How strict are they about tossing people into horny jail these days? I might consider going back, at this point.
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Its Official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter
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Anyways it'll take some time for this to happen right? Honestly at some point if Musk tries to make a lot big changes that the employees don't like, he's going to lose a lot of talent. The tech job market is plenty hot right now, so I'm sure if Twitter employees got annoyed they could jump ship easily.
Fair point, never thought of him unbanning Trump as a possibility, yep it sucks
That's fair, when misinformation is coming from "official" accounts he'll not follow through like Twitter has been recently.
Bull fucking shit.
Trump talks out of both sides of his ass constantly.
Musk is literally trying to push out moderation so anyone can do whatever they want without repercussions under his false belief of "freedom of speech". He actively wants to enable nazis and bigots to take over the platform and make it hell for anyone with progressive values.
Agreed, but the major distinction is the former owners had some fiduciary responsibility to keep Twitter profitable for shareholders which worked to apply pressure to occasionally force their hand to do the right thing (way after it should have been done...).
A Musk owned private company Twitter is under no such obligation so there's no real pressure to do what publicly owned Twitter would have to.
Spread it far and wide. But there's no way I'm the first to say that. Can't be.
Twitter was my favorite social media. Genuinely funny, witty, and thoughtful contributors.
I'm not sticking around. Accounts are gone now.
The moderation was always far from perfect. But the people who were kicked off the platform generally deserved it.
I'm not sticking around. Accounts are gone now.
The moderation was always far from perfect. But the people who were kicked off the platform generally deserved it.
It is wild that Musk wants to "authenticate human" Twitter users when there's good reason to believe that the similar requirement on Facebook is one of the primary causes for its decline. He really knows nothing about social media beyond what he sees on his timeline.
Will be interesting how Musk's plan for less moderation clashes with stricter EU rules for online platforms:
The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
Early Saturday morning after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on their platforms. New obligations include removing illegal content and goods more quickly, explaining to users and researchers how their algorithms work, and taking stricter action on the spread of misinformation. Companies face fines of up to six percent of their annual turnover for non-compliance.
"The DSA will upgrade the ground-rules for all online services in the EU," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a statement. "It gives practical effect to the principle that what is illegal offline, should be illegal online. The greater the size, the greater the responsibilities of online platforms."
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition who has spearheaded much of the bloc's tech regulation, said the act would "ensure that platforms are held accountable for the risks their services can pose to society and citizens
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The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
Early Saturday morning after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on their platforms. New obligations include removing illegal content and goods more quickly, explaining to users and researchers how their algorithms work, and taking stricter action on the spread of misinformation. Companies face fines of up to six percent of their annual turnover for non-compliance.
"The DSA will upgrade the ground-rules for all online services in the EU," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a statement. "It gives practical effect to the principle that what is illegal offline, should be illegal online. The greater the size, the greater the responsibilities of online platforms."
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition who has spearheaded much of the bloc's tech regulation, said the act would "ensure that platforms are held accountable for the risks their services can pose to society and citizens
Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation
The EU’s new legislation is designed to explain the web to users.
www.theverge.com
I actually think so!
It's much quieter than it's pre-2014 years. But the quality of content and community interaction, at least in my little corner, is way better.
They've also loosened up on the adult restrictions and censoring (although, the policies are technically still there). Obviously, this is good for more than just porn.
If "horny jail" refers to pixelated avatars, they do that a lot but there are a lot of penises around for a website that banned adult content.
Public shareholder leverage has a better chance at postively affecting environmental, social, and governance board decisions than a private single erratic owner. So sure, technically there is a chance he will run it better, but these two situations are not the same.
He is such a damn liar. The man cannot resist having a huge platform back to spread his hateful rhetoric.
I went to look at Elons account on twitter and the "recommended topics" are 90% cryptocurrencies, 5% normal topics and 5% Joe fucking Rogan. Disgusting.
Fuck this shit.
Fuck this shit.
Open source algorithms, so all the scammers and bullshit artists can game the system.
Getting rid of bots? But that's half your fanbase!
I'm definitely staying until I'm pushed out. I doubt it will get that far, but there's too much that's important to me in my twitter circles to ditch it immediately.
Not sure what's a bigger red flag these days - crypto or Joe Rogan.
There will be no clash. If he wants to continue operating in the EU he has to follow EU law
What would be the steps you would recommend for someone to try to join the tumblr community?
There's something called the Digital Services Act in EU that will prevent him to do what you say. Twitter has already reached quite its limit in term of free speech, and unless Musk wants to go to war against the EU, he won't be able to do much.
Some communities have thrived.
The Supernatural fandom basically took over once all the adult content creators left. lol
He doesn't. He only relatively recently discovered Bitcoin, when it's been around for a long time.
He should be too busy with Tesla and SpaceX to be "dialed in".
He's not a natural-born citizen so he technically can't hold that office.
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