@sylmobile I logged out and won't log in for a while, I'll see how it goes. I was a #SomethingAwful person for 15 or so years until #Lowtax went insane and eventually killed himself and I might just be an ex #Reddit person now as well. New admin at #SA isn't great and maybe just opening a new reddit account for #JWST and some other subs will work, who knows. #LicensaTheAPIAndScrewTheUsers is pretty bad though.

Rcently found out #Lowtax took his life.

He was terrible in a lot of ways, but #SomethingAwful was a big deal to me in the early-mid aughts, and it kinda made waves.

Slenderman was born there. It's why 4chan exists.

"The internet makes you stupid."

https://bit.ly/42vvVw5

'#Labour is still in thrall to the #LowTax regime championed by my friend #NigelLawson - 'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/08/labour-still-in-thrall-to-low-tax-regime-championed-by-my-friend-nigel-lawson

If personal allowances are frozen this will mean increasing the overall #tax rate to 37% of #GDP by 2027, according to the #OBR, the highest rate since the second world war. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/15/what-to-expect-from-jeremy-hunt-spring-budget-pensions-pools-welfare-energy
#Budget2023 #ToryPoliciesInAction
#LowTax [ha!]

#lowtax #somethingawful

And it does not even stop there. #Switzerland hosts most of those #Ctryptobros and create the "#cryptovalley #ZUG" U know ZUG ZUG ZUG for #LOWTAX and even #LOWERTAX. Attracting the most evil of people. They do not care, it brings #MONEY - for systems used in 99% for crime. Wonderful. But that is #Switzerland.

I hope #JoshuaMoon follows #Lowtax's example.

the stated reason "shut up, [r-word]"

That was tolerable* on SA, it was part of the culture and you tacitly consented to it

Twitter has millions of users and is a place for journalists, many of whom are reporting from repressive regimes.

Twitter had a pre-existing culture that #Elon shoved his dick in so that he could be the new #Lowtax. We didn't consent to that and many of us are transitioning away. Given #Twitter's size and importance, he has a responsibility to run it fairly like an adult

I maintain that this notion of the #firstamendment being applicable to twitter is a bad argument. It wasn't true before and it isn't true now. All that said, it is a problem, even if its not a violation of the law for #Elon to moderate #twitter like #Lowtax from #SomethingAwful

Twitter's size and importance means that it should be moderated responsibly. On SA, you might get banned for personally irritating the mods and the suspension message would be a picture of tarantula on someone's penis

#Lowtax was always a garbage human but the damage he could do was limited and as the years went on and members of the forum grew up while he didn't, he had the courtesy to fade into the background and collect the checks and pay the bills. Then he beat his wives and killed himself

#ElonMusk is behaving like a brat. He's treating something that became fundamental to our global communication infrastructure, a place where the debate was, a haven for journalists in authoritarian regimes as his personal fiefdom. He's running Twitter like #Lowtax ran #SomethingAwful

It's kind of sobering that #elonmusk has taken, what, a week to show the sort of mismanagement it took #Lowtax decades to develop at #SomethingAwful. He's either really really smart, really really dumb, or rich enough that $44B is play money.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587512669359292419?t=i7iQjYfuqI2t8cHmpzVMcg&s=19

Did Elon Musk just invent Something Awful? #Lowtax should sue if he wasn't dead.

RT @Ian47282468: #lowtax
#lowregulation
#smallstate
#highgrowth
Sounds like @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard @drdavidbull to me

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/drdavidbull/status/1535029383517425673