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Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
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#262The amount of sarcasm, triteness, and personally directed anger in the comments here is disappointing.
whats the correct response? obsequiousness? doff my hat to the billionaire?
reasonable and rational discussion:
"this is a dumb business decision"
"this is seemingly hypocritical based on his previous stated intentions"
"what might the motivation be here?"
"is this legal?"
these are some of the top responses that loaded for me:
"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine."
"Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype. "
" Can't wait to see how the Elon lackeys - Marc, Lex, and Jason etc. going to bend over backwards defending this. "
"LOL!!! How thin Elon's skin must be."
Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
#263Hrm I’m not sure this is the hypocrisy HN thinks it is. Musk wanted to stop biased moderation. He’s done so. He wanted what twitter has done previously in terms of biased moderation to be public. He’s done so. He wanted journalists to be under the same rules as other content creators. He’s done so. Is he obliged to let people promote competitors on Twitter?
If it was just a ban strictly on competitors then it would just be pathetic, but it's more than that.
This is a ban on advertising an online presence outside of Twitter, which makes the platform way less attractive to anyone who uses it as a secondary platform, as a way to communicate with followers, while mostly monetizing another platform (Instagram or FB for example). Now that they've done this, there's no guarantee they won't expand this policy in the future. If Twitter releases a short form video platform, tiktok will be banned. Maybe youtube will be banned too. Twitter has just become untrustworthy to creators.
That's all not to mention the casual users, who use multiple platforms and want to connect their friends. I've linked my Instagram to Twitter friends before, and now I'm not allowed to do it anymore.
This is a bad business decision, no two ways around it.
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#264Seems 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 mean I don’t think Musks critics are asking for the government to intervene here (well, other than those pointing out it might violates EU regs). 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.
Yeah, the post you're responding to is missing that the responses to right-wing concerns about censorship were responding to "principled" free speech absolutism or a desire for government intervention.
There were left-wing critiques of twitter's moderation all of the time, but I don't recall seeing anyone on here advocating for government intervention to tweak it.
Posts like the one you're responding to are parroting the arguments without understanding what the arguments were actually against.
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#265"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.
I tried really hard to stay an Elon fan. SpaceX is a step function game changer, and Starlink was such a cool related market to break into. Now I have to go change my Twitter profiles that have been the same for ages... Has Musk never heard of the Streisand effect? I've always been bearish on TSLA. Now I think the narrative is changing. The market monopoly bull case never made sense. Every car company and nation will…
> I tried really hard to stay an Elon fan.
If a relationship feels like work, you should break up.
Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
#266(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…
Blocking direct competition is one thing, but what if Twitter starts blocking tweets about VW electric vehicles and promoting tweets about Tesla? It's a very strange setup - although not that different from Bezos' and the Washington Post removing all investigative journalism into the CIA / NSA while AWS seeks large services contracts from those government entities.
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#267"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.
When you are a billionare you have a bunch of people praising you all day, and if you listen to them you eventually become an ultimate moron, because they will justify and validate everything you do, and reinforce all your negative traits.
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#268"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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There's not really a lot to say because it's Musk's behavior that's "low quality". A debate won't change anyone's mind, either, as we've seen that there's no consistent position to defend. It's just whims. So all that's left is to point and laugh.
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#269Influencers cross-promote their social channels all the time, since each social media network has a different audience. An influencer might post how-to videos on TikTok, re-post to YouTube shorts, then re-purpose the same content as a micro-blog threads on Twitter. There's even a cottage industry of link tree / bio landing pages that consolidate all of your social handles, featured posts, etc into one page. Are those…
Yeah it's a two way street: some people might go from twitter to Facebook, but others might come from Facebook to Twitter.
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#270Worth mentioning that this policy might have suspended John Carmack for this tweet a couple days ago, announcing his resignation from Meta: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994... This is a very, very, very bad policy and shows with absolute clarity that Twitter is far from a free speech platform. Which deeply saddens me. Imagine how absurd it would be for Reddit or Hacker News to have a polic…
No, it will not get Carmack banned, because he is not promoting his FB account. He links to a news worthy post.
It is very clearly against the rules as written. They cover “…linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter…”