here's hoping, but it ain't looking good so far

financial folk are the ones who care if advertisers are happy, and as a consequence push for the platform to be relatively clean of hate speech and shit

ain't a good sign, no sir

And Musk plans to fire 75% of the Twitter workforce, which I suspect much is related to the enforcement of those rules over hate speech.

man twitter is going to be fun to watch as leftoids lose their shit

Make sure the Twitter refugees dont fuck up this place guiz

not that you can read this, but if elon lets fascists have free rein and trashes TOS it's gonna lose all the revenue it gets through ads and either turn into a personal money sink for elon to uphold himself (lol) or close shop in a few years due to server costs being impossible to recoup on it's own

once again i must point out that fascists are a suicide cult that lead to their own destruction (but not without causing as much misery as possible on their way out)

you morons are your own worst enemy, and you're too stupid to realize it

Haw dang, looks like the party's on. Good thing I finally scored a few days off so I can watch this shitstorm from the comf zone.

Those executives deserved it.

Speaking of which, looks like I'll be getting my old job back...

Not really.

It'd be cool if he does turn the twitter HQ into a homeless shelter.

inb4 DDOS XD

I don't mind if he crashes the entire corp and hands over the logs to INTERPOL.

We shall see. The guy says a lot of things. Knowing him, yes, he will fire a lot lot of people to trim the sales and show instant profit for those who helped him buy Twitter.

Granted. @Sequenced

Wait we're finally able to say whatever we want on twitter now?

looks like despite his best efforts elon is now shackled to twitter

only time will tell how good a move this will have been

didn't he float ideas like making users pay to tweet in the past or something lol

In dogecoin, as a method to weed out bots IIRC. Can't imagine it would inspire much posting, but on the other hand, an empty site would have fewer bots.

Non-Twitter Users talmbout how these employees were on the prowl for "hate speech" when what was obviously going on the whole time was wholesale suppression of conservative content and a large artificial boost to left wing content. It was manufactured consent, the social media app.

2016 Twitter was an entirely different beast. Internet freedom died when the dems felt like the people online weren't on their side anymore and that's an absolute fact.

This.

DDoS mitigation can be turned off with one button if someone at Google doesn’t like you.

I hadn’t thought of that. I suspected a handful of holdovers would be constantly creating pitfalls for Musk. But his problems won’t just be internal but external as well.

Live free or die….

Musk should start charging people $20 a month to stay verified and start adding turbo verification and outrageous verification

Also allow people to give posts Twitter gold, silver and platinum that way youll gain all the money you spent buying Twitter in no time.

He thought about doing something like this in order to move away from dependency on advertisements, but it looks like he's sticking with ad revenue as a business model.

(By the way, this is a must-read link for everyone who is desperately hoping they get to say the N-word on Twitter now. Even "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk, who has consistently demonstrated a poor understanding of free speech, recognizes that legal speech requires content moderation for the business to be successful.)

Meanwhile.... Tesla is reportedly under DoJ criminal probe over self-driving claims

yup, that's precisely why i say either virtually nothing will change or the site will be burned out and closed in a year or two

he quite literally can't afford to run the site as conservatives want him to, he already burned through a lot of capital just to make himself the CEO, he ain't gonna fund those servers and maintain a staff on subscription fees

And if gimmick accounts break character, they lose their official status and someone else is given them.

Gimmick accounts used to be funny, then they used their status they gained from being funny to being political or hyping products. Lame.

This is needlessly reductionist to freedom of speech. Or you are just trying to poison the well of discourse.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056?t=JLIeUH1990b3S5gVwRqLvQ&s=19

Hahahaha

Imagine spending $44bill just to trigger leftists

This thread is a gold mine

Ive already seen people spam the N word already

Elon saying he bought Twitter out of his love of humanity and desire to save civilisation feels off. Im pretty sure he soley did this to pwn libs epic style

nah, he's just saying for everyone who does plan on this they're in for a surprise (and with #n*gg*r literally being a thing with groypers spamming the word everywhere yesterday these people do exist), since tos hasn't and probably isn't gonna go away due to the advertiser flight that'll happen if musk does get rid of TOS

if it doesn't apply to you then don't worry about it

this doesn't say everyone who wants "more free speech" just want to spam slurs, but there is certainly a subgroup of folk that do - i can attest to seeing plenty of it already, myself

EDIT: oh, this is a lovely (if hamfisted) article that sums up what y'all are in for in the near future

pretty much what folk like myself have been saying - it's quite literally capitalism that makes twitter do what it does, not "wokeness"

People whine about bad swears because that is the only argument against free speech lmao. Grow up and get over it. This is a company known for the censorship of sitting Presidents, international leaders, just about any rw account, and inconvenient news stories of political importance, all in the service of a single political party with no right to have such power over discourse in the first place.

advertisers and investors whine about bad swears, and they tend to get what they want

that's the thing that ain't clicking with ya, it was never leftists or "woke" folk that made a TOS necessary, it was always twitter's investors

it's gonna be really funny when either musk keeps twitter the same to appease investors or he rejects the investors and twitter closes shop in a year or so due to operational costs

I think it's kinda funny that you have all these people on the right being triggered by Twitter itself, because they think not being allowed to promote hate speech, misinformation, or violence, is somehow unfair to them, and are delighted at the prospect that a billionaire may change that for them in hopes that it will trigger people on the left....

At 10/28/22 01:20 PM, Gario wrote:

: At 10/28/22 01:16 PM, GenericDungeonSlime wrote:

: : People whine about bad swears because that is the only argument against free speech lmao.

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: advertisers and investors whine about bad swears, and they tend to get what they want

Won't someone care about the advertisers and investors?! The humanity!

It doesn't escape my notice that for the last half decade a big part of "cancel culture" was focusing on contacting these advertisers and investors directly in order to scare them into dropping right leaning people. It's a great way for an organized and evil minority to have far more influence than their numbers or the merit of their ideas warrant, but it's not great for a democratic society that values freedom of speech. The only good kind.

You mean a president who incited an attempted insurrection that led to hundreds of capital police hurt and millions in damages, at the heart of our democracy, over lies he promoted about an election - simply because he is a snowflake and couldn't handle being called a LOSER. Please stop virtual signaling, only to groin stomp the shit out of it in the same breath. This shit really just makes you look like an insincere idiot.

As stated above, a lot of Twitter employees were recently fired for their views.

Is it possible a group of them got together in private to make these bot accounts spamming slurs as revenge? The people that would know how to dip and duck around the algorithm best would be former executives who created it.

As stated before as well, Twitter has always had a problem with verifying real people from bot farms.

It’s certainly possible.