Musk offers to buy Twitter

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KingOfPain said:
All your handles are belong to me!
After @X, Elon Musk nicks another user's handle, namely @music:

arstechnica.com

X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account

X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account.
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Is it Elon Musk's goal to piss off any single user individually?
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He threatened to do the same with NPR's account if they didn't start posting again. It's just who he is, why people choose to stay there is beyond me.
 
Eric said:
He threatened to do the same with NPR's account if they didn't start posting again. It's just who he is, why people choose to stay there is beyond me.
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For me it was an abusive relationship that I finally decided to end. The first week it was hard not to go see what they were saying, but eventually it was filled by happiness and joy.
 
rdrr said:
For me it was an abusive relationship that I finally decided to end. The first week it was hard not to go see what they were saying, but eventually it was filled by happiness and joy.
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I need to figure out how to follow a couple specific folks on other platforms. The retro gaming community is fractured outside of Twitter, and it's one of two reasons I visit.
To be honest, RSS is/was a great bit of tech for following things you care about without giving everything over to social media, but we just abandoned it in favor of more walled approaches. And it feels like a waste, to be honest.
 
Eric said:

Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes​

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Also unlike his responses to dictators and authoritarian regimes or even just requests for normal US persons Elon Musks decided to fight tooth and nail for Donald Trump.

www.politico.com

Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show

Judge Beryl Howell lit into Twitter for taking steps to give Donald Trump advance notice about the search warrant.
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Musk isn’t long for MAGA world now that Jack Smith has Trump’s Twitter DM’s. They will blame him, despite the best efforts of him/the company.
 
Eric said:

Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes​

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Musk unsurprisingly is doing it to stories like this:

amp.cnn.com

Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content | CNN Business

At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment...
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Eric said:
I had a dummy account I used just for viewing and could not block Musk, so I deleted that too. It’s just a total shut hole now, not even worth lurking anymore.
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But free speech!

www.businessinsider.com

An NYU professor with 560,000 followers says he's been locked out of his X account for over 2 weeks after declining to meet with Elon Musk

The NYU professor and public speaker said a mutual friend told him Elon felt "unfairly attacked" by him, but Scott Galloway declined a meeting.
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Cmaier said:
Idiot just going to keep indioting.

9to5mac.com

Elon Musk says Twitter will no longer let you block other people - 9to5Mac

In another possibly shortsighted decision, Elon Musk says Twitter will soon remove the ability to block people – with the exception...
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I have to agree with another poster on 9-5 that I’m not sure that the following App Store rule:

  • The ability to block abusive users from the service
Means users have to be able to block each other (though it probably should be). It sounds more like the service has to have the ability to block users - though given that Musk’s new thing is not doing so (for far right content anyway, anything else can be blocked/shadow banned) I’m not sure where the line is. But that’s a separate issue.
 
dada_dave said:
I have to agree with another poster on 9-5 that I’m not sure that the following App Store rule:

  • The ability to block abusive users from the service
Means users have to be able to block each other (though it probably should be). It sounds more like the service has to have the ability to block users - though given that Musk’s new thing is not doing so (for far right content anyway, anything else can be blocked/shadow banned) I’m not sure where the line is. But that’s a separate issue.
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The ability for one user to block another has been a fundamental right on every social platform since its inception, message boards, internet chat, etc. I don't get what he hopes to accomplish here, people from all walks of life will be impacted by this.
 
Eric said:
The ability for one user to block another has been a fundamental right on every social platform since its inception, message boards, internet chat, etc. I don't get what he hopes to accomplish here, people from all walks of life will be impacted by this.
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Oh I agree. I hope the rule is actually for that - it certainly should be, it just doesn’t seem to be.
 

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