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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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Well, you are entitled to that opinion. Twitter has in fact been the de facto town square since long before Elon got ticked at it, and unless he shuts it down, it still will be.
As well, there are many highly secure, 3rd party, identification services that Twitter can make use of and not retain any of your non-public info while still being able to verify you.
I have ZERO issue with something as influential as that requiring that each person using it for free be identified accurately. Otherwise, it is just a tool to spew ridiculous nonsense and hate to those who would do that.
The term "free speech" has appeared in dozens of comments in this thread.
Question... does a private platform have to provide "free speech" ?
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Question... does a private platform have to provide "free speech" ?
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Drilling and solar are failures, and soon the car company will come down to Earth as no one will attain > 10% share of EVs. He wasted tens of billions all because of his Ego.
May those who are celebrating this because they want a wider tunnel to spew vitriol and filth into the endless void of the internet someday reconsider what they value in life.
May Twitter and Facebook go out of business as penance for all the harm they've caused.
May Twitter and Facebook go out of business as penance for all the harm they've caused.
What do those who are in favor of so-called heavy-handed “content moderation” say to those who are truly being harassed, silenced, chilled due the content moderation? They don’t ageee with you or the moderators, so they deserve this disparate treatment? Just maybe those being harassed and silenced want a level and transparent playing field.
I'm all in favor of not having anon accounts going bezerk, but I'd much rather just have accounts time limited on when they can post (after new account creation) and perhaps some other tools around that to quell the fake account creation and blasting
The "verified" piece I'm mixed on until I learn more about the "how" and what information is required.
Just handing over government ID information to private companies -- I take that action very seriously and hesitantly
Moderating content does in fact limit free speech, especially one-sided moderation which Twitter employs in only one direction. I LOVE to watch only one group clutch their pearls at the thought of a libertarian restoring free speech as a threat, it speaks volumes. As long as criminal behavior is controlled, it will be nice to see what happens without all the shadow banning and algorithmic promoting/demoting that is running rampant currently. Freedom is worth fighting for, glad an African American had the balls to enter the ring. Canx your accounts? Bye Felicia maybe subscribe to CNN+...
Should be interesting. Not sure what Elon (or anyone for that matter) can responsibly do with the Twitter platform to make it better.
I think we need to know more about what you mean..
Anyone running afoul of TOS should be moderated.
People don't get to do and say "anything they want"
So your solution is censorship. I see. smh
Hey, I dislike these people as much as you do but censoring them is not the answer. Do you know why? because later they will find a reason to censor the people YOU like and then what will be your position?
Its amazing people don't see this.
Just look at ACLU TAKING A STAND FOR FREE SPEECH IN SKOKIE case. Google it if you don't know about it. Hopefully will open your eyes.
Do you have evidence to support that beyond anecdotal claims?
(loud voices of displeasure or protest don't necessarily give us good data on what's really going on)
Twitter is the biggest text-focused social media platform that doesn't really have different sub-platforms. On the other hand, with Reddit, you have sub-Reddits, with Facebook, comments are attached to a post, which is attached to a page. With Twitter, every user is basically in the same group, and there really isn't a difference between posts and comments. There are some interesting dynamics when there are fewer barriers between different communities. You see people interact with each other that probably wouldn't interact as much on a more siloed platform like Reddit.
But this means that moderation may have to work differently, with Reddit, Facebook, Discord, etc, there are subgroups that have their own community moderation, while Twitter doesn't have that.
Some example behaviors in the past from the new "owner"
I suspect James is mostly correct with his hunch here.
The general assertion fits the behavioral patterns of Musk over the last few years.
The general assertion fits the behavioral patterns of Musk over the last few years.
People loosing their minds over this is quite comical.
I absolutely agree about "how to verify" and I hope, considering Musks success, he'll find a way of keeping bots and other toxic users away from the platform.
yeah I don't think you know what you are talking about. 99% of the hate speech and misinformation is due to bots and fake accounts, which Musk wants to eliminate and verified human accounts. Ironically this will done with AI.
I don't think its comical. twitter is very powerful platform.
Blind loyalty like all of the obama worshipers 🙄
And for all the complaints about unfairly targeting one side or another, Twitter is happy to promote more of whatever view you follow. If I click on a tweet from a MAGA type and scroll past the replies, there is a section below with dozens of more tweets from other MAGA folks.
Depends on what you consider "hate", but in the U.S. at least, the Supreme Court has ruled the 1st amendment right to Free Speech covers a lot of stuff that many people consider hateful. The Skokie case (where the ACLU was once among the supporters of free speech) is one example.
For anyone who knows the history of Tesla, this is a very funny and underrated bit of humor...
