My X (Twitter) account just got locked

[MANative]

I answered someone's post complaining about Kamala's opposition to plastic straws with this: "Why do you need a straw at all? Just use a damned glass. "

And that violated their guidelines??? Seriously??? Someone was a little touchy, apparently.

[viva la]

1. Musk is getting very particular/peculiar....

If "damned" is now verboten.

[BSDemon]

2. You know, Big Brother Elon is watching....

Youtube has also the same crappy policies, yet they allow Russian bots and cultists to say any kind of crap they want.

[MANative]

7. Feels like it won't be long before Eloon bans...

All posts even remotely critical of Trump or supportive of Dems.

[Goodheart]

3. One of my real life "friends" today

said she can't respect Kamala because when asked if she ever went to the border replied that she's never been to Paris, either.

I put "friends" in quotation marks there because I'm going to have to rethink her position in my life.

I mean, REALLY, with all the stupid fucking idiotic and monstrous stuff trump says somebody's going to be worried about straws?

[MANative]

4. Fools looking for any excuse for opposition

They can't find anything substantive so they find the most ridiculous "issues" to bitch about.

[Attilatheblond]

11. It's funny that some of them are woke enough to know they are racist/sexist bigots

so they grasp at any flimsy excuse.

[misanthrope]

14. I think most of them are lying to themselves about their prejudices

and the flimsy excuses are mere rationalizations to deny reality.

[GoreWon2000]

12. If she wants to be able to control her own body

she needs to vote for Kamala.

[Metaphorical]

5. X is the next social media to fail

After Truth Social, which is currently on life support as the last human beings besides Trump and die hard Incels leave the platform.

I let my account on Twitter lapse when Musk bought it. It's now about 35% bot accounts and climbing, something he's been trying to hide for a while. Advertisers hate bot filled sites because they are spending their money sending spam to bots that will never buy a thing.

[MANative]

8. I think you're right. I'm not very active there but...

I do post responses occasionally, or amplify Dem candidates/ messages.

[B.See]

13. NEVER used it. And so glad I haven't

not to mention those butt-ugly vehicles of his.

[StarryNite]

6. Expect more of this.

[jfz9580m]

9. This made me smile

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/elon-musk-asked-openai-investor-vinod-khosla-to-support-trump-khosla-said-he-doesnt-accept-depravity-/articleshow/111915308.cms

Musk touted how some White House aides learned about Biden dropping out by reading X. The platform estimated Biden's announcement got over 289 million views by Sunday night. He also noted on X that his "smartest friends," including lifelong Democrats, "are excited about Trump/Vance."

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, replied, "Your smartest friends aren't very smart."

Yann LeCun is one of the rare figures in the public eye talking about AI I genuinely respect. To a lay person like me he sounds like an actual scientist rather than someone who just posts random drivel online a la that windbag Musk.

I still don’t understand how Musk gets anything done if he is actually anything like his persona on Twitter. The man sounds ..well he doesn’t sound like any sort of scientist even factoring in the disinhibition social media/online discourse induce. I myself rarely can stand to read anything I write (corrections aside) because one sounds so vacuous online.

It is nice to see someone as respectable as LeCunn addressing a gasbag like Musk:

https://venturebeat.com/ai/yann-lecun-ai-pioneer-sharply-criticizes-elon-musk-over-treatment-of-scientists-and-spreading-of-misinformation/

[spanone]

10. Eloon is probably having hissy fit.

[OnDoutside]

15. Maybe you should have included something racist in the tweet ? You would have been fine with them then...

It's such a shame to see what Musk has done to twitter.

[eShirl]

16. pretty sure hurting their widdle fee-fees is against their TOS