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I suspect no major decisions will happen after either A “diverse” council is most likely to simply grok the status quo and recommend minor evolutions. Takes a BDFL to force radical moves, so especially coming from Musk, this is laying groundwork to *not* do that. Fine by me :)
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Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
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This is a Chesterton’s Fence Council When your fans are baying for radical change and you want to avoid that without alienating them Unlike when he got into rockets or EVs, there are are no high-leverage big ideas lying around to make social media moderation 3x better overnight
Early signs suggest that a certain kind of interesting tweeter liable to be ridiculed as “snowflake” is most likely to quit. Unfortunately they produce the bulk of the art, wit, nerdy threads, and creative explainers that the rest of us are here for. Stop-loss priority will go up
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If they mostly get replaced with 4channers, trumpers etc. the trickle will become a flood since they’re not exactly great at y the more wholesome kinds of engagement farming. “Owning the libs” is a short trade. You need to go long on something. Cats, crafts, tall tales…
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the proposal is to reduce the network’s content moderation obligations to near-zero and simply empower users to control what they see so that would be the 10x change, bringing the company’s focus on content moderation down 90%
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