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Threatening to cut off internet to Ukraine in the middle of a war, casing journalists off twitter, chasing black, queer, and other marginalized people off twitter and allowing racists and bigots to take over, unbanning people posting kiddie porn, or people inciting armed conflict. Firing hundreds of people and not paying them, not paying bills, firing a spotlight into people's apartments from twitter HQ. Starting an entire company to drill tunnels for no reason other than to disrupt plans for a train network. Disregarding all advice and blasting a concrete pad into high velocity fragments and causing widespread damage. Pushing faulty self-driving cars that kill people.

Yeah, sounds great

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> chasing black, queer, and other marginalized people off twitter and allowing racists and bigots to take over,

Pretty much every claim you made is misleading or false, but this one is particularly egregious. That never happened, but a lot of people like to repeat the same lies in unison pretending it did

Unbanning Donald Trump and Kanye West.

Wait. So your "evidence" for that claim is the act unbanning a black person and a former president?

You're effectively telling me that the claim is invalid

lol concrete pad. Wow, really scraping the bottom of the barrel there aren't you? How did this affect you negatively exactly?

So you're fine with kiddie porn on twitter then?

There's no kiddie porn on Twitter

No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before.

> No, in fact they have been far more aggressive in getting rid of that stuff than before.

How is Twitter unbanning someone, who was banned for posting child pornography, being more aggressive in getting rid of it?.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter...

>> Experts said that even photos that are partially obscured, such as the image shared by the influencer, typically qualify as illegal child sex abuse material, or CSAM.

>> In fact, the image in question had drawn more than 3 million views and 8,000 retweets, according to Twitter statistics on a cached version of the tweet from Tuesday.

Hmmm.

It would be more accurate to say that they have been more aggressive in preventing third party observers to track CSAM on twitter:

Twitter Failing To Deal With Child Sexual Abuse Material, Says Stanford Internet Observatory (Jun 6, 2023,)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/06/06/twitt...

* Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory say the company failed to deal with 40 items of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) over a period of two months between March and May this year.

* Research such as this is about to become far harder—or at any rate far more expensive—following Elon Musk’s decision to start charging $42,000 per month for its previously free API.

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