Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse::undefined

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[–] 204 points 3 years ago (5 children)

An important part that seems lost in this:

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    There really needs to be more awareness and actual punishment to prevent stochastic terrorism

    Knowing the kind of people that are out there this guy is lucky to be alive after being marked like this...

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    [–] 119 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    So I see it’s going great with an almost non existent CSAM team, who needs them anyway?

    Good luck with X buddy, I’m sure advertisers can’t wait to have their ad show next to some good old CSAM material.

    But at least conservatives aren’t censored anymore and the democrats were the real groomers anyway, right?

    What a dumpster fire… I hope it all burns to the ground. We can live without Twitter just fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What does the acronym CSAM mean?

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  • [–] 95 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Are people just ignoring the X name change and still calling it Twitter? That’s awesome lol

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Of course. I don't call Facebook Meta, and I don't call Google Alphabet.

    You can change your company's name, or nest it in a shell, people still know who you are

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I can't wait for musk to be arrested for distribution of CSAM because of his shitty moderation policy decisions because that's clearly what he wants to happen.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    Every right-wing accusation is a confession.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Now we can add "support for CP" as one of the things Muskrat did. Cool.

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  • [+] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Elon Musk is just another gross white man who wants a manic pixie dream girl, minus the dreams. It's no surprise that he doesn't see a problem with this. He's a textbook predator, and the whole situation with Grimes made that abundantly clear.

    I hope his next venture is selling guided tours in unregulated deep sea subs.

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    I am guessing that Musk doesn't give a shit. The guy has so much money that he's impervious to criticism.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    He's not impervious to criticism, he just thinks that he is. Massive negative press following massive negative press about his handling of the company and the loss of revenue is not going to make his shareholders happy, which is really what all he'd care about.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    For Twitter at least, he doesn't have shareholders. He has investors, many of whom would like nothing more than for Twitter to die so that their citizens can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Only 7.1 billion out of 44 billion is from outside investments. The remaining ~36 billion was paid by Musk.

    People need to stop with the conspiracies. Musk isn't playing 4d chess by tanking Twitter, he's just an idiot.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    He can pay to surround himself with yes-men all he wants, but that just makes any criticism that reaches him sting more. You can see it in action by the petty moves he makes against people and things he doesn't like.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    And this is who Spez idolizes ...

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    I thought that X was a brand of CP.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    As Twitter should be.

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