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Post by jacquesm »

cdash wrote: post #305
threatofrain wrote: post #249

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No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: > Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. That was very casual and not at all an example of relentless advertising for competitors. It's also extremely dubious that PG was trying to evade Twitter enforcement.

This absolutely was not casually sharing a link that happened to be on another platform. It was an announcement about quitting twitter and an advertisement on where he could be found on a competing platform. It is straight up the EXACT scenario that the policy was put in place for.

What really puzzles me is why after all this there are still people carrying water for this prick.

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Post by echelon »

chasil wrote: post #346
computerex wrote: post #226

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Meanwhile others have been warning about his lunacy for years and up till recently have faced nothing but backlash from his internet armies. It just feels so good to see comments like yours. It's out in the open now, everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan.

I really don't know who he is. I see him make "pedo" commentary and I cringe, but reusable rockets are an enormous achievement. I don't see any compelling reason to buy an electric car, but his execution of the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI. These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable. I'm no…

> he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

He owes allegiance to the Chinese for Gigafactory Shanghai, the Saudis for Twitter, the US DoD for SpaceX, the Russians for industrial inputs. And they all want very different things.

Then he gets goaded into buying Twitter in a botched attempt to manipulate its stock price, can't back out, and ultimately ties up a large percentage of his wealth in it.

Now he's having to play private equity turnaround while all of the metrics are going down and to the right.

I feel kind of sorry for him, but he brought it on himself.

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Post by BryantD »

meshugga wrote: post #227
BryantD wrote: post #207

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Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.

Sure, you can have a personal website with links to other social media. You just can’t advertise that fact on Twitter.

“We will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms.”

I don’t see how “I have an account on Mastodon and here’s how you can find it” doesn’t violate that. The policy doesn’t require the promotion to be direct. If there was any doubt, the policy explicitly includes linktr.ee.

It’s a ludicrous policy for sure!

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Post by andirk »

slg wrote: post #386
threatofrain wrote: post #122

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From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…

Notice that TikTok isn't on the list. Seems like Musk crafted the rules in a way to ensure that one of his favorite Twitter accounts is safe from this rule about posting links to other social media.

I sure hope not. I'm an adult. I don't watch TikTok until it lands on Instagram or Twitter.

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Post by wilg »

TOMDM wrote: post #300
rsanheim wrote: post #252

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It isn't baffling at all. It was entirely predictable by looking at his past behavior. The thai cave diver incident and Elon's slander. The hyperloop failure. The continual empty promises of FSD for tesla. His attempts to manipulate the market thru his posts, which the SEC slapped his write for. Why would Elon take a first-principles approach, instead of the selfish, short-sighted approach of an insecure, lonely, ove…

Hyperloop wasn't a failure at all, it did exactly what it was meant to; kill off attempts to get more railway projects started in California.

This take on the Hyperloop thing is totally trumped-up.

There is no evidence it was meant to kill off new railway projects, nor any evidence that it did.

Elon was just paraphrased in a book about how he thought the particular California HSR project was a boondoggle (a view shared by many) and he published an idea for how to do it better.

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Post by marcinzm »

chipgap98 wrote: post #340
cesarb wrote: post #248

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> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.

But handles are the thing they are specifically trying to stop people from linking. Cross posting content is okay, but not profiles

They are specifically trying to block whatever is annoying Elon at this particular second. Clearly PG's tweet annoyed Elon and that is the only thing that matters.

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Post by nwoli »

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…

Elon has been posting about soccer for hours I doubt he was involved with this

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by Ciantic »

My only gripe is that Paul Graham chose mas.to, there are famous people running instances that know a thing or two.

For instance, Alex Stamos is running https://cybervillains.com/ it's relatively small, and these famous people know how to connect with each other.

Scaling something run by an anonymous Trumpet (mas.to) is a bit harder.

Edit: Like on cue, the whole mas.to is now unaccessible from where I am.

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