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Ken WhiteCan’t help but notice that when Twitter banned cross-linking certain social media sites it didn’t include Gab, Gettr, or Parler.
rjgnyc@Popehat but did include Truth Social, which makes that decision even funnier.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lukas Simonis@Lazarou
nah, they're only going to broadly enforce this against mastodon. then they'll use the policy as a fig-leaf justification for capriciously banning anyone who hurts Elon's feelings on the basis that everyone has at least indirectly linked to one of the listed services at some point. that's the only reason Facebook and Instagram are on there.
@rjgnyc @Popehat
nah, they're only going to broadly enforce this against mastodon. then they'll use the policy as a fig-leaf justification for capriciously banning anyone who hurts Elon's feelings on the basis that everyone has at least indirectly linked to one of the listed services at some point. that's the only reason Facebook and Instagram are on there.
@rjgnyc @Popehat
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gonna @ you probably
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The Jack of Sandwich@deanstoneart @rjgnyc @Popehat I remember a story of them using Mastodon code without satisfying license requirements, didn't know whether they were still doing it
@jack_of_sandwich @rjgnyc @Popehat it’s open source though - I’m not sure what the legality of that is
dryfly@Popehat
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BarbaraKB in Michigan@Popehat or TikTok 🇨🇳
Thomas H Jones II@barbarakb @Popehat It'd be bad for Elon to antagonize China.
Firehawke@Popehat It's totally free speech absolutism: His speech is absolute, yours is at his mercy.
Mike Vincent@Popehat or tik tok, which I assume is for a completely different reason
Michael@Popehat Nor hive.
Darkrose@Popehat Or TikTok.
Naked Technohippie@Popehat it's entirely possible they didn't remember that those places exist. After all, they didn't ban MySpace either.
Michael Chauvet@Popehat i can think of 1488 reasons why
Data Bear, PhD 🏳️🌈🇺🇦@Popehat or TikTok or VK.
Andrew DuPont@dataandpolitics @Popehat he loves LoTT so he’s not going to do anything to upset her.
Em@dataandpolitics @Popehat what’s the logic to ban Insta but not Tik Tok?
wiredog
QuiltyDawn@emm @dataandpolitics @Popehat Tik Tok is basically owned by China, and he can't afford to piss off China because of Tesla.
Trey
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hasenpfeffer@emm @dataandpolitics @Popehat
He'd have to ban LibsOfTikTok (and, as others have said, he'd make China mad and then Tesla's stock price would be harmed).
Jane Shull@emm @dataandpolitics @Popehat Hmmm. The more of EM’s logic I see, the more I worry about driving a Tesla or hitching a ride with SpaceX.
Schrödinger’s Batman@dataandpolitics @Popehat Can’t afford to piss off China
The Doctor
🦋 The Balance 🇺🇸🇫🇷@dataandpolitics @Popehat can’t upset China, META on the other hand…
Kansas Grant@Popehat Good point, I hadn't picked up on that.
@Popehat tik tok?
John Regan@Popehat this is gonna put a lot of sites into an awkward situation.
I'm thinking of twitch - it's not mentioned in that policy but people post things like "I'm going live on twitch" all the time.
Is it a social media site or not?
I'm thinking of twitch - it's not mentioned in that policy but people post things like "I'm going live on twitch" all the time.
Is it a social media site or not?
Michael Gemar@Popehat I do wonder if there are international jurisdictions where such anti-competitive actions are illegal.
@michaelgemar @Popehat Yeah... Going to be interesting to see how EU regulators look at this, especially in combination with other changes Twitter's made since Elon brought his sink to Twitter HQ.
Ella Fox@michaelgemar @Popehat In Europe, yes
Florian Wagner-von Papp@michaelgemar @Popehat I would be willing to make the case that this infringes (or, at a minimum is problematic under) § 20(3a) of the German Act against Restraints of Competition: 1/2
@michaelgemar @Popehat 2/2. § 20(3a) ARC provides: “(3a) An unfair impediment within the meaning of subsection (3) sentence 1 shall also be deemed to exist where an undertaking with superior market power on a market within the meaning of Section 18(3a) impedes the independent attainment of network effects by competitors and in this way creates a serious risk of significantly restricting competition on the merits.”
Sue B.@michaelgemar @Popehat Musk may be close to, if not actually, running afoul of antitrust laws right here in the States. It's probably grounds for a class action suit to lock out competition selectively, particularly regarding blatant viewpoint discrimination.
Sarah McLaughlin@Popehat or TikTok. sure would love to see the reasoning on that one
That's funny. I wonder if the CCP has something to do with it.
Because knowing that Tesla is heavily involved there, that would be very strange, huh? Almost like it was intentional or something.
Wildduck@BJC860 @sarahemclaugh @Popehat 1/3 of Tesla cars sold in China in 2021, new factory there since 2019.
Tiktok is a data goldmine for the chinese gov.
Not saying it is the reason, but it could as well be.
Tiktok is a data goldmine for the chinese gov.
Not saying it is the reason, but it could as well be.