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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 xigoi »

skinnymuch wrote: post #597
xigoi wrote: post #590

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I just find it ironic how the sides have swapped. Previously when Twitter was censoring right-wing opinions, leftists went “it's a private company, they can do whatever they want and you're not allowed to criticize them”. Now that Musk has taken over, it seems to be the opposite.

What leftist did that? Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden. When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Do you mean bigotry?

> What leftist did that?

Franklin Veaux (a famous writer on Quora), for example.

> Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden.

That's what I find the most perplexing about it.

> When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”.

Specifically, it was applying different rules to different groups. For example, hateful posts about white people were allowed, whereas hateful posts about black people were not.

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Post by ajmurmann »

LarryMullins wrote: post #420
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #390

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> > 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

> Every video of his that YT pushes in my feed I see Putin in the thumbnail with sunglasses and behind a huge explosion I just scrolled through the past 8 years of thumbnails on his main channel and the past year of thumbnails on his clips channel. The thumbnail you describe doesn't exist. What I found is that he has several thumbnails of Putin looking stern, but without any sunglasses or nuclear blasts. (He also has…

Having watched a lot of Lex, I know that his family is Ukrainian and he recently visited Ukraine. It's very clear that he is by no means in support of Putin. However, he is clearly interested in Putin and other dictators as a historical and psychological phenomenon and seems fascinated by the idea of interviewing someone like that and the ethical aspects of it.

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Post by ajmurmann »

dylan604 wrote: post #498
hobbitstan wrote: post #49

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He can likely manipulate the results on the backend anyway. This is a real cowardly way to make decisions, by pretending they come from someone else.

Clearly, the vote count is full of fraud because all of the users are bots anyways, yeah? In the pools of thought that Elon floats in, it would only be more fraudulent if Dominion was conducting the poll.

Elon even said himself while running the Trump resurrection poll that there were so many bots voting. It's somewhat bizarre.

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Post by foepys »

intended wrote: post #598
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…

Murdoch has been near single handedly the force that moved western news media and set us on the path we see today. Many would happily dance on his grave, and raise a toast to his departure from this realm. To say that he has a hands off approach to his editorial board, because of his handling of Theranos, is an unkindness to the harm he has caused to the fabric of decent society. If any lesson is to be learned from M…

Murdoch has little to no influence in the non-English speaking world. "The West" is a lot more than just USA, UK, and Australia.

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Post by hjkl0 »

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…

Murdoch is a media mogul. Of course he’ll be involved in the day to day details. He does not “stay out of it”.

Murdoch staying out of content would be like Musk staying out of tech.

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Post by bowsamic »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #541
sytelus wrote: post #200

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So, the guy who has blocked half of the Internet for having any kind of counter-argument whatsoever will become its new CEO? Context: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22blocked%20by%20lex%22&src=ty...

Lex‘s subreddit (where he is a mod) is also famous for removing any posts that don’t enthusiastically agree with Lex. A lot of confused Lex fans are surprised to find themselves banned from his subreddit after making the mistake of questioning something he said. Podcast skills aside, this is not a guy with a track record of healthy social media engagement or moderation.

He hasn’t got podcast skills, just famous names. His questions are always extremely basic and naive

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Post by bowsamic »

wraptile wrote: post #479
sytelus wrote: post #200

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So, the guy who has blocked half of the Internet for having any kind of counter-argument whatsoever will become its new CEO? Context: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22blocked%20by%20lex%22&src=ty...

In all fairness, that's the whole point of the block feature - to avoid interaction with people you don't want to interact. I'm definitely off an opinion that people should block and mute as much as possible to sanitize their social media exchanges. After all, how often do people turn around on strangers that were worthy of a block?

I think people have a right to do it sure but I think it very quickly leads to a total insulation from opposing viewpoints

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Post by bowsamic »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #437
sytelus wrote: post #200

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So, the guy who has blocked half of the Internet for having any kind of counter-argument whatsoever will become its new CEO? Context: https://twitter.com/search?q=%22blocked%20by%20lex%22&src=ty...

One of the people complaining about being blocked mentions crypto or some other get rich quick scheme. I don't blame Lex for blocking annoying people.

Lex has had major crypto guests on his podcast and supports it

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Post by bongobingo1 »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #582
blacklight wrote: post #407

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Btw I must also thank Elon for helping Mastodon so much. https://cdn.masto.host/bitcoinhackers/media_attachments/file... Every time he suspends a high profile Twitter account for posting Mastodon links (or, as he did recently, changes the T&Cs to explicitly "prohibit sharing Mastodon links"), we get a new spike of users and content on the Fediverse. He's doing more to bring people to the Fediverse than years of enthu…

He could hardly do a better job if he tried. Which kind of makes me wonder, is he trying?

No. Stop 5d-chessing these people.

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Post by samwillis »

pgwhalen wrote: post #238
samwillis wrote: post #5

This has had over 250k votes in the first three minutes. Thats insane! I can only imagine the infrastructure for this...

I hate to be the HN commenter that trivializes tech, but is that performance that impressive for a poll? Especially when there is no requirement for real time reads of the results.

Oh I know it's quite possible technically, I've just never had the privileged to work at Twitter scale. It's also the human side of that I find fascinating, that 250k people voted in under 2 min.
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