The end of community notes
For a while now I've been enjoying this feature of twitter. It seemed to me, at least, that if you were to really embody the values of free speech, you had to make sure it would self correct, and although not perfect, it did seem to be the best way to make it work.
But then...
No bueno
You see, for a lot of these people, these influencers, community notes is only great when it dunks on your enemies. Now if you are one "of the good guys" then community notes should not even make an appearance it seems.
Over and over I see right wing accounts upset with community notes, calling for it's abolishment, and it appears that Elon finally decided to do something about it.
A finger on the scale
I'm sure most people know that Elon has gone as far as to delete the community notes on his own posts. There was an account, now deleted it seems, that kept record of the times he got "community noted", but that too appears to have been cleansed from the platform.
This reminds me of the whole Russian Collusion sham we lived through back in the Clinton days, but I'm sure to my friends of the right this is entirely different.
At any rate, to me this signals the end of "the feature". The creation of an even tighter misinformation bubble that will surely rot more brains a minute than watching old rotten.com videos on repeat.
MenO
I would guess that the feature will stay, but it's likely that a change will get coded, so that Elon and those he designated can't be Community Noted.
Twitter is a permissive speech platform, but not a free speech platform.
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I think he'll only allow notes he can disprove, so lending him the appearance of virtue. He's cagy, and wants to appear virtuous. He can simply delete notes that he can't use for that purpose, yet gain the appearance of virtue by allowing notes that he can prove are based on false information, unreasonably biased, and so forth.
a white list of sorts of people who cannot get community noted sounds about right
This seems to be a common theme with the right-wing, but Elon certainly exemplifies it: where they are all for free speech, unless it's speech they personally don't like, then it's "communist", "marxist", or some other buzzword that they know their followers don't really understand, but that they hope will be taken as a bad thing.
did not mean to upvote you that hard, but then again, I would do more for your posts if I could...
That being said, you are spot on.
I think you're right about this, because I am confident being called out on his BS is intolerable to the Elon, and he owns means of doing something about it, which you have mentioned a couple, but preliminary steps towards what I think would be a satisfactory resolution to the problem from his perspective.
Thanks!