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Don't deadname X! /s In all seriousness, Elon made a ton of noise about Twitter being the world's town square for public discussion. In reality, all that happe

Don't deadname X! /s In all seriousness, Elon made a ton of noise about Twitter being the world's town square for public discussion. In reality, all that happened was that they got rid of the TOS, then realized they needed a TOS (to bring back fleeing advertisers who know that it's not good for business to have your brand next to toxic content), then blocked public access entirely, and now they're silencing the voices of anyone who doesn't pay for speech.

deburo 3y ago
If you're using Twitter to follow popular fellows, you don't really care about pay-for-reach.
sschueller 3y ago
Doesn't Elon dead name his child?
- lesuorac 3y ago
  > "Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_righ...
  - chownie 3y ago
    Not that I think there's an actual argument at play -- since OP was talking in jest I believe -- but while we're at it, that's the fallacy fallacy. Referring to the brand by a previous name (one still on the site I think?) isn't the same as referring to a person by a previous name. No one feels bad about it when my mum calls Starbursts "fruit chewies", it doesn't make a social situation uncomfortable.
  - sigmar 3y ago
    Corporations aren't people. I'm gonna keep calling it Twitter because "x ceo" and "ex-ceo" are phonetically identical and makes listening to podcasts very confusing
    - WorldMaker 3y ago
      X under Musk's management wants to be the American version of WeChat, so I've taken to using the Chinese pronunciation of 'x' in their modern latin letter orthography. (It's basically English "sh" as in "shoe" but the tongue is raised to block more of the flow of air, to make it sound a bit more like a "hush" sound.) If for some reason, such as in a podcast that sounds too much like white noise to the audience saying things like "x ceo" pronounced that way, I've found "Xitter" to be a useful intermediate form.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting there's any problem with calling Twitter Twitter. A company is not a person, and is not normally afforded the same courtesies around self-identification that a person is.

deburo 3y ago

If you're using Twitter to follow popular fellows, you don't really care about pay-for-reach.

sschueller 3y ago

Doesn't Elon dead name his child?

lesuorac 3y ago
> "Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_don%27t_make_a_righ...
- chownie 3y ago
  Not that I think there's an actual argument at play -- since OP was talking in jest I believe -- but while we're at it, that's the fallacy fallacy. Referring to the brand by a previous name (one still on the site I think?) isn't the same as referring to a person by a previous name. No one feels bad about it when my mum calls Starbursts "fruit chewies", it doesn't make a social situation uncomfortable.
- sigmar 3y ago
  Corporations aren't people. I'm gonna keep calling it Twitter because "x ceo" and "ex-ceo" are phonetically identical and makes listening to podcasts very confusing
  - WorldMaker 3y ago
    X under Musk's management wants to be the American version of WeChat, so I've taken to using the Chinese pronunciation of 'x' in their modern latin letter orthography. (It's basically English "sh" as in "shoe" but the tongue is raised to block more of the flow of air, to make it sound a bit more like a "hush" sound.) If for some reason, such as in a podcast that sounds too much like white noise to the audience saying things like "x ceo" pronounced that way, I've found "Xitter" to be a useful intermediate form.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting there's any problem with calling Twitter Twitter. A company is not a person, and is not normally afforded the same courtesies around self-identification that a person is.