Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate

Re:Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts twee... by cornercasechase on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:57AM (#36177698)

“Altruistic purposes”, what would those be? I’ve only seen him censor his opponents, spew bog standard far-right talking points and make poor product decisions. How is that “altruistic”?

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Re:Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts twee... by antisthenes on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:04PM (#36177759)

There's part of me that considers driving the hate machine that is Twitter into the ground and general irrelevance an altruistic purpose.

The world would be better off without Twitter, until they can figure out how to separate the hate machine from its useful purposes in a sustainable way.

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Re:Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts twee... by xracy on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:29PM (#36179228)

While I appreciate this take as a funny consideration... I feel like it fails the altruism test by not being intentional.

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Re:Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts twee... by rsynnott on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:31PM (#36181151)

Finally destroying the hellsite, for the benefit of all.

(As someone who (a) used to enjoy Twitter a lot, (b) always suspected that Twitter was quite bad for society, I have mixed feeling about its current implosion.)

(To be clear, he obviously is not destroying Twitter for altruistic purposes; the above is a joke. It should not be necessary to point this out, but one odd attribute of figures like Trump and Musk is that there are always people who insist that everything they do, no matter how obviously ridiculous, is actually intentional and ingenious, so Poe’s Law is in full effect here.)

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