X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

    • @[email protected]
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      262 years ago

      Well, I think this might, but probably not, technically qualify as an anti-union action in violation of state and federal laws. Basically, if you do things to silence or discredit the union and advocates then you’ve broken the law. That said, companies get away with a lot worse, so something as minor as the blue check disappearing is not likely to have any real backlash.

      Definitely shows where he stands on these issues if it ever wasn’t clear. Musk is unfortunately a person with a lot of influence on business and politics.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

      If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don’t actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It’s part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

      • 🐱TheCat
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        72 years ago

        I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

        Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

        Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

        Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          The “I don’t use Twitter so that’s a you problem” is a thought terminating cliche.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Yeah. I’m not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

          Even if you were successful, you’d probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can’t be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

          Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      The biggest losers are the people who cannot read for more than 10 seconds at a time.

      This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.

  • @[email protected]
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    582 years ago

    lol does he not realize that he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?

    I’m sure they do not care.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      No, this is a straight up win for UAW. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part only plays into their hands at the NLRB level.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s the goal. Killing the credibility of social media is a top priority for authoritarians. They can’t have people talking to each other outside of the shaped narratives delivered by their media companies. That’s why companies spend so much on bot farms, shills and influencers. In order to shape public narratives when they can’t control the media.

    • @[email protected]
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      Eh, that’s super random. My great grandfather died in his 40s from alcoholism related, and my grandfather in like his 80s from alcohol related causes. If my great grandfather drank more than my grandfather on the other side I can’t even imagine how he even survived his 20s or 30s… people used to drink a lot and call it normal

      (Also, random side note. Elon is bizarre to ketamine. He microdoses daily, and takes “regular doses” to be “more social at parties” that doesn’t sound super healthy, but I am not a doctor…)

  • 🐱TheCat
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    902 years ago

    Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Where does it say that? I don’t see it anywhere. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, either.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        52 years ago

        In the land of morons, I reasonable person reads the articles and finds this:

        To be fair, the Arstechnica article doesn’t mention this, the Intercept article that Arstechnica refers to does, and most people usually don’t read double article in deep before commenting.

    • RaivoKulli
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      52 years ago

      Private platform. That was the argument before Elon took over, so I guess same works (or doesn’t) here.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      I mean technically it’s the free speech of Elon to do whatever with his company, right? Like how the Colorado photographer didn’t have to provide services to gays and how Amazon is no longer allowing BLM.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        52 years ago

        I mean technically it’s the free speech

        Legally, yes. Ethically, definitely no.

        How most of society uses that term is not in the legal way, but in the ethical way, which is a topic all on its own; a weird disconnect.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          And you get these smooth-brain takes like “Only the government can take away your free speech” because people think that “freedom of speech” and “the First Amendment” are one and the same.

          • Cosmic Cleric
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            22 years ago

            No ethics ir morals in a corporate world.

            Society is not just a corporation.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              Tell that to, I dunno, everyone else.

              They certainly think so.

              I’ve been wary of corporations since I first read Neuromancer.

              • Cosmic Cleric
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                12 years ago

                Don’t believe the shill/fiction. Regular people know what the score is.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        When the savior of humanity declared he was a “free speech absolutist” people misinterpreted his meaning.

        He meant that he should have absolute authority over who should have free speech.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      52 years ago

      Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

      This gives off such a movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” vibe.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      Excellent decision sir, human rights are overrated anyway

      • probably some blue check person
    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      As an ex Elon fanboy let me literally honestly try the best I can here…

      The best I can come up with is, “Hi. Elon here. Revoking UAW’s blue check was just a joke. Get it? Humour! I can humourise with the best of them. Ha. Ha. Ha.”

  • kingthrillgore
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    112 years ago

    Elon heard something called Unify or Utigy was taking all the bad press and he had to fix that.

    • @[email protected]
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      332 years ago

      Still not what free speech means.

      But baby trust fund dipshit is begging to get sued again.

      • @[email protected]
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        762 years ago

        It’s not what free speech means, but they’re using his own words against him. Of course we clearly can’t expect any consistency from conservatives, “free speech for me” etc.

    • Otter
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      872 years ago

      At this point we just need a large compiled list of every instance of it. There’s so much that I can’t think of an example right away.

  • Sippy Cup
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    1822 years ago

    I wonder why the guy who bought Tesla might not want the UAW represented on the platform he bought? I can’t think of why that might be

    • @[email protected]
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      662 years ago

      In completely unrelated related news:

      One of the things their talking about is an increase for workers who deal with electric batteries…

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Hell no. Musk is, extremely publicly, disproving every myth about billionaires. He’s telling you what he is, he’s showing you what he is. And this is “best businessman, super genius, futurist poster boy for billionaires Musk”

      You don’t have to like the situation or the coverage, and you certainly don’t have to like him.

      But you need to watch. We all need to watch. We need to sear this in, so next time someone buys the legend crafted by a billionaire.

      When people praise Musk or talk about trickle down economics, you need to be honestly shocked. You need to be able to rattle off the stupid and evil decisions that describe his life, and be able to explain how he’s never built a company or designed anything, how the only useful contribution he’s made to anything is hyping things so far he’s being sued for outright fraud

      Give him the attention - a lot of programmers have long known he’s a poser, but most of us didn’t make a big deal about it because he was getting people excited for important technology. It was for the common good.

      And now, watching him is the common good - let him bask in infamy all he likes, this protracted midlife crisis is possibly the most philanthropic thing he’s ever done

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Yeah this is why I disagree with “you’re just giving him free clicks and making him more popular”. He’s constantly disproving every positive association with billionaires.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Did you not read my post?

          Let him have his infamy, he’s using it to disprove every positive association with billionaires.

          Give him all the clicks, all the views, pay attention - he’s the real time greatest argument there will ever be for not having another Elon Musk. Pay attention, break it down for your dad, spread the word to your friends - it’s very important that as a species, we learn this lesson ASAP. Next time, this lesson will cost a great many lives

          Yeah, he gets what he wants, but I have literally, never for a moment, cared what some elongated muskrat wants

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            You might’ve misread, I’m in complete agreement with you. It’s the people who think that it’s just helping Musk that I disagree with.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Ah… you’re right, rereading that I totally got that jumbled up in my head, sorry

              I might be a little touchy on the topic…I have family members who are smart and educated, but even now think Musk is some kind of genius, maybe with a personality disorder excused by his genius. Telling them about him doesn’t help, but letting him show them his true colors surely will (eventually)

  • WuTang
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    12 years ago

    Hey ASstechnica: what about your own shit like this cookie consent popup? Even nsa.gov would be an amateur

    • @[email protected]
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      Who is struggling because UAW lost their blue check mark? I’m an X user. I’ve found my usage of the product generally uninterrupted and am confused by statements like this.

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        Who is struggling because UAW lost their blue check mark?

        A: UAW

        I’m an X user. I’ve found my usage of the product generally uninterrupted and am confused by statements like this.

        A: Martin Niemöller

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          This is actually a win for UAW. They want to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part just gives them more ammunition with the NLRB, which has strict rules regarding what ownership is allowed to say publicly. It plays directly into their hands.

          Also worth saying that the Biden NLRB is the most pro-union and labor-friendly in history.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          I didn’t realize that the blue check did anything meaningful that would make it so horrible.

          They didn’t put the UAW in a prison camp. Ffs I’m sorry but it’s a leap from blue check to prison camp.

          I’ve since discovered that this is a red vs blue powered issue, which makes this discussion moot. Throwing rocks for any reason at the other color isn’t useful. I vote third party and stay out of red vs blue.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            I always find it interesting, people assume the Nazis started with killing the Jews, the Gays, the Socialists, the “Degenerate” etc… as soon as they existed, but no, they didn’t, they had to work their way up to that. and some of the first things they did was work to delegitimize their opposition and keep them from speaking out.

            As for “I vote third party” good for you, you could just not go to vote, even if a 3ed party gains traction it will only serve as a spoiler to whoever that third party is closer aligned to.

            And for the “other color” bullshit, you need to have quite a bit of privilege to say this, after all, LGBTQ rights, woman’s rights, POC Rights, are all just a “blue vs. red” issue in America, but these issues decide on the rights of millions of people.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        So you are ok supporting a platform that is actively taking the power away from organization helping people because it is a good experience? I mean you are on Lemmy, so you must have some sense to the issues surrounding centralized anything, especially media?

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          For me it’s a lot like paying taxes. No I’m not ok with it, but it’s required of me so I just coast along because revolting would not be worth it.

          As you say, I have no problem revolting against a platform over injustice (15y Redditor here, left when they did dirty).

          They removed a blue check mark. It’s petty. It’s stupid. It’s not revolution worthy imo.

  • @[email protected]
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    212 years ago

    Xitter ! love it, now lexicon

    Usage: Can’t wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.