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  Elon is the guy who would definitely push the big red button that's says DO NOT PUSH.
context: Who was it here that predicted this yesterday? >
  
  This has been the pattern for the last month or so, make a bad decision and then reverse it the next day >
  
  Seems like a waste of a day. >
  
  Not if it keeps you or your business in the news >
  
  I thought people use twitter to spread news, not to become the news. >
  
  You should send a memo to Elon >
  
  Elon Degenerate >
  
  Thank you for next year’s Halloween costume? >
  
  Be careful. You may get banned just like that Chinese doppelganger that looks exactly like Elon. >
  
  Yilong Ma was here first >
  
  "the company's head of trust said tool was 'temporarily' paused, triggering concern from campaigners."
  "After the story was published, Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters that 'we have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that'.
  'We expect to have them back up next week,' Irwin said." >
  
  Head of Trust?  Damn, she’s got her work cut out for her. >
  
  She's like the 3rd person to hold it since musk came in. >
  
  How many Mooches until the next person? >
  
  Well that depends if it is an imperial or metric mooch >
  
  is this a reference to Liz Truss? because I hope it is >
  
  Yes and no, see there are 2 ways of measuring the Mooch, it's either 10 days (the Metric Mooch) or 11 days (the Imperial Scaramucci). The Truss situation called the measurement question back to the forefront, however. >
  
  im guessing he isnt bringing back the covid warning, just the suicide part, as predicted previously. >
  
  What was the COVID warning part? >
  
  A warning against misinformation about covid or vaccines. >
  
  Was it tied to the suicide-prevention tool, or just also removed at the same time? >
  
  Removed at the same time. There were some predictions that the suicide prevention tool would steal all of the headlines, and then the suicide prevention tool would be reinstated the next day. Meanwhile, the media wouldn't report the less-flashy news that the covid misinformation tool was also discontinued and never reinstated.
  Basically, Twitter lit a firework and said, "Oo everyone look over there!" and then they pulled a sneaky while everyone was distracted. >
  
  Musk did the same thing like a week ago when it was announced neuralink was being investigated for animal cruelty for killing animals in their testing at a ridiculously high rate. Something like 5 or 6 times the expected rate for animal trials with thousands dead. Same day and for next couple days Elon is just tweeting tons of inflammatory anti Vax nonsense and then instituting that "you cant link to other social media" change they also ended up rolling back >
  
  You guys give him way too much credit for even being smart enough to do these things. >
  
  It's really not that smart. Smokescreening your fuckups is PR 101 stuff. Musk has been in the business of being a fuckup long enough to pick up a couple tricks, unfortunately the only one he seems to have mastered is masking his big fuckups with more fuckups. >
  
  Anyone who paid the slightest amount of attention during the Trump presidency saw how effective this tactic is. >
  
  Lol top comment on reddit said this was gonna happen yesterday >
  
  Maybe cause when they took it down they said they were revamping and gonna rerelease it. >
  
  Like... Jesus Christ. The reason they say there's no bad ideas when your brainstorming is because there's hopefully a few more steps between brainstorming and implementation. >
  
  This comment is an excellent reaction to so many things happening in the tech world. >
  
  It has to be just about keeping Twitter in the news and keeping outrages happening. >
  
  Alternate hypothesis: Musk is a terrible leader. >
  
  Both can be true and likely are. 
  Elon has never been good at running businesses.   Look at his history as CEO >
  
  It's a perfect demonstration of the fact that the more you pay for a product, the less likely you are to admit that it was a bad investment. >
  
  Seems better than "Reddit Care Resources" which people use as some kind of super-downvote.  You can always tell when you've pissed redditors off, because you'll get about one Reddit Care Resources messages per approx. 100 downvotes in a given thread. >
  
  I don't think I've ever received one along with downvotes. Just the opposite in fact. It's used as a way for some angry, self important twerp to go against what they like to call "the hive" to let you know they really don't like what you said without having to nut up and reply properly in thread.
  Edit: ha, got one from this comment. >
  
  You, too?
  Reddit should disband that spam generator - I'll bet it gets used 1,000 times as a form of harassment per each time it has a legitimate use. >
  
  Exactly how much annoyance is worth preventing to you vs giving someone the pause they need to reconsider suicide? >
  
  You're assuming people don't get it so much it drives them to suicide. >
  
  There's a multi week / month cooldown on it. >
  
  It is general knowledge that this time of year sees a spike in suicides. But, those living in a Privilege Bubble, may not know this. >
  
  Those in privilege are not immune to holiday depression. >
  
  They aren't immune, but it does tend to make it less likely. Think about the resources the wealthy have to combat this vs people living in poverty. >
  
  is theirs actually useful or is it like Reddits where you just use it to spam peoples posts you disagree with. Im not suicidal, but reddit is probably concerned about me being around anything more pointy than a pillow at this point. >
  
  Twitter made a new rule. Twitter took it back. They took away something else. They put it back. Twitter did a handstand while shouting "hey, look! Look at me! Did you see? Did you see?!"
  Puh-fucking-LEASE can we stop reporting on every stupid thing Twitter does like it's actually news? >
  
  TBH I'm actually kind of enjoying it. We all know that the uber wealthy and CEOs aren't any smarter than the rest of us, and this is such incredible daily validation. Enjoying the schadenfreude. >
  
  Wow who could’ve known this would backfire >
  
  I wish Reddit would take theirs away.  It’s exclusively used to harass people. >
  
  I'd like to see evidence of Reddit punishing the malcontents abusing the system. >
  
  I’m convinced Elon is doing all this just to keep twitter relevant and in the news cycle. >
  
  Musk, has obviously, overestimated his ability to manage a social media outlet. He needs to get totally out of the business. His silver spoon-fed upbringing is insufficient in understanding how regular, everyday, normal, working-class people think and react.
  But the decision to suspend this feature goes beyond understanding. It shows an absolute disregard of humans in crisis and need. >
  
  Rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic again >
  
  I’m watching Titanic right now, so seems apropos >
  
  lol he was warned by dozens and dozens of people with real world experience running social media sites.  we have receipts of these people trying to explain basic ass things he should expect. 
  he *still* thought he knew better than them. 
  this is a recurring problem with dipshits like him, they genuinely have convinced themselves they’re smarter than actual experts who have been deeply involved in these things for *years*. >
  
  Wow, I wonder what feature will be discontinued next week, only to be re-enabled within 24 hours… >
  
  Is this how we find out that people are reporting Musk's account to suicide prevention? >
  
  Elon: Gee, what can I do to stay in the news? I know!
    🙄😒 >
  
  Journalists are going to be getting whiplash trying to cover twitter >
  
  Let me guess. Musk found some way to charge for it ?
  Fuck him and fuck Twitter. >
  
  Musk is probably the most despicable human being bar none. Except for maybe Trump. >
  
  Anything to stay in the headlines 🙄 what a egomaniac narcissist >
  
  
  Musk then denied the feature had been removed, and called the Reuters report “fake news”.
  
  He is the single biggest piece of shit in the world, just before Donald Trump and Bono. >
  
  Musk shouldn't even be left in charge of a pile of rocks. 
  At this point Android Zuck should just put Musk in permanent quarantine in his Metaverse whereby Musk can play make-believe tech-bro with his Monopoly pseudo-crypto coins and run a make-believe evil Weyland-Yutani Corp and colonize the entire universe with Metaverse xenomorphs that he blasts out of his AI ass. >
  
  How freaking stupid and detached from reality is this idiot? No wonder the Republicans bow in his honor. >
  
  About as stupid as the people that didn't read the initial article where it clearly stated that the system would only temporarily be down ? >
  
  Christmas fucking weekend they had the balls to try and remove the suicide prevention feature. Fuck tech >
  
  I used to think Trump was the poster boy for the compassionlessness of conservatism, but Elon is slowly stealing that mantle. >
  
  Elon is one of the stupidest motherfuckers alive. I swear he is. I don’t know what else to say other than that he is a stupid asshole. >
  
  Did PEOPLE NOT READ the previous article at all?!
  It was stated that it was Temporary and would be restored. 
  There was no outcry on something that was already going to be restored. >
  
  That's Twitters story, yes.
  And Musk is saying it's fake news because it's "still there" (restored).
  Meanwhile your position ignores the reports that it was removed without any notice and the temporary situation story only came out after media attention, while Musk is lying and pretending that it was never removed. >
  
  Drive away business, users, and advertisers to then beg them to come back. Fuck off Elon. >
  
  To try and do this on Christmas (a time when people may experience terrible depression) was a hideous decision, and no credit should be given for walking it back after the predictable and justified outrage. If being anti-woke is just being callous and terrible, and having zero empathy for other people, then call me woke all day long. >
  
  This is all over a social media app. Amazing how we’ve degenerated. >
  
  And did it in the week that typically has the highest suicide rate of the year...
  Just when you though Musk couldn't find another way to make Twitter even worse. >
  
  I just read the news it was removed an hour ago. >
  
  Right now Twitter looks like Elon Musk at the circuit breaker turning everything off and on to see what it's good for. >
  
  Can we all just stop going on Twitter and not worry about it? >
  
  Musk does these things for free advertising. His advertisers have dropped so this is how he is marketing his c ok company now.
  How many people took to Twitter to condemn this latest move?
  Anything to stay in the headlines. I wish the media would report on actual important news stories instead of this trash. >
  
  Doing this on Christmas, one of the worst days for suicides... Everyone involved in this deserves a lifetime of guilt-induced insomnia >
  
  Elon is just doing this shit to garner people going to friggin Twitter. It’s all the keep the traffic up. >
  
  hey redditors whats the next thing we should focus all our rage and angst against? i think twitter hate is starting to run its course. i cant wait to focus more bad feelings on something else. >
  
  Yeah it really reveals how sad many redditors are. These news subs are absolutely toxic. >
  
  You know how you see a rich man sometimes and think, "wow, I admire that guy. He must be really smart".  I no longer think that of Elon. Well there's that and his decisions are so stupid that they have to be for publicity, right? >
  
  Boycott Musk and Twitter >
  
  Musk is a monster and all around horrible human >
  
  He’s clearly trolling >
  
  Elon is such a fucking piece of shit. >
  
  Total fake news. This never happened. Elon confirmed they never touched it. >
  
  And Twitter staff claimed it went down to "revamp" it, after media learned that it was taken down.  By some accounts Elon directly ordered to take it down.  Not fake news in the slightest. >
  
  Just delete your Twitter account and move on with your life. >
  
  Temporarily taking something down for maintenance =\= removing it 
  But keep clutching those pearls because some journalists got their feelings hurt. >
  
  That’s not at all what happened here, but keep making up scenarios in your head because you love that musky nutsack so much. >
  
  Sure, because Elon Musk personally told them to remove a suicide help function that's automated by bots,  and then had them restore it (on Xmas eve) because he was somehow oblivious to the backlash it would create. 
  Or they were just updating the prompts like they said, and Journalists are just looking to get some catchy headline.
  Wonder which one seems more likely.. Keep clutching those pearls, though. >
  
  You believe the guy who keeps making stupid policies, gets yelled at about it, and changes it the next day over and over again? Okay bro, keep huffing those nuts. >
  
  I wish he would just make an irreversible life decision already. I’m sick of this asshole >
  
  Reading the nonstop barrage of "I hate Elon Musk" posts makes me want to slash my wrists.
  We get it. No, seriously. We get it. Musk is to 2022 as to what Trump was in 2016. We get it. >
  
  No one cares what you think or experience. >
  
  Spin spin spin, if this was someone Reddit loved right now this would be presented as "hero rips up the rule book to help suicide epidemic" >
  
  "Turn it off and see who yells" has been a thing for a while. Usually not so publicly, but still... >
  
  Cannot fathom who would want to continue to work at Twitter >
  
  It would be nice to go 1 week without news about Twitter shitting the bed. >
  
  How can such a flip floppy dick be the head of anything?? >
  
  How is that thing still upright? >
  
  You know, most people don’t know who the CEO of the company they use is. It’s like Elon noticed people weren’t talking about him and had to get their attention. 
  I’ve had students like that. You ignore them. They calm down. Life gets better. >
  
  Anything to generate maximum outrage, I guess. >
  
  Is this what Elon unplugged?  What could go wrong? >
  
  I’m surprised there are people in the company still to do this >
  
  I’m at the point where I think Musk is doing all this shit just to bring attention to the site. He gets rid of things that make users go “WHAAATTT!?!?”, gets in the news for it, then puts it back like “Ok so Twitter still has this feature so you can come/stay on the site now.”
  I’ve already deleted Twitter because I’m so tired of hearing about this asswipe but Musk is just doing this for attention. I’d be interested to see how real data on the site gaining/losing new members. >
  
  And musk permanently removed the account after he got exposed for removing the feature >
  
  I’m gonna be the guy to get fucking locked up for telling everyone reading this, to buy puts on Tesla, because that’s technically voting power on companies you either like or not. So technically why are we restricted from agreeing in general to get Tesla Puts and Ford calls?
  Nods to the stoners in the lounge chairs buying $LCID and $NIO