Can’t wait for the BB headline “Trump’s first tweet back from his unbanned account includes Big Lie, 2024 bid, multiple racist slurs, and death threats to Democrat governors in pro-choice states.”
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Headline just writes itself, don’t it?
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Omfg, right?
That one-two punch of
“It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”
…is bonkers. The people from the first statement dont believe statement 2 is true. Thats why theyre alienated (whatever he means here by that). So if musk believes #2 while retaining that alienated characterization with no self-awareness of how the truth of #2 should impact the people of #1, its just, dudes just high school gov class 1A annoying, lol.
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So basically he is trying to sabotage Twitter. Thus confirming this is part of a Brewster’s Billions type scheme to waste a lot of money in short order, and not the acts of a rational carbon based life form.
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“…for the belittlement of mankind.”
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THIS is why capitalism must end. THIS is a huge reason this asshole is buying Twitter.
#TaxTheRich
#NeverVoteRepublican
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I find people start to appreciate the limits of AI / Machine Learning better when I call it “statistics”.
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If I were ruler for a day, I’d make a law that every month one random billionaire had to trade all their assets with someone homeless.
Just to remind the world that their ability to hoard money didn’t ordain them with any special insights into making the world a better place.
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Wasn’t that the plot of Iron Sky? Nazi’s on the moon, plus dinosaurs?
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Neither very nutritious or satisfying; just sayin’.
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So what will this do for Tesla? What percentage of Donald Trump fans are going to give up their Fords for a Tesla Cybertruck? And what liberal is going to want to buy a car from a guy who gave Trump a platform?
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Yep.
It’s been my experience as a over-20-years specialist in automation: things non-specialists believe must be very difficult are often pretty easy. And things non-specialists think should be easy are often open research questions with no answer in sight.
Particularly: anything that smells like “apply some judgement” or “just use common sense”. If I could automate reliable judgement of free-form input, I wouldn’t be working. I’d be retired, to my island, drinking whatever I wanted to drink from jewel-encrusted goblets.
Bringing it back to the point: Humans are expensive and machines are cheap. Moderation isn’t done well by algorithms, and the cost of having humans do it is often higher than the value the business places on the feature. Which is part of why I like the bbs.
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Wow, I feel more free already. I can hardly wait for all the fucking freedom we’re going to enjoy.
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Makes sense. He’s worth far more to Twitter than me, or anyone I actually like, so the choice is easy for them.
Blocking him doesn’t really work unfortunately.
Whenever they come back, they‘ll have to build back their connection to the network, followers etc. So being banned is costly, new accounts won’t do nearly so much harm than those with many followers. And they will be closed again soon.
When someone is banned as a person, shutting down new accounts is even faster when they let on in any way who they are. No AI required. If they keep their identity secret, building back the network with a new account is even more effort.
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If this becomes policy, then I will definitely leave Twitter. Even on Facebook, I use a pseudonym and I still haven’t been dinged by their ‘real name’ policy. They already know what my phone number is, that alone should confirm I’m a person especially since they can call or text me with it. This level of invasive policies is why I don’t use Facebook. My personal life is not something I’m going to put on a bill post. If I post anything, it’s meant to be taken in the context it was given and it shouldn’t be part of my private life anymore than someone talking shit about someone’s favorite sports team at a bar should have to deal with their boss about said shit talking.
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I do hope I am mistaken, but I fear that once the Orange Moron is back on Twitter we will all again be treated to a shitton of daily news articles about him. In that case, whether people were able to completely block him on twitter, or leave the platform entirely would be of little consequence.
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Yeah, I’ve noticed kittens appearing in odd places again - I had that browser extension installed to remove offensive orange trolley pictures and replace them with lovely kittens - and I installed a blocker on news sites in the office for everyone. It’s my tip for “wellness” in the office.
Unfortunately turning him off doesn’t make him go away. It’s not really Twitter though, it’s the insistence of media outlets in reporting his shitposts as if they are news rather than just idiotic hate vomits. Not that many people actually use twitter so we should just be able to block the ugly and move on, but no, every one of them is repurposed as clickbait. So my leaving Twitter will achieve nothing.
Still going to do it though. Right now I’m busy with a political issue but I will still have the networks of people in real life and we will find another means of organising when we leave Twitter.
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And you will not be the only person who feels that way.
Here’s my take:
IMHO, the most annoying part of the situation for Musk is bots, scammers, etc., along with his apparent belief that free speech = democratized speech.
The idea that you make the bots and spammer go away, or at least make their jobs harder, is to authenticate everyone - he made it clear early on that every user could get a blue checkmark and be authenticated - and that he’ll defeat the bots or “die trying”. I read that as at some point there will be two classes of users, those who auth and those who don’t, and those that don’t will be severely restricted from posting widely. This makes perfect sense if you have the goals above, and more importantly, give zero thought to those who may not want to share their details, either by choice, as you note, or because it is dangerous to do so.
The good news is that Musk’s proclimations have, AFAIK, never been created verbatim. Reality will moderate these plans. But I still believe this “auth everyone” plan will face the same challenges Facebook already experienced, and it’s going to exclude huge swaths of vulnerable (or just privacy-concious) populations.
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