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The "woke" created this very website you are on having free debate.
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You're right that speech here is not totally free, but this board is not claiming to be free speech absolutist.
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It's also worth noting that debates are structured things with specific rules, even the free debate types. Like, for example, the rules we all agreed to when we created our profiles for this forum. Acting like a whiny bitch isn't going to change that.
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You poor repressed soul.
Odd how somewhat conservatives/libertarians like Loren and Harry Bosch aren’t whining about being repressed.
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He says, while while debating and displaying alternative views.
Nice victimhood ya got there.
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The right wingers, grifters, scammers, etc…block all dissent on their feeds and YouTube channels. They don’t want debate. They want to force the platforms to be their megaphones. They relentlessly file complaints to have videos and posts debunking them removed as “harassment”. Doesn’t matter if it is an antivaxxer, chemtrailer, truther,… They all do it. Cranks like Joe Mercola are relentless at cancelling opposition through bogus complaints.
No. He wants Twitter to be more accepting of conservative lies. He's not so tolerant of things from the left, though. He's drunk the QOP kool-aid, he's trying to "fix" what the QOP says is wrong with Twitter but what he's actually doing is very rapidly destroying it.
Well Elon has gotten rid of about half the work force at Twitter and I haven't noticed any problems with Twitter's functionality. Which makes you wonder what they were all there for.
Sure you can. "Elon Musk's idea of free speech on Twitter is what the Republicans want people to hear."
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It’s not clear there has been enough time to see the effects. The site could be coasting on inertia right now.
The ability to say nigger, slope, chink, gook, retard, spastic, downy and faggot has risen significantly since those people got the axe. Yay freedom, I suppose. I'm not a racist, but I think stopping such speech a platform is a worthwhile job.
Fun fact: I worked in retail for about 15 years. Then I left rather spectacularly (read: immediately). For four weeks the shop I worked in did nothing but wins, easily reached their KPIs if you will. After that, they had to do stocktake and my god did the cracks show. A second stocktake had to happen and the results were worse than the first one. I was asked to audit the results of the second stocktake and my response was to give advice on how to insert a railspike into one's rectum. The store went from positive EBIT to negative EBIT within months and I didn't have to lift a finger. The cunts asking for my help was just icing on the cake.
I reckon we'll see the same thing happen with Twitter in the next few weeks. Because Metaphor doesn't see immediate results that means the staff doesn't do any work.
That's good. You very clearly have the ability to say those words right here on this board, and you went ahead and did say them.
So, why do you think it's good to be able to say it on here, but bad to be able to say it on Twitter?
I didn't say it couldn't happen. If Elon got rid of too many software engineers who actually keep the motor running it could go down. A lot of tech firms are trimming the fat right now, albeit it not to quite the dramatic level Twitter has.
True. What I am saying is the consequences of such decisions might not be immediate.
Twitter will be fine until they want to change something.
Like, maybe they want the search function to behave differently, or change the recommender algorithm, or any of the many other pieces in the complex system that is Twitter. And when they implement this change, they're going to introduce bugs, because that's what software engineers do. They'll eventually break things that no one (still there) knows how to fix quickly, which will lead to downtime, degraded user experience, lost users and lost advertisers.
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The trouble with Twitter, if nothing else, is monetization of the product. They have struggled with that forever. Twitter provides a niche service that others provide better.
So Musk wants to reinvent Twitter into something else, but he seems utterly confused about the fundamentals like mistaking Twitter users as their customers instead of their product. And mistaking banning actual misinformation and Trump as political censorship.
These issues could be debilitating and Twitter very likely is going to have issues existing on its own.
So Musk wants to reinvent Twitter into something else, but he seems utterly confused about the fundamentals like mistaking Twitter users as their customers instead of their product. And mistaking banning actual misinformation and Trump as political censorship.
These issues could be debilitating and Twitter very likely is going to have issues existing on its own.
He'll learn fast when several major brands actually pull out. Right now he's complaining about something that didn't happen yet. Once he sees that the usual Elon string pulling and charm won't work for Twitter he'll go silent and let professionals take over.
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From a program standpoint, it might be able to just coast for a long time. Depends on what kind of server maintenance it needs to do regularly, and what kind of bugs are out there.
But there are issues beyond the code. Like how they now only have one person working child safety for the Asian-pacific team.
Because of past issues they have to have any new features checked for proper security by agreement with the FTC, but twitter no longer has anyone to handle their side of complying with the requirements. Heck, the HR department doesn't even have the personnel to properly handle everyone quitting/fired and the attempts to get back the people they realize they actually need.
But there are issues beyond the code. Like how they now only have one person working child safety for the Asian-pacific team.
Because of past issues they have to have any new features checked for proper security by agreement with the FTC, but twitter no longer has anyone to handle their side of complying with the requirements. Heck, the HR department doesn't even have the personnel to properly handle everyone quitting/fired and the attempts to get back the people they realize they actually need.
Actually, as of a week ago, 50 of Twitter's top 100 advertisers had already pulled out. And Musk has not changed his behavior. If anything he's worse.
50 of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have pulled out of the platform since Elon Musk took over, report says
Some of the 50 companies publicly announced they were stopping adverts on Twitter, but research center Media Matters says others are "quiet quitters."
www.businessinsider.com