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flood of "what will/should happen to twitter now?" bloviation incoming. So here's mine: Musk should make Twitter a public utility. Nominal fee for an account, anyone can have one (or many!); they can be removed for actual illegal behavior (with reference to some government authority for redress) or technical TOS reasons, and thats it. Let the 4chan bloom.
For all the Free Speech posturing Musk has put out around twitter, it will be very interesting to see if @ElonsJet account gets banned.
> Musk, the world's richest person according to a tally by Forbes, is negotiating to buy Twitter in a personal capacity and Tesla is not involved in the deal. Wasn't ~half of the capital coming from margin from equity Musk has in Tesla? I wouldn't count that as "not involved in the deal" although I see how it could be construed that way.
“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…
>obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff
None of the preceding scoundrels' favorites should be illegal tho.
The arbiter of the global soapbox should to be in favor of almost absolute free speech imo.
He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…
Wild guess is that under Musk's ownership, Twitter will be a more open platform but a far less anonymous one. You'll be able to post more than you're allowed to now but it will be attached to your real identity. Should be interesting to see how that pans out. Investing in better filtering tools so users can decide for themselves what they want in their feeds will change the nature of the platform too.
“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…
Regardless of how this goes, it'll go down in history, and Musk is well aware of that.