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Elon Musk’s silence on how he’d moderate the Buffalo shooting video is deafening

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Not responding to the article itself. I do think that whoever runs social media has a responsibility to take an active shooting stream down. That said, this article is facetious at best.

> And as America reeled from the news, Elon Musk remained silent — despite Tesla’s sizable presence in Buffalo...

The CEO of my company does this, though he stopped recently. He'd start by addressing "tragedies" in various parts of the US, but I realized over time they were only certain tragedies.

After seeing the absolute circus of comments that many from the C-Suite generated over the last 5-7 years not hearing from a CEO about things outside of business would be a god send.

Under normal conditions I would say you were right. There usually isn’t a need for a random CEO to comment on this stuff.

But Twitter was specifically used to spread some of the images/videos(?). So I can see why someone might want to ask them.

Furthermore, Elon has been talking a lot about how he would change the way Twitter is moderated. I think that also makes it a fair question.

So if Twitter was directly involved and Elon wants to change the Twitter policies I think it is 100% fair to ask him what would happen and expect an answer. He hasn’t been shy up to this point. Why start now.

Agreed. Managing an on-going domestic terrorism incident is part of Twitter's business so it's a fair question to Musk. I do think, based on the authors approach, that no matter the answer he gave they'd have something negative to say about it. I don't think it's worth giving a megaphone to those who are opportunistically trying to lay landmines rather than promote healthy discussion; I say this in the light that there are a lot of Twitter users who just don't want Musk to own Twitter though they seem unable to explain why beyond a myriad of supposition.

Lots of people rushing to use the tragic actions of a psychopath for political gain.

Yes. This verge piece is not a good take. I can't imagine any comment along these lines that would be appropriate. Silence is sometimes the best way of showing sympathy.

Well at this point, The Verge should be regarded as a very questionable source similar to that of the Daily Mail since the quality of its article(s) especially the ones locked without comments have somewhat degraded.

As for this article, In reality nothing has changed. This is what the shooter actually wants. For the foolish media to keep talking about him and find someone to blame rather than prevent it.

Instead, they continue to use the actions of this village idiot for their own media outrage clicks and spin to find a villain of the month to blame. Somehow that 'villain of the month' is Musk.

The Verge and Ars Technica, which I thought of as essentially tech oriented publications, have turned into highly political, partisan blogs, which basically removes the point of them. Maybe I never understood their aim? TechCrunch, despite it's flaws, at least seems like it's mostly actually about tech

It seems like a reasonable question to me. Elon has his ideas of how he wants to moderate Twitter. Things like this happen (sadly). How does he intend to moderate them?

He has been talking an awful lot about what he thinks. And then as soon as this happens he stops talking. That says something. He could have easily said “stuff like that won’t be allowed“. And there would be no story.

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