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I kinda like what Elon has done to Twitter! (lemmy.perthchat.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The pay wall? A great way to get rid of bots. Letting the maga people back in? That sounds rather inclusive! Rate-limiting the free users, well you're probably on that platform too much anyway. Re-branding it to be "X", also seems fine tbh...

People love being told what to get angry over it seems, I doubt most of the people criticising him would have come up with these opinions on their own. They seem to just be parroting each other, while enjoying a shared communal outrage.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So inclusive that he bans without question anyone that the nazi-affiliated Andy Ngo asks him to, anyone seen making fun of Elon, anyone who uses the site differently than Elon wants them to, anyone who exposes wrongdoing by Musk/Twitter/Tesla/SpaceX, and anyone who he personally disagrees with or doesn’t like. So much for being an inclusive free speech absolutist…

How the right thought he ever was one to begin with when he’s been blatantly banning people left and right since he took over is truly a fascinating case study in human psychology, marketing, and perception.