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what's super fun now is watching one mod try to run twitter without any written policies whatsoever.

by noduerme 4y ago

brtkdotse 4y ago
Imagine paying 44 billion buckaroos to become a mod.
- wyclif 4y ago
  Pretty bad take. He paid 44 million to own the town square.
  - krapp 4y ago
    Let's be real - He paid 44 billion to own the libs.
    - e-clinton 4y ago
      Then quickly realized the libs were paying twitter’s bills. While this story is good for engagement on Twitter, it’s not exactly pushing advertisers to run back to Twitter. I doubt Twitter is worth even $4B now
      - tekknik 4y ago
        So, to recap, the left tried to create a left only town square, and now someone comes in and makes it neutral again, and we’re angry enough to hope this guy wasted $44bil?
        krapp 4y ago
        No. To recap, Twitter was never actually a left only town square, that was always a right-wing conspiracy theory. Elon Musk didn't make it neutral, nor did he intend to, rather he seems to want to turn Twitter into a right-wing platform. We don't have to hope he wasted $44 billion, he definitely, objectively has done so. And we're not angry, we're mocking him and his sycophantic cohort. I hope that clears things up.
        2devnull 4y ago
        Did you read the featured Twitter thread? Denial is strong when it comes to both the left and rights concern about human rights in the digital age. Don’t let emphemeral politics blind you to long term trends. Be more deontological wrt freedom. Your ancestors died for it. Don’t let it slip away cause you didn’t like trump.
        krapp 4y ago
        I did read it. I don't believe it to be the smoking gun so many others around here do, nor do I find the conspiracy narrative it is purported to prove to be credible. I don't expect anyone who has bought into that narrative to question it for a moment, however.
        tekknik 4y ago
        So because you don’t believe it all who don’t question it are what exactly? Seems like you’re trying to dismiss facts.
        kcplate 4y ago
        Dorsey wanted it to be a town square. Corporate decision makers with activist leanings applied a policy in this case that didn’t really fit the situation because they needed an established company policy to justify the activism and election interference by this censorship that they were doing here on behalf of the political campaign they supported. After it was exposed, they updated the policy but refused to apply it backward in this case, because of their activism. They couldn’t, because there was enough polarization in the country that it could have tipped the scales. If it was done at this scale, it’s likely similar censorship happened at the company on a smaller scale as well. Because of this it’s accurate to say that Twitter’s leadership team created the optics that it was a town square that only supported a specifically political philosophy and was hostile to other political philosophies. Can you honestly and truly say that if a laptop was abandoned at a repair shop with similarly explosive revelations about Donald Trump jr that this story would have been censored to the same degree on Twitter using the same policy excuse? I can’t.
    - AtlasBarfed 4y ago
      But if you believe the story, Muskhead was ... correct about Twitter "moderation"/"censorship"? Taibbi is about as muckracking-leftwing as it gets. Now, I'm not saying Muskovite won't take cash for "moderation" from the political parties.... this is going to be a MASSIVE cash spend presidential cycle. What I'm shocked about is that there isn't a "moderation" bidding system. Democrats give twitter 10 million to suppress this story... does the RNC want to up it to 15 million to not suppress, or 20 million to PUSH it? Maybe Elon will make a profit after all.
  - dwighttk 4y ago
    Where’d the other $43.956B go?
    - krapp 4y ago
      Yeah yeah - serves me right for snarking before I've had my morning coffee.
      - the_only_law 4y ago
        Forgot to switch off your alt account?
        krapp 4y ago
        no?
        the_only_law 4y ago
        Then why are you replying the the previous question with “serves me right” when you aren’t even the GP
        etchalon 4y ago
        Caught.
        wyclif 4y ago
        Nope, he just mispoke. That's not me and I don't have any alt accounts.
    - wyclif 4y ago
      Meant to say "billion."

what's super fun now is watching one mod try to run twitter without any written policies whatsoever.

brtkdotse 4y ago

Imagine paying 44 billion buckaroos to become a mod.

wyclif 4y ago
Pretty bad take. He paid 44 million to own the town square.
- krapp 4y ago
  Let's be real - He paid 44 billion to own the libs.
  - e-clinton 4y ago
    Then quickly realized the libs were paying twitter’s bills. While this story is good for engagement on Twitter, it’s not exactly pushing advertisers to run back to Twitter. I doubt Twitter is worth even $4B now
    - tekknik 4y ago
      So, to recap, the left tried to create a left only town square, and now someone comes in and makes it neutral again, and we’re angry enough to hope this guy wasted $44bil?
      - krapp 4y ago
        No. To recap, Twitter was never actually a left only town square, that was always a right-wing conspiracy theory. Elon Musk didn't make it neutral, nor did he intend to, rather he seems to want to turn Twitter into a right-wing platform. We don't have to hope he wasted $44 billion, he definitely, objectively has done so. And we're not angry, we're mocking him and his sycophantic cohort. I hope that clears things up.
        2devnull 4y ago
        Did you read the featured Twitter thread? Denial is strong when it comes to both the left and rights concern about human rights in the digital age. Don’t let emphemeral politics blind you to long term trends. Be more deontological wrt freedom. Your ancestors died for it. Don’t let it slip away cause you didn’t like trump.
        krapp 4y ago
        I did read it. I don't believe it to be the smoking gun so many others around here do, nor do I find the conspiracy narrative it is purported to prove to be credible. I don't expect anyone who has bought into that narrative to question it for a moment, however.
        tekknik 4y ago
        So because you don’t believe it all who don’t question it are what exactly? Seems like you’re trying to dismiss facts.
        kcplate 4y ago
        Dorsey wanted it to be a town square. Corporate decision makers with activist leanings applied a policy in this case that didn’t really fit the situation because they needed an established company policy to justify the activism and election interference by this censorship that they were doing here on behalf of the political campaign they supported. After it was exposed, they updated the policy but refused to apply it backward in this case, because of their activism. They couldn’t, because there was enough polarization in the country that it could have tipped the scales. If it was done at this scale, it’s likely similar censorship happened at the company on a smaller scale as well. Because of this it’s accurate to say that Twitter’s leadership team created the optics that it was a town square that only supported a specifically political philosophy and was hostile to other political philosophies. Can you honestly and truly say that if a laptop was abandoned at a repair shop with similarly explosive revelations about Donald Trump jr that this story would have been censored to the same degree on Twitter using the same policy excuse? I can’t.
  - AtlasBarfed 4y ago
    But if you believe the story, Muskhead was ... correct about Twitter "moderation"/"censorship"? Taibbi is about as muckracking-leftwing as it gets. Now, I'm not saying Muskovite won't take cash for "moderation" from the political parties.... this is going to be a MASSIVE cash spend presidential cycle. What I'm shocked about is that there isn't a "moderation" bidding system. Democrats give twitter 10 million to suppress this story... does the RNC want to up it to 15 million to not suppress, or 20 million to PUSH it? Maybe Elon will make a profit after all.
- dwighttk 4y ago
  Where’d the other $43.956B go?
  - krapp 4y ago
    Yeah yeah - serves me right for snarking before I've had my morning coffee.
    - the_only_law 4y ago
      Forgot to switch off your alt account?
      - krapp 4y ago
        no?
        the_only_law 4y ago
        Then why are you replying the the previous question with “serves me right” when you aren’t even the GP
        etchalon 4y ago
        Caught.
        wyclif 4y ago
        Nope, he just mispoke. That's not me and I don't have any alt accounts.
  - wyclif 4y ago
    Meant to say "billion."