Social Disease

Daily Mail: Twitter saw its shares drop by 12 per cent Monday as the company braced for pro-Trump protesters outside its San Francisco headquarters.

It rebounded, but is still down 5+ and shaky.

More at Marketwatch;

Twitter shares are off 6.6% in Monday morning trading, while Facebook shares are down 3%. Shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.92% and Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -1.52% GOOGL, -1.50%, both of which pulled right-wing social-media app Parler from their app stores citing lax moderation policies, are off 2.2% and 1.7%, respectively. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.03%, which booted Parler from its AWS web-hosting platform, are down 1.4%.

28 Replies to “Social Disease”

  1. Rather than build a news channel, Trump should build a right wing data center. Host Parler, Bitchute, every blog out there etc. No leftists allowed.

  2. You know, it’s really funny how “violent white supremacist insurrectionist fascist terrorists” are just standing around on the sidewalk in front of Twitter HQ, waving signs. Terrorists usually blow stuff up, don’t they? Start fires, stuff like that?

  3. “Police told The San Francisco Chronicle they are aware of a possible protest and have been in contact with the social media giant.

    Nahhhh…it’s all cool. Cernovich just told everyone to stand down and eat it. Don’t forget – You mustn’t embarrass the children.

    1. Mustn’t embarrass your … daughters. Because, assumably their male children are already LARPing INCELs and aren’t worth a second thought! Right, Sterno, err Cerno?

  4. A few percentage points?

    Wake me up when they lose half their value overnight.  Because that’s when they’ll wake up.

  5. Get ready people because now that Democrats are back in power and now that they can steal elections more easily than one can steal a pack of gum at Walmart, the USA will descend into something worse than Venezuella.

    We will not see a Republican win a Presidential election for the next 25 years, oil prices will shoot up, the USA will be floded with illegals and criminals, conservative opinions will become illegal, and so on and so forth

    The USA has officially entered its decline phase.

    it will take a miracle – or a civil war – to reverse this.

    Goodbye USA, Goodbye Western Civilization, it was nice knowing you.

    1. Now that’s how you fight back!
      Nuke the buggers.
      Is someone working on the destruction of the MSM?

      1. As much as I dislike sparky cars, it may turn out that Musk is more of an ally to conservatives then was previously thought.

  6. I spend time in Second Life. Second Life is migrating over to the Amazon cloud. I have contacted them and told them I am considering leaving SL because I am worried about Amazon abruptly shutting SL down. I would advise everyone with anything connected to Amazon to do the same.

    And American Express has now joined the “woke”. I didn’t use my card for much but it is now going into idle mode and I am removing all my automatic payments going through the card.

  7. There is nothing the Demorats would like better than an incident that they can spin to justify full Gestapo. In fact if Joe ever comes out of the basement I think he is in more danger than Trump. And it isn’t from the right although they would certainly be blamed.

    1. The Gestapo that we all know from the movies is a direct result of the decree that the Nazis passed in the wake of the Reichstag Fire. Biden is already talking about new “anti-terrorism” laws focused on the right.

  8. They will simply execute another “money -create” command at the Fed and the shares will go right back up.

    I think that the real threat though comes from foreign governments who can see through the propaganda and are mortified at the idea of a US private company having this much power.

  9. Just like I thought, here is Merkel’s spokesman:

    “This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.

    “Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked,” he added.

    Look for Europe to clamp down on Twitter et all for the strongest of possible reasons, jealousy of their own power. The US made a huge mistake allowing these companies to take over our democracy. This has to be obvious to every sovereign head of state in the world right now.

  10. // Wake me up when they lose half their value overnight. //

    Amazon are still at twice the value they were in March.
    Their drop off will probably come as people/algorithms factor in the vaccine campaign.

    That’s probably already happening with Twitter; there will be an exodus after Jan 20
    // I swear, come January 21st, this account is done with American politics. I’ll never touch another drop.*
    Dan Gardner //

    As for Parler, it’s not really offline:
    https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348677033132388352
    https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-videos-and-posts-leaked-by-security-researchers/
    […]
    “These are original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” claims one of the authors.
    Security researchers claim that the scrapped posts are linked to accounts that posted them, and some of the video and image data have geolocation information. That is said also to include data from Parler’s “Verified Citizens,” users of the network who verified their identity by uploading photographs of government-issued IDs, such as a driver’s license. […]

  11. Twits twitter.
    Always have always will.
    The Tech Lords have delusions of adequacy.
    They know,one thing that just ain’t so.
    They believe we need their product.
    Good luck with that.

  12. // That is said also to include data from Parler’s “Verified Citizens,” users of the network who verified their identity by uploading photographs of government-issued IDs, such as a driver’s license. //
    Correction to above.
    only things that were available publicly via the web were archived. i don’t have you e-mail address, phone or credit card number. unless you posted it yourself on parler.
    https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348666166978424832

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