What’s Musk got in store for Twitter? — 13 Comments
The billionaire has also said he wants to verify “all real humans” who use the site in an effort to crack down on spam.
That’s a tough one to solve in my opinion. It’d probably be too onerous to expect users to complete CAPTCHAs or something similar before every Tweet. Maybe they could force users to do some sort of validation once every 10 or 20 Tweets or so?
Verifying real humans…one approach: If you’re a non-paying user, then you have to complete a real-person test every 10 tweets or so…but if you’re a *paying* user, you only have to do it once.
I posted a question at Chicago Boyz: What would YOU do with twitter?
Very interesting that some Twitter users are reporting big % up and down swings in their followers today. Theories are that it’s a mass exodus of leftists with a mass entrance of Conservatives, OR, Twitter is opening things up internally and limiting suppression and boosting to cover their tracks and hide from manipulation they have been performing on accounts.
Hey you!!
Get offa my Free-Speech-For-Me-But-Not-For-Thee lawn!!!
What’s that? It’s not my lawn anymore?
Seeya round Fascist. I’m outta here…
Related:
Veritas Project at it again (bless their courageous, if whimsical, hearts)…
And so we present…to a sober and discerning public… Veri-Leaks….
“Twitter Insider Leaks Audio Recording of Internal All-Hands Meeting Following Elon Musk Takeover” https://youtu.be/hM0Ms0M777U
H/T Blazingcatfur blog
(Or maybe that should be Quickie-Leaks…)
Whatever. File under: The Truth will make you laugh…that is, if you don’t puke first.
My only concern is for the notion of eliminating anonymity with the intention of eliminating/reducing Spam.
I believe there needs to be anonymity as an important part of Free Speech.
Even the Founders recognized, in their day and age, that a part of Free Speech is the capacity to make statements without fear of reprisal (which is one of the main issues with doxxing). The cost is a rightful skepticism of what is being said.
The other, flip side of it ties to the Federalist Papers, written by three of the Founders to encourage/argue for people to vote for the Constitution as the new law of the land in the late 1780s. If they had published it themselves, it would have been both accepted by virtue of respect for them, but also derided as them selling their own ideas.
By posting them anonymously, they were (correctly) aiming for the arguments contained within to be taken on the merits of the arguments, and not having them affected by the reputation of The Authors.
Musk’s major better noir may have been Twitter’s chief legal counsel who was put in charge of regulating moral expression on the site, immigrant from India, Vijaya Gedde, age 47.
The Daily Mail has the most thoroughly review of her history and Musk and her online dust storm. This has been a major irritant on the Right and with true classic liberals everywhere.
Know your enemy. She’s been a major Dem contributor, including to VP Harris’ prez bid.
“Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde is in the spotlight after Elon Musk criticized her in a string of scathing tweets, leading a former company executive to accuse the billionaire of ‘bullying’ and spearheading a harassment campaign.
“Gadde, 47, has been a low-key Silicon Valley power player for years, and at Twitter played a key role in the contentious decisions to ban Donald Trump and suppress news articles about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
More info on where Musk may be going: h/t Revolver, which says Musk himself pointed to this interview. And with that preface, the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdCrW27kNc
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That’s a tough one to solve in my opinion. It’d probably be too onerous to expect users to complete CAPTCHAs or something similar before every Tweet. Maybe they could force users to do some sort of validation once every 10 or 20 Tweets or so?
Here’s another view of the problems Musk faces, from Darren Beattie in conversation with Steve Bannon yesterday: https://rumble.com/v12evii-beattie-elons-twitter-acquisition-will-allow-for-full-spectrum-of-political.html
Whatever happens, I will follow with a good supply of popcorn.
“Prior to Musk’s takeover bid, he posted a meme comparing Agrawal to Joseph Stalin.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
Verifying real humans…one approach: If you’re a non-paying user, then you have to complete a real-person test every 10 tweets or so…but if you’re a *paying* user, you only have to do it once.
I posted a question at Chicago Boyz: What would YOU do with twitter?
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67608.html
Related:
“Big Tech Censored Biden Criticism 646 Times Over 2 Years: Report”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/big-tech-censored-biden-criticism-646-times-over-2-years-report
Gotta admit. The truth is dangerous.
The truth is dangerous.
Ayep. Plato, again already.
Very interesting that some Twitter users are reporting big % up and down swings in their followers today. Theories are that it’s a mass exodus of leftists with a mass entrance of Conservatives, OR, Twitter is opening things up internally and limiting suppression and boosting to cover their tracks and hide from manipulation they have been performing on accounts.
Hey you!!
Get offa my Free-Speech-For-Me-But-Not-For-Thee lawn!!!
What’s that? It’s not my lawn anymore?
Seeya round Fascist. I’m outta here…
Related:
Veritas Project at it again (bless their courageous, if whimsical, hearts)…
And so we present…to a sober and discerning public… Veri-Leaks….
“Twitter Insider Leaks Audio Recording of Internal All-Hands Meeting Following Elon Musk Takeover”
https://youtu.be/hM0Ms0M777U
H/T Blazingcatfur blog
(Or maybe that should be Quickie-Leaks…)
Whatever. File under: The Truth will make you laugh…that is, if you don’t puke first.
My only concern is for the notion of eliminating anonymity with the intention of eliminating/reducing Spam.
I believe there needs to be anonymity as an important part of Free Speech.
Even the Founders recognized, in their day and age, that a part of Free Speech is the capacity to make statements without fear of reprisal (which is one of the main issues with doxxing). The cost is a rightful skepticism of what is being said.
The other, flip side of it ties to the Federalist Papers, written by three of the Founders to encourage/argue for people to vote for the Constitution as the new law of the land in the late 1780s. If they had published it themselves, it would have been both accepted by virtue of respect for them, but also derided as them selling their own ideas.
By posting them anonymously, they were (correctly) aiming for the arguments contained within to be taken on the merits of the arguments, and not having them affected by the reputation of The Authors.
Musk’s major better noir may have been Twitter’s chief legal counsel who was put in charge of regulating moral expression on the site, immigrant from India, Vijaya Gedde, age 47.
The Daily Mail has the most thoroughly review of her history and Musk and her online dust storm. This has been a major irritant on the Right and with true classic liberals everywhere.
Know your enemy. She’s been a major Dem contributor, including to VP Harris’ prez bid.
“Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde is in the spotlight after Elon Musk criticized her in a string of scathing tweets, leading a former company executive to accuse the billionaire of ‘bullying’ and spearheading a harassment campaign.
“Gadde, 47, has been a low-key Silicon Valley power player for years, and at Twitter played a key role in the contentious decisions to ban Donald Trump and suppress news articles about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Here is my cached LINK that I found because I wanted to save it’s text.
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2fnews%2farticle-10764169%2fMeet-Twitters-lawyer-Vijaya-Gadde.html&d=1301801233560&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=HGWyFPElGPpOFUaC43f-u2HneXUoxdzy
More info on where Musk may be going: h/t Revolver, which says Musk himself pointed to this interview. And with that preface, the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdCrW27kNc