Man the last two weeks have been wild
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
191–200 of 1001 posts
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less Will Smith and more Kanye.
I was going to disagree, but then I thought about it and gave a reluctant upvote. Maybe it’s a bit crass, but I wonder if Elon is on some drugs or something. His behavior is bizarre, and I don’t buy the “he was always like this” line. He didn’t seem to be like this at all until recently.
Could be personal/family issues as well. Perhaps his daughter transitioning genders and disavowing him, combined with Grimes moving on to date a transgender woman triggered something inside of him to go on this crusade against the "Woke" who he blames for these things happening.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#193@paulg@mas.to is his mastodon address, FYI. He got banned for saying that it was on his website, without any actual links.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#194Previous, I thought the "he's trying to destroy Twitter along with a good chunk of his own fortune" idea was ludicrous. I assumed he was trying his best, in his own way, and would take a few months to rediscover how to run things. Eventually end up a good business, somewhat more Free than before. Now... not so sure. Anything's possible.
The links to the Saudis and their previous attempts to infiltrate Twitter make me wonder just how much the destruction was planned (and what else they're getting out of the deal):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter
* https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-elon-musk-twitter-...
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had hopes. Twitter was terribly run and there was all sorts of examples of them being a typical social media platform trying to push various ideas using their control. Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral, slimmed down the employee count and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers. I saw some headline a few weeks ago about J…
The one good thing that's come out of Musk's ownership of Twitter is that we now have extensive public evidence that Twitter staff bent over backwards to maintain objective moderation standards even in the face of unprecedented challenges. The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. And we see now the kind of actions that an actual ideological cabal would take if they controlled Twitter.
This seems like gaslighting? My interpretation of the recent files reports were the opposite.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#196I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?
No post body was provided.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#197He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he?
Twitter is one of the reasons I became an engineer - I was able to follow and see the mutterings of indie game devs in Copenhagen (vlambeer, if anyone knows them). 15 year old me responded the most inane things to their posts, but it exposed me to work ethics, communities, and possibilities in the computing world I never would have found growing up in Kentucky. I taught myself how to code to make games. I left the state to get a CS degree (the state's schools didn't offer a dedicated one at the time), made a game, and I now work at a FANG.
Without that online twitter community of people who really got what I was interested in, it might have been a passing interest. Even if I couldn't participate at the same level, at least I could watch them do so!
I'll never forget watching Ferguson happen live, the Arab Spring, or even the initial days of Covid in Jan 2020 as I scoured it for morsels.
I stopped using it a while ago, but this is so sad, feeling eulogistic.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#198I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?
> What is the grand plan now in their world view?
He's getting his enemies to call for free speech and giving them an object lesson in how capricious moderation can be.
Sometimes the best way to change minds from a position of power is to get your adversaries to make your case for you.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#199Someone needs to build a Twitter clone, with the exact same UX and features as Twitter, just a different branding and an adult CEO.
Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#200Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.
That's not very free speech of twitter, now is it?