It's telling that no one is worried about being censored by Elon. They're worried about Elon not censoring others.
Many people are very worried about Elon censoring others. He has already done that before.
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#882It's telling that no one is worried about being censored by Elon. They're worried about Elon not censoring others.
If you control the algorithm, you don't necessarily need to censor explicitly.
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#883It's telling that no one is worried about being censored by Elon. They're worried about Elon not censoring others.
He's cancelled car orders of journalists: https://medium.com/@salsop/banned-by-tesla-8d1f3249b9fb
He's tried to get a teen to take down a Twitter account that follows his private jet: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-jet-tracking-teen-...
He's fired anyone who disagrees with him: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-ruthlessly-f...
He's fired employees for YouTube videos: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-self-driving-...
He's fired people for walking too close: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-terrifi...
He refused to pay severance to the Tesla founder unless he took down a blog post: https://www.wired.com/2009/06/eberhard/
He blocks people on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1279326187559374849?lang...
Sure, he's never censored people the same way he could on Twitter, but he's also never had the chance.
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#884You can check if twitter is silently oppressing your account here: https://taishin-miyamoto.com/ShadowBan/ Mine currently has "reply deboosting" applied. Twitter didn't notify me of this either. I had to actively hunt it down. And there's nothing I can do to change it. Such a shady company so far.
Cool, got a search-ban, no idea what that is though =P
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#885A good time to short-term bet on NFTs
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#886Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Mine is this, if you want twitter blue to be at all appealing, make it so that you can eliminate all ads, including promoted tweets. Getting rid of ads is my #1 ask. I'd pay for it.
Twitter ads are so poorly targeted you're missing out on entertainment by not seeing them. Half of mine are pharmaceutical presentations for things I can't pronounce, and the other half are the official Microsoft account posting about anime for some reason.
They also let you block advertisers for some reason.
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#887The great liberal meltdown :-)
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#888Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
When twitter started taking the blue checkmark away from people as "punishment" I saw that as nonsensical. The blue check was to confirm the account was real, and not an imposture. It wasn't supposed to be a signal of "quality." The first person I remember they took the checkmark from was Milo Yiannopoulos. I still don't understand the reasoning for this.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didn...
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#889Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
- Down voting button, this allows people to express disagreement without feeding the trolls and deranging the conversation.
- More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings.
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#890He'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…
The number one thing Elon Musk does well is deploying the right people who will get the job done.
He solves very few problems himself, personally, with ideas from his own mind. He just recognizes the people who will be able to solve the problems and brings problem and problem solver together.
There's no reason that should be less effective with Twitter than anything else.