I would always rather be fishing.
I do 3D animation for fun in my spare time.
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The power structure at Fox called it "respecting" the audience when they stoked its false and pathetic belief in a stolen election.
"Showing 'respect' to viewers by actively misinforming them," as Stelter put it, may stop them from raging at you.
But it is not the behavior of a news company. 15/
Seriously tho, they're gonna boot so many accounts, and such a large fraction of them are not going to return, it's gonna put rocket fuel under all the other platforms.
Other than actually pulling the plug on the servers, I'm not sure I could come up with a faster way for Twitter to end itself than annihilating the content creators' ability to use that platform and link out to any other sites.
And to do it all in one go! lmaooooo
It's pure Calvinball.
Katie ran the Space last night where journalists gathered and where Musk showed up and tried (badly) to defend the journalism bans.
Now Katie has been banned from using Spaces.
Talking to former Twitter trust & safety folks... and they note that *normally* under existing policy, accounts are supposed to get strikes for violating policy, not be immediately permabanned.
Remember how Elon said no content moderation policies have changed?
Well, I'd say... that's changed.
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