Twitter now owned by xAI - company founded by Elon Musk

[kitler53]

have you ever been on a place like reddit?

g'luck avoiding it. 


I think people are good natured in general,.. except while on the internet. 

[the-pi-guy]

have you ever been on a place like reddit?

g'luck avoiding it.


I think people are good natured in general,.. except while on the internet.

I'm not on any subreddit where people can get away with the n/f words.

[kitler53]

well I'll say my life got better once reddit implemented an automatic ban on the word retarded.  "regarded" has been used in it's place at times but use of that word has been all but eliminated. 

again, not illegal but creates a cesspool of a place and I'm glad that "free speech" has moderated. 

 ..the fact that the conservatives cried about it for months as "censorship" only made the change feel sweeter. 

[nnodley]

i'm pretty sure that's not the kinds of things elon will just let run rampant.  Its crazy to think it will be.  Theres nothing to suggest that will happen just because he wants to loosen some of the moderation.

That's the type of things that if he lets slide will likely be his downfall for the company.  He knows better than that

[BananaKing]

have you ever been on a place like reddit?

g'luck avoiding it.


I think people are good natured in general,.. except while on the internet.

[the-pi-guy]

Vijaya Gadde, who oversaw content moderation at Twitter, is out as well.

— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) October 28, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

The Verge: Welcome to hell, Elon

You iced up real good, kiddo.
Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation and possibly cause grievous damage to your other companies.

Here are some examples: you can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers "brand safety." That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes. So you can make all the promises about "free speech" you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.

The Verge wants to fight.

[nnodley]

Like really its day 1. Goodness.

How bout we wait and see after a month. SMH

[SWORDF1SH]

Mainstream media hate that they will lose complete control over Twitter. O well!

[Legend]

Vijaya Gadde, who oversaw content moderation at Twitter, is out as well.

— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) October 28, 2022

Funny way to say they were fired.

Like really its day 1. Goodness.

How bout we wait and see after a month. SMH

Wonder how fast things will change.

The Verge: Welcome to hell, Elon



The Verge wants to fight.

It's funky but at least the excerpt you posted is just strong opinions. I prefer stuff like this over all the made up news that gets reported.

[nnodley]

Wonder how fast things will change.

Yeah im honestly surprised he fired them so quickly, but i guess if you want change then do it quickly

Honestly all he needs to do is just keep moderation on hate speech, inciting violence, personal attacks, etc. and it should largely be the same.  Who knows though

Just because he has some views that some people don't like doesn't mean he's gonna let all hell break loose.  I've always gotten a genuine vibe from him that he loves and wants humanity to thrive.  I've never felt him trying to just manipulate people into thinking hes a good person.

If twitter devolves into an even bigger cesspool, then i am fully capable of claiming i was wrong.  Its not that hard to be genuine and own up to shame.

[kitler53]

The Verge: Welcome to hell, Elon

The Verge wants to fight.

not really, they are just poining out the obvious.  

brands don't want to be associated with hate speech.  that's why brands like adidas dropped kanye: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/25/adidas-kanye-west-partnership-ends/


conservatives want "free speech" but to them free speech is specifically hate speech.  everywhere i go on the internet conservatives are saying absurdly racist, sexist, hateful speech and consider that their "political opinion" and any attempt to moderate their hate speech is viewed as censorship.  

either twitter is a cesspool of hate speech and conservatives are happy and business avoids it.  ...or you moderate the hate speech and conservatives label it "biased against conservatives" and then they use their power in congress and state legislators to punish musk for not supporting their politics.  no different than when conservatives lashed out at disney or delta.   using government to punish people/business is their weapon of choice.

[Legend]

Ligma Johnson had it coming ???? ???? pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

Reddit and most news sources seem to have been trolled by two people pretending to be fired employees.

[Dr. Pezus]

Ligma Johnson had it coming ???? ???? pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

Reddit and most news sources seem to have been trolled by two people pretending to be fired employees.

Lmao

[the-pi-guy]

I hope this isn't real....  

Twitter employees having to actually print out their code ???? as per @CaseyNewton https://t.co/og1DtgfTpe https://t.co/LMMxLq8fcI

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 29, 2022