.

Twitter is mostly off-line, so not attracting new guys who prefer China based interactive media.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 6:26:51 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 14:51:36 -0400, bitrex <us...@example.net> wrote:

On 11/1/2022 8:26 AM, Robert Latest wrote:
Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 4:08:20 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
Who owns the truth?

Nobody. It stands on it\'s own, which is to say on the evidence supporting it,
not all of which you can understand. Gnatguy is even more challenged.

\"Truth\" only makes sense in a context where information about that truth and
--more importantly-- the supported evidence is communicated. Thus, whoever owns
means of communication owns the truth.

Two single individuals (Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk) now personally own a
very large part of the worldwide truth. They are beholden only to their own
personal values and to their advertisement customers.

Musk plans to make Twitter \"successful\" the way almost all his ventures
became \"successful\" - a lot of money from da government.
There was a discussion about that on NPR this morning. One opinion is
that people are getting tired of things like Twitter.

Apparently a lot of sociology type research is done based on twitter
posts. That is surely a self-selected sample set, namely the kind of
people who like to twitter.

Never done it, myself.

Perhaps not Twitter, but John Larkin\'s posts here read a lot like tweets coming from a twit.

He\'s been at it for some 25 years now, and the only coherent content he has ever posted has been cut and pasted from climate change denial propaganda websites.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney