HilariousDoc wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 10:03 pmI have been suspended from Twitter at least 12 times (pre Musk ownership) for content that offended leftists. Usually at least 3 or more leftists. They don't like the content they report it. It seems three or more reports gets a suspension. I was also shadow banned for most of the time I was on pre Musk Twitter. When I had 450 to 750 followers I was getting 250K impressions per month. When I had 1,000 to 10,000 followers I was getting 25k impressions per month. Plus every time I was suspended I would lose 30 to 50% of my followers. I figure I lost about 20k followers all together.Parodite wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 11:19 am What I understood from Musk a while back, is that the law already provides for what is criminal or not. Like direct calls to violence, childporn etc. Question then is to what degree Musk is obliged to also act as law enforcer in that regard, or that this has to be done by other governmental officials.
I always thought this is the best approach. Like if you organise a public square party and criminality occurs or seems to occur, you just call the police and not expect from the people who bring the beer to do that job. Systems to monitor and report yes, but then its up to the state do its regular job. They can prosecute etc
To blame Musk for not willing to do what should not be his responsability anyways, as it seems to me, is bad virtue signalling and a form of seeding corruption.
Legal context changes for publishers, which X is not.
Since Musk took over I was suspended twice. The second time was so ridiculous I quit Twitter/X. I never made a tweet that violated the rules. The closest I came was when I told a blue check mark leftist to go jump in a lake. I was told I was suspended for encouraging self harm.
It seems to me that a platform like X cannot be moderated sufficiently by any metric. And there are so many other platforms, channels… who on earth wants to think that this organism can be chained, controlled. An illusion.
Yea that’s as I understood it too. Most dangerous situation was pre-Musk: twitter pretending to be a platform but actually behave like a publisher. With friends in the GVT who liked to give compelling “guidelines” what publish not to publish, doing them an offer “they couldn’t refuse” mafia style on a sunday afternoon in the back of a smokey saloon.But in any event censoring people for content is a function of a Publisher not a telephone company. IE you don't get your telephone service suspended because some one does not like what you politically have to say on the telephone.
Musk seems to me just experimenting and testing the public waters, figuring out the optimal configuration of X. If there is any: maybe he already concluded twitter/X is dying, but keeping it for as long as needed intil his ultime app where your entire online life happens, becomes a reality. Now that app is modeled on a Chinese version that already exists, which tells you something about where all Musks endevours and creations will end up: in the hands of a very small group of techno-burocrat oligarchs. Who might be benign enlightened managers, but as well be or become pure fascist control freaks, killing bankaccounts of unwanted enemies of the state.
