Is this old news? There’s been massive dicks on there for ages.

Just don’t criticize fascists and religious nut jobs. That’s OBSCENE! /s

It’s probably so he can say that it’s too hard to tell nude children from adults.

First good thing Musk has ever done?

So… let’s start uploading lots of gay/trans porn and swe how long it takes before the policy changes!

I’m just here to say the thumbnail for this article is great.

Time to drop a ton of photoshops of Musk with a diseased micropenis until he changes his mind about this. Maybe shops of Zuckerberg and Musk heads onto gay porn stars so it looks like Mark is dominating Elon’s asshole in the literal sense rather than just the figurative sense.

I thought they were already allowed… There’s tons of adult performers already on there showing full frontal nudity and pornography.

If you thought the bots were obnoxious now…

Does this mean in certain US states that you will have to provide ID in order to view X content?

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1146933317/louisiana-new-porn-law-government-id-restriction-privacy

So, I don’t use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:

• The rebranding to X threw out brand value.

• Policy shifts didn’t make some people – who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive – happy.

• Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.

So, speaking personally, I’m pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don’t want someone preventing me from seeing someone’s speech. I want to make those decisions myself.

However, there are people who don’t agree; they’d prefer to have their environment have content moderation.

What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.

With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:

• Keep Twitter active.

• Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.

• Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.

• Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don’t do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated).

That solves a number of problems:

• People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.

• People who don’t want heavy moderation can have that, and aren’t having to pay for someone else’s moderation.

• If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.

• It’d even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.

I suggested that something earlier might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions.

Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But…that’s not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.

Awesome… Driving Twitter into the ground even faster.

Wait they took off the porn? There’s like always been porn on Twitter. I’m confused.

So he is that desperate already? His user numbers must be close to the ground to try this in the US.

Can’t wait for three days from now, when they roll that back in a panic.