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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by bmarquez »

enumjorge wrote: post #94
bmarquez wrote: post #30

> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended. Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" b…

> I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like. It’s amazing to me that despite despite several data points showing Musk would be capable of doing this, people are still giving him the benefit of the doubt. That’s the power of personal branding.

Oh I'm not saying I agree with the banning, I'm just saying he would have someone write an algorithm to do it to save time.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by compiler-guy »

pigsty wrote: post #62
afavour wrote: post #22

So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

Elon is certainly awful for all that he’s doing, but couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company instead of taking legal action to ensure he did it? People up top were eager to cash out at the expense of all the employees under them. That’s equally disgusting to me.

Twitter did tell him to buzz off at first. That was the point of the poison pill. Then he offered stupid amounts of money at astonishingly good terms. All along the way he took shots at Twitter that reduced its value.

Twitter’s shareholders voted to accept the deal at his offered price. When Musk wanted out the shareholders weren’t interested enough to even vote a second time.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by refulgentis »

rodgerd wrote: post #45
browserman wrote: post #28

It remains very funny that he paid forty-five billion dollars for the privilege of humiliating himself daily with these petulant temper-tantrums. Amazing bit.

"An insecure narcissist buys a criticism factory" remains the best one-line summary of the situation.

lmao

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by krapp »

lantry wrote: post #76
georgeg23 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This seems to be giving him more credit than he deserves. If he's trying to get republicans on board, all he needs to do is keep crowing about free speech and cancel culture. Actually making any changes to twitter isn't required. IMO he banned journalists that criticized him... because they criticized him. occams razor

Starlink would be the military industrial complex's wet dream, there's no way both parties aren't on board by default.

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Post by ethanbond »

enumjorge wrote: post #94
bmarquez wrote: post #30

> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended. Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" b…

> I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like. It’s amazing to me that despite despite several data points showing Musk would be capable of doing this, people are still giving him the benefit of the doubt. That’s the power of personal branding.

Man sits up late every night shitposting and firing people on his new $44B social network, yet no way he’s sitting there banning people because they were mean to him. Utterly inconceivable!

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by x86_64Ubuntu »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #44
warning26 wrote: post #3

"I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means" —Elon Musk, April 2022

That is not what free speech means, particularly not on a privately-owned service :) but him and us all know that.

It's not what Free Speech means, but in the run-up to his buying Twitter, that's all it seemed to mean in many of the discussions. Of course, we know that they weren't serious about such things as shown by their silence in the face of Elon's actions.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by killdozer »

input_sh wrote: post #49
bmarquez wrote: post #30

> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended. Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" b…

Wouldn't be too sure about that: > Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841

The sudden spike of the use of the word "journalists" as a slur from the right is pretty wild to see in real time.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by i_have_an_idea »

For those of us who wondered what form of governance Twitter 2.0 will have, I think it's now safe to say it won't be based on any particular set of rules, principles or ethics. It will be totalitarian -- whatever Elon feels like at any particular moment in time.
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