That doesn’t make it ethical or absolve the abuse of power by the host.
Owning a thing doesn’t mean anything you do with it is ethical or void of any abuse. If I own something and have the community help me develop it, there are unspoken values and expectations that violating would make me a shit head and the more people I rug pull the greater the violation I put out there in the world. The more you rely on the community the more these violations matter.
And yet, it means jack all since you have 0 control over it. You can cry foul all you want, but the only thing that matters is whether or not you leave. Their power, and ability to abuse it, stems solely from that. Having a discussion of ethics when Musk is involved… Just go yell at a wall.
You can complain, but that doesn’t make it news worthy. People feel entitled to demand things of a free service. Now if you paid for it, you’d be on to something.
When talking about paying for a handle they give out, that’s where this discussion goes. No legal obligation to pay for what they already own and can repurpose. A public discussion means nothing if you’re going to just steer clear if the fact some idiots thought he’d be paid for a twit handle.
This is a blazingly hot take but you are entirely correct, and people need to hear it. People will scream “FUCK SPEZ” while logging in to 400 different reddit tabs daily and continuing to feed a corrupt (and soon to be) corporate entity.
I’d be more upset if this was something actually important like a government website or something people’s lives depend on, but yeah, it’s not. It’s just entertainment. Folks need to move on.
Doesn’t it come across as unethical and wrong like an abuse of power to you?
Sure it’s wrong, but the real point is no one is surprised Musk did something to make someone feel like shit. It’s his goal
The better move is to let the platform slip away into irrelevancy.
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That doesn’t make it ethical or absolve the abuse of power by the host.
Owning a thing doesn’t mean anything you do with it is ethical or void of any abuse. If I own something and have the community help me develop it, there are unspoken values and expectations that violating would make me a shit head and the more people I rug pull the greater the violation I put out there in the world. The more you rely on the community the more these violations matter.
And yet, it means jack all since you have 0 control over it. You can cry foul all you want, but the only thing that matters is whether or not you leave. Their power, and ability to abuse it, stems solely from that. Having a discussion of ethics when Musk is involved… Just go yell at a wall.
I think arguing that massive websites can do whatever they want and no one should ever complain is pretty moronic.
You can complain, but that doesn’t make it news worthy. People feel entitled to demand things of a free service. Now if you paid for it, you’d be on to something.
I mean, “they are not legally obligated to [anything]” is always a stupid argument.
This isn’t a court of law, it’s a public discussion
When talking about paying for a handle they give out, that’s where this discussion goes. No legal obligation to pay for what they already own and can repurpose. A public discussion means nothing if you’re going to just steer clear if the fact some idiots thought he’d be paid for a twit handle.
This is a blazingly hot take but you are entirely correct, and people need to hear it. People will scream “FUCK SPEZ” while logging in to 400 different reddit tabs daily and continuing to feed a corrupt (and soon to be) corporate entity.
I’d be more upset if this was something actually important like a government website or something people’s lives depend on, but yeah, it’s not. It’s just entertainment. Folks need to move on.