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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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For those who missed it, his Mastodon is: https://mas.to/@paulg

I’m guessing he got banned for posting this?

You mean this is a quick way to get rid of mostly unused Twitter accounts? I'm in.. I've got a few to knock their total account #s down.. After that make a gdpr request and have fun.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.

PG’s tweet said, iirc, go to my website, it has my Mastodon link. He didn’t even mention his website, it’s on his bio. If that’s not okay to Twitter, that’s extremely interesting. Brings Apple’s App Store rules to mind.

My thoughts too. If Twitter is going to start behaving like the App Store I want no part of it.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#153

I would love to talk to one of the people that kept saying “you all don’t understand. Musk runs billion dollar companies, he knows what he is doing. He will fix Twitter” now that this is happening. What is the grand plan now in their world view?

I had hopes. Twitter was terribly run and there was all sorts of examples of them being a typical social media platform trying to push various ideas using their control. Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral, slimmed down the employee count and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers. I saw some headline a few weeks ago about J…

The one good thing that's come out of Musk's ownership of Twitter is that we now have extensive public evidence that Twitter staff bent over backwards to maintain objective moderation standards even in the face of unprecedented challenges. The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. And we see now the kind of actions that an actual ideological cabal would take if they controlled Twitter.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#154
Every day I feel like more of an idiot for giving Elon the benefit of the doubt with this whole freedom of speech thing

At this point he's so completely tarnished his public image, I don't see Tesla surviving this long term unless he sells out and rides off into the sunset

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#156
post #16

pg's twitter was amazing archive of insightful content. How do I get the backup of his tweets? I always thought it will be there all the time. Does he has backup that he can share? I am all but stunned right now. Need time to process this.

> How do I get the backup of his tweets?

When the account appears again you run one of the many archiving tools that downloads tweets to a json file.

Preferably a tool that doesn’t require an API key.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#158
Honestly it's hilarious to see the Elon worshippers turn against him. Paul Graham and Ryan Jones - check. Tim Urban, Andrej Karpathy, Sam Altman - no comment so far, but I suspect they're not on Elon team anymore. Lex Fridman - no chance, that guy would gladly follow him to grave.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#159

This is beyond ridiculous. Twitter has given me so much over the years and it’s dismantled in days

This is capitalism. He'd be completely within his rights to buy Twitter for cash...then completely shut it down, pay off A/P & such, and liquidate all assets.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#160

Relevant context: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165 : Promotion of alternative social platforms policy (help.twitter.com) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985 : Paul Graham is leaving Twitter (twitter.com/paulg)

The only accounts that I’ve felt really abuse “using Twitter to promote another site” are OnlyFans creators.
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