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by ethbr0 1320 days ago
The difference is that Twitter does not enforce those agreements as quickly for any company that's not Twitter.

Hence what people are complaining about: one set of rules for Twitter (the company) making requests of Twitter (the platform) and another set of rules for everyone else.

And really, it's the own-goalness of this that's likely irking everyone. Musk wants to get the high ground of a public space... and then he/someone at Twitter immediately burns that narrative on something trivial that doesn't even matter.

The sheer stupidity of taking it down makes me think it's probably internal HR.
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hbrn 1320 days ago
But that's because Twitter has no capabilities to enforce them at the same speed for other companies. If processing speed depends on proximity to their legal department, of course Twitter will be able to verify their own agreements faster. That's just physics, not necessarily double standards.

It's like complaining that Amazon ships faster to areas that are close to Amazon warehouses. Well duh.

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ethbr0 1319 days ago
That's the HFT/exchange problem in a nutshell -- if you want to claim an equitable platform, then you have to artificially slow some requests to what you can guarantee for all.
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hbrn 1319 days ago
But they never claimed to be an equitable platform with regards to that issue, did they? Musk might idealistic, but not that idealistic.
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_ea1k 1319 days ago
To be fair, some of his early comments indicated that all legal speech was to be allowed.

That was obviously wrong, as lots of legal speech makes the platform worse (eg, spam or spam-like behavior), but it was one of the claims made.

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theonething 1319 days ago
To be fair, Musk also pledged that Twitter would not become a "free for all" in terms of speech.
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dylan604 1319 days ago
> Twitter (the company) making requests of Twitter (the platform)

Is this an actual distinction or just being thorough for specificity? I know some companies are like Mozilla having the browser and the foundation, but just not familiar with Twitter.

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ethbr0 1319 days ago
Was illustrating conceptual. I don't think they have an actual like Mozilla or Wikipedia. Though maybe they should?
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