[ExI] elon on twitter

[Darin Sunley]

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.

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.

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.
[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.]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 7:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> spike
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