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He should reinstate all accounts that were banned for political or ideological reasons. Or just straight up do a jubilee of all accounts unless they posted ille
by memish 5y ago
He should reinstate all accounts that were banned for political or ideological reasons. Or just straight up do a jubilee of all accounts unless they posted illegal content.
- mirceal 5y agowhy? what’s in it for him and what does it mean for all the other people in the US and in the world? ask yourself: why were those accounts banned?
- zionic 5y ago> why were those accounts banned? Twitter is/was a ban happy shithole. It is absolutely trivial to get banned on Twitter. My favorite example is someone I know getting banned for posting pitbull fatality statistics. They were banned for “racism”. Against dogs. Twitter needs a top to bottom purge.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoI call bullshit. Nobody was banned from Twitter for being racist against dogs. Full stop. Did not happen.
- mirceal 5y agoi mean... i can see some automatic system banning some users. does that mean twitter does this on purpose? probably not.
- zionic 5y agoNot going to dox myself via sharing their @. It's banned now so you can't see it anyways. They were attacked by some pitbull advocacy club and likely mass-reported. The replies were full of people saying things like "this is exactly like how white people post statistics to say black people commit more crime! Report this person for racism!" It was charts of dog fatalities per year broken down by breed.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoI still don’t believe that’s the whole story. Maybe it was automatic due to the large number of reportings. But I’m certain nobody at twitter said “yep, let’s ban him for racism against pit bulls”.
- PKop 5y agoIdeological warfare. He supports their views. What's in it for the people banning these accounts?
- mirceal 5y agois it ideological warfare though? what’s the ideology that’s being “suppressed”?
- rootusrootus 5y ago> What's in it for the people banning these accounts? Money. If your advertisers flee, meeting payroll gets exponentially more difficult.
- rootusrootus 5y agoWouldn't that be a violation of his fiduciary duty, at least in the same way that other people in this conversation have defined fiduciary duty when criticizing the board for adopting the poison pill? Bringing back the accounts that spew stuff which pushes advertisers away will not make Twitter more financially successful than they are today.
- xur17 5y agoIf he takes the company private, does he have a fiduciary duty to it?
- rootusrootus 5y agoThat's true, if his intent is to take it private, he could run it into the ground on purpose. Hell, maybe that's his intent. What if it turns out that rather than being a free speech absolutist, he thinks social media is destroying the world and the best way to solve that is to crush it out of existence, starting with Twitter. That wouldn't work, of course, but it would be entertaining.
- MrMan 5y agoDo his lenders enjoy him runni g the collateral into the ground?