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Pressure works:

Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

#Twitter restored a feature that promoted #SuicidePrevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-restores-suicide-prevention-feature-after-reuters-report-2022-12-24/

Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

Reuters
Dec 24, 2022 at 2:38pmWeb
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022

2/ Elon Trump.

https://mastodon.social/@lolgop/109569040215224770

Show threadKrysalixDec 24, 2022
What I don't understand is why it was removed in the first place. Did you ever hear any explanation? I'm glad it's back but still wondering what kind of thinking led to its removal in the first place.
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 24, 2022
@Krysalix It was sociopathic thinking; that’s pretty evident by now. An absolute menace to society.
Show threadAnne UrsuDec 24, 2022
@Krysalix is suicide prevention too woke?
Show threadShadowy Cabal EnthusiastDec 24, 2022
@anneursu @Krysalix Apparently!
Show threaddearmaizieDec 24, 2022

@GottaLaff

He, like trump, is a menace to society.

Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@dearmaizie Hence the second tweet in the thread. Bingo.
Show threaddearmaizieDec 24, 2022

@GottaLaff

Didn't see that.

Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@dearmaizie Lol, I know
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I really hope Twitter just dies, at this point. I realise some are sort of embedded there & depend on it, but I hope Mastodon & other aspects of the Fediverse just take over all its functionality so Twitter ends. It has honestly morphed into something disgusting, & damages my mental health every time I peek over there. I'm glad they restored the feature but pretty soon the whole thing needs to burn down. The fact they disabled it in the 1st place shows that.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@ghoshuvo Or rebuilt.
Show threadShuvo of the LeftDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff As long as Musk owns that hellscape it will continue to get worse. I hope something similar is built elsewhere, like here…it has potential…
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@ghoshuvo I know, there is so much to love about it, but he, like Trump, destroys everything he touches. ETTD.
Show threadKansascityfishDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff i just couldn’t believe they did that in the first place. I can’t get my head around…why?!
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@Kansascityfish To kill the libs? Who knows.
Show threadKarl Morant 🇨🇦  🖖Dec 24, 2022

@GottaLaff

Deleting your Twitter account is suicide prevention.

Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@karlmorant There's that.
Show threadAnton ☮️🚂Dec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I really thinks he does this for the attention he gets while he plays with peoples lives.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@politicalpunk He's as damaged as Trump, so yes.
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Dec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff What a clown car.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@Nonya_Bidniss Clown cars are entertaining. More like a hearse.
Show threadLeeGrinsDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I've lost track of the number of the reversals Elon has done, is there a betting pool anywhere?
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@LeeGrins If there's a pool, I wish he'd go jump in it and swim away
Show threadJeff BishopDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I'm not sure what getting rid of that policy ever meant. On Wednesday, a prominent Putin-loving talk show host told users to raise their hand if they agreed with his hatred of Ukraine, so I told him to raise his own hand and slap himself. That got me banned the next morning or supposedly promoting suicide and self-harm. At no point between then and now was either I or the offending tweet restored, even briefly, for having violated a policy that was no longer a policy.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@xrlq It's not worth analyzing. Musk is doing Musk. Trump II.
Show threadALDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff the question should still be asked, what were they thinking? How are these decisions being made? is there any adult supervision? Is this how safety decisions are being made at other companies?
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@mral He was cost cutting.
Show threadALDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff yea I'm sure, I guess in todays world that justifies everything. I would like to see the spreadsheet.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@mral In his mind it does. Oh wait. Did I say he had a mind? My bad.
Show threadJonathan WrightDec 24, 2022

@GottaLaff

Pressure may work, but why remove the feature in the first place!

This seem to be happening a lot. Remove a feature, but when there's an outcry put it back.

Maybe #Musk hoped nobody would notice it and he'd get away with it.

Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@Jon6705 My point was AFTER the fact, of course. And clearly he should NEVER have done that, as I tooted yesterday. He's a horror story who's trying to outdo Trump.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022

@Jon6705 Lol, I rest my case. Jinx! @russms

https://mastodon.social/@russms/109569750758821127

Show threadFrancoCarusoDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I believe Elon Musk does this kind of stuff to get people talking which drives up traffic on Twitter. Either way still a dick head move. #FuckElonМusk
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@francocaruso And he was trying to cut costs. But whatever the reason, all of the above, he's a major asshole.
Show threadSloanLADec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I can't imagine being such a horrible person that I cut suicide prevention funding and services… wow.
Show threadLaffyDec 24, 2022
@SloanLA Yeah, he's a Trumpian dick. Er, mushroom.
Show threadLyonDec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff I’d like to know what else was going on at the same time they pilled it. Usually these things are done as a distraction from something else going on they don’t want you to focus on….. still a lame move no matter how you slice it.
Show threadJudy Olo 🚫⚠️kakistocracy🌊Dec 24, 2022
@GottaLaff So, If i should or should not want to off myself i should or should not go on twutter> Imz cumfyzzed.