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ProfessionalFan said:
"Free speech" isn't a factor on a private company. Just the TOS matters and impersonating people without stating it is a parody has always been against Twitter's TOS. He isn't banning for mocking, he is banning for impersonation.
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Which he only started doing after HE was the one impersonated. And its a liufetime ban. Meanwhile, you can spread election lies, covid lies and racsim - and IF you get banned, its not lifetime.

Musk - the guy who once asked Chinese social media censors to block posts critical of his company.
 
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Knavel said:
How? The overwhelming majority of real live users are not going to spend $8/month for Twitter no matter what.
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But at least they have the option now. But what I meant was the one sided approach Twitter took to censoring people/ideas. Conservatives have been saying that Twitter was censoring/banning them and it turns out it was true. Seth Rogan could make death threats without consequence because he’s a “leftist” but heaven forbid, a satire org makes fun a public figure, Rachel Levine, calling him “man of the year” and they get banned. Let’s not forget that Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, Covid lab leak theory, dangers of Covid vaccines, etc.

Now, ideas can flow freely and we can decide for ourselves what’s true and what’s false. Only authoritarians would hate this idea and that’s why the liberal elites, including the media are attacking Musk.

He’s disrupting the establishment and the power they wielded through censorship. For anyone who believes in a true democracy, they also believe in freedom of speech because those two things go hand in hand.

I applaud Elon for giving a voice back to the people, regardless of their ideology, and allowing for true debate which will let the best ideas bubble to the top without interference from ideologues within Twitter.
 
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I wouldn’t count on Musk failing. Twitter will be the greatest social media platform on the planet. Give him a year. Advertisers will be crawling back soon.
 
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This is a dumpster fire and I’m excited to just sit back and watch it all, all while not participating in any of it :)
 
sw1tcher said:
Fired half of the staff via email and now they're trying to rehire (some of) them. 🤣

fortune.com

Oops. Twitter is already trying to rehire workers Elon Musk fired days ago, sources say

Twitter cut close to 3,700 people this week via email as a way to trim costs following Musk’s acquisition.
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I'd be asking for a (re)hiring bonus. :p
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Considering almost all of them were working remotely, how else could they be fired? Can't fire someone in person who isn't actually there.
 
Rafterman said:
Not really. Musk has already started banning people who have been making mock posts. Free speech, according to Musk.
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This is not a free speech issue. They weren't banned for what they said. They were banned for impersonating someone else without a parody label. The whole point of a blue check is to prove you are who you say you are. If you're pretending to be someone else, that blue check is meaningless. These celebrities who were banned all had blue checks. This would have happened pre-Elon as well since the rule has been in the ToS for a very long time.

These people could have said anything they wanted to say and not get banned. Sarah Silverman heeded the warning she was given and reverted her Musk impersonation and got to keep her account. Those who ignored the warning were banned.
 
docbop said:
So nothing but sideshow scam to turn Twitter into a subscription only platform. Sure still free for now, but that will change. Also verification is just his way to get more of your personal info he can sell the data and use it to label you friend or foe to his cohorts. As Monte Python would say... Run Away.... Run Away!!!!
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Umm, you don't have to pay anything. The subscription is completely optional. You get a few perks for it, but it's no different than downloading a free app from the App Store and paying for an in-app purchase. You can do all the stuff you could before for free and don't lose a thing unless you were a blue check prior to this.
 
Kierkegaarden said:
50% fewer ads sounds good, but only if they don’t cut the ads that work — except nobody knows which ads work!
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The ad I see by far the most is for the Google Pixel 7, only because YouTube belongs to Google and nobody pays themselves to show their own ads. How effective that is? I haven't even considered buying a non-Apple device since the iPod (5th gen.) from 2005. Big Data knows I almost exclusively surf the web on Safari. If their algorithm was any good, they wouldn't show me any ads.
 
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mattopotamus said:
No doubt, but he is already doing things that should have been done a long time ago, like letting go of staff. Meta is the same way, and they are finally realizing they employee wayyyy too many people. These companies need to be turning over their bottom 10% every year.
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A recipe for a paranoid unproductive workforce obsessed with screwing their coworkers and finding ways to boost meaningless metrics.
 
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ChrisA said:
>>>>> IT IS VERIFIED. <<<<<​

Unless you paid with cash or bitcoin. You have a credit card associated with your paid account. They can find you via the information used to pay the $8 fee. (I don't think they accept cash.) They will bill that card every month and cancel your account if the billing fails.

The banks, all around the world, keep records of who you are, so they can get their money if you don't pay your CC bill. So what Musk has done is outsourced verification to the banks. Here in the US the Bank has to have your social security number on file. Musk now has your CC account number and hence your billing address, your bank's name and address and a TON more data. Saves him a lot of work.

When you go to make a fake account, you would need a second credit card that is not tied to you that bills to a different address and to a different person.
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This is untrue. At present (I just tested it) you can sign up and pay through Apple, which means you can create a new, anonymous Apple ID, load it up with gift cards, and get verified with no traceable ID attached.
 
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I have always found Twitter to be a cesspool of negativity. Plus, I am indifferent to EM but I have found his public autocratic approach to the Twitter employees jobs/careers unpalatable. If it was feasible, I’d delete my account yet too much content on the web needs a Twitter account currently.
 
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Vasilioskn said:
People are still on Twitter ? Lol what a joke
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It’s my news feed, because I follow a number of tech blogs (macrumours, Ars, theverge, Macstories), personalities (John Gruber, Marco Arment), and a couple of politicians here and there. It’s also fun following all the reactions during Apple keynotes.

I browse it with Tweetbot, which strips out ads, presents the posts in a clean, chronological order and supports safari view controller. Since I don’t really interact with anyone online, it’s actually quite a pleasant reading experience overall.
 
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