China bots flood Twitter with porn spam to drown protest news

Twitter faces scrutiny for relying too much on automated content removal.

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[Bilateralrope]

From how things are going, he'll keep pulling from Trump's playbook and refuse to pay AWS bills while crying to his gang of deputized young douchebags to go after Bezos personally.

The difference is that Trump waited until after he thought he no longer needed anything from someone before he let them know they weren't going to be paid.

Musk is refusing to pay for ongoing services. Which mean those vendors have at least one piece of leverage that Trump's contractors didn't: The ability to withhold service.

 

[Bilateralrope]

The funny part, is they it's more likely to be related to Apple not getting their 30%, than the lax moderation.

I disagree. If Musk was trying to deny Apple money that they are owed, that would already be in court.

 

[Bilateralrope]

And the only person who has claimed he got it from Hunter Biden is a) legally blind, b) never met Mr. Biden before that day or after, c) no longer is in the computer repair business, and d) wants nothing to do with the laptop anymore.

OF course he's out of the computer repair business. If we take him at his word, he's admitting to poking around inside a customers laptop. Why would anyone trust him with their computers after that ?

If he's lying, what will he lie about when someone else brings their devices in for repair ?

 

[Bilateralrope]

To your leading question (remainder of your post spoilered to focus on this), this article makes the case that moderation was Twitter's primary product and, as such, it was an essential part of their business. It wasn't that Twitter owed moderation to everybody else so much as they owed it to themselves.

We've already seen what happens when you gut the moderation team and relax rules about what can be posted: it's an unmitigated mess that a lot of people and companies want absolutely nothing to do with. (Note how this also verifies the thesis of the article).

Elon Musk's current hell is very much of his own making, and he has no one to blame but himself for the loss of advertising customers and high profile account holders. And without those, he has no route to financial viability without taking away from his other business ventures.

How many social media platforms have quickly run into trouble because they refused to moderate ?

No mention of Musk's Tesla venture in China? Even if there is no direct correlation, You have to think that his main concern is not offending the Chinese government and so would feel almost no urgency to deal with this.

To worry about angering China would require Musk to have a greater understanding of human behaviour than he has demonstrated since he took over Twitter.