Musk is such a pathetic snowflake
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nah, Elon just didn't like people calling him out over his support of the H-1B visas
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Funny how the kneejerk reaction from people who claim Elon isn't censoring people is to report op for heccin' disinformationerino...
Yes that would be a popular theory, until I realised EVERYONE wants to have the ability to restrict assholes, including this place.
As when we were being swamped with pro child marriage/abuse posts and images of women being killed, how many meta posts did we make pleading for more moderators to be assigned here to deal with it?
Assholes being assholes is why we have restrictions, we just want free speech to apply to governmental actions since they're usually the biggest assholes of the lot.
Sorry but you are really naive if you think this isn't because of the H-1B visas. Why do you think he chose to suddenly penalize critisizms against public figures now when he's getting the most critisizm for his pro H-1B visa stance and has been throwing a tantrum over that critisizm , and not before?
Oh I believe this was ALREADY in the works to try to get Twitter no longer maligned with 'full of toxic people', the H-1B drama just pushed forward the implementation date. I go off this timeline in my head:
Elon has Twitter work on rules and a algorithm to filter out asshats so Twitter is not maligned as toxic anymore
Months pass and the H-1B drama happens
In response, Elon decides to push forward the implementation of the new rules and algorithm ahead of schedule.
Now depending on if this affects Elon too due to his habit of negative posting, I can see this being revised in a way that his kind of posting is fine (which 90% of us would be ok then) just the ones screaming slurs all the time are screwed but yeah I believe this was in the works MONTHS before this drama happened.
Either way its still pathetic. l thought the whole point of a "healthy democracy" is that you are supposed to be able to critisize and insult public figures
Elon made his account in unblockable long before that topic.
If this is not about the h1b thing and his hurt feels, then it's an attempt to keep whiny celebrities on the platform which I suspected they had planned for a while but held off on during the election. That's why the policy is directed at famous people. One of the things that makes twitter so popular is the famous or otherwise influential people there, and little people hanging on to their every word and thinking being here could get them 0.03% closer to getting noticed by sempai.
Recall from his initial purchase his statement that "he wanted to make 80% of the people happy most of the time". Forever chasing that overton window. He's not going to let us small time ideologues annoy the masses.
Unfortunately that's what the normies WANT, we are essentially like those guys on the corner with signs saying 'the end is neigh' to most normies so we WILL be sidelined by their request.
You want to influence them, be a content creator that can draw them in, not badgering them on social media like Twitter.
It wasn't about the content, per se. It was about forum sliding. If you want a better comparison there was Imp1, whose ban was actually about the contents of his posts. Who defines who is being an asshole?