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I honestly don't think it'll change that much. Musk's statements thus far suggest that he lacks a basic understanding of the problems inherent to running a plat
by somesortofthing 4y ago
I honestly don't think it'll change that much. Musk's statements thus far suggest that he lacks a basic understanding of the problems inherent to running a platform like Twitter, so he'll probably just get frustrated and lose interest once he starts running into them. I suspect that the company will end up in the hands of a group indistinguishable from the current board, except they'll be Musk's friends.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoI don't think you'll see changed policy, but you'll see the one-off demands of a guy who gets what he wants. So Trump unbanned, people who upset him randomly banned, etc.
- somesortofthing 4y agoYeah, that's for sure a possibility. The purchase might even end up as a marginal improvement since he actively uses Twitter and might request some QoL features once in a while.
- ratsmack 4y agoI believe you're 100% wrong, but we'll just have to wait and see what transpires, because it's all speculation at this point in time.
- memish 4y agoWhy do people keep saying he'll get frustrated and lose interest, as though he has a history of giving up on things once they get hard? People were saying that about his bid too.
- evandale 4y agoSame... I'm not sure why people think that the guy who spent billions to create a reusable rocket that can land on little tiny pads in the ocean would throw his hands up and think the problem of bots and spam on Twitter is unsolvable.
- rich_sasha 4y agoRocket to Mars, arguing with small-minded people in 140 characters... I know which one I’d bore off more quickly.
- evandale 4y agoPut that way, ok I can see it.
- irvingprime 4y agoActually, he sounds to me like he has an entirely reasonable understanding of twitter. Can you provide specific areas where you think his understanding is deficient?
- calciphus 4y agohttps://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-demonstrates-how-little-he-understands-about-content-moderation/ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-demonstrates-h... Namely I think he vastly underestimates how complex content moderation at scale is.
- twelve40 4y agoThese articles almost pretend like the entire staff will leave and he will have to rebuild the service from scratch alone, personally. Surely, there will be some existing people and processes around to help him?
- native_samples 4y agoHe seems to be intending to take Twitter back to the type and scale of content moderation social media firms had pre-2015, which is perhaps not co-incidentally when they achieved their huge levels of growth. Too many HN readers appear to be trying to convince themselves of this idea: that content moderation is some insanely hard problem. It's not. Social media grew to billions of users with relatively straightforward policies. It only seems that way now because the type of people who are obsessed with "moderation" (read: banning ideas they don't like) also struggle to crystallize a coherent set of beliefs about what speech should and should not be allowed. The absurd false positive and noise rates on Twitter/FB moderation is evidence of this. In place of coherent policies there is an inconsistent and ever-shifting set of unwritten rules that must be reverse engineered by outsiders to even begin to understand the underlying "logic". Reverting to a classical policy of: 1. No spamming. 2. No engaging in illegal activity (e.g. financial fraud, CP, copyright infringement). 3. Tweets that violate local laws will be hidden in that jurisdiction. along with the usual boilerplates you find in any 2010-era ToS, would be plenty sufficient and would not in fact pose problems harder than literal rocket science.