Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed] • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by Denvercoder9 » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:36 PM UTC

lapcat wrote: post #149

Ferrotin wrote: post #14

Possibly malicious enforcement by Twitter staff in light of https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288 “Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme”

How many malicious employees do you think would be left at this point? There have been massive layoffs, and anyone who didn't like Musk or the "extreme hardcore" could have taken the severance.

> anyone who didn't like Musk or the "extreme hardcore" could have taken the severance

If they aren't held hostage by a H-1B visa.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by eternalban » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #101

croon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, seems that choice was taken out of his hands by an insecure billionaire.

To be fair, that's most likely just a temporary ban.

Yeah, it's like those WW2 movies in Japanese POW camps in the jungle. One of the allied officers yanks their chain, they send him to cooler, and the soldiers cheer the officer.

Except PG made kissy noises with the POW guards and said to the soldiers "I still think they are very civilized" as he went on to the cooler. That bit wasn't in the original script.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

082349872349872 wrote: post #141

britneybitch wrote: post #18

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 acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? — ERM

Yes, that was a Tweet by Musk at some point. Well, we know now how that test played out.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #69

For anyone who missed it, his last tweet (there may have been something else in replies) was: "This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site." (Note that he didn't even link to it, but he did link to the Twitter privacy policy)

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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by lvl102 » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

dbish wrote: post #113

teddyh wrote: post #5

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

Mastadon UX is really frustrating. Hoping there's a better option for following him in the near future

I agree. Mastadon in concept is OK but execution is quite poor.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by watwut » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

SilverBirch wrote: post #134

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…

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.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by dragonwriter » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

greggarious wrote: post #142

legi0nary wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banned for posting a link to his personal website (which has links to his other social media profiles) Ridiculous.

> Banned for posting a link to his personal website (which has links to his other social media profiles) How many levels deep does their new policy go? It sounds like they violated it not Paul... Paul and I disagree on a lot (I've struggled to remember to not post like a Redditor here) but dear lord -- last I looked at HN, it said the guy was leaving Twitter, and Paul doesn't seem like the type to troll on his way ou…

> How many levels deep does their new policy go? It sounds like they violated it

They can’t violate it, because it doesn’t restrict them in any way.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by riffraff » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #50

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?

No worries, you can still contact PG on Mastodon.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by garbagetime » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

ekidd wrote: post #179

garbagetime wrote: post #73

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.

> blatant attempts at ban evasion This is a very strange way to describe what's going on at Twitter. Musk has loudly announced that you're not allowed to even link to your other profiles on any other social media sites, or even describe indirectly how to find them. No major social media site has ever done something quite this anticompetitive, and certainly not all this scale. I've been using the Internet since the Et…

You have misunderstood what Elon and I are referring to by 'ban evasion'.

You may disagree with the policy of banning the promotion of alternative social platforms, but that is the rule. Trying to break that rule while not getting banned is blatantly ban evasion.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by Analemma_ » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

I think there’s a decent chance this was a bit of “malicious compliance” by someone inside Twitter, rather than a personal decision by Musk himself.

And lest you think this sounds like I’m defending him, I think that explanation actually makes it funnier: give a brutally honest demonstration of the absurdity and hypocrisy of this policy by banning someone Musk probably wouldn’t actually enforce the policy on, and then say you were just following orders.