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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by hacker_newz »

josefresco wrote: post #64

How long before Trump is allowed back? I'm not joking. Elon has said several times his "line" for what is acceptable speech is different than what Twitter has now. My guess is it will be timed to happen after the "dust settles" but within a few months of the US 2022 midterms. This will give Trump enough time to gain followers back, and start to use the platform (again) to regain power. Thoughts? Anyone else on the sh…

Didn't Elon say he wants to get rid of the bots though? I don't see how that would work in Trump's favor.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by fleetwoodsnack »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

It goes without saying that this is a highly presumptive hypothetical. “If” is being asked to do more than its fair share here, as it not only bears the weight of these future aspirations, but must also disprove and disavow a fairly long history of social and managerial incompetence and malfeasance on the part of Musk, his following, and his companies.

Let’s not forget the current lawsuits against Tesla for its treatment of minority employees, or the dead-on-arrival roll-out of the cyber truck, or the Boring Company’s baffling underground-tunnel-turned-traffic-jam-generator.

The evidence and history points against “if.” Best of luck to it.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by pyaamb »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

Absolutely, well put.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by tmp_anon_22 »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

> he could see that revenue rise quite a bit

The premise for this is that Twitter saw a huge loss of revenue as a result of deliberate actions like removing @realDT (Twitter share prices actually peaked a few weeks later in February 2021).

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by tcmb »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

"If" he can do all that, you might be right. But why will he be able to do what current Twitter is not capable of? It's not like these are deep secrets to success nobody but Musk knows.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by natly »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

Elon has never said this is what he wants to do with twitter. This is just something people keep assuming.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by emteycz »

giarc wrote: post #147

Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.

Because he has money and so can easily make everyone listen to him, unlike most other programmers who are stuck behind business/product/finance/management guys.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by adamgordonbell »

qgin wrote: post #113

“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…

I like this article on the trouble with not censoring:

    But once you remove all those things, you’re left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that’s the scariest thing of all.

    Some people think society should tolerate pedophilia, are obsessed with this, and can rattle off a laundry list of studies that they say justify their opinion. Some people think police officers are enforcers of oppression and this makes them valid targets for violence. Some people think immigrants are destroying the cultural cohesion necessary for a free and prosperous country. Some people think transwomen are a tool of the patriarchy trying to appropriate female spaces. 

    Each of these views has adherents who are, no offense, smarter than you are.

    I would like to give people another perspective on events like Tumblr banning female-presenting nipples or Patreon dropping right-wing YouTubers or Twitter constantly introducing new algorithms that misfire and ban random groups of people. These companies aren’t inherently censorious. They’re just afraid.
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