<div dir="ltr">With Twitter, the political motivation of the moderators was the point. The previous management team was very open about that. I have no doubt said moderation was definitely heavily automated, and that management had a serious interest in developing and expanding said moderation.<div><br></div><div>The politically motivated moderation was a sideshow compared to the real issue though: Twitter's business model has been selling advertising based on viewer and membership numbers that, it is gradually coming out, may have been massively overinflated. This fraud [not to put too fine a point on it] served not only to dramatically exaggerate Twitter's social and political influence as a social media outlet, but to vastly overstate the platform's attractiveness as a commercial advertising platform.</div><div><br></div><div>Even the full-on "bluecheck Bolsheviks" should be p*ssed at the previous management if they spent any significant advertising dollars chasing an echo chamber full of 'bot accounts. </div><div>[I just read that sentence back and realized how bizarrely cyberpunk-science-fiction yet completely predictable this above sentence would have seemed if you sent it back through time to this list in the mid-90s.]</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 7:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8320378027720796962"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-8320378027720796962WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK so Elon owns Twitter now. If you and I bought that outfit, we would do the same thing Elon is doing: working towards automating the content moderation. Isn’t that a perfectly obvious thing to do? If software can drive a car, is there any reason to think it can’t moderate content? Couldn’t you have something like the way car automation works, where a human still hasta sit behind the wheel to kinda watch over it? You could have humans (way fewer of them probably) to just supervise the software. You could make the software filters public.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wouldn’t you do the same if you owned Twitter? Humans are expensive, software is cheap. That has nothing to do with politics. Nothing personal, just business.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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