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Elon Musk buys twitter (again)

Jordinho

Jordinho

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If he can get rid of the spam bots and make people accountable for what they say, good. I do worry he thinks free speech means not just allowing people to have weird and stupid opinions, but also allowing all the lies that get peddled to back them up.
 
The ending anonymous accounts is a very sinister things. Corporations and states shouldn't have that much control over data about people. It fudges anyone in a remotely oppressive country, and means advertisers are going to hold even more power over everyone else.
 
Jordinho said:

If he can get rid of the spam bots and make people accountable for what they say, good. I do worry he thinks free speech means not just allowing people to have weird and stupid opinions, but also allowing all the lies that get peddled to back them up.
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Why would anyone want to spend 40 billion dollars to buy a SoMe platform? It's not about making money for him, it's about personal gain, and that is a worry!
 
Gutter Boy said:
The ending anonymous accounts is a very sinister things. Corporations and states shouldn't have that much control over data about people. It fudges anyone in a remotely oppressive country, and means advertisers are going to hold even more power over everyone else.
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It's being anonymous that allows Russian troll farms to keep fudging up the world. There has to be some level of verification for something like twitter or facebook. People could still possibly have anonymous profiles.
 
Jordinho said:
It's being anonymous that allows Russian troll farms to keep fudging up the world. There has to be some level of verification for something like twitter or facebook. People could still possibly have anonymous profiles.
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No - that's lack of focus on critical thinking in modern education.

Some level of privacy, especially from already pretty much all-pervasive corporations, has to be protected. That's a fundamental principle that's worth fighting for and worth putting up with the downsides for.
 
Kandi1977 said:
Why would anyone want to spend 40 billion dollars to buy a SoMe platform? It's not about making money for him, it's about personal gain, and that is a worry!
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It's not. He's just bought the world's biggest store of data. He's bought intimate knowledge of the hopes, fears, preferences and behaviours of half the world's population. That's really scary.
 
Gutter Boy said:
No - that's lack of focus on critical thinking in modern education.

Some level of privacy, especially from already pretty much all-pervasive corporations, has to be protected. That's a fundamental principle that's worth fighting for and worth putting up with the downsides for.
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But on the flipside you can have an anonymous profile and post a load of racist/hate etc stuff on there and nothing happens.
 
Gutter Boy said:
It's not. He's just bought the world's biggest store of data. He's bought intimate knowledge of the hopes, fears, preferences and behaviours of half the world's population. That's really scary.
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Twitter's not as popular as that.

He seems to be the wrong type of tech billionaire for some folks.
I'm just glad to see an African-American getting into such a position of power.
 
JerusalemMan said:
Twitter's not as popular as that.

He seems to be the wrong type of tech billionaire for some folks.
I'm just glad to see an African-American getting into such a position of power.
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He’s African-Canadian*











*I guess that blunts the massive edge you tried to carve out ;)
 
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