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My hope was for a more transparent Twitter. I guess that's out the window too.
by xupybd 4y ago
My hope was for a more transparent Twitter. I guess that's out the window too.
- hn_go_brrrrr 4y agoI dunno, with all of the recent leaks, Twitters internal workings have all been made public. Sounds pretty transparent to me!
- philjohn 4y agoDoes it? It doesn't to me. It feels like they've deliberately hand picked things that would rile up the base - dropping that the Trump admin requested content removed, but not showing that, then including an image of links the Biden campaign wanted removing, leaving out the fact that every single one of those links was non consentual intimage imagery of a private citizen is the antithesis of transparency to me.
- hn_go_brrrrr 4y agoThose are Twitter's official comms, not the leaks.
- philjohn 4y agoNo, those were the twitter files tweets.
- hn_go_brrrrr 4y agoHow is that not official comms? It's literally sanctioned and arranged by the C-suite. Regardless, this isn't what I was referring to by leaks upthread.
- xupybd 4y agoThe claim is that they are releasing through journalists for now to stir up interest. I think it's a ploy to get people to jump on Twitter for their news. Elon said he will likely release all of the documents in time. I'm not sure if that's safe for legal reasons. Who knows what private details would have to be redacted.
- philjohn 4y agoI have zero faith that what is released will not be deliberately slanted. Elon has made his leanings crystal clear, as well as the base he now wants to play to.
- ModernMech 4y agoThe reason it was released through journalists rather than as raw data is because they needed to attach a framing narrative to the data. They had to do this because the data alone without the narrative attached have proven to be pretty banal.
- xupybd 4y agoYeah, but they have to be open about present workings not just past workings. I'll give them time. If they can be clear and transparent about even this I'll be happy. Yeah Elon might be a dictator throwing his weight around (I probably would too) but if there is due process and transparency so be it. This doesn't appear to be the case. They state in the rules that publicly available information can be shared. I'm sure we will find out one way or another what direction Twitter heads. It seems odd to me that you would create an account tracking anyone's plane. That doesn't seem to benefit anyone but people have weird hobbies.
- snotrockets 4y agoUnfounded hope of course: no one who has, or had, monetary interest in the success of Twitter would or would have gained from transparency. Twitter is a public company, and may be a digital public square, but it does not have the public good as a rewardable goal.
- xupybd 4y agoI had thought, and still suspect, that the Twitter purchase might be a vanity project for Musk. As such his motives are a little harder to reason about than pure profit. While it might not have public good as a goal, I think that having Musk appear as a public hero of freedom might be a goal.
- snotrockets 4y agoEven with this goal, it makes little sense. Every decision could be unliked by some: to be a hero, better keep your decisions confidential.
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- Taniwha 4y agowell this is rather the perfect test case - is Elon willing to allow the freedom of speech for someone who is doing something that is pretty trivial but to him personally annoying at a pretty low level? The answer seems to be "No, Elon only wants the speech that he likes" This does not bode well for twitter's future, or for that matter SpaceX/Tesla if Elon is going to be spending all his time as Twitter's chief censor
- aeternum 4y agoAgreed, I wanted to believe but this is disappointing. Even worse, there's no transparency here: What rule was violated, how long is the suspension, etc.