The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Social media is vile. Full stop.
You either get too much free speach or no free speach and dictative owners on their own platform.
I don't even see a way to balance it.
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Well it's balanced but free speech (in a way) is limited. You can't say certain things when the platform dictates it. I guess when you click the signup button on any platform, you break their rules you get banned and it's really as simple as that. It's up to the user to read them.
That's kind of my point it's either someone making rules or free speech. I think what's worse is when AI is involved checking ALL posts for certain keywords or phrases and auto bans accounts e.t.c.
You can't have in-between IMO.
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It's far too social for me.
But I also suspect things would be oh so different if social media aliases were banned and you had to use your proven actual name, standing by your comments and everyone knowing who you were.
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Tbh I'd imagine it'll only get worse. Less chance of being banned now surely?
I assume you cna give 10 examples of freaking out? I'm yet to see anyone. People most are laughing at him being forced to buy something he didn't want to buy, or critique his decision.
I see the word freaking out used a lot but then never any examples of said freaking out.
Indeed. He was and will be a laugh.
The funny thing is Elon said the other day he doesn't want to scare advertisers away etc etc, and one of the first things he will do is unban someone that got banned for inciting a violent insurrection. I wonder where the new bar will be for banning.
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Most people know who you are on Twitter, at least accounts that are well known.
Social media is fine on the whole, its just the extremes that ruin things.
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To do this you would have to upload some form of ID.
I can see a problem with this. Lets say I want to sign up for an account. It asks me to upload ID. What's to stop someone elses ID been used and using their name? So in theory it's a kind of false identity and that person behind them words may not even be them.
Only other thing I can think of is video ID like what the new online only banks use.
You've just asked a question and then gone on to answer it yourself, I don't believe that to be the case.
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Wait until the first person gets banned and it comes to light why. There will be news articles and grudge matches happening. Unless musk plans on banning no-one but I really really can't see that going down well.
To be fair to Parag he's bagged himself 8 figures for only a few months of work and delivered some incredible shareholder value (Elon has blatantly overpaid a fair bit and knows it thus the court cases), Parag may have been better off in the long run if he'd been a bit more open to change with his initial dialogue with Elon but there is plenty of risk for Elon here, would be nice to see him making a success of this acquisition but there's a reasonable chance it turns into a bit of a damp squib.
Because mild disagreement or wrongthink is seen as literal "white supremacy" etc. There are people out there who, for example, fly into a rage over the latest J K Rowling tweet, not because she's some hateful bigot but rather because she's got some opinions that differ from the acceptable woke narrative on trans people (who she's openly stated on several occasions she supports). Elon's beloved anti-woke humour site the Babylon Bee was suspended for a very mild joke on this sacred cow of a topic too and that sort of thing might well change.
This sort of thing is rather unlikely though:
Elon isn't insane, there will still be rules and obvious things you can be suspended for, the app still has to live in app stores with their own rules/standards too.
I haven't seen any direct evidence that he promised that, just some stories citing "sources" which seem to run contrary to what he's actually said. Of course, he already has and is going to sack some more people, that's a good thing, but 75% doesn't pass the sniff test.
On the subject of sacking, this seems like another good one:
Because mild disagreement or wrongthink is seen as literal "white supremacy" etc. There are people out there who, for example, fly into a rage over the latest J K Rowling tweet, not because she's some hateful bigot but rather because she's got some opinions that differ from the acceptable woke narrative on trans people (who she's openly stated on several occasions she supports). Elon's beloved anti-woke humour site the Babylon Bee was suspended for a very mild joke on this sacred cow of a topic too and that sort of thing might well change.
This sort of thing is rather unlikely though:
Elon isn't insane, there will still be rules and obvious things you can be suspended for, the app still has to live in app stores with their own rules/standards too.
I haven't seen any direct evidence that he promised that, just some stories citing "sources" which seem to run contrary to what he's actually said. Of course, he already has and is going to sack some more people, that's a good thing, but 75% doesn't pass the sniff test.
On the subject of sacking, this seems like another good one:
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correct. it's how far he's told to ban and for what reasons.
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I guess congratulations is in order as Elon Musk becomes the first African American to own a major social media platform.
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What does it matter?
Do I need to be pro Ukraine to see how evil the Russian regime is? When they destroyed whole neighbourhoods in Syria and When they sent wagner mercenaries to massacre villages in Africa the silence was deafening.
Disagreement with someone's opinion does not automatically mean you endorse the other side.
We don't need to be bots and all sing to the same tune.
As much as people dislike Musk, he does believe we are all one global family.
Too social? So many don't even discuss there without literally wanting to tear their throats out. Todays Internet is no longer about discussing in a calm matter. It's all extremes and interrogating. Even here has greatly changed compared to 2010. Almost every forum is the same these days with the way how they behave on twitter that has been taken to other platforms. It's also been creeping into real life behaviour because they've done it for so long that it's now the new normal.
Look how everything is a trend. The conduct has now become a trend where mostly everyone is doing it. 1 does it, then a million is doing it.
All you just have to do is have a different point of view to theirs and it all goes downhill. There's no tolerance today.
The thing is in 2010 people got away with saying absolute nonsense. Nowadays people are judged more critically, as let's be honest, we are a lot less anonymous on the internet than we were - so it is harder to look past peoples controversial views without thinking 'wtf - this is a real human and those are his actual views'.
My 2 cents anyway.
No he isn't.
He might not think that which is fair, but that is the ultimately the outcome given the context.
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