(July 31, 2023 at 5:36 pm)WinterHold Wrote: So, Elon Musk is Trump's ally.
Trump bribed him to demolish "twitter".
Now twitter's name is "X"; the ultimate "nerdish-geeky vengeance" for firing Trump before: this is Trump's wrath on the platform; hijacking it like a school toddler.
X will be a platform of sex, erotica, Republicans, White Supremacists, and all kinds of germs living in Trump's underpants.
I'm curious why you think this has anything to do with Trump. What evidence is there for some kind of collusion between Musk and him?
Musk has always wanted to call everything X. He tried to rename PayPal X way back when. His rocket company is called SpaceX. Those have nothing to do with Trump.
So far there's no indication that Trump will be welcomed back to the platform. There are always creeps and bigots, as there will be on any platform. Musk promised to lift bans on several banned categories, but seems to have found that it's not as simple as he thought. Policies seem to change quickly, while he attempts to learn the things that were known by all the people he fired.
Twitter is pretty popular in Japan, too, and he's getting roasted by users here. First he renamed the local version X Japan, but there's a big-time heavy metal band of that name, and he couldn't do it. Also, X in Japanese, pronounced "peke," always refers to something that's broken or no good, so people this week are calling Twitter "Peke-tter," which is a pretty funny untranslatable pun that means something like "Fuck-uped-ness."
I think Musk is being a bit childish, and there is probably no one around him who can tell him "no." But I see no conspiracy behind it.