So, are states like Texas, which need age verification, gonna ask for it for X too?<p>This could get pretty wild considering the whole bot situation and the way Red States are handling adult content these days...
I like this, they never had rules explicitly against NSFW, but tech companies love their unstated rules and boundaries and it's nice to have somewhat of a reversal on that, as small as it is.<p>YouTube, Twitch etc all have such vague standards on NSFW that it's pretty common for streamers to be completely unsure if something that could be perceived as NSFW would be considered as NSFW by the platform. It leads to all sorts of disappointing self-censoring for no logical reason.<p>Edit: I wonder if the idea behind this is to make it so legitimate accounts feel comfortable labeling their NSFW media properly, so that X can deal with the bot problem by detecting unmarked NSFW media.
This is rather misleading: as the article explains, porn was always permitted on Twitter—it was never prohibited by Twitter's ToS. Actually, I'm rather confused what the substance of this story is. Is it just a finer sub-classification of the NSFW label system?
Wow, that seems like a sign of desperation, doesn't it?<p>I wonder how the other backers of the Twitter deal feel about financing pornography.<p>This includes Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas, and the KSA.
Kinda nice actually. This is like the one thing Musk has done at Twitter that I agree with. I think sexuality is a normal part of life, we shouldn't be so fussy about it (within consent obviously). It's not even always for money, many people just enjoy it sharing their content.<p>However it should be behind a filter of course. Just like reddit does. So those who are interested can view it and the rest can avoid it.
Every Musk thread smacks of desperation since the histrionics on here the day he took over and fired all those indispensables.<p>The site will go down imminently! Traffic is cratering! Everyone I know have switched to mylittlepony tooting on mastodon!<p>I get it, you don’t like him, by all means. But stop manifesting reality.<p>Edit: awww you guys, sorry if I hurt your feelings. Twitter is down, tooting ftw! musk bad, I conform with all your pet issues and hatreds, please don’t shun me!
What X does or does not do is increasingly irrelevant. They have a CEO who is good at creating attention for himself, but Twitter/X has substantially less active users than Pinterest now. I am almost surprised there is time to make this change while working on board vote politics on his $50B compensation package controversy at his other CEO job.<p>With all the downvote this clearly triggered some people in bad ways, but it is true. Twitter is about 250M, Pinterest is about 500M.<p>Twitter is down substantially in all publicly disclosed metrics / investor writedowns since the go private transaction. I don't know what it is about them that makes some people treat the company with deference it doesn't deserve, but it's a shrinking, niche social network.