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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by roland35 »

domador wrote: post #557

Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance. pg's current Twitter ban and my desire to read pg's full tweet archive reflect two things I despise about common design practices for contemporary social media sites: 1) When a user's account is banned, all their content is made unavailable, even if the rest of…

Eh you'll probably be fine without his Twitter history. A lot of his takes (such as the recent one on Marxism and the one on editors) were basic and laughable.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by Spooky23 »

mind-blight wrote: post #415
asteroidbelt wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't.

It's very likely an antitrust issue. This is a significant policy shift meant to stifle a competitor through market dominance rather than competition. I'd be surprised if the consumer protection bureau doesn't start an investigation

This guy sold “full self driving, someday” for $10,000 for years with no delivery. He doesn’t give a shit about consumer protection agencies.

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Post by srcreigh »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #178
hadrien01 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be contrary to the GDPR export rules in the EU.

Also, preventing links to competitors is probably going to cost Twitter in the EU. https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1604564509884030977?s=4...

We’ll see if twitter gets gatekeeper status. They have significantly less MAU in the UK than the example qualifications here.

https://www.dpocentre.com/the-digital-markets-act-and-gdpr-c....

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by jacquesm »

Paul's account is back up, but I don't think that the feeling will fade as quickly as the ban. Musk can and will do all kinds of stuff and test the waters to see what he can get away with, then backpedal when it blows up in his face.

But if he could have gotten away with it he would have. So if you don't have Pauls' stature you are on thin ice.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by dym_sh »

notatoad wrote: post #474
dym_sh wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which exact part is frustrating? there are some additional twitter-like mobile clients, i.e. - https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-... which supposedly fix the difference

my main frustration right now is the inability to follow somebody on a different instance from a web link, coupled with all instances using the same theme. when somebody links to https://mas.to/@paulg , i end up on a site that looks exactly the same as mastodon.social, except i can't sign in to it, and i can't actually click the follow button there. if i want to follow @paulg, i have to go to my instance and search f…

1. you can copy-paste same url ( https://mas.to/@paulg ), no need to re-format, event simply writing `paulg` will start the search and likely find intended user pretty fast

2. https://indieweb.org/webactions

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Post by JohnTHaller »

echelon wrote: post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

If you talk to folks who've worked within SpaceX, he's always been like this.

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Post by [deleted] »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #618
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?

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