So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

I don't know why you felt that I was referring to you but no, that's not true. I equate right wing with things like personal freedom and responsibility, meritocracy, honesty and capitalism.

From Musk today "New UI coming this week allowing easy switch between recommended & followed. Recommendations will get much better later this year."

Yeah, like saying what you really think even if that might cause offence.

Has there been a reversal? Twitter is still selling the Twitter Blue subscription, and while "legacy" checks are still honoured, my understanding is Musk is committed to revoking those in future if they don't sign up to Twitter Blue. I'm not seeing a great sea change brought about by the blue check mark brigades rushing to the barricades.

I'm not sure Musk is a hypocrite. He promised free speech, and people do have free speech on Twitter. But freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

As for predictions - look, the only prediction I'm making is that Musk is a fool and despite somehow getting control of the public square ("I'm moving to Mastadon" seems to be the new "I'm moving to Canada") he won't take proper advantage of it. So I think the doom and gloom is hysterically overstated. If I recall correctly, there was predictions back in November claiming that Twitter would collapse within a few weeks. Here we are in 2023 and it's still up last I checked.

I don't know what kind of circles you're hanging around in that leads you think you can get away with lies like this, but facts aren't with you here.

He said, and I quote "Rather than merely trying to absolve themselves *OR, WORSE, trying to drive out teenagers entirely*, service providers should instead focus on crafting safety strategies that can accommodate a wide variety of use cases for platforms like Grindr"

He didn't say it was worse for sites to deny teenagers access. He said "Rather than merely trying to absolve themselves or, worse, trying to drive out teenagers entirely, service providers should instead focus on crafting safety strategies that can accommodate a wide variety of use cases for platforms like Grindr. He knows, as everyone who's spent ten minutes on this topic knows, that there is no age identification system on the system. He knows that focusing on denying access is a fools errand, therefore he highlights the importance of contingency measures, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket - where it isn't going to work.

You can't just pick the words that suit you out of a sentence and quote them with no context.

I'm not sure I agree with a "Grindr Youth" app at all, in that I'm not convinced there is any reason for 'queer youth' to be able to contact other 'queer youth', who are strangers to them. What would stop adults using the youth app just like you can't stop the youth using the adult app. It is really up to parents to prevent their sons and daughters using adult dating sites to keep them away from predators or inappropriate situations.

I'm minded of a case in the UK where a 14yo was murdered by another teenagers who he met online.

https://news.sky.com/story/my-son-was-murdered-by-a-teenager-he-met-online-through-gaming-11931414

So yeah, facilitating youth to connect with other youth is not something I think we should sanction, rather prevent it as far as possible, particularly when there's a sexuality element to it.

The entire thing had to be reversed and redone because it caused such a mess. The entire site was just a mess of trolls for a few days as anyone could have predicted. This change was reversed and then an entirely new system had to be created.

By those rules people always had free speech on twitter and so Musk could not have brought free speech to twitter which is what his supporters wanted. This has now come full circle to where people say that twitter always had free speech so it makes his achievements here a little pathetic. He did also say he wanted his detractors to stay on twitter so still hypocritical since he is actively removing them.

There were but I am only responsible for my own posts as you say. Musk has enough money to keep twitter going for a long time if needs be which is how I have always felt. As for doom and gloom, I have not seen much in that regard. I have pointed out his hypocrisy and his idiocy and twitter became a worse place that will highlight alt right views but that is hardly doom and gloom compared to the world at large. Unless you just mean the twitter collapses stuff in which case I agree it is overstated but I don't think twitter disappearing from the world counts as doom and gloom personally.

He’s really sticking it to the libs

The new two timeline structure is brutal. People you follow on one, and people of interest on the other, which has people like Ben Gilroy, The Liberal (of absolutely no interest)etc plus people you follow. Very messy.

I hate that's it's not latest tweets anymore.

Think they tried this before.

This needs to be reversed.

It’s not on my iPhone anymore.

Might try it via laptop.

Very surprised none of his fans have leapt forward to defend this as just great business.

Long but fascinating read on the chaos of the take over

https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji