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It's an town square where everybody can parade around with signs (tweets) for the public to read, that's the whole purpose of the online platform. And where the owner claimed it'll be a bastion of freedom of speech.
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#302Earlier 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…
"Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral" How? "slimmed down the employee count" Why would you care about this? How could he know which half of the company should be fired? How does this improve Twitter? " and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers." Besides paying to be verified, a system which changed rapidly over weeks being…
How?
Look to that example about Japan. The idea is that the Japanese Twitter population did not shift over to discussing culture over politics. Instead, the tags were being pushed towards politics, and once they stopped being pushed they returned back to something neutral.
The people who were pushing the tags in that direction were removed. I want to see a website like Twitter have absolutely no people are ever interested in doing something like that.
For the employee account, it's not something I care about personally, but from the perspective of Twitter as a business, being able to have a smaller number of better employees is ultimately a win because the company is able to do more with less money, and be more successful as a result.
> what else did he do?
Not much, which is part of why I'm disappointed.
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#303It’s getting really hard for Musk supporters to justify him.
He had two kinds of supporters. The people like me who respected him because of the things he accomplished, and the ones that love him because he pisses liberals off. He's lost the former but the latter love him even more now.
That's likely true, but I wonder about the distribution. Annecdata, but among my contacts, opinions about Tesla follows feelings about Musk, ie. it'll have really economic impact.
I was (vaguely) in the former category until I saw his petty vengeance on people who he perceived to have wronged him. Eg. he had a Tesla event and arrived 2 hours late. Someone complained, and Musk had his Tesla order cancelled! However I only truly saw him for what he is when COVID hit and he laughed it away as a bad cold while people were dying.
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#304Relevant context: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165 : Promotion of alternative social platforms policy (help.twitter.com) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985 : Paul Graham is leaving Twitter (twitter.com/paulg)
The only accounts that I’ve felt really abuse “using Twitter to promote another site” are OnlyFans creators.
I don't think OF is even banned, though a lot of them use Linktree which is.
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
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No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: > Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. That was very casual and not at all an example of relentless advertising for competitors. It's also extremely dubious that PG was trying to evade Twitter enforcement.
This absolutely was not casually sharing a link that happened to be on another platform. It was an announcement about quitting twitter and an advertisement on where he could be found on a competing platform.
It is straight up the EXACT scenario that the policy was put in place for.
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#306This is pretty funny. If
you have to spend $44 billion, might as well have some fun.
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#307Elon has lost his mind
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#308It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter. He fails to realize _why_ Twitter uniquely has the reach that it does. It's because it's platform-agnostic in a lot of ways. It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to. By removing that connection, it completely nerfs that influence and Twitter becomes just another social network. I a…
Omission of TikTok is because the CCP has Tesla by the short and curlies
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#309Wow. 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.
This is fucking sad. This is just as bad as the old Twitter that banned people for saying things like "learn to code". Any hope for an improved Twitter is getting tossed out the window.
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#310If it isn't obvious this is the new norm for Twitter. Elon is making up the rules as he goes and ruling like a pissed off insecure reddit mod. I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing. This is about control and fueling his ego. It is a real shame because I wanted to continue using Twitter like I always have, but I don't think that will be possible.
Elon has been pretty consistent about his rules. You are either 100% loyal to him or you will be banned from the platform.