Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
A pretty useless character on Star Trek anyway.Sirtis closed her account, LOL
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Elon Musk and the Twitter acquisition saga
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Unknown Soldier
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Disappointed, the one I wished would fuck off into space at warp speed is actually George TakeiSirtis closed her account, LOL
Uh did they actually run with the story? To me this just looks like a journalist investigating the story.
BreakOut
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Very happy to see this go through. I once tweeted a quote from President Biden to President Biden and got suspended for 7 days on twitter. “Bullying and harassment/threats” which is hilarious since it was what he had said, just goes to show.
Place is a shit show of intolerance. If you have any opinions not on CNN you’re gonna get lit up.
Place is a shit show of intolerance. If you have any opinions not on CNN you’re gonna get lit up.
Flatline
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The internet has taught me that those who compare people they don't like with Hollywood/anime villains are mental midgets 99% of the time.
Fake
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So much this.
Mikado
Member
You know what - I didn't care about any of this one way or the other, but this
is so absurd that I feel like I have to take a stand just on principle.Imma go buy a couple of Teslas on Monday out of spite.
nush
Member
A pretty useless character on Star Trek anyway.
She's awesome in Green Street II.
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Twitter will be officially delisted from the NYSE on November 8th, as the shares will move to X Holdings. $54.20 per share. Is anyone here going to get a payout from this?
Twitter has not been fun these past 48 or so hours. People say to merely block or report, which is fine, but when they're infesting like a third of the threads I am trying to read through it becomes a hassle. Someone seriously called me a litany of slurs in a thread about cooking BBQ.
BBQ.
The irony in all of this is that Musk is going to have to crack down hard on the hate if he wants to keep advertisers, which is the exact opposite of what his fans were expecting.
Edit: Study here
He's either going to have to go in full hog banning the hateful, or watch his latest acquisition die as advertisers flee. Gonna be an entertaining few months
Twitter has not been fun these past 48 or so hours. People say to merely block or report, which is fine, but when they're infesting like a third of the threads I am trying to read through it becomes a hassle. Someone seriously called me a litany of slurs in a thread about cooking BBQ.
BBQ.
The irony in all of this is that Musk is going to have to crack down hard on the hate if he wants to keep advertisers, which is the exact opposite of what his fans were expecting.
Edit: Study here
He's either going to have to go in full hog banning the hateful, or watch his latest acquisition die as advertisers flee. Gonna be an entertaining few months
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nush
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Someone said ITT he should make it western Wechat. If he does. BOOM. Wechat is basically, everything in one app.
Kilau
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That sounds very on brand for 4chan and I agree it’s been much worse the last few days. I basically follow wario and slickdeals yet I still see this mess.
Toons
Member
I've spent a collective 20 minutes on 4chan and that was enough to make me never want to be associated with the site in any real capacity.
nush
Member
I didn't even last that long before getting a facefull of CP and noping out forever.
En Sama
Member
They kind of have a point with that message. it does sound like some kind of cringe overlord shit.
TaylorSwiftFan
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Next you’ll say people who equate Musk to Hitler have a point.
Pegasus Actual
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Dusted off my Twitter account. Surprisingly decent feed after blocking Rob Reiner and George Takei. My outgoing tweets still consist only of retweeting some contest for a chance to win. But I never win, sad!
LegendOfKage
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Not allowing slurs is absolutely what I was expecting. It's a very simple action that doesn't silence anyone's opinion, and the vast majority of people on the platform would likely want things that way.
En Sama
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It seems to me that people define hate differently so as long as you are not being a complete reprobate in a normal person point of view I don't see a problem.
I think we all know what goes over the line so to imagine that Elon Musk is gonna start letting people go wild with that sort of shit is pretty stupid. No offence.
Twitter will be exactly the same inane boring twats talking absolute shite to each other. So no loss for me or for you.
I think we all know what goes over the line so to imagine that Elon Musk is gonna start letting people go wild with that sort of shit is pretty stupid. No offence.
Twitter will be exactly the same inane boring twats talking absolute shite to each other. So no loss for me or for you.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
If that's what Musk will do it should be easy as hell to implement. If Yahoo Finance's Conversation tab can filter out all inappropriate words by overriding them with random %*#%& characters for like 10 years, I'm sure Twitter's genius engineers can activate filters too. If they want to take it further by outright deleting the tweet go ahead, that's their call.
funkygunther
Banned
Twitter already doesn't allow slurs
LegendOfKage
Member
Right, and apparently Musk hasn't changed any of the content moderation rules yet, so at least it's not a result of that. Hopefully in addition to not allowing slurs, Twitter can soon find better ways of preventing them from getting posted in the first place.
3liteDragon
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LOL
TransTrender
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HoodWinked
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ya even if you're a Musk hater, you had to be completely taken a back to these $20 million golden parachutes that these clowns were getting.
3liteDragon
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darrylgorn
Member
Ah, he's going through his peak evil phase.
We should be hitting philanthropic Gates in about 7 years.
We should be hitting philanthropic Gates in about 7 years.
Wildebeest
Member
I wasn't expecting this to go through, but it is just twitter, so I don't really care what happens to it anyway.
Toons
Member
Sounds like an easy lawsuit. At best it will force him to qualify his claim and back it up. Even if he's somehow able to its worth the attempt with a decent enough lawyer
So we'll be getting a court case after all. Unfortunately I'll probably have lost interest in this story when it resolves
Dee Dah Dave
Member
The rules of Twitter should be very simple. No incitement of violence, and no GENUINE racial hatred.
Everything else is fair game imo.
Everything else is fair game imo.
LordCBH
Member
Add “no kiddie porn” to that list. The last bitch in charge of content policy failed to enforce that, but would absolutely kick you off if you said something as simple and true as “men have peepees”.
Other than those things, you’re free to block if you don’t like what someone says.
TTOOLL
Member
I recently created an account because I couldn’t lurk anymore without one. After that I discovered that the best way to use twitter it not following anyone. Just put people in lists. No algorithm manipulation and no ads.
Do you know about third party frontends like nitter.net? That's how I avoid an account.
TTOOLL
Member
Never heard of them but I’ll look into it. Thanks!!
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The Pleasure
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Am I talking to professional COD Players?
Tams
Member
It's hilarious seeing all this complaining on the very platform they are complaining about.
It'll be very interesting when/if this all comes to light. Has Musk instructed moderation to be reduced? Have some moderators and developers gone rogue and are trying to sabotage the company? Will the disaffected try to make their Twitter with blackjack and hookers? Well, maybe no blackjack and hookers as they'd disapprove of that.
Not that Musk cares. Right now he's hosting a Hallowe'en orgy in Romania to which quite a few of the richest people alive (and possibly among the richest to have ever lived) have been invited.
It'll be very interesting when/if this all comes to light. Has Musk instructed moderation to be reduced? Have some moderators and developers gone rogue and are trying to sabotage the company? Will the disaffected try to make their Twitter with blackjack and hookers? Well, maybe no blackjack and hookers as they'd disapprove of that.
Not that Musk cares. Right now he's hosting a Hallowe'en orgy in Romania to which quite a few of the richest people alive (and possibly among the richest to have ever lived) have been invited.
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Vicetrailia
Banned
All the stories about musk and this are so juicy. He’s going to be seen as a complete moron.
Vicetrailia
Banned
elon already spreading conspiracy theories on twitter, maybe they are a good fit after all
He already deleted it. He has no idea what he is doing.
Pop
Member
Oh ya, sure
nush
Member
You haven't worked out that he's an edgelord fueled by having fuck you money?
LegendOfKage
Member
I couldn't possibly take any media hit piece at face value, and there will be hundreds of them in the days to come.
I do not trust reporters who are incentivized to make you hate or fear the subject of their reporting. At the same time, I'll be all for people holding him to account for the kind of platform censorship that might help him to do business in places like China. I'm sure there will be plenty of genuine criticisms and concerns to be raised, but there will also be a lot of bad faith that finds issues that always existed on Twitter and holds them up as if they were new.
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