Musk & Twitter
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@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk," Musk tweeted on November 6.
Not sure what you are saying. How does that relate to your assertion Musk only banned accounts tracking his real-time plane movements (he doesn't mind delayed tracking, remember) to cover up his use of his private aircraft?
Or are you saying it wasn't OK for him to tweak his policy to protect two year-old children from stalkers?
he changes his mind, quote his tweets at your peril.
Or are you saying it wasn't OK for him to tweak his policy to protect two year-old children from stalkers?
Nope, you aren't putting words into my mouth.
As I've said, I'm unclear on what you meant or what point you are making so that's why I asked for clarification. Obviously then, I can't really comment on your words - or put them in your mouth.
My original point, remember, was that Twitter's moderation policies were way more transparent under Musk and I think that's a good thing - particularly as the balance between Freedom of Speech and on-line harms is a tricky one . Nothing Musk has said or done indicates the opposite to that.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk," Musk tweeted on November 6.
Not sure what you are saying. How does that relate to your assertion Musk only banned accounts tracking his real-time plane movements (he doesn't mind delayed tracking, remember) to cover up his use of his private aircraft?
Or are you saying it wasn't OK for him to tweak his policy to protect two year-old children from stalkers?
he changes his mind, quote his tweets at your peril.
Or are you saying it wasn't OK for him to tweak his policy to protect two year-old children from stalkers?
Nope, you aren't putting words into my mouth.
As I've said, I'm unclear on what you meant or what point you are making so that's why I asked for clarification. Obviously then, I can't really comment on your words - or put them in your mouth.
My original point, remember, was that Twitter's moderation policies were way more transparent under Musk and I think that's a good thing - particularly as the balance between Freedom of Speech and on-line harms is a tricky one . Nothing Musk has said or done indicates the opposite to that.
Musk seems to make personal judgements rather than platform-wide judgements.
He redefines concepts to suit himself (he doesn't seem to ensure twitter is safer for other people who fly by personal jet), he redefines doxing to suit himself and very conveniently bans links to emerging if still sleepy competitor mastodon (because they also featured posts related to HIS flight data rather than EVERYONE's flight data).
Is flight tracking a security risk?
Has Twitter improved moderation?
Within a day of Musk taking ownership of Twitter, Ingle says, internal data showed that the number of abusive tweets reported by users increased 50 percent. That initial spike died off a little, she says, but abusive content reports remained about 40 percent or so higher than the usual volume before the takeover.
I personally think it is a little early to decide, his conversion to automation will take some time to judge if it succeeds. So no I don't agree with you-yet-on moderation.
Musk is canny and unpredictable. He balances gigantic jobs that many of us - me included - would have serious trouble navigating on a case-by-case basis. And he seems to have the triple threat skills (engineering, business, vision) that few I know of can master to the same level. But he runs businesses and workers raw, seems to have trouble controlling his emotions, and may have been overly swayed by his reputation on social media. Or maybe not. I don't know how much is spontaneity, ego, marketing genius, or mercurial personality swings. But Twitter shareholders are on edge, so are Tesla shareholders. And the UN.
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@nostrildamus
Wow, the Guardian wasn't too bothered about the large number of people banned for disagreeing with Covid orthodoxy or trans ideology.It makes me sick. The tribal two-faced hypocrisy of everything is beyond pathetic.(right and left)
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@Frank said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus
Wow, the Guardian wasn't too bothered about the large number of people banned for disagreeing with Covid orthodoxy or trans ideology.This is the newspaper, remember, which censored reports of industrial scale grooming and sex abuse of teenage girls by mainly Muslim men in Nth England on the basis that exposing it would "promote Islamophobia".
The Guardian sees Twitter as a competitor and Musk clearly doesn't share their world-view, so it's reporting on Twitter will probably be either non-existent or slanted.
The tribal two-faced hypocrisy of everything is beyond pathetic.(right and left)
Aye.
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jeez, over 17M votes, seems like a bit of nothing, he'd still own it and even if he appointed a CEO...as ultimate owner he still has the power
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@Kiwiwomble and he's probably already picked the CEO so just theatre. Certainly knows how to drive engagement!
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@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:
jeez, over 17M votes, seems like a bit of nothing, he'd still own it and even if he appointed a CEO...as ultimate owner he still has the power
So Twitter is still overwhelmingly left wing...
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@antipodean have to say I just don’t know enough about how the algorithms work, I don’t use Twitter much but what I do see seems more right wing…but then others see mostly left wing…almost like it’s showing you the opposite of your own view point to get reaction
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@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:
@antipodean have to say I just don’t know enough about how the algorithms work, I don’t use Twitter much but what I do see seems more right wing…but then others see mostly left wing…almost like it’s showing you the opposite of your own view point to get reaction
What better way to drive engagement than facilitating the perpetually aggrieved?
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This is an ex parrot
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Havent noticed any difference with my Twitter experience in the last couple fo years. Is Twitter losing market share or is musk just the new trump?
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@muddyriver said in Musk & Twitter:
Havent noticed any difference with my Twitter experience in the last couple fo years. Is Twitter losing market share or is musk just the new trump?
There's been some technical issues but I haven't really noticed them. I think they've affected other timezones more. Those are mostly because of legacy code problems
Personally, my twitter experience has improved. I try not to follow more than 30-40 people at any given time. Over the years so many of the people I follow had been banned (just under 50 by a rough count). Since Musk took over about half of those banned accounts returned. Every other day an old favourite would reappear
So I've been having to cull accounts to keep the noise level down. The quality for me has drastically improved
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Musk always wins. He's a genius. X means Xtra services. Watch him successfully monetize and cross sell.
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@BerniesCorner said in Musk & Twitter:
Musk always wins. He's a genius. X means Xtra services. Watch him successfully monetize and cross sell.
If only other people had thought of copyrighting X earlier. Genius.
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