Good for Elon, at least he has the courage to stand by his beliefs and ideals enough to actually try allowing as much free speech as possible.<p>We'll see how well it works out long term. My personal experience with Twitter hasn't changed significantly since Elon took over.<p>I think rather than having opaque moderation, Community Notes / Birdwatch does a much better job at calling out bad posts. Rather than trying to sweep bad content under the rug, we confront it and call out any inaccuracies. The real power of Community Notes is that anyone can get called out. Even Elon's own posts have gotten Community Notes a couple times.
X is a better experience for me now, than it was before Elon's takeover. If I don't want to see something, I don't look at. If I don't want to allow someone to interact with me, I block them. If I believe something is bullshit/a lie, I participate in the community notes.<p>I don't need a nanny to pre-chew my information for me.
I don't think you need leaked documents to put this together. The story doesn't inform about anything really.<p>Musk was clear from the beginning but how he wants Twitter to be different. It was obvious that it would have to involve reduction or elimination of moderation powers and that as a result certain accounts would not be deleted out otherwise would be. In fact he reinstated certain accounts that had been banned.
Absolutely <i>shocking</i> advertisers are fleeing.<p>Cue the whining from “free speech absolutists” who think free speech is them speaking and nothing more.
FYI, "hate" means anything the author of the article disagrees with.<p>Before Elon Musk took over Twitter, the anti-white bias was well documented. If you posted "I hate white people," that was OK. If you posted "I hate black people," that violated the rules.<p>Now the rules are less biased, though there is still an anti-white-straight-Christian-conservative-male bias.
Hate exists in the heart, not the rules.<p>Part of our analytic challenge is properly placing responsibility.<p>Alas, their is much power to be gained in designating and nurturing grievances.