# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 237
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4724 "2023-05-12T23:01:15Z")
What’s a WEF? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4725 "2023-05-12T23:10:22Z")
[World Economic Forum](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4726 "2023-05-12T23:13:39Z")
I had to google that one too; helpfully the third autocomplete option for me after typing WEF was ‘wef linda yaccarino’. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4727 "2023-05-12T23:52:51Z")
OK, so why is someone upset about ms Yaccarino and WEF? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4728 "2023-05-12T23:58:19Z")
She’s a globalist, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4729 "2023-05-12T23:58:31Z")
Presumably they are part of the baby-eating cabal. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4730 "2023-05-13T00:20:59Z")
I think one side effect of this is people that haven’t logged in for 30 days or more because their accounts were permanently suspended will have those suspended accounts deleted and they will be able to create a new unbanned account. This happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4731 "2023-05-13T00:25:43Z")
Cool! I tried shutting down my account in November or December, and it said my account would be delisted or whatever word they used in 30 days, but I came back in March, and I got autologged in and my account was still there. WTF! Maybe now it’ll disappear for good. I’d put good money on my account still being there in another 30 days. I just have to make sure I’m logged out of it on all my browsers and see what happens… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4732 "2023-05-13T01:00:53Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > This happened to me. LOL! Now that is great. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4733 "2023-05-13T02:18:36Z")
Looks like the leopards have decided to eat Elmo’s face. > > > ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4734 "2023-05-13T02:23:51Z")
I’m reminded of the scene in “I, Mudd” when the androids told Harry they weren’t going to obey him any more. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4735 "2023-05-13T03:08:22Z")
Meanwhile, Tesla has cancelled the right-hand-drive versions of its leading models - so they’re apparently writing off India, Japan, the UK, Australia, and most of southern Africa, Indochina, and the Pacific Islands as viable markets. This is fine, right? > **[Tesla cancels all right-hand drive Model S, Model X orders](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/tesla-axes-right-hand-drive-models-s-and-x-offers-customers-refunds/)** > > Customers can choose one from inventory or buy a left-hand drive version. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4736 "2023-05-13T03:23:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Meanwhile, Tesla has cancelled the right-hand-drive versions of its leading models - so they’re apparently writing off India, Japan, the UK, Australia, and most of southern Africa, Indochina, and the Pacific Islands as viable markets. Models 3 and Y are still available in right hand drive, so I’m not sure I would say that they are writing those regions off… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4737 "2023-05-13T16:50:25Z")
Agile censorship! First, this appeared last night: > Matt Yglesias responds: > > > Twitter Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs Elon smartly (in his own head) retorts: > MattY notes: > Agile Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee! ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4738 "2023-05-13T17:13:13Z")
Yeah, anyone who continues to espouse that Musk is all about free speech has, what was the phrase? “Had their brain fall out of their head?” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4739 "2023-05-13T17:39:11Z")
> [@Matthew Yglesias](#): > > As I’ve been saying all along, the big problem with Twitter and free speech is that Musk has a much more significant business as the main shareholder of a major international car company that needs to curry favor with various regimes. Matthew nailed it here. That’s just one way that Elon is compromised. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4740 "2023-05-13T17:42:25Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > OK, so why is someone upset about ms Yaccarino and WEF? Because the US right is made up of jingoistic xenophobes? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4741 "2023-05-13T17:57:59Z")
Or because the WEF is the motherload of terrible ideas by ‘futurists’ who unfortunately have a huge amount of clout in various governments and who try to bring these ideas to fruition through ‘partnership’ with those governments. Hey, remember when Cecil was saying Canada will win from global warming because of all the new agriculture? The WEF wants to shut that down. The government of the Netherlands, in accordance with a WEF plan wants to confiscate thousands of farms and shut them down because nitrogen fertilizer is bad. The Netherlands provides the majority of food to Europe. Trudeau is making noises about going after Canadian farmers, and he’s fully in bed with fhe WEF. Our deputy Prime Minister is on the board of the WEF, and Klaus Shwab has bragged that the WEF has ‘penetrated’ over half of Canada’s parliament. The WEF wants global digital currencies, global vax passports, government factory farming in ‘farm innovation centers’ instead of private farming, etc. They are cool with social credit scores and governments using them to control behaviour of citizens. They are all for censorship and narrative framing over facts. Other than that, they are pretty good at generating CO2. The annual meeting at Davos sees thousands of private jets fly in, filled with people so concerned about climate change they likely cry into their flown-in truffles at the banquets before they fly home in their Gulfstreams. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4742 "2023-05-13T18:22:37Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > terrible ideas by ‘futurists’ Musk is a transhumanist. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4743 "2023-05-13T18:24:33Z")
So many false statements here. But it’s not surprising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=236) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=238)