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  • "scam bot operators will just use stolen credits cards -"

    And that's not true. Yes, there will be a small portion that do it, but this is where this idea is pretty smart.

    Taking your credit card information is a functional hurdle, but also a legal risk.

    There's a bunch of companies and people who will stop using bots just because they can't implement it, don't want to implement it, or don't have the time. Also, don't forget if there's one person who provides 10.000 active bots, that means providing credit card information 10.000x times, but also 120.000$ per year. If you wanna do it legally, this shit is expensive, and probably not worth it for a lot of ppl.

    And there's also a bunch of ppl who are weighting the risk of being exposed for fake credit cards, and they stop using bots because they are not willing to commit fraud.

    I get that this will turn off even more users and it's obviously a bad pr move, but you can't understate that it is quite effective for the things he says he wants to achieve.

  • Funny thing, spez expressed in interviews that he liked Leon's philosophy behind a lot of decision over Twitter.

    So there's a lot of truth to that

    Edit: I'm gonna tear my autocorrect a new one. It's "Elon Musk" and I hope that's clear.

  • I also think as he doesn't align politically with a lot of ppl on Twitter, he might wanna phase it out slowly, so there's no sudden jump in other platforms trying to take over the role of Twitter.

    Ofc I have no evidence for that, but I could see him doing that.

  • Just to clear up some things in your comment:

    I do not condone the harsh immigration policies, and I do not condone the separation of families through those. I wish those families and children the best. That said, I also face the harsh reality that I really do think there's not much more to do for Biden. Sometimes things can be wrong, but there's no one to blame who can make it right.

    Also, the legal proceedings against the families Biden is wholly uninvolved in and there's a range of factors that influence those proceedings. It's a fairly lazy argument to fault him for a proceeding that is ongoing in which he has no direct involvement in.

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy

    This Wikipedia article lists the timeline and a lot of the challenges.

    A short timeline:

    • April 2018, the harsh policy is adopted
    • June 20 2018, Executive Order is signed by Trump to halt family seperation
    • June 26 2018, in Sabraw vs Sessions an Injunction is ordered with deadlines for reunification of families

    ---- Biden Inauguration in January 20 2021 ----

    • February 2 2021, Biden signs an Executive Order that creates a plan for reunification
    • February 2 2021, a Task Force is established to identify and reunify seperated families
    • up to now, the process is still ongoing

    Now in the timeline you will see that just 2 weeks after inauguration Biden signed an order and establishes a Task Force to take care of it. As he has a lot of things to do, this is probably the best way to handle the problem.

    When you look into the Wikipedia page you will also notice that trump's policy didn't include a plan to reunite families. The administration also explained as early as June 2018 that they can only reunite 60 children, because they referred to the "central database", and there was not enough information in there to reunite the other 666 children with their families.

    You might want to argue further that "he should have done more" and "the children are still not reunited under Biden", but let me talk in academic English for a second. The policy got the families fucked beyond repair. Biden tried his best but holy shit is there a lot of chaos to navigate. Let's also agree on that fact that reuniting families without any information to base off of is really fucking hard. Also, you are saying the president has a lot of power, which is right. But do you realize how many problems a president has to take care of in a month? That's a metric fuckton of equally important problems to tackle, half of which need to be formulated through very complicated legal jargon.

    I conclude that Biden did everything he can. And I really think there's topics which he can be blamed for. This is not the one.

  • There's one smart sentence that Elon musk said at some point "I believe the president is a captain steering a very large ship with a very small rudder".

    Of course he can be blamed for getting stuff wrong, but intentionally creating chaos is a bit easier than getting things right, and as there is an infinite list of things to get right, usually things take time unfortunately.

    Don't get me wrong Biden is not a saint, most definitely not, but you can't blame him for not fixing things instantaneously, and even an instant is a fairly long time when it comes to any government.

  • porque no los dos?

    I think he found himself between a rock and a hard place having to buy Twitter, but now he is realizing he can't make his money back and his attempts to alter the platform to his liking are failing miserably as well, he is probably dead set on killing it for good.