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Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 year ago (5 children)

An important part that seems lost in this:

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit that’s absolutely disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Narcissistic pedo, doing narcissistic pedo things, because he’s a narcissistic pedo.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And these are the "elite" of our species? We have allowed hell to exist on Earth for far too long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nah these are the elites of our society.

The elites of our species are the athletes and geniuses who do shit that leaves us in awe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There really needs to be more awareness and actual punishment to prevent stochastic terrorism

Knowing the kind of people that are out there this guy is lucky to be alive after being marked like this...

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I see it’s going great with an almost non existent CSAM team, who needs them anyway?

Good luck with X buddy, I’m sure advertisers can’t wait to have their ad show next to some good old CSAM material.

But at least conservatives aren’t censored anymore and the democrats were the real groomers anyway, right?

What a dumpster fire… I hope it all burns to the ground. We can live without Twitter just fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does the acronym CSAM mean?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Child Sexual Abuse Material, sometimes also called CSEM; Child Sexual Exploitation Material

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was happier before I knew that.

Alas.

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

I keep thinking it is a type of surface to air missile.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are people just ignoring the X name change and still calling it Twitter? That’s awesome lol

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Of course. X is dumb… I talked to people being confused, thinking X was supposed to be a placeholder.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course. I don't call Facebook Meta, and I don't call Google Alphabet.

You can change your company's name, or nest it in a shell, people still know who you are

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Google and Facebook weren't rebranded. Twitter was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On their case the name change was only for the company not for the product

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't wait for musk to be arrested for distribution of CSAM because of his shitty moderation policy decisions because that's clearly what he wants to happen.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

The guy calls so many others pedos, what’s the likelihood he’s projecting?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what makes you think the law applies to billionaires

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now we can add "support for CP" as one of the things Muskrat did. Cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hey. Muskrats are cool. Don't do them so wrong by adding Fuckstick McBackbirth to their grouping.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Every right-wing accusation is a confession.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is just another gross white man who wants a manic pixie dream girl, minus the dreams. It's no surprise that he doesn't see a problem with this. He's a textbook predator, and the whole situation with Grimes made that abundantly clear.

I hope his next venture is selling guided tours in unregulated deep sea subs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the loop; what part of the Grimes thing was predatory?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I don’t think anyone really wants what X gon’ give to them.

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

Dang it, you got me. Now I just have to hear the song cuz it's stuck in my head, I'll give it to ya alright! ;)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it ain't right mate. But then this is expected behaviour from Musk.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am guessing that Musk doesn't give a shit. The guy has so much money that he's impervious to criticism.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He's not impervious to criticism, he just thinks that he is. Massive negative press following massive negative press about his handling of the company and the loss of revenue is not going to make his shareholders happy, which is really what all he'd care about.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For Twitter at least, he doesn't have shareholders. He has investors, many of whom would like nothing more than for Twitter to die so that their citizens can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only 7.1 billion out of 44 billion is from outside investments. The remaining ~36 billion was paid by Musk.

People need to stop with the conspiracies. Musk isn't playing 4d chess by tanking Twitter, he's just an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

33 Billion was equity. $13 Billion was loans.

Musk's contribution is close to $25 Billion and likely puts him at 60%+ majority control of shares.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.

That ship sailed a while back when Elon was forced to buy Twitter. Let it burn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the point of their investments then?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3 of the main investors of musk's twitter are Marc Andreessen, Changpeng Zhao (ceo of binance) and Prince Al Waleed (saudi royalty).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is the biggest shareholder of Twitter and Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

He can pay to surround himself with yes-men all he wants, but that just makes any criticism that reaches him sting more. You can see it in action by the petty moves he makes against people and things he doesn't like.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And this is who Spez idolizes ...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I thought that X was a brand of CP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As Twitter should be.

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