[gnu8]

Reading the tweets from “Team you tube” — these companies should be prohibited from saying things that are obviously not true. “These decisions are made very carefully” or “our community guidelines exist to make You tube a safer community for everyone” are flat lies, naked falsehoods that should bring about meaningful sanctions against Google’s management and shareholders. Rich people should suffer for this.

[Terr_]

While this passage is more about press-releases, I feel it captures some of the same frustration and Terry Pratchett is always quotable:

> It was garbage, but it had been cooked by an expert. You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for Reacher Gilt, although “synergistically” had probably been a whore from the start.

> The Grand Trunk's problems were clearly the result of some mysterious spasm in the universe and had nothing to do with greed, arrogance and wilful stupidity. Oh, the Grand Trunk management had made mistakes—oops, 'well-intentioned judgements which, with the benefit of hindsight, might regrettably have been, in some respects, in error'—but these had mostly occurred, it appeared, while correcting 'fundamental systemic errors' committed by the previous management. No one was sorry for anything because no living creature had done anything wrong; bad things had happened by spontaneous generation in some weird, chilly, geometrical otherworld, and 'were to be regretted'.

-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

[apgwoz]

Ha! Yes, that should be the case, but new supreme leader wants to deregulate.

“It means, Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye.”

[kolanos]

> Ha! Yes, that should be the case, but new supreme leader wants to deregulate.

Isn't he looking to strip the YouTubes of the world of their 230 protections?

[apgwoz]

Elon is a major beneficiary of Section 230. That’s not going away.

[krapp]

Elon Musk was willing to spend 44 billion dollars just to burn down a social media platform for being too "woke." I don't think he cares, and I don't think Trump cares.

[apgwoz]

Elon didn’t burn down Twitter. It still has 100m+ users. He turned it into a politically far right echo chamber, gas lighting its users about “free speech absolutism,” and then outright banning, demoting, or drowning out commentary he doesn’t agree with.

Unless you meant “burn down” in the sense of “turned it into the ashes of a trash fire…” but it was always a trash fire. People still go for it, and advertising still happens there.

[krapp]

Twitter is hemorrhaging users and advertisers and is worth a fraction of what it was when Elon let the sink in. It used to be a primary source for media, politics and culture, now it's just a Nazi bar.

I'd consider that burning the platform down, but we may just disagree on semantics.