Twitter’s Big Ad Plan: Violate FTC Consent Decree, California Privacy Law & EU Privacy Laws To Force Users To Hand Over Info For Ad Targeting

The good folks over at Platformer broke the news that Twitter is experimenting with Elon’s desperate attempt to make money: forcing people to “opt-in” to share personal info so th…

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@baratunde Pointing out his hypocrisy is becoming redundant. 🙂

For all his handwringing about Slack messages showing Twitter staff doing what they can to find policies to apply to problematic accounts (justifiably, from what I have seen), what do they do at Elon's Twitter?

Cook up some policy application ("platform manipulation and spam," lol) to justify getting rid of an account he finds problematic.

https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109514316026219041

@baratunde A couple days ago I went through trying to deactivate all my birdsite accounts. Every time I did, all of a sudden the site would announced that actually, I was suspended, and wouldn't be able to get my account back if I tried 😏
Very "you can't quit, I'm firing you!" vibes
@baratunde just discovering that you're on here - at least I hope it's you. I hope PBS renews America Outdoors. Any insider info??🤞
@baratunde surprised? He’s turning into Howard Hughes and becoming paranoid.