Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by phkahler on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:01PM (#31159208)

>> Trolls, disinformation spreaders, and "free reach absolutists" are going to be thrilled with the megaphone Musk will provide them to drown out their enemies.

Just remember, twitter does not give those people a megaphone. It's the media that report on their stupid shit that gives them an audience. Otherwise nobody would know what they're saying - especially the people who don't like them - and yet everyone knows who some of those people are.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rectang on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:20PM (#31159402)

Impeding unlimited harassment is anti-free-reach. Trolls won't get banned under Musk — they're his soul mates. They will have free rein to brigade the posts of their enemies and will use massive replying at scale as a megaphone to scream others down.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by phkahler on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:25PM (#31162173)

You can block them right?

I foresee measures coming to prevent coordinated attacks too large for simple blocking, but that will take some time.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by UberFly on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:49PM (#31160401)

Truth is only some of the "trolls" historically have been banned on Twitter. The ones the board agreed with were allowed to keep at it.

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