To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, weโve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Scraping is another word for "spider crawling" (Google and Google AI have long been doing it), what Twitter is claiming is moot and not at all what's going on in the bigger picture. Sorry, this is the wrong take. You don't think Reddit is scraped daily? You don't think YouTube comments sections are scraped daily? The claims about trying to stop scraping in order to defend free speech from AI are ludicrous. As if Twitter is the only speech platform worthy of scraping for data. ๐๐ ~ TLR2
This guy wins todays internet award for correctly analyzing all the factors in Twitters lockdown. The intelligence community built a โCensorship Deathstarโ by scrapping everyoneโs data and Elon just threw a fat monkey wrench into the whole machine. https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1675287728555167744
If #Twitter is not in the censorship business, and not a conduit for DHS control (it is), then any demand for censorship is a moot point on any platform host. Censorship actuated begins with the platform host. If Musk doesn't want to censor, he doesn't. It's that simple. https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1675698803691905024
Go back to the Arab Spring and the purpose of Twitter in Egypt/Libya. Twitter/FB served the govt interest. What is happening now in France is the inverse of that. What's happening w/Twitter is the inverse of prior Govt interest. Shutting down Twitter serves interest of govt. https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1675694477225123840
Twitter is more valuable, and more engaged by ordinary citizens outside the U.S. Where there is state govt oppression, social media is more engaged. That's just a sociopolitical reality. Musk's use restrictions hurt non-paying users outside U.S more than inside. Start there! https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1675701196848340992
If #Twitter is not in the censorship business, and not a conduit for DHS control (it is), then any demand for censorship is a moot point on any platform host. Censorship actuated begins with the platform host. If Musk doesn't want to censor, he doesn't. It's that simple. https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1675698803691905024