Weird comment, no? Who is this playing too? This is a concern who exactly had before and why? My main guess would be that internal teams were saying: we need to moderate or we'll get booted. And this is the reply to the unasked question. Without context it seems unhinged.
Alternatively- same reason they removed Parler. It was a completely unmoderated stream of fecal matter that was far too toxic to risk association with, and had to be removed.
There has been a cabal of activists that have been mass-reporting the Twitter app on both Apple and Google's app stores over the last week or so, alleging some dubious terms of service violation in an attempt to get it deplatformed. It's a sad, petulant response to Musk taking over Twitter, as he invaded their country club and is shaking things up, not unlike Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.
If you can suppress your laughter at how ridiculous this scheme sounds, the irony is they are organizing this..... on Twitter.
I feel bad for the support staff manning the app store support queues who are dealing with a deluge of these idiotic requests from some of the dumbest, most childish people on the planet. Hopefully they have automation in place to separate the signal from the noise.
And if so, wouldn’t there have been a number of people reporting the app before the takeover, when it was perceived by the other political spectrum to be a woke platform advocating for something they deemed violated the respective TOS? And thinking further, wouldn’t there always be a bunch of activists—and wannabe saboteurs—making false reports for political gains (or other reasons; such as they like the competitor better)? So this if you are right, this is probably not a new thing, and I’m pretty sure the respective app stores have filters in place for their moderators to deal with this.
> There’s precedent for a complete ban. Apple and Google banned Parler, a much smaller and conservative-leaning site, in 2020 after posts on the site promoted the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6 and included calls for violence. In Apple’s case, the decision to ban high-profile apps is made by a group called the Executive Review Board, which is led by Schiller — the Apple executive who deleted his Twitter account over the weekend.
> Although Apple approved Truth Social, Trump’s social networking app, in February, it took longer for Google Play to approve it. The company told CNBC in August that the social network lacked “effective systems for moderating user-generated content” and therefore violated Google’s Play Store terms of service. Google eventually approved the app in October, saying that apps need to “remove objectionable posts such as those that incite violence.”
> Musk reportedly fired many of Twitter’s contact content moderators this month.
> ... Apple’s App Store has never allowed pornography, a policy that dates back to the company’s founder, Steve Jobs, and Google also bans apps centered around sexual content.
> Anything that isn’t safe for work needs to be hidden by default. Twitter currently allows adult content, which could put it even more directly into reviewer sights.
> “Apps with user-generated content or services that end up being used primarily for pornographic content ... do not belong on the App Store and may be removed without notice,” Apple’s guidelines say.
Twitter is currently having trouble making Twitter (and always has), so there is a 0% chance this will happen. There's no appetite to give Musk more debt at this point, so he has no way to fund it.
This is one of those things, and there are many of them, that Elon says strictly for attention, not because he believes it or has any intention to follow through with it.
The fact everyone sees through it, but he says it like he means it, is the truly sad part. Imagine if he also believes he's scaring Apple with this tweet.
The best he can do is slap a logo on a generic Chinese Android phone, and then sell few thousand.
People in Silicon Valley maybe see through it, but I'm sure most people outside of tech are thinking "well he can launch rockets so surely he can create another app store."
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 61.8 ms ] threadIf you can suppress your laughter at how ridiculous this scheme sounds, the irony is they are organizing this..... on Twitter.
I feel bad for the support staff manning the app store support queues who are dealing with a deluge of these idiotic requests from some of the dumbest, most childish people on the planet. Hopefully they have automation in place to separate the signal from the noise.
And if so, wouldn’t there have been a number of people reporting the app before the takeover, when it was perceived by the other political spectrum to be a woke platform advocating for something they deemed violated the respective TOS? And thinking further, wouldn’t there always be a bunch of activists—and wannabe saboteurs—making false reports for political gains (or other reasons; such as they like the competitor better)? So this if you are right, this is probably not a new thing, and I’m pretty sure the respective app stores have filters in place for their moderators to deal with this.
> There’s precedent for a complete ban. Apple and Google banned Parler, a much smaller and conservative-leaning site, in 2020 after posts on the site promoted the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6 and included calls for violence. In Apple’s case, the decision to ban high-profile apps is made by a group called the Executive Review Board, which is led by Schiller — the Apple executive who deleted his Twitter account over the weekend.
> Although Apple approved Truth Social, Trump’s social networking app, in February, it took longer for Google Play to approve it. The company told CNBC in August that the social network lacked “effective systems for moderating user-generated content” and therefore violated Google’s Play Store terms of service. Google eventually approved the app in October, saying that apps need to “remove objectionable posts such as those that incite violence.”
> Musk reportedly fired many of Twitter’s contact content moderators this month.
> ... Apple’s App Store has never allowed pornography, a policy that dates back to the company’s founder, Steve Jobs, and Google also bans apps centered around sexual content.
> Anything that isn’t safe for work needs to be hidden by default. Twitter currently allows adult content, which could put it even more directly into reviewer sights.
> “Apps with user-generated content or services that end up being used primarily for pornographic content ... do not belong on the App Store and may be removed without notice,” Apple’s guidelines say.
The best he can do is slap a logo on a generic Chinese Android phone, and then sell few thousand.