Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter (8 Viewers)

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People are leaving X/Twitter in droves
 
Semper said:
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No specific link, but the groups/people who I follow have all reported losing 100's of followers in the past 24 hours. I have lost nearly 500 on one project that I work on.
 
The herd culling itself. Whether it's critical mass or mass hysteria remains to be seen.
 
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Sailorsaint said:
Just because you don’t see the hate on Twitter, doesn’t mean it’s not there and prolific. I can avoid things that are offensive, but it’s still offensive they exist.
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No but I like deciding what hate is for myself. You have other people deciding that for you, you've given up agency. What offends my sensibilities will be the same as yours for some things .... but not all. Therein lies the conflict.

For example, you're a man. Some people find it offensive you exist no matter what kind of man you are. I would assume that that's something you don't agree with.
 
Madmarsha said:
No but I like deciding what hate is for myself. You have other people deciding that for you, you've given up agency. What offends my sensibilities will be the same as yours for some things .... but not all. Therein lies the conflict.

For example, you're a man. Some people find it offensive you exist no matter what kind of man you are. I would assume that that's something you don't agree with.
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The "moderation" of the twitter site is one issue. A big and a very difficult one to maneuver for the reasons you mentioned. Being a moderator on this site, I told my wife back when the purchase was happening and listening to what he was saying and I told her "he thinks he knows what he is doing about moderating content, but he doesn't." She said of course he does. We'll see, was my response. Again, as you mentioned, there is a line to be drawn and it will always not fit everyone - i.e. do you allow porn, and by extension, what is considered porn, etc. Are you okay with deciding what is porn and what isn't on Twitter/X for yourself? Turns out he wanted to give a voice to his views and it's his expensive toy, so he can. And his views have split devotion of him along political lines.

I've said it in this thread (probably more than once) that I really bought into him being a visionary and bright man. Well, he's peeled back his own curtain and I now find him to be quite the opposite. He would have been better off being more private and mysterious instead of revealing how childish and spoiled he is. Hell, even being a little odd or quirky, is fine and I'd still look up to him. But he wields a lot of power because if his wealth he can be very dangerous. Look how he can toy with Starlink and influence a war on the other side of the globe.

Twitter was a much better product before he took over. It would never be perfect and always fluid in sorting out the moderation of it, but he canned a huge staff that was working to the closest area of free speech vs. misinformation, bots, and hate. And so now, advertisers have left in droves and is largely non-political because if it moves the needle, advertisers would place media with them. They left because they don't want their ads parked next to the unfiltered hate and such as their brand and image is on the line.
 
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Charlie Warzel is a tech writer who has been covering Twitter/X for more than a decade - he recently wrote about the growing prevalence of hate and violence on X, and Musk’s tacit embrace and even amplification of some of it, particularly the replacement theory.

To be fair to users, I suspect it’s still possible as Semper said, to have your feed curated in a way that avoids that stuff and gives you what you’re interested in. But the deck is certainly stacked to amplify it.

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X Is a White-Supremacist Site

Elon Musk has made one of Twitter’s most glaring problems into a core feature on X.
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When you are only reading other people's opinions to inform yours, you have no opinions. This is why I never liked Twitter (cos it's Twitter, it's not X). I am "on" it but hardly ever read it. Never post. And mostly "follow" sports.
 
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The "moderation" of the site is one issue. A big and a very difficult one to maneuver for the reasons you mentioned. Being a moderator on this site, I told my wife back when the purchase was happening and listening to what he was saying and I told her "he thinks he knows what he is doing about moderating content, but he doesn't." She said of course he does. We'll see, was my response. Again, as you mentioned, there is a line to drawn and it will always not fit everyone - i.e. do you allow porn, and by extension, what is considered porn, etc. Are you okay with deciding what is porn and what isn't on Twitter/X for yourself? Turns out he wanted to give a voice to his views and it's his expensive toy, so he can. And his views have split devotion of him along political lines.

I've said it in this thread (probably more than once) that I really bought into him being a visionary and bright man. Well, he's peeled back his own curtain and I now find him to be quite the opposite. He would have been better off being more private and mysterious instead of revealing how childish and spoiled he is. Hell, even being a little odd or quirky, is fine and I'd still look up to him. But he wields a lot of power because if his wealth he can be very dangerous. Look how he can toy with Starlink and influence a war on the other side of the globe.

Twitter was a much better product before he took over. It would never be perfect and always fluid in sorting out the moderation of it, but he canned a huge staff that was working to the closest area of free speech vs. misinformation, bots, and hate. And so now, advertisers have left in droves and is largely non-political because if it moves the needle, advertisers would place media with them. They left because they don't want their ads parked next to the unfiltered hate and such as their brand and image is on the line.
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Now this is rich and funny. The mods in here always have to let their leanings shine through.
Sorry X/Musk decided not to bend the knee anymore to the administration and let them decide what is dis/mis information and what they wanted promoted/hidden. MSM is on life support and just continues to be exposed. The total repudiation should be obvious now, but I doubt folks learn.
 

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