#delete twitter

[odinsblog]

If you're on Twitter/X, you may have noticed a sudden stream of high-profile accounts heading for the exits. And no, it's not (just) about the election.

This exodus is thanks to a new Terms of Service document, which takes effect on November 15. Although the company isn't talking about it, the new ToS gives owner Elon Musk the right to use your tweets, photos and videos to train his AI bot, Grok.

The option to opt out of Grok training, something users currently have, may still exist in your settings the following day. But it also may not matter, legally speaking. Nothing about opting out is mentioned in the document you are required to sign. And it doesn't appear to make a difference if your account is locked: So far as this ToS is concerned, Grok gets to feed on it anyway.

Oh yes, and following free speech is no longer free. You'll be on the hook for $15,000 in damages if your account accesses more than a million tweets a day. Not even the hardest of hardcore Twitter junkies will reach that number, but many researchers do. For anyone who tracks hate speech on X, this will have a chilling effect. The Knight Institute for the First Amendment at Columbia University calls it a "disturbing move" for a supposed free-speech advocate.

Disagree with anything in this document, or any other changes going forward? According to the ToS, your only legal recourse is to fight the world's richest man in one court in rural Texas, many miles from X HQ in Austin. This happens to be a court where a judge who may still own a pile of Tesla stock has already given Musk favorable rulings.

Don't want Elon Musk to feed your feed to his pet AI? There is, alas, only one way out of it now: delete your account.

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[black-fist-order]

Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk - POLITICO

So, "Pumpkin Spice Palpatine" finally put the brakes on this goofy mthfkr! Was it ego? Was it backlash? Regardless, the resistance is working...!

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

[r00tzero]

i think off season is worse for players than for fans they’re going crazy

[wonderingwheretheleopardsare]

Elmo, free speech warrior!

That free speech stuff, nah, not so much.

You tell 'em Ian! The human own goal weighs in.

Because you're a cunt.

[nikitasnefor]

what the hell is going on in the Academy maniacs fandom right now

[silveragelovechild]

[wilwheaton]

this fucking guy

[bakerstreet-and-beyond]

Anyone else a Neocities user?

I've had a site for about a year for a local Archiving and Retro tech thing I run in my town and honestly love the ability to be as creative as I want with it.

Literally is the closest this generation will get to active Geocities 👀

Just throwing this out there as another website building/platform alternative out there and one that definitely caters to those who miss/like the look of the older internet's individuality

[tomorrowusa]

« It is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not gonna be because someone comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen -- the ordinary person who says, 'No, that’s not right.' »

— President Barack Obama at a presentation at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on Thursday.

He also said that we have become too complacent. We won't be able to protect democracy unless we are willing to sacrifice for it.

His reference to us being the source of our own salvation is reminiscent of a favorite quote by Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

Go outside and get more active in your community.

People in Ukraine are risking their lives for freedom. People in this country who claim to be for democracy need to understand that their rights are not handed to them on a platinum platter. We need to work and sometimes fight to sustain those rights.

The simplest and easiest things to do right now are to get off of broligarch social media and to pause Amazon Prime indefinitely. Saying that you don't look at the ads or don't click the ads on Meta or Twitter/X misses the point. They make money just by you being there. You make Zuck and Musk richer (and more able to back Trump) just by using those platforms. By posting that vacation selfie on Instagram you chip away at our freedoms. Find untainted platforms which do not undermine democracy.

[moplayspoke]

Feels like divorce after 10 years but y’know… it was time

Bye bye. You were good while it lasted. 🫡

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

For anyone who hasn't noticed, fabricating bullshit hype over products (more commonly known as fraud) is the only business model this charlatan has ever used successfully. Well, that and being subsidized by the federal government.

[mlgneverdies]

Please delete your Twitter. Don't let that bastard Elon have any sort of viable platform. If the major game companies dropped it, so can you. Your mental health is very important right now.

[rollerska8er]

the ones who walk away from omelas but the ones who walk away from omelas are the people who stopped using twitter like a year ago and the ones who stay are the ones who insist that they're helping to stamp out fascism and misinformation on the Fascism and Misinformation Web Site

[potterprotego]

officially deleted twitter. all of my accs. i hardly ever use it anymore anyway and fuck elon 🖕🏼

[wilwheaton]

The brands are right. No one gives a f—k about X anymore, and no one will be outraged when you — yes, you, Elon Musk — have finally killed it. The days of serial tweeters like me lamenting the days of Twitter Classic are over. We’ve gone elsewhere and use X only sparingly, and only as a necessary evil. Without us, and without any advertising support, X will soon make no money of any sort, and you’ll be left only with the occasional $8 a month from @FreedomBob69. Oh wait, but here’s more reality for you, Elon! The Cybertruck is already not only a laughingstock, it’s also barely existent on the eve of its launch and, by your own admission, won’t turn a profit until a year and a half from now at the earliest. The Boring Company, established to make the Hyperloop a reality, has only built a glorified parking ramp in Vegas after burning through nearly $800 million in VC funding. Tesla’s revenues are sinking as the big automakers roll out their own EVs that are more appealing than your four-wheeled bachelor pads. Your company SpaceX will fail in its doomed mission to make humans a multiplanetary species, and its rockets won’t stop blowing up. And your biography sucked. So it’s over for you, Elon Musk. You are a public failure of a man. You’ll still be rich, but you no longer matter. That’s all you really wanted out of this, wasn’t it? You bought Twitter because you thought that owning it would make you the most special person in the whole wide world, only to reveal yourself as an unremarkable s—thead with no good ideas. You drove everyone away, including the companies that could have propped up your reputation for another five minutes. Whether you’ll ever understand this is of no concern to me, or to anyone else. You’ve shared your bucket, and it has nothing but holes in it. So, for Bob Iger, and for the rest of humanity, let me say: Go f—k yourself, Elon. Go. F—k. Yourself. Is that clear?

The end of Elon Musk