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.
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.
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.
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.