Titter* defames news outlets by declaring them to be state-affiliated, bans links to competitors, and also HURR DURR DOGE.
Enough. At this point its on every one of us for spreading this shit like a terrible chain email from the 90s.
Enough. At this point its on every one of us for spreading this shit like a terrible chain email from the 90s.
Turns out: 1) They're literal addicts. 2) They're not as unhappy as they make themselves out to be, they just enjoy the social interaction through communal outrage. Hypocrites.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit...:
> State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.
The only argument for NPR is that it has received government funding, which means Tesla's account (and thousands of other businesses) should also have the state-affiliated label.
The only explanations are severe incompetence (the Twitter team in charge of identifying state-affiliated media has never heard of the BBC) or malice (there is no such team anymore, NPR was directly targeted by someone who doesn't like them and falsely assumed they are government-funded). I think it's obvious this was malice, but you're entitled to your opinion.
Consider though that your explanation accuses them of incredible negligence. If you don't have time to evaluate the biggest media organizations in the world, then you don't roll out a state-affiliated media label to your global platform.
If only 5% of the energy used to complain about Twitter was used to improve the FOSS options in the market.
Also, there's something quite nice about being able to start fresh on a new platform. You can shape it to the experience you want it to be, without all the inertia of your past usage.