Mike Parrish

Why do you care if anyone else condemns this behavior? How does that affect you? You seem to be looking for a reason to be angry and scared at these mythical "leftists". I've asked you, repeatedly, to: Explain what you think it was that Twitter did that was actionable Explain what you want done. <crickets.wav> has been the answer so far. Step up.

You have shown none of this. You are merely asserting it without evidence... yet again.

Sure, Jan.

lol, no. Again with the scary "leftists"... What do you think your link demonstrates (it's article history from August 2019)? Can you show that this description from the lede of the article is incorrect in any way?

Being angry at normal behavior seems counterproductive. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ Who was president in 2019 when the most recent uptick occurred? Were you 'angry' then?

And you didn't answer any of the rest of the points I made in the post... I begin to suspect you aren't conversing in good faith, sir.

First, stop trying to frame the question that way. It's disingenuous and stifles actual conversation. Second, I don't trust the sources (Musk/Taibbi). At all. Third, there's no illegal behavior (in spite of much early wailing to this effect). Fourth, it's their property. How about you answer some questions: What is the core of your complaint here? What do you want done about it?

As in any venue, the people who understand the rules and have the most friends. What do you do when some quackery gets repeatedly put into a medical article? What do you do when Nazis try to say the Holocaust didn't happen all over wikipedia? What do you do when spammers try to add their website to a bunch of articles? What do you do when some middle schooler tries to add the word "penis" to every article they can? What do you do about decade long edit wars (Israel/Palestine as one example) where the partisans on both sides will never stop trying to get their version of the article? Further, do you not see the irony in claiming that wikipedia is run by "scary 'leftists' who lie all the time" and then trying to use wikipedia's description of itself as some sort of holy weapon? If you really want to understand how wikipedia actually works under the covers, instead of ranting and raving without foundation, read https://wikipediocracy.com Check out the forums. Every bad thing ever done on wikipedia is in there, with cogent comments from both long time critics and from people who currently have advanced permissions on wikipedia.

The US and NATO are destroying Russia on the cheap. There's no reason to stop. I imagine the defense industry is pretty keen on this too. Lots and lots of spare parts sales....

Then what is the remedy that you envision? Are you implying that corporations owe society some minimal standard of behavior? Is this only applicable to social media companies?

https://uww.org/article/ranking-series-calendar-finalized-uww-approves-2kg-weight-tolerance TL;DR Slight change from last year

Who was president when this came in? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/informant-warned-fbi-weeks-jan-6-far-right-saw-trump-tweet-call-arms-rcna62683 Hmmmm....

This is the kind of stuff you should be angry about. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-20/big-tech-divided-and-conquered-to-block-key-bipartisan-bills

This is how the sausage is made. Putting on your shocked pikachu face is so weird. You've never seen or heard of a bill with earmarks before? This particular bill is somehow different than all prior spending bills? What's the total value of earmarks out of the total spending in the bill?

You guys have made a lot of hay about how all of this behavior is illegal. Please cite the federal statutes that were violated. Be specific.

I know far more about how wikipedia actually works than you do. That's not how it works. At all. Why do all of your posts reek with this unreasoning fear of 'leftists'? Are these leftists in the room with you right now?

Goes to the credibility of the author(s).

What statute was violated by Twitter during any of this. There's lots of rending of hair and wearing of sackcloth, but nobody seems to be able to point to anything even slightly illegal, which was the hue and cry from the beginning.

What a surprise! Elmo was full of shit about the stalker and "assassination coordinates". Here's my shocked face. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident

Senator Jerry Curl is the guy you're using as a source?

2022, same as 2021, same as 2020, same as 2019 ... Seems a bit of 'chicken little' is infecting you all of a sudden.

Don't you guys hate wikipedia? I'm so confused now...

Dude. Read the 'articles' that guy has written. https://threadreaderapp.com/user/lhfang cray cray

Performance art by a narcissist.

lolol