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.
Ah, the “free speech absolutist” doing completely free speech stuff.
Why should anyone care? I thought the blue mark doesn’t have meaning anymore?
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.
It’s infuriating that people are beholden to this fucking loser.
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.
I was not aware anyone was being required to use the twat platform.
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.
The “I don’t use Twitter so that’s a you problem” is a thought terminating cliche.
Beholden by choice. They’re simps.
It’s the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.
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.
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.
lol does he not realize that he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?
I’m sure they do not care.
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.
That’s the whole point
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.
he has delegitimized any credibility his platform once held?
Again?
Over and over.
It’s delegitimization all the way down.
I’m excited for his alcoholism to catch up.
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…)
True but some people may get wet brain for example early in life.
Trust me, the problem is not enough drugs for that man. Not too much. Also, Face Off.
I recommend switching to MDMA, getting the UAW to take some too, then hug it out like Men. Side hug only.
It is actually fucking shocking how effective MDMA is at conflict resolution.
Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech
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Where does it say that? I don’t see it anywhere. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, either.
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.
Private platform. That was the argument before Elon took over, so I guess same works (or doesn’t) here.
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.
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.
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.
No ethics or morals in a corporate world. Only the law and weighing the fines.
No ethics ir morals in a corporate world.
Society is not just a corporation.
Tell that to, I dunno, everyone else.
They certainly think so.
I’ve been wary of corporations since I first read Neuromancer.
Don’t believe the shill/fiction. Regular people know what the score is.
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.
Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech
This gives off such a movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” vibe.
Excellent decision sir, human rights are overrated anyway
- probably some blue check person
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.”
And failing at it…
Elon heard something called Unify or Utigy was taking all the bad press and he had to fix that.
So much for free speech
Still not what free speech means.
But baby trust fund dipshit is begging to get sued again.
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.
There’s so much room for fascist activities!
Did we just become best friends?
Musk is not so absolutist after all.
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.
SCABS.
No that’s his beard. I think.
I wasn’t aware Zeta Reticulans can grow hair. I thought someone just wiped mascara in the wrong place on his face mask.
Couldn’t this be breach of contract for services not rendered?
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
In completely unrelated related news:
One of the things their talking about is an increase for workers who deal with electric batteries…
I just hope it gives them ideas. fingers crossed
Who fucking cares. Stop talking about musk and he will likely go away
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
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.
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
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.
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)
No worries! My phrasing didn’t help things.
If you are still on X, then you deserve the world you are struggling in.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I understand your position and you make some good points here.
Xitter ! love it, now lexicon
Usage: Can’t wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.
My exposure to English gives xylophone, xenon, xerox, xenograft. Sounds like Z at the start of a word.
I get you like it to be shit, which takes ages to decompose. I’d rather it pop like a zit and be gone, and with the current trajetory, that would not surprise.
My very limited exposure to Chinese makes me read it as shitter
IIRC the letter X in Portuguese is also pronounced as “schiss”. So Xitter makes a lot of sense to me.
Fair enough, but I’ll go with mine anyway.
I thought it was pronounced “shitter”.
kshitter
Could we please pronounce it was “Shitter”? Thanks.
I already thought that that was the agreed update pronunciation.
The other pronunciation is “Zitter.”