Former State Department official: ‘Elon Musk has no idea the DARPA rattlesnake he stepped on doing this’…

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The following developments on Twitter are likely to have been heard of or even affected by Elon Musk’s new policy limiting Twitter usage:

To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we’ve implemented the following time limits:

– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts at 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts up to 300/day

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023

There have been many theories advanced about the purpose of these limits, ranging from the cynical business incentive to encourage more paying subscribers, to the more conspiratorial possibility that Twitter wanted to limit the spread of video and information about the riots in France.

The best and most interesting analysis of the policy shift to date comes courtesy of former State Department official Mike Benz. Benz notes that whatever the intent of the policy, one significant effect will be to frustrate the efforts of various intelligence agencies and NGOs that collect massive amounts of data outside of Twitter to train their censorship algorithms.

Take a listen:

Wow! Musk has no idea the DARPA rattlesnake he just stepped on doing this…

My opinion @elonmusknew rate cap policy, through the lens of the censorship industry: https://t.co/AZ5SPIgHiz pic.twitter.com/Rw4KBZsT9O

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 1, 2023

Of course, Revolver News has been at the forefront of reporting on the use of Twitter by intelligence agencies for various psychological operations and censorship practices.

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Musk appeared to acknowledge, at least in part, the validity of Benz’s analysis, in his succinct response to another Twitter user’s comment on the video that “scraping” Twitter data is even more of a problem now with the rise of AI models. that rely on large amounts of public data:

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 2, 2023

Let’s hope Benz’s analysis is correct, and whether unintentionally or not, his latest policy is giving censorship and psyop architects a bit of a headache.