🇺🇦 Kassandra 🌺Nov 19, 2022
Mike Masnick ✅
If you want an example of exactly how NOT to do content moderation issues, this is it:
Nov 19, 2022 at 12:57amWeb
Show threadNoah CallawayNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick would you please please tell me that’s a fake screenshot. It’s fine if you have to lie to me
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@ncallaway dude. i wish. i sooooooo wish.
Show threadleftbotNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
Show threadMotelKaliforniaNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick oh FFS. He really is a child isn't he?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@motelkalifornia i dunno. i think my kids would understand why this is dumb.
Show threadMotelKaliforniaNov 20, 2022
@mmasnick good point, I should have gone with manchild or maybe assclown. 🤔
Show threadSanityNowNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
And this is why I've left. How many folks block this guy (me) on that platform?
Show threadPeter AdamsonNov 19, 2022
@VoteBlue4evr @mmasnick *raises hand*
Show threadMatt ⎊ Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick this is 🔥WILD🔥
Show threadErnie SmithNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick oh my God what a child
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@ernie i don't know. i think children can understand why this is dumb.
Show threadErnie SmithNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick you're right I'm not giving children enough credit
Show threadGreg GentryNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick So … which is winning?
Show threadJon ChristianNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick Seems very scientific 🤔
Show threadVissNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick literally every time we think 'how could it possibly get worse', he never fails to disappoint
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@Viss he is a bottomless pit of "omg, no, don't do that"
Show threadVissNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick if you could distill lunacy into a pure crystalline extract, this fucking guy would be shoving it into his eyeballs.
Show threadShrikeTron🔠💉x5Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick I voted no just so it got counted, but 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️…
Show threadMad Sci ∴Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
Do you think he'll go back even if invited - its Elons platform now. Is there room for another Mega-Ego?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@MadSci i long since learned not to predict anything when it comes to trump
Show threadMad Sci ∴Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
very wise.
Show threadSteyrshrekNov 19, 2022
@MadSci @mmasnick a Trump/Musk ticket.
Show threadThat guy with the thingNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
Show threadJason ShellenNov 19, 2022

@mmasnick With a current 67/33 in favor of reinstating... he is both juicing traffic for the poll and misunderstanding democracy by only running a presidential election for people who follow him.

Christ, what an asshole. #birdsite

Show threadheather champNov 19, 2022
@shellen @mmasnick this is me banging my head on my desk.
Show threadJason ShellenNov 19, 2022
@heather @mmasnick Seriously worried for people with Teslas rn. What other kinds of shitty logic has been embedded in products he’s touched?
Show threadJasonNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick it’s not surprising, but it is very, very sad. There were so many people who approached the problem of dishonest actors (with outsized platforms) seriously. It wasn’t enough people. But there were real people doing that. And now a dishonest actor is making a show of shitting on their agonizing work. I wish there were consequences for shit like that.
Show threadWSHuffNov 19, 2022
@jasonm @mmasnick losing $44B seems like a consequence.
Show threadGeoffrey Hoytsman EsqNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick There’s a Hail Mary if I’ve never seen one.
Show threadRobert MNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick He's such a buffoon.
Show threadRobotbeatNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick did you vote?
Show threadCranky DavidNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick
this Idiocracy sequel sucks. i want my money back.
Show threadJosh GrisdaleNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick Ooo! Just like the ancient times - mob rule! Fun!
Show threadMBNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick he has reopened accounts of some of the worst people. Of course he’s going to reinstate Trump.
Show threadjeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷNov 19, 2022

@mmasnick

just like ..

Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick it’s Boaty McBoatface all over again.
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@fraying i mean, but a lot less fun
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Nov 19, 2022
@mmasnick agreed
Show threadJennifer Foehner WellsNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick He has since taken down the tweet and then tweeted in Latin, "The voice of the people is the voice of God."
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Nov 19, 2022
@Jenthulhu no. it's still there, though some people are having trouble seeing it. if you keep reloading it shows up. twitter is falling over....
Show threadJennifer Foehner WellsNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick Fascinating. Further proof of the collapse I suppose. Probably a lot of people looking at it in disbelief at the moment...
Show threadericjetblackNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick I think that marked the end of twitter for me
Show threadStpaulhawkNov 19, 2022
@ericjetblack @mmasnick same. Can't go back into that garbage fire.
Show threadPaul BiggarNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick it's a great way to do it if you know you want him back, and need some quasi plausible evidence to support it
Show threadAshtonNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick I am once again reminded by Mike Duncan’s quip about how “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” was not actually a positive saying. It was meant in the same way that the Old Testament god’s voice was fatal to those who heard it
Show threadDale EmeryNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick By "reinstate," he means Twitter, right? Right? Not that other thing.
Show threadRufus J. CooterNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick Jeez, what a piker. Anyone who knows anything about twitter polls, knows that one of the choices has to be "Trumpy McTrumpface"
Show threadJosh GrisdaleNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick Though, as an extremely rich man, Mr M should remember mob rule rarely works out for the rich… especially during a pending recession…
Show threadDaniel TakashNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick The Burnhamites who think Musk’s takeover represents a blow against the managerial revolution must be livid that Musk is now defaulting to popular democracy…something Burnham was even more skeptical of.
Show threadDogaNov 19, 2022
@mmasnick given his downsizing velocity and sinking goals, this might end up being the most optimal way for whatever he’ll have left with to moderate.
Show threadAndrew TimmesNov 19, 2022
Elon: this platform is overrun with bots
Also Elon: this Twitter poll is 100% indicative of the will of the people, and not bots at all