Elbow beards
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The guardian describes it as an 'online Nazi bot sewer'
Excellent.
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Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter
- Thread starter BlueMoonAcrossThePond
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I've worked in web hosting in the UK - we've binned off a fair few sites due to the content they had. Could be illegal stuff (contravene's the Terrorism act, hate speech, etc), could be defamatory stuff.I think the issue isn't control, it's accountability. The problem is that the people who run these platforms like the argue that they are nothing but a tool and bear absolutely no responsibility for the content that appears on them. This allows, for example, Pornhub to literally host child porn and the owners of the website to have no legal consequences for doing so because they argue that they're just a tool and took it down when notified. Nevermind that they also had no way of stopping the exact same videos being uploaded again and again almost immediately after they were removed.
The reality is that these platforms are not publishers in the traditional sense because they don't choose and edit the content that goes on their platform. However, they are absolutely not just some tool, because they are publishing the content and disseminating it to a wide audience. They are also making editorial decisions about who gets to see what content. It's immaterial that a lot of that process is automated. And given those facts, it is absolutely a valid discussion to consider making them legally responsible for harm caused by things appearing on their platform, especially when they have demonstrably done little-to-nothing to stop it.
Site owners will get a few warnings and have the specific content pointed out to them and asked to remove it before that sort of takedown action gets taken.
Its different for Twitter, as they're hosting user-generated content and they have protection through a clause in the Communication Decency act or something in the US of Ammo.
In terms of moderating the platform, since that wankstain bought it, that's been reduced. Inevitably, people have started to move away from it because its now a massive pile of steaming shit. And overall that's probably better than having some posts taken down.
jimharri
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Some of the replies on there. Wow. Trump would love it.
west didsblue
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Musk is such a ****.
bluethrunthru
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Musk is such a ****.
Looks like Bluesky is killing the one that will never be called X. So all the r/w crazies will be left on there but will Leon be prepared to financially maintain an echo chamber for them? Can Bluesky develop something that keeps those undesirables off their platform? Is 2025 going to see the collapse of Twitter and Truth Social? Where will they pour their poison then?
Blue and true
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He's a dangerous, manipulative sociopath. He gives me the creeps.Musk is such a ****.
Manchester_lalala
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The same newspaper that many on here have accused of writing utter nonsense about City. They’ve left X because of “misinformation” yet they are guilty of it themselves.The guardian describes it as an 'online Nazi bot sewer'
Excellent.
i think a full scale attack on democracy trumps a perceived agenda against CFG lol. According to rwnj on here, the graun is a far-left mouthpiece FFS..The same newspaper that many on here have accused of writing utter nonsense about City. They’ve left X because of “misinformation” yet they are guilty of it themselves.