Written by Otaku Apologist
Now that Elon Musk is finally finishing his legal rollercoaster takeover of Twitter, all pornographers on Twitter should be researching which way the social winds blow this time. With his newfound rightwing-conservative leanings motivating his actions, Elon’s stance on porn remains a question that demands answers, for our livelihoods are at stake.
Luckily, the writers of Zerohedge.com investigated and found material that allude to his stance on the matter. The short answer, it currently does not seem like porn will be banned.
Also read Musk’s Twitter free speech misadventure parallels The Wire.
This post will be updated as we learn more about what is becoming of porn on Musk-owned Twitter. Feel free to comment your thoughts in the comments. You can read the full article on Zerohedge.com.
I am skipping to the part relevant to pornographers. I edited only one word of this whole quote, because I believe it was a mistake. I don’t believe the original writer meant to say Twitter users agree to post spam!
Quoted from Zerohedge directly:
“Now that the dramatic, if pointless and expensive, interlude of Musk trying to sabotage his own (extremely overpriced) purchase of Twitter is finally over with Musk conceding to buy the social network at the original proposed price of $54.20.
So what’s next? Will Musk keep Twitter as is, or will he burn it down, fire all its employees, and rebuild it from the ground up? Conveniently, Musk’s Twitter-linked text messages, publicly released as part of the Twitter lawsuit legal disclosure, provide enough information for what Musk really wants in terms of a final product.
“Status Quo: it is the de facto public town square, but it is a problem that it does not adhere to free speech principles. => so the core product is pretty good, but (i) it does not serve democracy, and (ii) the current business model is a dead end as reflected by flat share price.
Goal: Make Twitter the global backbone of free speech, an open market place of ideas that truly complies with the spirit of the first amendment and shift the business model to a combination of ad-supported and paid to support quality.”
Game Plan:
1.) “Solve Free Speech”
- 1-a) Step 1″ Make it censorship-FREE by radically reducing Terms of Services (now hundreds of pages) to the following: Twitter users agree to:
- (1) Use our service not to send spam or scam users,
- (2) Promote violence,
- (3) Post illegal pornography.
- 1-b) Step 2: Make Twitter censorship-RESISTANT
- Ensure censorship resistance by implementing measures that warrant that Twitter can’t be censored long term, regardless of which government and management
- How? Keep pushing projects at Twitter that have been working on developing a decentralized social network protocol (e.g., BlueSky). It’s not easy, but the back-end must run on decentralized infrastructure, APIs should become open (back to the roots! Twitter started and became big with open APIs).
- Twitter would be one of many clients to post and consume content.
- Then create a marketplace for algorithms, e.g., if you’re a snowflake and don’t want content that offends you pick another algorithm.
Additionally, Elon’s text messages and the article mention a desire in making Twitter a marketplace for algorithms, with comfortable options for different users. The overall tone of the discussion is leaning on giving users control over their feeds, rather than a top-down approach, where an elitist clique curates the media we are allowed to see and read. For pornographers, this will hopefully mean that users who want to see porn in their feeds are allowed to choose an algorithm that filters in their beloved erotic entertainment!
But let’s not jump the shark here. Third parties are generally unreliable partners for porn companies, and Elon having absolute power means he can change his policies any day of the week, as did the free speech loving Andrew Torba of Gab. All these moral crusaders, be they right-leaning or left-leaning tout the value of free speech until they see something they truly do not like. Because free speech does not exist in business.
