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Comment by padolsey | Hacker News Reader

Yep I've encountered so so many of these too. It's amazing how obvious they are even to the most primitive filter, so I'm just at a complete loss as to why X/Twitter is so disincentivized to fix it ... especially given Elon's spiel about removing bots from the platform.

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Yeah I've never had much faith in Elon. Always seems to care more about what is said than what is done. I'm just surprised people still believe him considering he's promised so much and delivered so little. I mean not that he hasn't done stuff, but he promises far more. But I guess he's the richest man alive and I'm not, so what do I know.

Quite a lot of them even have blue ticks, meaning they're paying for the privilege.

It all stems from the "free speech" unwillingness to ban accounts, and gutting the account-banning teams. As well as the very real problem that some of the big grifters that he loves on the platform also love their inflated follower counts.

If you take free speech to its extreme spam filters should be taken down, no?

Ofcourse no actual real life user wants to inundated with spam, scams and advertising.

Let's be clear though, the platform is not a platform of free speech as in 1st Amendment free speech. Actually I'm not sure what definition it falls under because they don't allow threads, they don't allow you to see posts without logging in (though s/twitter.com/nittern.net solves that?!), and it seems to have just become a pay to speak platform (or maybe I'm soft-shadow banned for reporting so many accounts). I'm not sure under what metric this Twitter is better than the one before.

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