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I was initially fooled by Elon’s “free speech” claims but I should have known better. I don’t know what his end game is, if he even has one, but the platform is as bad as it has ever been after five months under his control.

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It’s puzzling - I think he believes in free speech but I wonder what pressure is being brought to bear on him by powerful people? After all , money and bankers are a lethal combination as you know. Why blow $40B and not create the ‘utopian’ free speech public square he intended? I’m only speculating but it doesn’t make sense.

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Seems pretty clear that he made the offer on a whim and tried very hard to get out of it, only completing the deal when it became apparent that he would lose in court and be embarrassed.

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I think he also didn't want to testify under oath

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

And I thought my whims were expensive! Lol

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TRW washed from my feed when on "for you" and not "following"

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Passive voice apologia, the last redoubt of the bureaucrat. “Mistakes were made.”

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

You must be pretty close to the mark to get a lifetime ban.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

I’d love to help, but my account has 30’ish followers, and 90% of them are Only Fans’ Hoes.

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Thank you. I don't need help. Elon's digging his own grave, and Substack is growing on me.

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Substack is the new place to be IMHO. The fact that writers own their email lists helps keep the company honest. Content creators can leave and take their readers with them if the company starts banning publications

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

The great thing about Substack is you can capture your long form rants when you are on a roll.... And monetise it.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

I tweet all your stuff but I only got 2300 poor souls and about 20 of them actually read my tweets I think

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Bottoms up. Little by little. Thanks.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Do you know what content (not necessarily policy) triggered this result?

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They say DMCA nonsense, but the permanent ban is a choice

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got perma-banned from Tinder a few years ago and honestly - i catch the same amount of VD.

You'll be fine old sport.

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❤️

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Ella is shameful. She won't say what you did wrong. I enjoyed your Twitter posts for many years. Obviously Ella has no intention of engaging anyone on the foolishness of the authoritarian policies she enforces. How irritating.

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They used to say it was DMCA violations, but i don't believe it's just that. I got reinstated before. I always deleted what they asked me to. I don't do death threats. I've written here early on on the nonsense. F' em.

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Understood. I am saddened to see the annoying whiny children are in charge of the playpen at Twitter. But it's great to see you here. When things improve for me economically I plan to upgrade to paid. Fighting a grim legal battle at the moment . . .

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

You are really missed over on Twitter Rudy. Your stream of consciousness satire, humor, music and "calling them out" was always an inspiration for me to have some fun too. I was hoping you'd be back "any time now".

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Thank you. You and I were a good tag team there for a long time. Godspeed.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like maybe the moderation there now is to appease the EU and their bs law. I got banned for less bad things under "elon" than the twatzies that ran it before.

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Normally people experiencing mid life crisis buy a sports car.

Musk buys a social media site for 44B.

Also, Musk's daughter went trans and disowned him.

Rather than look in the mirror and asking why he had been such a shitty father, Musk went into full cognitive dissonance mode, blamed and bought Twatter.

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Apr 1, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Utter bullshit

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Your musical takes are as center-mass as your financial wisdom; that very song, the anthem of much of my life, has stalked me for this past month.

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I reported her for religious discrimination and added in the addition details.... FREE @RUDYHAVENSTEIN (I have a screenshot).

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But no explanation! What on earth could Rudy have said that's so awful? Are we not even allowed to know?

I cannot believe it was really anything worth banning him over. Rudy always seemed perfectly reasonable to me.

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I don't think it's just this, but this is what they said in the past. I've been reinstated before. I always did whatever they asked. I don't do death threats. The heck with 'em. The type of people who work at Twitter are not rational thinking people.

https://rudy.substack.com/p/oops-i-did-it-again

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Apr 5, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Looks like the meanest looking soccer mom in the PTA is confiscating and blocking all your hard work, society is worse off for it.

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