@paulg has been restored
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
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#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
Entirely anecdotal but I did notice a marked shift towards even more erratic behaviour and dissonant, often contradictory utterances after his second disclosed Covid bout back in March this year and since then.
Counterpoint - Thai cave diver.
that was the moment for me.
and given that he's not the only one going erratic after years of performing, I'm wondering if it isn't some "miraculous" designer drug finally disclosing it's side effects after years of usage
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#613Looks like its reactivated. Wild
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#614Earlier 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.
> all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example I do not think this is true. At least not in this scale. You can post on FB about Twitter or Mastodon. You can search on Google about DuckDuckGo[0] or OpenStreetMap and so on. [0] Even first suggestion for me when I enter the 'd' char.
> You can post on FB about Twitter or Mastodon
Because people do not threaten FB to leave to Mastodon. But you can't link (maybe you can now, but some time ago you couldn't) to Telegram inside Whatsapp, because Facebook considered Telegram a competitor.
> You can search on Google about DuckDuckGo
Again, because Google does not consider DDG a competitor.
But a while ago (long before the war when everybody were at peace), Russia was the only country where Google Chrome did not offer the choice of search engine. Because Russia was the only country where Google was not the leading search engine. There's famous commit in Chromium repository which explicitly excludes Russia.
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#615Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I can't see how "I can't post my handle here so go to my website to find it" isn't an effort to bypass restrictions. That doesn't mean that what Musk is doing is good, or that trying to bypass restrictions is bad. But there's this strange trend recently where in order to be part of one "side," you have to start uncritically repeating anything that looks good for your side, or else you'll be accused of shilling…
If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story. What actually happened here isn't really much different. Who cares about adjudicating whether he was in line with the rules or not? The rule is insane and the real story is that Elon is banning colleagues with little thought.
Exactly. It's reminiscent of former East Germany which had all kinds of ridiculous laws and people would occasionally get arrested under them and then others would go 'oh, but he broke the law'. It was impossible not to. They could have made a law against breathing on Sundays and there would be people trying to justify it if you were arrested under that law. Best take a deep breath on Saturday evening I guess.
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#617Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
This whole “Elon Musk polls Elon Musk’s followers and acts like it’s a) representative of the Twitter userbase in general and that b) the results of the poll are an infallible measure of which option is best” thing is just bizarre to me. The former is pretty clearly untrue, and the latter is untrue for most definitions of “best”.
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#618Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?
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#619I 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.
He had a different reasons however. He said it would be because he can't make any political side happy. We see here different behavior which is tyranny and unrelated to any political aspects. Probably most entrepreneurs have some level of egoistic, self-righteous, tyrant behavioral aspects but private control of social media, gateway to all people, really allows one to exercise and amplify it without any controls. This is why democracy was invented.
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#620There'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…
Elon has been posting about soccer for hours I doubt he was involved with this
Everywhere he would have turned in the past 24 hours he would have seen @'s and DMs with embedded images of his jet track via London to the stadium.
I suspect he's been boiling over and rage messaging staff to banhammer the world.