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nyolfen wrote: post #237
djur wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 is hallucinatory, twitter had a dozen former fbi officials on staff and was literally sent lists of tweets to delete by the DNC

Taibbi said both campaigns sent in reports of content on Twitter that they claimed violated TOS. The tweets reported by the Biden campaign were clearly in violation of the TOS (they included leaked nude pictures). I don't know what the FBI has to do with any of this, but if Twitter has a lot of ex-FBI people on staff that would seem to be evidence _against_ the "leftist cabal" theory.

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Post by smrtinsert »

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.

No mod of any other major social network issues site wide bans based on the mere mention of another social network.

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Post by AJ007 »

mvkel wrote: post #173

It'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…

The message over the past week has been pretty clear -- the rules change without notice and will be changed based on what pisses elon off. That make Twitter now a niche message board. All of the elaborate justifications and explanations for buying Twitter and what was going on wrong over there while it was public have been thrown out the window, no matter what your point of view was.

The fact that this most recent one targeted nearly the entire user base across nearly every interest group is probably Twitter's equivalent event of what happened to Digg and Myspace. There may be nothing he can do now to reverse a network collapse.

This should be a good thing, if the user base is able to migrant to open platforms. If they head back to Facebook and Instagram, then its a loss.

Elon might be getting margin called on Tesla right now, which could wipe him out financially. That would go a long way to explaining the poor decision making.

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Post by sytelus »

echelon wrote: post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

Hack, I bought SpaceX t-shirts with my own money. Now I can't wear them without people raising their eyebrows at me. I think this entire billionaire circle is on drugs like EMSAM, methamphetamine, microdosing and what not. This strange erratic behavior is not otherwise explainable.
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