Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by x86_64Ubuntu on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:46PM
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You don't find it telling that you have to rope in child exploitation to add weight to the scales in favor of Elon Musk?
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by jacquesm on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:51PM
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For which there is nil evidence.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by xupybd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:54PM
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Yes, I thought that was evident from my post. If he had not done that I would not have had anything good to say about his work at Twitter so far.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by xcrunner529 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:06PM
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He’s not done anything except fire the team responsible for monitoring it working collaboratively with other groups on tools. Oh, and and talking loudly. Are you always this easily fooled?
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by xupybd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:00PM
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Oof, that's a bit rough of you.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by xcrunner529 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:08PM
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Sorry. Anger issues at all the benefit of the doubt horrible people get these days.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by SpanishBrowne on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:42PM
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done what exactly?
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by xupybd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:01PM
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You are right, I'm taking him at his word.
I'm not sure how they can prove much here. All I've seen is an activist in the space supporting him. Specifically https://twitter.com/elizableu
I could be wrong.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by jacquesm on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:18PM
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Yes, you are wrong. Twitter had a whole team dedicated to combating CP on the platform.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by someNameIG on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:14AM
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I've been following @elizablue. It's quite possible she's a bit of a grifter.
And she's also Qanon or at least Qanon adjacent. Few days ago she tweeted that she did believe the world was run by a satanic pedo cult.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by citizenkeen on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:47PM
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What has Twitter done about child exploitation in the last two months other than disband the groups responsible for stopping it?
I can find any reputable news sources saying positive things about Twitter and child exploration.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by mushbino on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:23PM
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It seems to be largely made up. It's almost as if he's burning through right-wing political fear mongering tactics with a quickness.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by mindslight on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:24PM
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They're leaving voluntarily. Musk has cratered Twitter's reputation so hard that even child molesters don't want to be associated with it.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by sf_rob on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:58PM
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- No sudden bans for actions occurred in the timeframe of a TOS that was explicitly interpreted as allowing them.
Elon changed the TOS to obfuscate from it being a personal and vengeful decision.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by bigmattystyles on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:05PM
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Everyone wants that but there is no feasible way to do this economically - there are too many people and too many bad actors ready to go if they even were to try to do this. Twitter is worse off - it wasn't perfect before, faltered and everyone who clamored for what you are asking for just never considered the true costs of the alternative.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by emodendroket on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:13AM
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> At least they appear to be making progress on removing child exploitation.
I am not aware of any source for this claim except Elon himself.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by the_only_law on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:14AM
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Well you should believe him because of some non sequitur about building rockets or something.
I'm actually okay with bans, suspensions and all the rest. But only if there is the following
These recent bans have had none of that. The rule change should have been announced before the bans. There should have been warnings to remove the tweets before instant bans. The accounts should be given the opportunity to comply with the rules and come back.While I'm sad Elon has taken this turn I still don't think Twitter is any worse off. They did this before just to a different group. At least they appear to be making progress on removing child exploitation.
I don't know if the platform can survive the disruption and unpredictably that Musk has introduced but from a moral standing, removing child exploitation wins a lot of points with me.