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I vaguely feel like someone (ahem) is trying to get us to riot over silly things, as an experiment. It doesn’t make any sense.
Musk's entire Twitter reign makes complete sense if you just view it as one thin-skinned guy arbitrarily lashing out. There's no secret plan, he's just trying to "fix" whatever personally bothers him.
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What I meant was if you were primarily on YouTube, you still had a Twitter. On insta? You still had a Twitter. LinkedIn? Twitter. Blog/website? Twitter. Everyone had a Twitter regardless of where their meat and potatoes content was.
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There'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…
I’d bet on a good mix of 2 and 3 here.
In a rage, he's set a blanket rule about suspending accounts that do a specific thing.
At his request, staff or system have resulted in PG getting suspended.
With minimal pushback from remaining staff, no one's ensured that actions against major accounts gets checked first.
Wow. 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 p…
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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.
> Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized We have no proof Elon personally kicked off PG. We can hold him accountable for creating this shitshow. But Hanlon’s razor wields well, here.
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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 p…
The way Elon seems to like to take his chances, Twitter pulling out from the EU/EEA market might be a possibility. Personally I think that would be beneficial, as even more would switch to Mastodon in 2023. Even if I don't use social blogging websites myself, I think that would be a net win.
Also I strongly suspect that mastadon would have a lot of trouble complying with European laws (except I think some have company size minimums that mastadon instances would likely not reach).
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Explain the success of his previous companies without lying or references left wing conspiracies? I genuinely want to see an answer to this. Can't state things as fact that 5 seconds on Google can disprove I already know the answers are going to be he uses his secret emerald mine to power the self landing rockets
So when you say “his” companies, do you mean: PayPal (not founded by Musk) Tesla (not founded by Musk) The Boring Company (only existed to de-rail a planned road development that annoyed Musk) SpaceX (I’ll give you this one)
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Musk personally policing twitter is pretty obvious for, like, last month or more. He personally picks accounts to restore and accounts to close. And there are very clear patterns in both. Including him announcing some of these on Twitter.
Someone does something Elon doesn't like, magically the next day there's a rule against it that's arbitrarily defined and enforced, even if it contradicts something Elon has said in the past. Like revealing a "bombshell" that Twitter was shadow banning users... only to then shadow ban the @ElonJet account. https://archive.ph/jhJHd
This 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 :)
> https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :) You can watch the account in your own instance (if someone on your instance has already followed him, which is likely for larger instances). Just go to https://example.org/@paulg@mas.to (replace the domain with your favorite instance's domain). (Edit: fixed typo)
Wow. 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.
>Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-... [1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074 This does Not bode well; links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your pr…
>(Update December 19, 2022, 8:40 AM IST):
Twitter has deleted the tweets announcing the policy that prohibited people from posting handles and links to other social networks.
The company has also silently removed the policy page that detailed these rules.