Moderation Content
In last 7 weeks, and specifically last 16 days, that sound you hear Twitter users begrudgingly turning on notifications for every time Musk tweets, a la Trump 2016-2021 (*before he’s got banned).
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Elon Reeve Musk is not exactly Donald Trump. They’re different generations, possess different skills, occupy different roles in the bizarre firmament of modern America. And Trump is far more dangerous to democracy — so far.
But both represent the emergence of a particularly American personality in the early years of the twenty-first century: the wildly disruptive narcissist. Both wield sledge hammers to protect their fragile egos. Both are utterly lacking in empathy. Both lie, and push baseless conspiracy theories (such as the one cooked up about Paul Pelosi).
And both are indefatigable self-promoters.
Both are billionaires but they are not motivated primarily by money. Nor are they fueled by any larger purpose, principle, or ideology. Their singular goal is to imprint their giant egos on everyone else — to exercise raw power over people. To make others grovel. Bringing a RICO (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) action against everyone doing rude posts, paying a team of lawyers nine billion dollars to compile terabytes of screenshots of people dunking on him to prove a civil conspiracy to hurt his feelings, getting red and mad trying to pretend to believe in free speech. I just wanna give a shoutout to Elon Musk for vividly reminding us all of the dangers of America becoming an oligarchy. When Elon shout to everyone please vote GOP, shared power curbs the worst excesses, actually Elon is Twitter's owner and only board member—-no shared power.
I’m former engineer and never once have I evaluated engineers based on lines of code written. And I’ve never heard of an engineer leader (who I took seriously) using LOC as a proxy for measuring an engineer’s performance or impact.
(*already 150+ different companies and 150+ engineer in this link, open his / her hand for everyone who get layoff from every Big Tech——- not only Twitter)
'They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made." A lots of frustration being directed at Elon Musk but it's also pretty weird that the twitter board just hot potato'd the company onto a dude who clearly did not actually want to own it.
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back Elon Musk’s actions in his first week at Twitter, or the last 16 days, defied much of the advice management gurus have dished out for decades. With content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually. For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him. Twitter isn’t valuable because of a few widely followed accounts. It’s valuable because of a constant stream of up-and-coming accounts. Monetize it by appealing to the vanity of the larger accounts, not by snuffing out the smaller ones before they get going.
My Mastodon account still waiting approval.