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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by readonthegoapp »

jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

> Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it.

i mean, i guess, if you don't consider having a job- and or career-ending gun pointed at your head to be at all influential or coercive.

https://chomsky.info/consent01/#:~:text=SIZE%2C%20OWNERSHIP%...

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Post by Apocryphon »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

I voted No because this is the most interesting content to come out of Twitter in years and the spice must flow. It would've been fine if he published planned policy changes and asked the community for feedback before putting it in place. But actually making random policy changes and then rolling it back hours later is such bad form. The latest policy changes were so half-assed and dumb that it makes me wonder what's…

John Carmack isn't doing anything, give it to him.

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Post by spamizbad »

fncivivue7 wrote: post #374
spamizbad wrote: post #183

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He’s just going to put someone like Blake Masters or David Sacks in charge. Which, honestly, would be worse than old Twitter but better than erratic Elon Twitter.

"eratic Elon twitter" - ignoring the news, what exactly is erattic about twitter right now? Doesn't it basically work exactly the same?

Rules dropping out of the blue around flight tracking, not being able to link to other social media sites, the confusing verification issue with all the fake/parody accounts, mass banning of journalists for linking to reporting he didn’t like etc. Old Twitter had none of this.

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Post by rvnx »

bmitc wrote: post #351
rvnx wrote: post #341

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You mean the Paul Graham that was banned today from Twitter for "violating Twitter rules" ? https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1604598879973883905

What does Paul Graham have to do with my comment?

Seemed like you were comparing Elon Musk and Paul Graham's ways of thinking.

I was going in your direction by saying that Paul Graham and Elon Musk have very different personas; to the point that Graham got banned because he wasn't happy with Elon's choices.

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Post by AlexCoventry »

https://twitter.com/AlexCoventry4/status/1604638025497157632

> The only way this makes sense is if you sell it to someone with the taste, restraint and democratic values you've proven yourself to lack by your recent policy changes. As long as you own it, twitter is untrustworthy as a platform for public discourse.

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Post by fncivivue7 »

stanleydrew wrote: post #368
fncivivue7 wrote: post #334

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Well yeah, leaving is exactly what people are doing. Nobody I know is arguing he can't do whatever he wants with Twitter. But they are voting with their feet.

You're arguing that he shouldn't, only you have no leverage to do so.

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Post by blacklight »

I would love Elon Musk to stay.

So he can accomplish his mission of destroying Twitter for good, take down BlueSky and all the associated crypto crapware with it, and take down his own other businesses in the process.

Two birds with one stone:

1. The whole idea of social media owned by large private companies that make money out of ads and surveillance will get a big hit, and open ActivityPub-based social media can fill the void left by Twitter (like it should have happened already a decade ago). If only Zuckerberg could also make the same embarrassing mistakes that Musk is making...

2. This arrogant buffoon whose only talent is to exploit people will get out of the way for a while.

So go Elon. Hold on and stay on the sinking ship like a good captain. I'm enjoying both the show and the popcorn.

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Post by djur »

bitwize wrote: post #314
sytelus wrote: post #274

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This is actually a very good guess. A vast majority of these ultra-rich population are now on simulants and psychoactive drugs.

And that's a bad thing now that Elon is doing it, whereas previously on Hackernews nootropics together with fasting and gut bacteria husbandry were the key to a long fulfilling life.

Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol can be a great way to relax and socialize. Drinking all the time to get through the day can cause serious harm. There's no conflict between these positions.

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Post by p1necone »

fncivivue7 wrote: post #334
jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

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Well yeah, duh. Of course people can do what they want. Criticizing Musk's (or anybodies) actions is not tantamount to trying to say he shouldn't be allowed to do them (except for the stuff he actually shouldn't be allowed to do, and hopefully gets prosecuted for - mostly violating employment law).

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here? People should vote with their wallets/service usage but never ever discuss why? Public figures should be able to do whatever they want with no criticism?

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Post by JumpinJack_Cash »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #345
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #188

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Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. Lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco

> Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. What do you mean exactly? > For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco The West establishment has a soft spot for autocrats: whitewashing the wealth of oligarchs, buying cheap oil stolen from common people, selling anti-protest crowd control gear and tear gas, etc, etc; even though "lots of stuff are known…

> > I don't think Lex has done or has expressed a wish to do anything comparable to that.

Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion

Like it’s cool or something that an autocrat with a cult of personality controls 5000 nukes

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