TIL Grimes wasn’t explicitly allowed to have butts, breasts and genitals before.
edit: oh… not his ex. just call it Twitter ffs.
It’s Twitter. It will always be twitter. It should never be called anything else. Put x.com in your browser and see what happens to the address bar. It’s twitter.
they recently changed the address i think, finally. but i don’t care, it’s still a dumb and nondescript name (i mean, it’s literally the shorthand for ‘unknown’) replacing probably the tech brand most integrated into languages around the world.
The edit makes this seem unintentional, but this was the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time
if you look closely you can see that the comment wasn’t really edited; it’s part of the joke. I’m glad it made you laugh.
I’m just here to say the thumbnail for this article is great.
First good thing Musk has ever done?
He will find a way to ruin it.
I give it a week before it’s locked behind Twitter Blue or some new subscription
I thought they were already allowed… There’s tons of adult performers already on there showing full frontal nudity and pornography.
My friend says he wants the sauce
twitter.c*m
🤓☝️ erm its X now not twitter
So, I don’t use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:
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The rebranding to X threw out brand value.
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Policy shifts didn’t make some people – who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive – happy.
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Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.
So, speaking personally, I’m pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don’t want someone preventing me from seeing someone’s speech. I want to make those decisions myself.
However, there are people who don’t agree; they’d prefer to have their environment have content moderation.
What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.
With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:
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Keep Twitter active.
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Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.
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Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.
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Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don’t do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated).
That solves a number of problems:
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People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.
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People who don’t want heavy moderation can have that, and aren’t having to pay for someone else’s moderation.
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If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.
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It’d even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.
I suggested that something earlier might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions.
Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But…that’s not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.
See, the problem is that this all would have required retaining all those expensive engineers that were either terminated or bailed the second he got hands on the platform.
Sure, you’d have to not lay em off, but only the people who are actually making use of their services are paying for them. So users get the “censored” or “non-censored” option.
You make good, considered suggestions. But even if Musk would read them, he’s not the sort of person to make considered, rational, moves.
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Awesome… Driving Twitter into the ground even faster.
So he is that desperate already? His user numbers must be close to the ground to try this in the US.
Adult content has always been defacto allowed on Twitter AFAIK. That’s why the article uses the word explicit. They’re just making it dejure allowed.
Allowed under policy, not de jure!
So they are going from “Pussy in bio” to Pussy in feed?
Can’t wait for three days from now, when they roll that back in a panic.
Honestly, all the respectable advertisers left anyway so they have nothing to lose
Do they still have enough staff on board to roll back anything?
Do they even have enough staff on board to panic?
💩
I love how reporters do their diligence to check with Twitter before reporting on a story, and just get that emoji as a response, so have to report it.
nothing but goatse.
worse. rabbithole. ever.
Good luck peeling all copies of my balls off their chin of a website by then!
“What do you mean Coca-Cola doesn’t want their ads next to a video of three men fisting each other?”
Just add two more Xs and it’s complete
Noice
Musk was clearly frustrated that X is only a third as sexy as any porn site. So he’s trying to compensate.
Just don’t call anyone ‘cis’. That’s a crime punishable by ~~death ~~ account deletion.
Cis is just a Latin prefix that means “on the same side of”, and is the opposite of trans, which means “on the other side of”.
I.e. your gender identity is the same as what you were assigned at birth, therefore cis.
Another prefix that would fit well, as it means “the same as/equal/alike” would be homo.
Perhaps we should indulge Elon’s wishes and instead use the term homogender or homo, for short.
I like the way you think! I’m cisgender but would totally accept homogender. Plus, homogender homosapien has a nice ring to it.
I honestly think the only way the word cis would be allowed on twitter is if some moron decided to weaponize it and start calling trans folks cisphobic or something. Then act like it’s some sort of brilliant “gotcha” moment because these people are not only genuinely stupid but also hellbent on embodying all the worst parts of humanity.
Only then would the butthole licker of trolls known as Elon Musk accept term.
Well this makes sense. elon musk wants to be able to show his face on twitter/x. And he couldn’t do that before, because elon musk is an ass. I’ll say it again to really drive the point home.
elon musk is an ass.
elon musk is an ass.
elon musk is an ass.
I just wish Lemmy were popular enough that this would get back to him. People trashing elon musk (is an ass…sorry, it’s habbit now) in a place that he can’t buy because there’s no singular owner. On a platform that would relentlessly boo him harder than that time he was onstage with dave chapelle.
I PROMISE you guys, whenever the republicans are done with this trump experiment, we’re getting desantos vs musk in the republican primaries. Both have an ego that wouldn’t let them be VP.
The only good news is that they both can’t win. There CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!..shitbag.
elon cant run for pres anyway, he wasnt born in the US.
???
Where was he born? I’m unclear if this is some joke I don’t get.
South Africa
He was born in South Africa, his family ran emerald mines there which is where all his money came from
I knew it was family wealth. I didn’t know the source. I assumed it was partially built on exploitation. I didn’t know it was fully built on it.
Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.
Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.
Never, have I ever associated those words with twitter. The website for twits.
