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🔗 linkblog: Twitter Is Ready for a Potential Legal Battle With Elon Musk - The New York Times'
What an enormous mess this is turning into.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Threatens to End Twitter Deal Without Information on Spam Accounts - The New York Times'
What a mess. Glad to be pivoting toward my blog and Mastodon.
interview with WEKU on Buffalo shooting and social media content moderation
Last week, I was interviewed by a reporter at WEKU about social media and content moderation in the context of the horrific recent shooting in Buffalo, and I was pleased to see the interview appear on the WEKU website this morning.
I wish that the headline didn’t frame this as a question of “free speech”—and that I’d perhaps been more forceful in emphasizing that these really aren’t questions of free speech so much as content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal ‘Cannot Move Forward’ in Current State - The New York Times'
What a troll. Even if the deal falls through, the way in which a sole rich dude can mess around with Twitter is souring me on the platform.
🔗 linkblog: QAnon Thinks Elon Musk Is Going to Let Them Back On Twitter'
If QAnon is excited, the rest of us should be worried—though I think there is a possibility that Musk realizes just how bad his ideas re: limiting moderation are and fails to deliver.
🔗 linkblog: 30,000 New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter'
Is this just mastodon.social? Seems like it, but that’s not the only instance getting a bump, and sloppy reporting to ignore how federated instances work—that’s one of the reasons we’re all moving there.
🔗 linkblog: Conservatives celebrate Musk’s deal to buy Twitter. - The New York Times'
Say it together now: Content moderation and free speech are different things.
🔗 linkblog: Trump says he won’t leave Truth Social, despite Musk’s Twitter takeover - The Verge'
The quotes in here underline how often ‘free speech’ is used to mean ‘problematic right-wing talking points.’
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here’s What He Should Do. | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
EFF cares about and actually understands free speech and content moderation, so their voice is especially important today.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company - The Verge'
Not excited about this, but the good news is that I’ve already been thinking about revamping my web presence, and this is a push to do something about it.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter in talks with Musk over bid to buy platform, according to reports : NPR'
Yet another reason to revisit my social media presence.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation | Techdirt'
I have only been reading Techdirt for a short amount of time, but I increasingly appreciate Masnick’s perspectives on issues like this.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk, After Toying With Twitter, Now Wants It All - The New York Times'
Content moderation is a necessity, and Musk’s take here is wildly irresponsible.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Why a wealth tax for people like Elon Musk is so hard to pull off : NPR'
Interesting and helpful read.