Well that gives me a little bit more peace of mind, I'm not too fluent in EU laws/ acts.
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Its Official, Elon Musk has bought Twitter
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I'm in the same boat. I just don't think it will be that much of a change.
Feels like he is going to hype twitter up all over, bring in loud, uneducated right wingers by the f150 loads, and then make it public again where it may be valued at a higher price point due to influx of users then bounces almost entirely. I highly doubt he sat around with his financial team and they all decided to just toss away 44 billion. There is a monetary angle to this buy. Won't be the first time this has occured to a company and it won't be a last.
This is key. Twitter, Facebook, and the like started taking steps to combat misinformation not out of the goodness of their hearts, but in response to imposed or pending regulatory scrutiny and public backlash.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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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
If you reduce moderation, you're inviting covid denial, racism, anti-semitism, targetted harassment, etc. That not only becomes an undesirable platform to use, but it introduces additional further regulatory scrutiny.
Except for that "authenticating all humans" bullshit, all of this isn't bad. But I just don't trust Musk to actually build something positive out of Twitter.
As bad is Twitter currently is for society (and it's BAD), the Twitter of tomorrow under Musk will most probably be even worse.
Join. Create an account.
Follow accounts/hashtags relevant to your interests.
Post and engage.
Don't be an ass.
Wonder if someone would buy my account I've had since 2008 or was it 2009 🤪
It's whatever, get your money twitter owners , I'd have started more high and then settled for 50 billion $$$$$$$$$
Musk gonna let trump back on if trump pays a fee
It's whatever, get your money twitter owners , I'd have started more high and then settled for 50 billion $$$$$$$$$
Musk gonna let trump back on if trump pays a fee
If he doesn't adhere to it twitter will be blocked from operating in the EU.
actually getting rid of the bots would be iconic because that's guaranteed to destroy twitter financially because advertisers and sponsors could no longer tell themselves the comforting lie about how many people are seeing their ads and i would love to see that
He means selling memberships and giving exclusive perks to paying members, but he overestimates how much people are willing to pay for having a checkmark next to their name.
I can vouch for this, my Tumblr feed skews p damn progressive and lewd so it's definitely not like it was earlier (before they pushed those restrictions on how horny things can get) but it hasn't gotten in the way of how I use the platform, it's still a cozy, progressive, lewd place of the internet for me to get lost in and reblog w/e memes or art i fancy
I'm trying to wrap my head around how somebody logically got from Point A to Point B on that one. What the fuck?
Did you know that we only use about 10% of Twitter's full capacity? Or something like that, I saw it in Bradley Cooper movie.
What makes it worse is this barely even makes a dent on his total wealth. Fuck everything about this.
I doubt he cares lmao. I can't see this as anything other than a way to stroke his ego.
Oh, I fully expect the callout trolls coming back. They followed the R18 artists to Twitter, I fully expect they'll follow them back.
I wonder how many billions a consitutional amendment to "fix" that costs.
I'm going to wait and see where this goes before I start going into doom and gloom mode, but I don't have a lot of confidence that this will be a positive thing for Twitter's future.
If it wasn't apparent Elon Musk is one of the most powerful people in the world. Dude just bought Twitter out of nowhere. Tesla stock doesn't follow any financial logics… never seen anything like this. He controls the narrative now.
Probably would have happened with Arnold if it was going to happen with anybody. There are a lot of weird libertarian internet nerds who love Elon Musk, but if my 70+ year old fox news watching, Republican voting dad is any indication, a lot of people on the right still hate him.
did he categorically say that he will allow the trump's and the milo's and the alex jone's of the world back on twitter?
Couldn't he have spent a fraction of this money to built his own thing where everyone was allowed and let the market decide what they wanted to see? It was decided that those views are not acceptable in twitter, twitter did not brake or went bankrupt from people not accepting these changes.
So musk's solution would be buy the whole thing and forcefully let them back.
Man this is fucked
Couldn't he have spent a fraction of this money to built his own thing where everyone was allowed and let the market decide what they wanted to see? It was decided that those views are not acceptable in twitter, twitter did not brake or went bankrupt from people not accepting these changes.
So musk's solution would be buy the whole thing and forcefully let them back.
Man this is fucked
God I hate that argument.
Oh his money is just liquid, he can't sell all of it. He is really not that rich. Bla blah blah. Dude woke up and bought Twitter.
Forreal, this is my exact same reaction lol. All these social media platforms and their multi billion dollar CEOs are problematic.
Twitter already has a boatload of shitty people and one can easily block them so I'll just continue to do that if they decide to start using the platform (although this is 2022, who doesn't have Twitter nowadays). I follow the people that I care about only, so I don't really see this change impacting my feed that much... Idk.
This is definitely one of those days where I'm firmly reminded how poor and irrelevant I am
yeah that is freaking bizarre. I've bought the narrative that the sale won't happen because Tesla investors will be like, Elon, can it, we like being ultra rich and don't want to risk that.
But... so far... pretty much nothing. I mean he only gets this by borrowing against his Tesla position, right?
If it's any solace mate, you're more relevant to me than Elon Musk is.
I fucking hate everything and can only hope that this somehow blows up in his face.
This is, of course, wishful thinking.
I'm so fucking tired.
This is, of course, wishful thinking.
I'm so fucking tired.
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All while acting like a 14 year old on Call of Duty on his social accounts and posting some of the cringiest shit ever.
As long as you have the capital you can do anything.
Not that it should surprise anyone, but how monumental the sum of $45 billion dollars is the most shocking part.
For contrast, the UN said that it'd take probably like $6 billion to wipe out world hunger.
For contrast, the UN said that it'd take probably like $6 billion to wipe out world hunger.
This article is from 2011. Not sure how big plagiarism is on the site as of now (I personally don't see that much if any), but that is something that inherent to any art sharing platform. I would say that over 90 percent of Japanese artists I find on twitter also have pixiv set up, and that's usually what I end up following instead so I can have a feed focused on the art first and foremost. Pixiv also allows avenues to directly support the artist through Fanbox if they have one set up. Overall, the scene on Pixiv is definitely thriving right now
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