For all the Free Speech posturing Musk has put out around twitter, it will be very interesting to see if @ElonsJet account gets banned.
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#202Honest 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.
>why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem
To me it seems that he's the only one who wants to.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#203“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
What you are describing is the heavily moderated, arbitrarily censored social media experience the entire planet experiences today.
> Unfortunately the result of that is a place that very few want to spend time in.
Perhaps social media is a place that we should not encourage people to spend inordinate amounts of time in. Perhaps the idea of combining all the world's people into a single centralized location to communicate with one another, should carry with it the very explicit notion that such a place would be chaotic, high-energy, and risky --- just like going to the casino for the night.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#204I can empathise with both ends of the table here, but you have to agree that entering such a world of pain as moderating Twitter and re-shaping it's dynamics voluntary (and paying $43B for it!) is yet another thing done by Musk that you will see once in a lifetime. This is "bread and circuses" of our time.
I do agree. I can't think of a precedent for this. Usually wealthy people get that way by making good investments. This is like the richest person in the world spending 15% of their net worth to buy Blockbuster in 2006
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#205I am going to guess Elon brings back Trump back on Twitter with Thiel’s push. That could be the end of Twitter.
Trump is nothing but good for Twitter. He generates tons of engagement from his fans and his haters
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#206For all the Free Speech posturing Musk has put out around twitter, it will be very interesting to see if @ElonsJet account gets banned.
No, instead the person behind it will be doxxed.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#207“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…
As another commenter pointed out, it actually doesn't matter too much what the users want, from a business perspective.
Twitter's true customers are its advertisers. It's who pays. And they are even less likely then the normal person to want an "everything that isn't illegal is allowed" approach. Advertisers don't want their ads seen next to hate speech and certain other types of speech.
It's been clear that Reddit and YouTube have been censoring at the behest of advertisers for years, and I don't think Twitter is or will be any different.
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#208Prediction: Musk will buy it, Twitter will tank, Musk will sell it at a loss.
I'd put the over/under at 365 days before he sells, and take the under
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#209People 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…
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#210Prediction: Musk will buy it, Twitter will tank, Musk will sell it at a loss.
probably to someone in the house of saud lol