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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by KarlKemp »

troydavis wrote: post #49

(from another thread) Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU? Related reading: * Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... . Any EU resident can file a co…

I believe it doesn’t fit the generic laws against anticompetitive practices, mostly because they don’t have dominance in any market. Compare Apple’s iOS stores.

There may be something in newer legislation which has made data portability a priority. And Apple has just changed its practice, but due only to very specific pressure.

So I’d say this is rather pathetic, but not illegal.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by tedunangst »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #57
TulliusCicero wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People absolutely should. And people should also hold Musk to account for being a liar and a hypocrite. These things don't conflict.

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I propose one hate orgy every time he does something bad.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by aniforprez »

sva_ wrote: post #80

People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted? > We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above. This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and…

I think you missed this part:

> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL

This reads like they will actively delete or mute your tweets that link out to these platforms and try to promote alternative presences. This is in absolutely no way any level of reasonable

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by 10729287 »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #27

Banning links to Facebook? Really? This flying by the seat of the pants moderation style reminds me of friends in highschool running their own phpBB instances and IRC channels.. Also, Telegram, Discord, Tumblr aren't listed? Lol.

Actually only links to profiles calling for follow. If I understand correctly.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by [deleted] »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #36

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by tlogan »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #36

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

I genuinely believed that he would try to allow more free speech on Twitter. There was a small chance that the experiment will succeed.

I guess he never wanted that: he just lied. But why?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by highwaylights »

choult wrote: post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

Twitter is competing for Parler’s audience now. This is just accelerating that process along.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

zetazzed wrote: post #65
afandian wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, what a great way to find out about alternatives. I'd never heard of "Post" and "Nostr".

Post ( https://post.news ) is probably the closest to a well funded Twitter clone that I’ve seen. Very similar UX. Supposed to have more emphasis on publishers but that’s not very apparent yet in my feed there. Right now I use sigmoid.social for tech stuff and Post for mainstream chatter.

> probably the closest to a well funded Twitter clone

Probably, but who needs a clone of what we had and didn't work out? Lets make the next thing better than the last. If it's a clone, then it's another big money-backed "engagement maximisation" play. (2)

Post seems to be dodgy around micropayments (1)

1) https://post.news/terms_conditions

https://home.social/@raccoon/109526574444237572

2)

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/post-news-twitter-alternat...

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