The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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cheesyboy said:

Not a fan of that
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"what's that Lassie, you say little Elon's got the FTC and EU opening anti competitive practices investigations".

He's really itching to be up in front of congressional hearings explaining with(out) supporting documentation how these policies aren't purely intended to help a dominant market player maintain it's position by exploiting it, selectively to try and prevent customers being aware off/able to easily access competitors.

As I said earlier in the thread, MS faced such investigations simply for bundling their browser as the default in windows, and had to settle by including a choice of browsers as part of the installation. I wonder how much worse it could be for Musk given he's actively suppressing and lying about the competition.

On a side note, this is likely going to help push even more content creators off, because they often use services where you post a single link and it takes you to a page with say links to where you can buy their stuff, watch their videos, see them on other social media sites that specialise in other aspects., and apparently the policy bans those as well.


The new year is likely to full of fun, new legal lessons for Musk.
 
It seems Twitter users are free to mention other platforms, e.g. "Check out the photos of my holiday on Facebook." just not in the context of. "This is a flounce; I'm moving to @Xyz on platform ABC."
 
Kenai said:
Can't attack that policy too hard when posting on a forum that doesn't allow competitor links :p
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Well, you can because OCUK have never claimed to be some impossible and imaginary entity whereby a free platform can be created with zero rules aimed towards maintaining its money making capability.

Elon tried to sell a vision of a completely free speech friendly town hall, whilst seemingly forgetting that the company had to make money too.
 
Quartz said:
It seems Twitter users are free to mention other platforms, e.g. "Check out the photos of my holiday on Facebook." just not in the context of. "This is a flounce; I'm moving to @Xyz on platform ABC."
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Sure 'cause that can't possibly be accused of being arbitrary, or unworkable, or stupid, or some combination thereof.
 
Werewolf said:
On a side note, this is likely going to help push even more content creators off, because they often use services where you post a single link and it takes you to a page with say links to where you can buy their stuff, watch their videos, see them on other social media sites that specialise in other aspects., and apparently the policy bans those as well.
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Good point. When I "used" twitter for work, it was done by Instagram automatically for me, and it was to make a post essentially saying "look at my latest Instagram photo"

I imagine there's absolutely tones of users that use it in the same way for their companies.

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It seems Twitter users are free to mention other platforms, e.g. "Check out the photos of my holiday on Facebook." just not in the context of. "This is a flounce; I'm moving to @Xyz on platform ABC."
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Interesting if true, but no idea how they police that.
 
cheesyboy said:

Not a fan of that
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If that's just a combo of trying to get that journalist woman + sacking off the Mastodon links (but including a few others so as not to make it too obvious) then LOL

I guess the link aggregators have to go too if banning those else it's an obvious workaround but surely he's gotta reverse some of this rule or tweak it a bit, the OF girls are going to be miffed for sure but more importantly plenty of celebs and other public figures have their Insta links etc.. in their profiles and the interaction with public figures is like a huge part of twitter, annoying them too much is a bad move.

Interesting how it doesn't seem to include TikTok though???
 
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