Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account
by berkle4455 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:24PM
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> illegal
you didn’t take many liberal arts classes in college huh
Musk shouldn't be involved personally in any suspension decisions. That's a huge part of the problem
You can’t blame the enforcement of a new policy on a “rogue employee”. The buck stops with Elon and he needs to own the consequences of whatever policy changes he decides to enact.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account
by krferriter on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:52PM
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I think we need to be at least open to the possibility that the current owner of privately held Twitter is an extraordinarily thin-skinned douchebag with the conflict management skills of a spoiled toddler, and a lengthy track record of petty ridiculous retaliation against people who suggest he is wrong about something or otherwise not the biggest genius in the world.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account
by occamsrazorwit on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:10PM
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From the "Twitter Files", the platform reporting system has a list of accounts, and those accounts can have different levels of "approval" for moderation. For example, any moderation action taken on Libs of Tik Tok would require approval from a committee [1]. Larger, more popular accounts require more eyes as they're likely to garner more "false" reports.
All of this is to say that there are three likely scenarios:
1. For whatever reason (e.g. staffing, technical problems, lack of training), PG's account didn't get treated with the scrutiny it deserved.
2. A report on PG's account went up the chain, landed in front of a trained moderation team, and they banned him against Musk's wishes (presumably unintentionally).
3. Musk desired his ban.
If it was a random tech CEO, I think Scenario 2 would be most likely. Given the recent technical issues with Twitter, their employee turnover, and Musk's recent actions towards "former allies" that spoke out against him, I think it's actually a toss-up.
[1] https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904
All that said, in context this was a truly ridiculous ban from a PR perspective, and it's hard to believe that Musk personally approved it unless there's some hidden drama we can't see. I think we need to be at least open to the possibility[2] that this was a "rogue" employee fed up with the nonsense and banning a famous account in rigid adherence to the dumb rule of the day.
[1] Existence proof: I followed those instructions the second I saw the Tweet, and followed him on Mastodon.
[2] And yes, logically this is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. But... come on, at this point, why the hell not?
[3] (edit because someone decided to pick on this word) in the colloquial sense of "against the rules" of course, not about actual law. c.f. "illegal forward pass".