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Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers
(finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Isn't this already happening? Man locked out of smart home for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist.
I am seriously considering discontinuing my use of Amazon Echo devices
Only just considering it? That's some serious Stockholm Syndrome energy.
That dude 100% deserved it. Not for anything he said but for being a tech career guy and wiring his house up so hard he couldn't open it without Alexa. He wouldn't have been able to open it without wifi either.
If you’re going all in on smart home shit, you should ALWAYS buy the products that work when the internet goes out, or when the local IoT network shits out.
Example, fuck Hue lights. Gets Caseta switches that are wired in and can be used like real switches. Don’t get a smart lock that requires a phone or a wireless pays. Get one that also has a keypad that is hardwired directly into the lock and has a normal key hole. Carry the key just incase.
Yeah I try to get Zigbee or Zwave devices as much as possible. None of my smarthome stuff relies on Alexa or Google to work.
The title there is awful. He wasn't physically locked out of the house, he was locked out of the 'smart home' devices.
Yeah that’s just dumb.
That's not what happened. His Amazon devices were locked out, but he has HomeAssistant setup with various other IoT devices that worked fine still.
Recordings from the home’s smart doorbell appeared to show the delivery driver, whom Mr Jackson said was the same race as him, misheard an automated response from the device asking: “excuse me, can I help you?”
Seriously, that's what it was? They'll ban him for that?
Yeah. People lying about racism towards them (or as they called it "mishearing") can ruin other people's lives. Getting deprived of Amazon services for one week could be considered being lucky if we think about what happens to some people after such false accusations.
100% shit is crazy
In Musks case it would probably be deemed not offensive enough.
This article is factual yet also rage-bait. Suspending accounts is something he's doing now. Contacting employers of people working at car companies and investment firms is something he did five years ago. The article does not say he is contacting the employer of accounts he is suspending now; they leave you to infer that by placing both facts in the same headline but separate paragraphs.
No love for Musk, avoid Twitter, etc.
Good to see we don't read articles here either, lol
old habits die hard
And that's why you always read the comments. so useful when someone takes the few minutes to summarize the actual content.
Exactly, only here for the comments, thats where the real content is 😜
Even before gaining control of Twitter, Musk would take a proactive approach to addressing criticism.
Back in 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk actively monitored Twitter for tweets containing the hashtag $TSLA, often used by Tesla short-sellers. Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.
During that time, Musk reportedly emailed former Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess in July 2018, questioning whether one of Diess's employees was using Twitter to criticize Tesla anonymously. Business Insider later reported that Volkswagen determined the tweets were posted by the employee's brother.
Musk also allegedly texted Lawrence Fossi's employer. According to the WSJ, on July 23, 2018, Musk sent a text to the top executive at Fossi's company, asking the boss whether he knew his employee, known on Twitter as Montana Skeptic, "was obsessively trashing Tesla via a pseudonym," as disclosed in the report.
Straight from the article, for anyone wondering.
Musk would reach out to executives at companies to investigate employees who were potentially publishing negative tweets about his electric vehicle company.
Did any of them ever care?
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It's almost as if this Elon Musk guy is a giant cunt or something.
So much for free speech absolutism. I don't have to watch sports, as Musk fans going through the mental gymnastics to justify this is entertaining enough.
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Can we just abandon Twitter and Reddit en mass
Isn't that what we're doing?
"Let me speak to your manager!" - Karen Musk, 2023
Such an whiny, insecure, little boy. Imagine you're getting a call from him because one of your employees trashed Tesla on Twitter. I would wonder where the camera is, because this shit couldn't be real.
Ho, more dirty dealings.
Apparently he was unpopular with some other billionaires, who tried to escape from him in a submarine.
He was putting the squeeze on them.
Such a hard working, self-made Billionaire. Amazing. Utter thundercunt.
Thundercunt sounds too cool, he's a limp twatwaffle
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Really want to know what the employer said.
I can see "f off elon" resulting in elon suspending their twitter account. But any other answer past. "What the hell are you telling us for". Is unforgivable.
Ah, yes, Elon, thank you for informing me that Charlie said that you suck. It was about time for me to realize that Charlie is an incessant critic who deserves to be terminated immediately without prior notice or discussion. CHARLIE, COME HERE. *gunshots sound*
The dude is a scumbag that’ll go after your family, friends, employment, etc for doing nothing wrong. It’s in everyone’s best interest that Twitter go bankrupt and Elon be ruined
So much for free speech. The worst part is there will still be a brigades of mindless idiots and scumbags who will defend him.
If I was the employer, I'd want to know what my employee is still doing on Twitter. "Don't you know about Mastodon?"
Aaaand done. Now I've deactivated all my Twitter accounts too. ¯\(ツ)/¯
This #shitpimple ...Jeez... I can't even stand to be associated with the platform now.
Edit: I just realized that the article is rage bait and that those two things have no connection to one another but still, I stand by my words and actions. I don't need Twitter in my life.
Pathetic!
Wow, what a fragile moron. He can't even handle criticism so he has to go and deactive their accounts and then call their Employers.
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Yet one more reason not to buy one of his fairly decent cars. I have 6 months left on my lease and want to try the electric world in retirement.
Please don't call my employer, master musk....
"Fairly decent" is a bit of a stretch. Panels come up, features sold to you that won't work and will endanger your life. "Fairly" standard for luxury rides amiright?
"Decent". Hmph.
Yes, I sat in a new model Y in the showroom and there was a gap in the dash. That was the best they had to show. The "decent" part is range and charging network. They work and get you where you need to go but Musk is a fragile rich prick that will never have enough money or power to satisfy his lust for such things.
I just can't fathom buying a luxury car and coping with "well it works and gets me where I need to go". If I'm spending that kinda change on a car, and also paying for its services in ongoing fashion apart from the car payment itself ... it better do more than just "get me there".
Agreed.
I remain a cautiously optimistic observer of the EV market. And if I do decide to take that plunge it will not be a Tesla. Even if he manufactured a perfect car, he has alienated me with his personality and rhetoric.
We've had an IONIQ5 for a year and love it, no bugs or quality problems, smooth ride, highway autopilot works well, charges fast, and supports CarPlay / Android Auto, not to mention that it's way more interesting looking than any Tesla.
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In Germany, we call people like him Würstchen.
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