Elon Musk

I'm With Stupid said:
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.
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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.

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.
 
west didsblue said:
Musk is such a ****.
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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?
 
Manchester_lalala said:
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.
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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..
 
Manchester_lalala said:
I find it confusing that misinformation has only become relevant is in recent months. Twitter has always been rife for it.
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Has it? I remember it being an issue that was brought up in the Brexit vote along with the last two presidential elections before this one. Jon Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed was talking about the polarization that Twitter causes back in 2015, featuring stories from a good while before that. So that's at least 10 years that people have recognised the issues.

Having said that, I think Musk is the first example of someone buying a social media platform with the explicit intention of weaponizing the influence it creates, in the same way that news barons have done for years. He's basically turned himself into Rupert Murdoch for the 21st century. Facebook definitely had a role in misinformation in the Brexit referendum and various other elections around that time, but I don't think that was some sort of conscious plan from Mark Zuckerberg or others at Facebook, it was arguably a lack of understanding, lack of safeguards against the platform being abused, and a willingness to turn a blind eye as long as the money's coming in.
 
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
 
grunge said:
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
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It’s pretty incredible (and also very worrying) how quickly it’s turned into a cesspit.
 
grunge said:
I checked my Twitter account for a sports account and a video popped up of a bloke running up and doing the cold stunner wresting move on disabled people in the street. Saw him do it to a bling guy with a white stick at a crossing and a guy with crutches before I closed it down for good.
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Once I deleted it I realised what a completely pointless app it is - didn’t miss it at all, not even bothered to sign up for Bluesky either.
 
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