Instantly banned, no warning, no explaination. Just.....banned.
At least thats why I think they banned me. I have no idea. Instead of telling me why, I had to google likely reasons for an autoban, and found thats a common reason. Its the only thing I can think of.
That being said, I wasn't threating murder, or suicide. I was saying "this video is funny" in different words.
So I don't find the bots obnoxious now. I never see them!
Made me check for my home state of Utah. But looks like they require a "substantial portion" or 1/3 of content on a site to be porn. source Looks like we all need to get busy posting tits to twitter for the good of the children.
Time to drop a ton of photoshops of Musk with a diseased micropenis until he changes his mind about this. Maybe shops of Zuckerberg and Musk heads onto gay porn stars so it looks like Mark is dominating Elon's asshole in the literal sense rather than just the figurative sense.
I think to get under his skin the most having musk be a sub to someone like zuck or hillary clinton or maybe some of the guys he asked for funds to help buy twitter
I wonder if him having a train run on him by a bunch of union guys would bug him the most
Oh, I don't, lol. That was more of a prediction than me saying that I'd be doing it. I never made a Twitter account. It already seemed shitty to me even before musk utterly destroyed it.
So, I don't use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:
The rebranding to X threw out brand value.
Policy shifts didn't make some people -- who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive -- happy.
Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.
So, speaking personally, I'm pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don't want someone preventing me from seeing someone's speech. I want to make those decisions myself.
However, there are people who don't agree; they'd prefer to have their environment have content moderation.
What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.
With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:
Keep Twitter active.
Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.
Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.
Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don't do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated). Maybe have some mechanism for Twitter users to request that X feeds be gatewayed back to Twitter.
That solves a number of problems:
People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.
People who don't want heavy moderation can have that, and aren't having to pay for someone else's moderation.
If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.
It'd even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.
The brand value doesn't go away; I've seen many people point out that Twitter is a very-recognizable brand.
I suggested that something vaguely similar might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions. Didn't involve the X.com stuff, though; that came later.
Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But...that's not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.
See, the problem is that this all would have required retaining all those expensive engineers that were either terminated or bailed the second he got hands on the platform.
Sure, you'd have to not lay em off, but only the people who are actually making use of their services are paying for them. So users get the "censored" or "non-censored" option.
Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.
Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.
I suspect it'd go tumbling down hard and fast like tumblr. There's a considerable amount of porn and hentai artists that seem to live exclusively off xitter
Adult content has always been defacto allowed on Twitter AFAIK. That's why the headline uses the word "explicitly". They're just making it dejure allowed.
