Do you think paulg will admit he was wrong about elon?
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
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#182I 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?
They're still in denial and posting equivalents of "no one could have ever predicted this" to all the people who absolutely predicted this.
There were many of us that could see through Elon's, and Donald's, and SBF's bullshit from day 1.
But for too many people, it's just not possible to admit they were wrong, or anyone else might have been right.
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#184hilarious. after PG was bending over backwards to still give oh elon the benefit of the doubt, still a smart guy, etc etc.
this is a complete and utter clown show. elon has shown his true colors, as have the many tech luminaries who still claim the twitter titanic can be righted and make it home after its half underwater and folks are running for the lifeboats.
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#185Wow. 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.
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.
Maaan, the expression "ban evasion" is becoming as meaningless as "free speech" along with "bias" and so on.
People just use them fully randomly.
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#186pg in the other thread: "I still think Elon is a smart guy." That didn't age well. Not even a full hour. I can't even think of a food item that would age that quickly.
I don’t think this necessarily is evidence of his not being smart, as it could just as well be ascribed to malice.
Perhaps this will finally prompt Paul to stop giving him the benefit of the doubt though. I’ve long been flummoxed as to why he had continued to, long after it becoming obvious to most that it was not deserved.
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#187There'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.
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#188I 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…
"Elon could have come in, aligned the website to be a lot more neutral"
How?
"slimmed down the employee count"
Why would you care about this? How could he know which half of the company should be fired? How does this improve Twitter?
" and pushed for more features and more payments for features to get away from dependence on advertisers."
Besides paying to be verified, a system which changed rapidly over weeks being enabled and disabled, what else did he do?
"I saw some headline a few weeks ago about Japanese trending on Twitter went from a whole bunch of political stuff to more neutral cultural stuff"
What does this mean? That the Japanese Twitter population all shifted to discussing culture over politics? Why would they do that? What does it have to do with Elon Musk taking over?
"Stuff like that is what I wanted to see."
Culture is shaped by politics, at least to some degree. Also "culture wars"
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#189I 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?
What I don't understand is why so many people are so patient to give Musk so much benefit of the doubt, when he's shown zero capacity for even-keeled self-correction.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 fact that you thought the site wasn’t already neutral but just overwhelmed with content reports and that it is simply impossible to fairly moderate is a good indication you’re being duped in other areas, fyi
I still don't think the site was neutral, I just also think the current person is also not neutral and is worse.