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Sept 28 (Reuters) - Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...s-next-child-pornography-accounts-2022-09-28/

What the hell were twitter at? Very poor moderation.
I get the wind up but I still think you're missing the humour angle here. Very poor moderation.
 

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The lack of financial literacy :lol:
How many modes of transport have you invented? Did you invent PayPal? Didn't think so.

Seriously, everyone on here is just crawling on their knees begging for Twitter to fail but like everything Musk does single handedly it'll be a success, and you'll all be sitting at home in your bedsits moaning about how you didn't think about pushing the biased liberal elite out of Twitter and turning it into a proper free speech platform. If any of you think I'm being serious then you haven't been around here long enough
 

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How many modes of transport have you invented? Did you invent PayPal? Didn't think so.

Seriously, everyone on here is just crawling on their knees begging for Twitter to fail but like everything Musk does single handedly it'll be a success, and you'll all be sitting at home in your bedsits moaning about how you didn't think about pushing the biased liberal elite out of Twitter and turning it into a proper free speech platform. If any of you think I'm being serious then you haven't been around here long enough
I’ll give this a 6/10 troll effort. Good conviction and anger behind your sentences but not enough Musk arse-licking and by the last sentence you were giving away the game. Would fool some newbies for sure though.
 

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How many modes of transport have you invented? Did you invent PayPal? Didn't think so.

Seriously, everyone on here is just crawling on their knees begging for Twitter to fail but like everything Musk does single handedly it'll be a success, and you'll all be sitting at home in your bedsits moaning about how you didn't think about pushing the biased liberal elite out of Twitter and turning it into a proper free speech platform.
If any of you think I'm being serious then you haven't been around here long enough
If you have to explain it..

..you can sign up for WW!
 

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How many modes of transport have you invented? Did you invent PayPal? Didn't think so.

Seriously, everyone on here is just crawling on their knees begging for Twitter to fail but like everything Musk does single handedly it'll be a success, and you'll all be sitting at home in your bedsits moaning about how you didn't think about pushing the biased liberal elite out of Twitter and turning it into a proper free speech platform. If any of you think I'm being serious then you haven't been around here long enough
Is it possible to withdraw a vote for the lifetime achievement award? Asking for a friend.
 

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Its a perfectly valid position to have.
Do you think she was the only content moderator? Or that every content moderator was like her? Do you think there's no queer twitter users nor ever has been? Why shouldn't the moderation force broadly reflect the user base?
 

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Personal insults. A great argument.
No worse or more insulting than your argument above.

"Man who thinks he is a woman" - insulting.

The idea that one content moderator was in charge of the whole of twitter moderation - a stupid argument, that was only made so you could laugh at someone.
 

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Do you think she was the only content moderator? Or that every content moderator was like her? Do you think there's no queer twitter users nor ever has been? Why shouldn't the moderation force broadly reflect the user base?
Both sides of the argument should be allowed. Censoring those who believe you can't change gender was unfair.
 

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Both sides of the argument should be allowed. Censoring those who believe you can't change gender was unfair.
It wasn't necessarily banning someone for believing that one cannot change gender for just saying such, it took into account who gets riled up & potentially or literally acts out v. the trans community / marginalized community. It was nipping the hate / belief in the bud so there was no more potential radicalization.
 

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Both sides of the argument should be allowed. Censoring those who believe you can't change gender was unfair.
But did twitter ever ban anyone simply for tweeting "People born as males can never be females" or did they ban people who attacked others because their concept of the world doesn't allow for them to exist?
 

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Both sides of the argument should be allowed. Censoring those who believe you can't change gender was unfair.
It's not censoring to suggest that someone claiming that, "A man who thinks he is a woman..." isn't exactly offering a reasoned argument on the transgender topic.
 

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People's recollection is unreliable. Perfectly possible that both parents think they're telling the truth. You're in a room with your dying baby. You hold them and say goodbye. Over time the exact recollection of those traumatic events blur somewhat. Perhaps it happened the way Elon said, perhaps he merely wanted it to be that way. Bottom line their baby died. A horror. The exact machinations of the babies last moments should be almost entirely irrelevant to anyone outside of those directly concerned and certainly shouldn't be used as a stick to beat anyone with.
 

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People's recollection is unreliable. Perfectly possible that both parents think they're telling the truth. You're in a room with your dying baby. You hold them and say goodbye. Over time the exact recollection of those traumatic events blur somewhat. Perhaps it happened the way Elon said, perhaps he merely wanted it to be that way. Bottom line their baby died. A horror. The exact machinations of the babies last moments should be almost entirely irrelevant to anyone outside of those directly concerned and certainly shouldn't be used as a stick to beat anyone with.
Yeah it's not a good look having people clamber over one another to weaponise this.
 

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Drive-by comments. Not replying to people asking for a source. Given enough time to respond.
But did twitter ever ban anyone simply for tweeting "People born as males can never be females" or did they ban people who attacked others because their concept of the world doesn't allow for them to exist?
loads and loads of people got banned for this
 

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It is mildly concerning that the richest person in the world is a complete psychopath isn't it?
I'd be surprised if the richest person in the world ever wasn't a psychopath.