Looks like Musk might be cutting the data brokers out entirely. Normally social media companies and ad networks have to share their data with data brokers who then use this information to track you across the Internet and assign a (likely or certain) name, face, SSN, credit card number, IP address history, medical-related search engine history, grocery store club saver purchase history, news article view history, Amazon and eBay histories, Netflix and Youtube streaming view history, and so on to the data, which the data brokers then sell on and share back to the companies they got it from, thus protecting them when they say they only collect anonymous data.

Must might just decide to keep all the data and stop giving the users the placebo-lie treatment and saying they don't collect personally identifiable data. His data becomes more valuable and the users actually benefit from fewer entities having access to this data too. Apple has promoted this exact model to their users as privacy-enhancing, in fact.

Well he wants X to be the everything app.

He just did everything shitty first, from no moderation to frivolous moderation to biometrics to this to AI. Can't wait for this fiasco to finish at this point.

It's still the biggest social media platform out there and in fact it has more daily users now than it did before he bought it (discounting bots) so he's doing something right. Really makes a certain class of people seethe.

Not you, though, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428963

My goodness,

Why not make it even easier for some anon to harass your workplace (happens more often than not)

Hundreds and hundreds of years of striking a balance between people and overreaching governments. Then some private individuals, using a Trojan Horse called a computer, manage to get "permission" to do all the nasty things that governments cannot, and then some. Once these things are done we cannot put the genie back in the bottle.

Yeah interesting I deleted my account because I didn't even trust them with my social media page views so I'm thinking I'll pass on this.

Before purchasing Twitter the social good of a common communications ideal was stated. Afterward it seems Elon has completely switched modes and is optimizing as he's very capable. I don't know that there's much in the way of checks and balances--basically a human Universal Paperclips maximizer.

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Earlier stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37338849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37334991

Good thing this is illegal in the EU.

he said we are anons or something?