Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
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#602Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.
> not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those methods are presented as non-exhaustive examples. "Technical or non-technical means" resolves to every possible method.
Yeah, including telling your friends in a personal conversation.
Or simply having an account on Mastodon, and other people Googling it.
It's absurd.
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#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m guessing he got banned for posting this?
Not quite. This was his ultimate tweet: >This is my last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site. The tweet itself did not contain a link to http://www.paulgraham.com/ , which contains a link to his Mastodon profile. Apparently that was enough to be suspended.
What was the last straw for PG?
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#604This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind. https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :)
Paul was a big cheerleader for Elon. Touted his “skills” at Tesla & SpaceX. Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized. Meanwhile Tesla is pile driving into the ground. I’m waiting for the FTC & the EU to weigh in on ALL of this puerile behavior by sham Tony Stark.
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#605Wow. 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.
Correct. The latest new policy as of this morning is that you’re not allowed to reference over half the internet
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#606And he's back
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#607I just tried tweeting my mastodon URL and Twitter won't even let me send it! "this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful." LOL
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#608Unbanned now. However, it looks like all of his following/followers have been reset to 0.
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#609Wow. 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.
The European Union Digital Markets Act, coming into effect in May 2023, explicitly forbids such behavior. (If twitter is classified as a "gatekeeper".)
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
Example of the “don'ts” - Gatekeeper platforms may no longer:
- treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third parties on the gatekeeper's platform
- prevent consumers from linking up to businesses outside their platforms
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#610It'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…
>> It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to I have no idea what this means.
i think: http is meant.
The "link" is one or "the" feature that makes the whole thing work. And it is not meant to be restictive. You link to whereever you want. That was the idea of the WWW (tim bernes lee).
No restrictions at all in the base of the protocol. The opposite is true: everythink is and has to be inter-linkable.