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Is it that weird? The apparent trigger for this policy is Kathy Griffin "impersonating" Musk, and nobody thought her account was his. Her account got suspende
by klyrs 4y ago
Is it that weird? The apparent trigger for this policy is Kathy Griffin "impersonating" Musk, and nobody thought her account was his. Her account got suspended, which goes above and beyond this policy; which happened before this policy came out, despite his promise of no major content decisions until he gets his moderation committee together (which hasn't happened yet). He's all "free speech absolutism" but lashes out at people whose speech is critical of him. So yeah. Expect some negativity.
- woojoo666 4y agoAre we sure that's the trigger? As I said, this is something HN has been asking for for months. And the fix is so obvious. It's natural that Elon would push for it in his first week or so
- rhaway84773 4y agoJust because you said this is what HN has been asking for months doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s not even clear why HN would be asking this for months because there was no concern about this issue until a few weeks ago thanks to the blue check marks. Any links to a thread where a substantial number of HN commenters were asking for this policy?
- woojoo666 4y agoHere, from 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32841997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32841997 And it's the top comment on the thread
- klyrs 4y agoDo you have any evidence that Musk gives a shit about what people say on this site? Because he responds to Kathy Griffin. He doesn't appear to be posting here.
- woojoo666 4y agoIt's less that Elon reads this site, and more that it's an obvious solution that people were asking for months ago. I'm sure twitter PMs and engineers have brought this up internally many times
- klyrs 4y agoDid I say that I was sure of the trigger or did I indicate uncertainty with the word "apparent"? Which is the more likely cause for this policy change: 1: Kathy Griffin poked the bear 2: Randos on HN thought a policy would be a good idea My money's on 1.
- woojoo666 4y agoI guess we'll have to disagree then, I feel Elon was already planning on making this change before Kathy did anything
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe obvious answer is of course Hur dur Musk bad It’s an obvious improvement but it has to be framed as some kind of overreaction.
- marcusverus 4y ago> He's all "free speech absolutism" but lashes out at people whose speech is critical of him. She changed her display name to "Elon Musk", copied Elon's profile pic, then proceeded to tweet a political endorsement. Do we care about misinformation, or don't we? [0]https://twitter.com/Davei_Boi/status/1589592753805340674/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Davei_Boi/status/1589592753805340674/pho...
- woojoo666 4y agoThis isn't even really a free speech issue. You can still change your name. Just not with a verified checkmark. In fact we can think of twitter verification as a way of asserting that your name won't change. This way, people will trust the name more.
- klyrs 4y ago> You can still change your name. For certain values of "you," anyway.
- woojoo666 4y agoAnybody can do it. If you are already verified, just stop paying, and you'll lose verification, and now you can change your name. Perhaps they should make it easier to remove the verification yourself, though I don't see it being a common use case
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe question is, what is Twitter verifying when you get the checkmark? I don’t see what they can verify if your usercode happens to be marc1986.
- woojoo666 4y agoMaybe they just check if your real name matches your twitter display name
- klyrs 4y ago