Wow politicians are pretty eager to ban/block Xitter. But somehow they don't seem to be inclined to do the way easier thing and just close their accounts there? Interesting. :thaenkin:
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@rysiek it seems just as likely that Elon Musk just really likes the CSAM Grok generates, but part of me is wondering if this was the point. To do something unambiguously harmful with his social media platform, giving lawmakers the ability to come up with and enforce more restrictions on freedom of speech/association with less complaints from their constituents because we all hate the CSAM generator...
@raphaelmorgan he's not playing 4d chess, sorry.
@rysiek fair lol, not that it would take a genius for what I was talking about but most of the nepo babies are pretty bad at thinking ahead huh
@raphaelmorgan yeah. What they do have is infinite money cheatcode which means they can try over and over and over again. And if you ca try as many times as you want, sometimes you will win.
A metaphor (not mine) that really hit me hard is:
It's is like a dart game at a carnival. The rich kids get unlimited tries. The middle-class kids: maybe one try. And the impoverished kids get to only serve the food and to clean up the trash.
Musk can try as many times as he likes. So sometimes he wins.
@rysiek thst is the trouble of misaligned incentives.
Other platforms might be more expensive to buy followers. 👀
Just to be clear, fsck Xitter with a 🌵. That Nazi bar needs to die.
But something tells me the eagerness for banning Xitter is not about Xitter, nor the #AISAM (AI-generated Sexual Abuse Materials) on it. It's about power, specifically power to block services politicians dislike.
In many places they already have that power of course (UK, for example), but this is a high profile case where blocking is very popular. It's a flex.
If they were serious about the harms, they'd simply quit Xitter.
@rysiek It's because their usernames will be available for account creation again, which means somebody could impersonate them for the lulz. Or to fuck with international politics (which these days is one and the same).
And I honestly doubt politicians are staying on Xitter just to prevent namesquatting. Not to mention namesquatting on Xitter is possible anyway.
There is a myriad of ways the namesquatting problem could be solved. This is not why they are staying – and remaining active – on Xitter.
It's lack of a minimal backbone.