[ExI] elon on twitter

[BillK]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 21:56, spike jones via extropy-chat
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> Not all of us have Twitter, nor want it.  One would think one could find one of the news biggies who would just offer the entire comment without yielding to the savage urge to give their own spin on it, or injecting three paragraphs of their own commentary into every one of his.
> To me this verifies a huge inferiority complex.  We don't care what the news commentators have to say.  We care about what Elon Musk has to say.  We don't need their silly commentary, they don't own Twitter, or anything else.  We care about the guy who now has the ability to do unto others that which was done unto him.
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Elon has good intentions, but he really doesn't know about all the
complexities of moderation in a huge world-wide social network.
Some of his USA biased ideas will break laws in other countries, with
possible fines and jail sentences being applied.
Some countries have strict censorship laws - should Twitter comply?
What is free speech in some places is harassment and encouraging
terrorism elsewhere.
Stopping anonymous tweeting could put opposition people at risk in
some countries.

An article here discusses these problems -
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/29/1062417/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-global-democracy-activists/>
Quote:
Elon Musk doesn’t know what it takes to make a digital town square
Before making big changes, he should ask the global pro-democracy
activists who do.
By   Jillian C. York    October 29, 2022
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BillK