Elon Musk Owns Twitter; CEO and CFO have left

Post by joshmn » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 12:18 PM UTC

metamet wrote: post #17

joshmn wrote: post #14

A part of me is curious about what will happen next. And then there is a part of me, as a participant of whatever democracy is left in the United States, is concerned with what could happen if a particular user is allowed to use Twitter again after their orchestration of certain events.

From what I've observed, the uptick in botted/recently created accounts tweeting about that particular user has been pretty dramatic in the last few days.

Post by cyberpunk » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 12:20 PM UTC

weberer wrote: post #82

fzeroracer wrote: post #54

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You mean other than the time where he harassed someone, called them a pedophile and hired a detective to investigate and try to dig up dirt on them because they got under his skin? That guy, who now has everything anyone has ever said in private messages on Twitter?

Who was that?

Post by elforce002 » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

Post by pmoriarty » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 12:57 PM UTC

amadeuspagel wrote: post #85

pmoriarty wrote: post #70

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You could ignore people on IRC too, choose whether or not to join a particular channel or not, and choose which people to message in private. The problems I've run in to on it is that that some channels on IRC were run by powertripping assholes, and you'd get banned for disagreeing with them or having different opinions.... even if you were perfectly polite, didn't threaten or harass anyone, etc. Of course, you could…

Yeah, I think that's a big reason we've moved on from chatrooms to networks like twitter, where everyone creates their own moderated space.

Post by w0m » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 1:11 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #10

jerojero wrote: post #8

This whole thing has been rather interesting to observe. I do wonder how the platform will change now that it's privately owned. I don't really care a lot about the platform itself, but it's influence on politics is very real. Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy, but nonetheless, it's something I want to observe. I've always thought these platforms need more democratic structures of g…

Tbh the best direction for twitter to move in is to stop recommending content people did not subscribe to. And then adjust the rules to allow anything legal to be tweeted to your own page. If you object to someones tweets, don't follow them. There may still need to be rules on replying to others tweets since thats pushing content on people.