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Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!
I was pretty cynical about his purchase and Im not terribly happy about being proven right. My hope is that he gets bored with it, sells it, and it gets a boring new owner that’s less ideological.
This seems to be lost in the storm: “we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms.” Just another money grab — doesn’t make it much nicer but not an outright ban.
A reason to check it out again: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
(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…
"Additionally, we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms."
The amount of sarcasm, triteness, and personally directed anger in the comments here is disappointing.
"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.
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They are not banning links to other platforms: " 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. "
> 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
Your quote is referring to cross-posting from other sites to Twitter, not linking.
Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!
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.
"Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr" Thanks for the list Elon, I'll make sure to check those out!
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-gives-decentraliz...