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Post by yokoprime »

SilverBirch wrote: post #134

There's kind of three options here: * Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup * Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of…

I say this without any proof, but it will not surprise me the least if he has access to unilaterally ban users directly (i.e. click of a button) without any sort of approval from other staff.

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Post by sytelus »

threatofrain wrote: post #249
BryantD wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

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.

Only Emperor is permitted to interpret his words.

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Post by sc68cal »

Fede_V wrote: post #109

I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on. He paid 44 billion dollars to be a mod - I hope he is getting his money's worth.

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440?s=20&t...

For those curious

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Post by neaden »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #83
masklinn wrote: post #52

Earlier 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.

He really has though. I remember in 2013 when NYT gave Tesla a somewhat bad review he became extremely combative trying to use the cars GPS data to allege that the reviewer was intentionally trying to get lower performance, then a bit later he sued Top Gear for a bad review. Most famously of course is the whole pedo thing but Mjsk has always been very combative.

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Post by fathyb »

dbish wrote: post #113
teddyh wrote: post #5

For those who missed it, his Mastodon is: https://mas.to/@paulg

Mastadon UX is really frustrating. Hoping there's a better option for following him in the near future

It feels like Mastodon is limited by the limitations the web (rightfully) added to improve security/restrict third party tracking. A lot of these UX issues could be fixed by having native client apps, where you add servers and the client takes care of mixing feeds and searches.

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Post by macintux »

sytelus wrote: post #166
teddyh wrote: post #5

For those who missed it, his Mastodon is: https://mas.to/@paulg

It's amazing Mastodon is still so utterly disaster. Where are all the startups? Why is making Twitter clone so hard?

Why would anyone fund a startup to reproduce something that’s already wildly popular and successful and still not producing a great ROI?

Twitter is hard enough technically, but the global compliance/regulatory challenges must be daunting.

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Post by asteroidbelt »

dawnbreez wrote: post #295
asteroidbelt wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't.

> because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. Because the journalists Musk banned were definitely not banned for their opinions on Musk? I'm going to preempt the 'harassment' argument--the photo Musk posted, when he was claiming that the journalists caused him to be stalked, was found to have been taken an hour after Musk's jet took off and nowhere near any airport.

> were definitely not banned for their opinions on Musk?

They banned because they shared his jet location.

> he was claiming that the journalists caused him to be stalked

Did he claim that specifically? I'm not sure. But if he did, these claims are probably incorrect.

But that does not cancel the fact that journalists were posting jet location after he asked (via twitter policies) not to.

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Post by wombatpm »

benmorris wrote: post #97

If 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.

Emperor Elon, First of his Name, Savior of Twitter, Defender of Freedom merely desires the respect and adoration he deserves. If some ungrateful blue check freeloaders disagree they may experience his evenhanded judgment and wrath.

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Post by jacquesm »

seydor wrote: post #326
sytelus wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where interpretation of "casually" and "occasional" is left to the Emperor.

there was always an emperor

No, in the past there was a committee. There is zero evidence that the previous CEO of Twitter personally judged who was and who was not to be banned.
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