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General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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Sometimes I think how much I hate Elon is irrational, but he always finds some way to remind you that he's a bigger a$$hole than you originally thought.
I called this a while ago. Theyre going the way of four chan and porn sites.
Los Angeles county DA's office quits Twitter due to barrage of 'vicious' homophobic attacks
The Los Angeles county district attorney's office has left Twitter due to barrage of what the office called vicious homophobic attacks. The account that went by the handle @LADAOffice no longer exists on Twitter. The office said Thursday that comments on Twitter ranged from homophobic and...
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Los Angeles county DA’s office quits Twitter due to barrage of ‘vicious’ homophobic attacks
By BARBARA ORTUTAY today
FILE - A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2022. The Los Angeles District Attorney has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported, the office confirmed on Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
The Los Angeles county district attorney’s office said Thursday it has left Twitter due to barrage of “vicious” homophobic attacks that were not removed by the social media platform even after they were reported.
The account, which went by the handle @LADAOffice, no longer exists on Twitter.
“Our decision to archive our Twitter account was not an easy one,” the office said in a statement. “It came after a series of distressing comments over time, culminating in a shocking response to photographs we posted celebrating LADA’s first known entry into a Pride parade.”
It said its Pride parade post was met with “a barrage of vicious and offensive comments that left us deeply troubled.”
The comments ranged from “homophobic and transphobic slurs to sexually explicit and graphic images,” the office said, adding that they remained visible in replies to the account more than 24 hours after they were reported to Twitter.
Twitter, whose new CEO, Linda Yaccarino started on Monday, did not respond to a message for comment. Attacks on LGBTQ+ users have increased substantially since Elon Musk took over the company last fall, according to multiple advocacy groups.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, for instance, recently identified 1.7 million tweets and retweets since the start of 2022 that mention the LGBTQ+ community via a keyword such as “LGBT,” “gay,” “homosexual” or “trans” alongside slurs including “groomer,” “predator” and “pedophile.” In 2022, in the months before Musk took over, there were an average of 3,011 such tweets per day. That jumped 119% to 6,596 in the four months after his takeover last October.
A big part of the reason is the drastic staffing cuts Musk has enacted since his takeover — there are simply not enough content moderators to handle the flood of problematic tweets that range from hate speech to graphic material and harassment. Musk has also described himself as a “free-speech absolutist” who believes Twitter’s previous policies were too restricting.
In April, for instance, Twitter quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Musk has also repeatedly engaged with far-right figures and pushed misinformation to his 143 million followers.
Last week, Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, resigned after Musk criticized Twitter’s handling of tweets about a conservative media company’s documentary that questions medical treatment for transgender children and teens. Musk tweeted the video, which has been criticized as transphobic, to his followers with the message, “Every parent should watch this.”
Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, has opposed bans on gender-affirming care and supported the medical care for youth when administered appropriately. Lawsuits have been filed in several states where bans have been enacted this year.
The Los Angeles district attorney’s office said Thursday it will remain active on other mainstream social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok but said, referring to Twitter, that it “will not be complicit and utilize a platform that promotes such hateful rhetoric.”
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
from the screams-in-trust-and-safety dept
Fri, Jun 9th 2023 12:11pm - Mike Masnick
One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by going into incognito mode, but overall, the feature is a very useful tool for those being harassed to limit access to their abusers. Indeed, one of the biggest criticisms early on of the (still in invite-only beta) Bluesky social media app was that it opened its doors to thousands of users before they had implemented a “block” feature (that has since been added). Lots of people argued that launching social media today without the “block” feature is malpractice.
Elon Musk, however, seems to be going in the other direction.
On Wednesday, in reply to someone on Twitter complaining about being blocked, Elon said that “blocking public posts makes no sense” and saying that “it needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute.”
This also comes just weeks after Twitter’s adjusted API policy effectively killed one of the most useful 3rd party tools for users on Twitter to avoid harassment: BlockParty.
And, of course, all of this comes right after Twitter’s trust & safety boss (who wasn’t particularly experienced with trust & safety work) resigned. So it seems that, yet again, Musk is winging it, and making decisions based on what the worst of his fans want, rather than what actually is best for the ecosystem he manages.
The underlying assumption here from Musk is that the only reason to use “block” is if you don’t want to hear from someone. But that’s wrong. That’s what the mute button is for. Block is an anti-harassment tool to help people avoid having stalkers, abusers, harassers, and the like being able to follow your every word without at least some level of friction.
Considering that Musk himself was so concerned with “doxing” of his public information, you’d hope he’d recognize that, but again Musk seems to view the safety of everyone on Twitter as if it’s identical to his own experience, and his own threat model.
Of course, there’s also the simple fact that the block feature is costly in terms of Twitter compute power:
"Tweet from William LeGate: Elon Musk has said large block lists have been a resource drain for Twitter, because they – for some reason – significantly increase their server costs.
Elon has asked that you don’t block people in an effort to save Twitter expenses. If you block lots of ppl, it costs Musk $$$"
So, even though he was, himself, an aggressive blocker for a while, more recently he’s urged people to stop using the block feature, and removed everyone from his own block list a few months back. Of course, it appears that even he went back on that promise, because there are reports of him blocking new people since his grand unblocking.
Separately, there’s the fact that there was the infamous “BlockTheBlue” campaign that sought to get Twitter users to block anyone who was subscribed to Twitter Blue, which has really pissed off Musk. Perhaps to the point that this is also a reason he wants to get rid of the block button?
Either way, this is yet another example of a situation where there’s a lot of actual expertise out there, but Musk ignores it all based on (1) his own gut instincts, (2) the requests of the terribly disingenuous people he follows, and (3) a desire to decrease Twitter server costs.
And all while making the website significantly less safe for a large segment of users.
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
from the screams-in-trust-and-safety dept
Fri, Jun 9th 2023 12:11pm - Mike Masnick
One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by going into incognito mode, but overall, the feature is a very useful tool for those being harassed to limit access to their abusers. Indeed, one of the biggest criticisms early on of the (still in invite-only beta) Bluesky social media app was that it opened its doors to thousands of users before they had implemented a “block” feature (that has since been added). Lots of people argued that launching social media today without the “block” feature is malpractice.
Elon Musk, however, seems to be going in the other direction.
On Wednesday, in reply to someone on Twitter complaining about being blocked, Elon said that “blocking public posts makes no sense” and saying that “it needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute.”
This also comes just weeks after Twitter’s adjusted API policy effectively killed one of the most useful 3rd party tools for users on Twitter to avoid harassment: BlockParty.
And, of course, all of this comes right after Twitter’s trust & safety boss (who wasn’t particularly experienced with trust & safety work) resigned. So it seems that, yet again, Musk is winging it, and making decisions based on what the worst of his fans want, rather than what actually is best for the ecosystem he manages.
The underlying assumption here from Musk is that the only reason to use “block” is if you don’t want to hear from someone. But that’s wrong. That’s what the mute button is for. Block is an anti-harassment tool to help people avoid having stalkers, abusers, harassers, and the like being able to follow your every word without at least some level of friction.
Considering that Musk himself was so concerned with “doxing” of his public information, you’d hope he’d recognize that, but again Musk seems to view the safety of everyone on Twitter as if it’s identical to his own experience, and his own threat model.
Of course, there’s also the simple fact that the block feature is costly in terms of Twitter compute power:
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So, even though he was, himself, an aggressive blocker for a while, more recently he’s urged people to stop using the block feature, and removed everyone from his own block list a few months back. Of course, it appears that even he went back on that promise, because there are reports of him blocking new people since his grand unblocking.
Separately, there’s the fact that there was the infamous “BlockTheBlue” campaign that sought to get Twitter users to block anyone who was subscribed to Twitter Blue, which has really pissed off Musk. Perhaps to the point that this is also a reason he wants to get rid of the block button?
Either way, this is yet another example of a situation where there’s a lot of actual expertise out there, but Musk ignores it all based on (1) his own gut instincts, (2) the requests of the terribly disingenuous people he follows, and (3) a desire to decrease Twitter server costs.
And all while making the website significantly less safe for a large segment of users.
Naturally Elon will have the Block Feature to himself, but also crash the site telling his Coding Team that they have to program that logic.
Remove block feature? Remove hat could go wrong? 
I applaud every decision he makes to repel the average user and advertiser.
I applaud every decision he makes to repel the average user and advertiser.
What’s the name of the breh that used to work for Twitter?
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Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports
Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.
www.reuters.com
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Elon Musk Suggests Unabomber May Have Been Right About Technology
Elon Musk suggested the Unabomber may have been right about the rise of tech creating too many problems for humanity.
www.forbes.com
Classy
I think Twitter's new CEO is working remotely from NY. 
More importantly the company isn't paying it's cloud bills.
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finance.yahoo.com
More importantly the company isn't paying it's cloud bills.
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills - Platformer
Reuters
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports
Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.
www.reuters.com
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills - Platformer
Before Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform last year, Twitter signed a multi-year contract with Google related to fighting spam and protecting accounts, among other things, the report said. The Platformer report did not give details on how the conflict between the companies could...