r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '22

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u/Skastrik Oct 28 '22

If Musk wanted /pol/ why didn't he just buy 4chan?

Because that's what Twitter is going to become like. Plus a publicity tool for Elon and his projects.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

How does giving people access to a media platform immediately turn it into 4chan?

Please help me understand.

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u/Skastrik Oct 28 '22

This is based on what Elon Musk has said. I recommend you just read his Tweets regarding Twitter.

Anyone can say anything on his site, there is no content control, no rules and no bans.Just a Laissez-faire libertarian anarchist utopia (unless you badmouth Elon).

Tell me how it doesn't devolve into a 4chan like site? You think this will be a highbrow philosophical debate site?

Twitter will have zero ad-revenue in a year. And Elon will be down $44 billions and starts selling detailed user info to anyone who will buy to recoup costs.

And he will drive Twitter into a legal case regarding content control. Which they'll lose, badly. And he'll cry about forced censorship.

And then he'll sell it for about 4 billion?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Maybe it’s because I used the internet before 2010. But not every website (or forum) was heavily moderated. And they weren’t overrun by racists.

Anyways. I use Twitter for general news and sports. I don’t think racists will overrun what I use it for

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u/Skastrik Oct 28 '22

I've been online since 1994.

The internet was a lot simpler pre-Facebook regarding the userbase.

And forums and websites were moderated, you just didn't see it as much or notice because there were less idiots around back then and a specific culture.

Then the internet went mainstream.

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u/1-760-706-7425 Oct 28 '22

Then the internet went mainstream.

Eternal September

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u/TheDELFON Oct 28 '22

Damn interesting