[mlindner]

> Elon’s views are extreme in the sense that no current and popular social media is being run with a light touch approach to moderation. I’m not sure how he plans to combat scams and bots, two issues which go against an absolutist free speech approach.

Bots can be shut off in a pretty easy way. Detect and prevent any kind of automation (something that randomly mangles the javascript/html to prevent scraping for example) and also completely delete the Twitter API that allows automated tweeting. Tweeting should only be done by humans.

Also auto IP bans of any "rapid" tweeting coming from any IP.

[hansvm]

I dunno. I've never met an unscrapable website, IP addresses are cheap, and any bot trying to sway real people's opinions would do well to rate limit itself per account anyway. I wouldn't want to have try to design a website that I personally wouldn't be able to bot.