The linked tweet is an understatement. Laura Loomer has had her checkmark removed, subscription cancelled, and monetization cancelled after disagreeing with The Elon.
She was mass reported by at least 10,000 people in India. The system automatically did this based on what most of them reported the post for, more likely than not.
The bottom line is that there wouldn't be so much skepticism about what really happened to Laura Loomer's account if Elon and Vivek didn't spend the past three days shitting on Americans protesting their own systemic discrimination. Elon 100% brought this situation on himself.
Musk is a corporate billionaire. He only cares about his own personal ambitions. He doesn't give a singular shit about nations or blood or people. Btw Trump is the same.
It's gonna be hilarious when Muskrat has convinced 90% of Americans to hate him right around the same time his electric car technologies have been surpassed or matched by Ford/GM/Dodge/Toyota/Mercedes/etc
Twitter has LONG been known to have a bot problem, hell it's only gotten worse on ALL social media. This just seems like one way to stop people using bots to create a fake concensus behind their posts.
Instead of “credible” accounts creating fake consensus. You would solve the overwhelming majority of botting problems if you simpler put harder verification requirements on India and China alone. This is about control, not solutions.
Limiting geographically's probably not gonna work, botting's always an arms race. If you only increase sign up requirements there, they'll just pay Nicaraguans or Chileans a few cents to act act as a node to sign up via, or buy access to the same compromised devices on US soil used to commit DDOS attacks, and turn them into impromptu VPNs to sign up through.
You'd have increase sign in requirements for everyone, which fuck social media companies wanting my ID to sign up, I'd rather have bots than a damned big-brother style internet chaperone.
You could always require money to make accounts in high spam regions, and even threaten to report spammer card numbers to card providers under the threat of banning the card provider if they refuse to ban renegade customers.
That would fail in courts as despite credible evidence against them, they'll win on targeted discrimination. Something only the government can get away with....sometimes depending on party in charge.
That means rolling it out for all and, well, we ALL KNOW how lazy and let's be honest, dumb the general public can be so putting more verification steps in front of them will be a massive turn off.
Not in THEIR courts which risks them flooding some other platform that doesn't community note every time they try to promote BS, pushing them up the ratings.
Right now we have a platform that is mainstream, HAS active fact checking not the bs the media calls fact checking and has driven the left so mad they retreated to their own corner so they could stab each other like the ending of a death cult.
This move seems like a lighter hand to target botting, anything harder thats JUST targeted China and India and risks them just blocking Twitter and that seems like cutting your nose to spite your face move.
You know whats funny? The assholes that freak out about covid and strong arming people to mask up and take the shot.. pretty much made people do ineffective things.
But at the same time get offended when trump tried to ban travel to/from china.. them saying its racist and ineffective lol.
Ok? To be honest China WOULD be better if it's population could use Twitter with it's community notes to talk to others past the firewall, probably why it's blocked by the government and the only thing getting through is VPNs and bot farms.
Twitter today (even though I still can't stand that level of public interaction daily) ain't like Tiktok where there are legitimate reasons to ban or block aspects of it.
Then have these courts mailed to India for collusion with a hostile foreign power, then open a bounty program to mark and deport the turds that pushed away local talent in favor of importing more of them.
When they whine about targeted discrimination, leak all the documentation proving that they are the ones engaging in targeted discrimination, and explain that they started a war they would not win.
These two things have nothing to do with each other.
But also, if you can think of a better way to deprioritize low-quality accounts, I'd love to hear it. Because up 'til now it's mostly been bot activity that determines what gets promoted on nearly every large social media site.
The linked tweet is an understatement. Laura Loomer has had her checkmark removed, subscription cancelled, and monetization cancelled after disagreeing with The Elon.
She was mass reported by at least 10,000 people in India. The system automatically did this based on what most of them reported the post for, more likely than not.
If that happened, the mass reporters should be banned for setting off a flag on an innocent account.
Seems low since there are 1.5+ billion of them and growing.
The poo must flow.
Is it cake?
The bottom line is that there wouldn't be so much skepticism about what really happened to Laura Loomer's account if Elon and Vivek didn't spend the past three days shitting on Americans protesting their own systemic discrimination. Elon 100% brought this situation on himself.
Musk is a corporate billionaire. He only cares about his own personal ambitions. He doesn't give a singular shit about nations or blood or people. Btw Trump is the same.
Musk knows best
Right wing shocked once again to realize recent leftist will still sting midway through a river crossing.
Elon's stinging & we haven't even left shore yet.
It's gonna be hilarious when Muskrat has convinced 90% of Americans to hate him right around the same time his electric car technologies have been surpassed or matched by Ford/GM/Dodge/Toyota/Mercedes/etc
Tesla's a big fish in a small pond. Other car manufacturers have given up on EVs as the memes they are.
However, Tesla's already been surpassed by BYD in the Asian market, and Musk has a vested interest in keeping Chinese EVs out of the US.
This post is reaching...
Twitter has LONG been known to have a bot problem, hell it's only gotten worse on ALL social media. This just seems like one way to stop people using bots to create a fake concensus behind their posts.
Instead of “credible” accounts creating fake consensus. You would solve the overwhelming majority of botting problems if you simpler put harder verification requirements on India and China alone. This is about control, not solutions.
Limiting geographically's probably not gonna work, botting's always an arms race. If you only increase sign up requirements there, they'll just pay Nicaraguans or Chileans a few cents to act act as a node to sign up via, or buy access to the same compromised devices on US soil used to commit DDOS attacks, and turn them into impromptu VPNs to sign up through.
You'd have increase sign in requirements for everyone, which fuck social media companies wanting my ID to sign up, I'd rather have bots than a damned big-brother style internet chaperone.
You could always require money to make accounts in high spam regions, and even threaten to report spammer card numbers to card providers under the threat of banning the card provider if they refuse to ban renegade customers.
That would fail in courts as despite credible evidence against them, they'll win on targeted discrimination. Something only the government can get away with....sometimes depending on party in charge.
That means rolling it out for all and, well, we ALL KNOW how lazy and let's be honest, dumb the general public can be so putting more verification steps in front of them will be a massive turn off.
No rules about that for foreign nationals in foreign countries
Not in THEIR courts which risks them flooding some other platform that doesn't community note every time they try to promote BS, pushing them up the ratings.
Bro come on you can't possibly believe this line of argument
Right now we have a platform that is mainstream, HAS active fact checking not the bs the media calls fact checking and has driven the left so mad they retreated to their own corner so they could stab each other like the ending of a death cult.
This move seems like a lighter hand to target botting, anything harder thats JUST targeted China and India and risks them just blocking Twitter and that seems like cutting your nose to spite your face move.
Lmao China already walls their citizens off on Weibo and other platforms. Only a fraction of Chinese use X outside of bot farms and propagandists.
I have no idea what we would lose from gatekeeping India other than Israel simping and top 10 listicles.
Ok Pajeet. OUT!
(Slow claps) Thou does protest too much..
You know whats funny? The assholes that freak out about covid and strong arming people to mask up and take the shot.. pretty much made people do ineffective things.
But at the same time get offended when trump tried to ban travel to/from china.. them saying its racist and ineffective lol.
Ok? To be honest China WOULD be better if it's population could use Twitter with it's community notes to talk to others past the firewall, probably why it's blocked by the government and the only thing getting through is VPNs and bot farms.
Twitter today (even though I still can't stand that level of public interaction daily) ain't like Tiktok where there are legitimate reasons to ban or block aspects of it.
Then have these courts mailed to India for collusion with a hostile foreign power, then open a bounty program to mark and deport the turds that pushed away local talent in favor of importing more of them.
When they whine about targeted discrimination, leak all the documentation proving that they are the ones engaging in targeted discrimination, and explain that they started a war they would not win.
Never fully trust a man with a hairpiece or a beanie
Jewlon gonna jewlon. Every Single Time.
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This doesn't do that.
Sounds like the mask is slipping, Muskrat.
These two things have nothing to do with each other.
But also, if you can think of a better way to deprioritize low-quality accounts, I'd love to hear it. Because up 'til now it's mostly been bot activity that determines what gets promoted on nearly every large social media site.
This is going to be twitter selling verifications all over again. What determines “credible”?
That's what I was asking you: do you know of a better system that can't be easily gamed?