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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
This is why I always thought it was bizarre that it was ever allowed to go public in the first place. When you've got heads of states on a website with private messaging features then surely it's a MAJOR security issue for it to fall into public hands. I get there's probably loads of PRISM tier backdoors and killswitchs etc. but realistically what WAS stopping say, the Saudis from going "Yeah I'll buy it" and then having a metric truckload of blackmail.

Yes, I'm aware that heads of states SHOULD be using smarter channels but we've seen from day 1 that tech illiterate retards can easily make it far in politics.
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Industry literacy is actually a negative to most politicians chances of success - it means your more likely to develop your own informed opinions instead of adopting the lobbyist ones.

That being said, I think its a case of being hung by your own noose - Transmitting anything of secrecy through a platform that doesn't have the right security in place is already a crime for these people, so its never been much of a worry - anyone who says anything particularly damaging is also automatically getting cast out from the in-group and prosecuted to hell and back, and that prosecution provides grounds to bury the important stuff as state secrets, and just spread the compromising details on the person your burning. And if they didn't transmit anything government secret and just blackmail materials? Well lets just let the FBI take a look at that data list, they'll find it given enough time.
 
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I know Trump has lost the plot for the most part, but his "global social network" isn't available outside the US, and I imagine it will never be available outside the US. He missed a big opportunity to stir up some shit on Twitter, and he completely flopped. His age is really showing. I'm sure Truth social servers will be shut down after he looses in 2024.
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Lichen Bark said:
I know Trump has lost the plot for the most part, but his "global social network" isn't available outside the US, and I imagine it will never be available outside the US. He missed a big opportunity to stir up some shit on Twitter, and he completely flopped. His age is really showing. I'm sure Truth social servers will be shut down after he looses in 2024.
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You also can't name the jew on there.
 
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Ponzo said:
Going back to the picture he posted yesterday, i just realized that Elon has a replica revolver from the Deus Ex Mankind Divided video game and a vajra, a hindu/buddhist ritual weapon on his bedside table

I wonder if he started neuralink because he believes we are heading in the direction of Deus Ex where humans looked augmented like this
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It's not the first time he is referencing Deus Ex ether. Is he perhaps dogwhistling to Globohomo that he will about to go full Bob Page?
 
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Lichen Bark said:
I know Trump has lost the plot for the most part, but his "global social network" isn't available outside the US, and I imagine it will never be available outside the US. He missed a big opportunity to stir up some shit on Twitter, and he completely flopped. His age is really showing. I'm sure Truth social servers will be shut down after he looses in 2024.
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I don't see how Trump can avoid falling into irrelevance. By 2024, he'll have not been president for 3 years, and will be truthposting to a dwindling audience who still insist the 2020 election was rightfully his. Whether it was stolen or not, all that will come of it will, at best, be the GOP pushing for electoral reform; it won't bring back Trump.

To run for office, he'll have to escape his Truth hugbox and return to Twitter. Prediction markets are about 2:1 against him tweeting this year
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but 2:1 for him tweeting by end of March next year:
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Not that prediction betting is any kind of oracle, but there may be something to this timeline.
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
This is why I always thought it was bizarre that it was ever allowed to go public in the first place. When you've got heads of states on a website with private messaging features then surely it's a MAJOR security issue for it to fall into public hands. I get there's probably loads of PRISM tier backdoors and killswitchs etc. but realistically what WAS stopping say, the Saudis from going "Yeah I'll buy it" and then having a metric truckload of blackmail.

Yes, I'm aware that heads of states SHOULD be using smarter channels but we've seen from day 1 that tech illiterate retards can easily make it far in politics.
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I doubt most heads of state run their own Twitter accounts in the first place, much less use them for any official business.

Not to say there isn’t potentially a lot of damaging info laying unencrypted on their servers, but nobody was conducting routine government reports via Twitter DM as a matter of procedure.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
I doubt most heads of state run their own Twitter accounts in the first place, much less use them for any official business.

Not to say there isn’t potentially a lot of damaging info laying unencrypted on their servers, but nobody was conducting routine government reports via Twitter DM as a matter of procedure.
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We know for a fact at least one head of state was directly using twitter. I daresay the DMs are spicy enough even if it isn't literally Putin messaging Canadian Putin hot merkle memes.
 
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AnOminous said:
There isn't really a king of Android that can block it on everyone's phone. Obviously Google is the big player but there are ungoogled Android phones too.
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To my knowledge they've also never disabled sideloading even on unrooted (stock) phones either. Android being open source makes it easy for makers of "consumption devices" like e-readers (Kindle, Nook), streaming devices (Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV) and "intelligent assistants" like Alexa and Google Assistant to lock those things down tight, but I've never heard of an Android phone being locked down so hard that apps couldn't at least be sideloaded.

Even if Google is stupid enough to boot Twitter from their store too, they can't prevent (easy) sideloading like Apple can, and as others have pointed out if the app itself really does get successfully nuked people will just use the web site in their mobile browsers instead. Modern mobile browsers support push notifications and background workers anyway, so it's not like the UX will be much different.

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It's a social media platform with private messaging. The app is required for notifications. The website cannot push notifications from mobile browsers because it introduces security issues.
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It sure can. Unless they're planning to explicitly blacklist Twitter in mobile Safari (though honestly I wouldn't put it past them; they truly are arrogant enough, it's just a question of whether they're also stupid enough), Twitter's web site will be able to use push notifications just as well as any app can.

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Maybe they can hire that pedophile Kurt Eichenwald to handle their epilepsy concerns over at bluebird headquarters.
 
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Tree said:
I digressed a bit but yeah hard to say at this point that him making his own phone is an empty threat.
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he already made his own space program
and his own electric car
a phone is pretty simple by comparison

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Cheaper than paying fines, I guess. But these proxies tend to get a bit big for their britches after awhile and start acting above their station, leading back to fines again.

I understand the sentiment that Europe is still "worth it" despite these worsening problems, but that won't last indefinitely. The EU enthusiastically supports imprisoning its subjects for wrongthink, ignores member states' sovereignty whenever convenient, publicly demands companies delete user data under many circumstances (while undoubtedly privately demanding full access to surveillance-level data, including stuff that they publicly demand deletion of), issues multi-billion dollar fines, continuously interferes with business operations and decision-making, and they're getting much worse.

The entire continent is in worse financial shape than the United States and it's collectively pouring what's left of its limited resources into a retarded pissing match between two Slavic nations who spell and pronounce "Kevin" different ways, all while a (self-inflicted) massive natural gas shortage is poised to cause potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths this winter. They're broke, willing to let their own people die just to "stick it" to Boris, willing to lock up anyone who dares speak up about it or says anything that offends an ever-increasing variety of thin-skinned pussies and inexplicably itching for the Slavic slap fight to grow into a bigger regional or even international conflict.

What actual value is left for American companies like Apple and Google to extract from Europe at this point? Credit is tightening up globally (and might even be close to freezing entirely) because of rising interest rates, personal savings is at all-time lows, and wages are stagnant throughout the civilized world even as costs soar. Apple sells expensive hardware, but soon their target market in Europe will be far too broke to afford it (and won't be able to borrow to get it either). Google's product harvest (i.e. users) from European countries is losing value every day as the EU's subjects learn not to talk about very much or express enthusiasm for things because they could end up in jail over it. What's left for Google to sell from that supply of user data? Which Marvel capeshit a given region prefers?

Meh. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm sticking to my prediction that Musk will eventually just close up shop in Europe, tell the EU to fuck off, and walk away from it entirely. I'll even take the long shot and predict he'll geo-block the EU from even seeing Twitter briefly just for the lulz before just having it serve up a 451 page to all European net ranges. You have to admit that'd be pretty fucking funny.
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the eu is by far the largest and most profitable open market outside of america. (china is similar in size, but it is walled off and not easily accessible for american tech companies)
no international corporation will voluntarily abandon that, certainly not over politisperg reasons like muh free speech or muh censorhip, which none of these corpo rats give a fuck about in the first place. they'll simply continue doing whatever it takes to comply with all the retarded rules and regulations the cucklords in brussels throw at them. management and staff at these corporations generally support the left-liberal positions that the eu is pushing anyway, so it really isn't a big issue for them. as long as operations remain profitable they're not going anywhere.
 
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WhiteNight said:
I don't see how Trump can avoid falling into irrelevance. By 2024, he'll have not been president for 3 years, and will be truthposting to a dwindling audience who still insist the 2020 election was rightfully his. Whether it was stolen or not, all that will come of it will, at best, be the GOP pushing for electoral reform; it won't bring back Trump.

To run for office, he'll have to escape his Truth hugbox and return to Twitter. Prediction markets are about 2:1 against him tweeting this year
polymarket.com

Will @realDonaldTrump tweet in 2022? | Polymarket

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but 2:1 for him tweeting by end of March next year:
salemcenter.manifold.markets

Donald Trump Back on Twitter?

65% chance. This market will settle as YES if an account belonging to former president Donald Trump tweets at least one time between the opening of the market and March 31, 2023.
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Not that prediction betting is any kind of oracle, but there may be something to this timeline.
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Some people did point this out, but Trump has a legal agreement with his Media company that anything he posts has to be on true social and nowhere else for 6 hours. So considering he has put his money where his mouth is and actually invested in it, I think he sticks to it as the main outlet he uses.

But interestingly the agreement has a catch, that is except for things related to campaigning or political messaging. I predict eventually when the campaign is really in full swing, his Twitter account will either be generic campaign messages or repeaters of what he said on Truth social 6 hours earlier. But my guess is the former his campaign runs it so it just looks like any other campaigns Twitter rather than a personal account.

I think this makes sense because he can post his most edgy material on his own site and have the more safe campaign messages on Twitter that more people will see. Obviously he has more control over something he owns and doesn't have to worry about filtering himself.

Unlike a lot of people here, I was actually supportive of his media company but I think he needs to think bigger than just a Twitter clone. Free speech web hosting, things like that would really be beneficial for the whole internet. But I'm still glad we have the splinter sites as I think it's a good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket and be reliant on just one or two social media companies.
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
Unlike a lot of people here, I was actually supportive of his media company but I think he needs to think bigger than just a Twitter clone. Free speech web hosting, things like that would really be beneficial for the whole internet. But I'm still glad we have the splinter sites as I think it's a good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket and be reliant on just one or two social media companies.
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While I agree, he's running out like a campaign site and likely that's all he wants. Really could've made it into something if he tried.
 
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