* Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup
* Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of humour may well have taken Elon at his word and msas reported PG's account, and Twitter is so understaffed slips like this will happen
* With so few staff left, and only the True Believers, twitter's remaining staff have adopted a "fuck you, I'm the law" approach to moderation.
I say this without any proof, but it will not surprise me the least if he has access to unilaterally ban users directly (i.e. click of a button) without any sort of approval from other staff.
If mudge's testemony is anything to go by, anyone engineering level access can do pretty much anything - with zero accountability. So the only way Musk can't do that, is if he's activly avoided getting access...
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I’m sure Elon said on day 1 at Twitter that he wanted a Twitter client app for his phone where he can just click on someone’s face and he’ll never hear from them again.
I think you miss the option that the moderation staff is a few (possibly incompetent) people in a sweat shop who just misunderstood what they're supposed to do, as everything is being don on a whim.
this seems unlikely based on what's been happening over the last week or so with elonjet - every time somebody tried to give elon the benefit of the doubt and that actions were being taken without his direct approval, he would publicly back those same decisions.
whoever is taking these actions, it's pretty clear that it's not being done against elon's will or without his knowledge.
Haven't we learned anything from the Trump era? People like you continue to give people like Musk the benefit of the doubt despite massive public evidence that we are long past the benefit of doubt stage.
I agree. We can say with near-certainty that had musk not bought Twitter, PG would still be on Twitter. Whether Musk pressed the button or not, he’s ultimately responsible for the mess.
Musk literally held a poll over unsuspending the journalists that were banned (which failed twice, he had to delete it once and retry it and still failed to get what he wanted), so it's the first option. He's the head honcho telling people what to do.
Someone does something Elon doesn't like, magically the next day there's a rule against it that's arbitrarily defined and enforced, even if it contradicts something Elon has said in the past.
Like revealing a "bombshell" that Twitter was shadow banning users... only to then shadow ban the @ElonJet account.
* Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup
* Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of humour may well have taken Elon at his word and msas reported PG's account, and Twitter is so understaffed slips like this will happen
* With so few staff left, and only the True Believers, twitter's remaining staff have adopted a "fuck you, I'm the law" approach to moderation.