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[Mindwalker]

Elon Musk’s Anti-Trans Twitter Regime

Not content with re-activating accounts that spewed anti-trans content, Musk's Twitter has now banned a group that organizes to protect people at LGBTQ events from far-right violence.

No surprises here: Elon Musk is now devoting the powers of his rapidly dwindling workforce to re-activating the Twitter accounts of violence-promoting reactionaries suspended before he took over. On Friday, for example, he proudly announced the restoration of two accounts suspended for anti-trans content. But now it seems he’s not done. As an anti-trans moral panic pushed by Musk-favored Twitter accounts like Libs of TikTok escalates, and in the wake of a massacre at a queer club in Colorado Springs, Musk’s regime has also banned an account run by people who have been mobilizing against anti-LGBTQ violence.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169112/elon-musk-anti-trans-twitter-john-br

[Varysblackfyre321]

Perhaps Elon will point to the existence of White’s Twitter account  when he culls all the pro lgbt accounts.

 

[Varysblackfyre321]

https://mobile.twitter.com/UBERSOY1/status/1595182846125215748
 

Hunter Avalone got canceled on Twitter while Tim pool’s call for violence stays up.

[Mindwalker]

After my second cheat day on twitter, here's just something funny:

 

[DMC]

13 minutes ago, Mindwalker said:

After my second cheat day on twitter, here's just something funny:

That's a really weird way to spell Mean Streets.

[Zorral]

After firing around 5000 employees, Twitter boss Elon Musk plans to hire engineers from India

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstories/after-firing-around-5000-employees-twitter-boss-elon-musk-plans-to-hire-engineers-from-india/ar-AA14pFau?

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Elon Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees in the last few weeks. In fact, it is said that Musk has cut down headcount from 7000 to nearly 2700 since he took over as the only board member at Twitter. After multiple rounds of layoffs, the billionaire now says there will be no more layoffs at the company. In fact, Twitter's human resource team is hiring for engineering and sales roles.

In a recent meeting with employees, Musk said that "significant portions of the technology stack need to be rebuilt from scratch" and at one point he said it would be a good idea to "somewhat decentralize[] things" by setting up engineering teams in Japan, India, Indonesia, and Brazil. 

During the recent layoffs, Musk cut nearly 90 per cent of the workforce. It is said that out of some 200 employees, only around 20 odd people are remaining and haven't lost their job. Musk has seemingly fired the entire communications, marketing, and partner relations teams working out of India. In addition, even some from engineering teams in the country were impacted by the layoffs. One of the recent reports from Bloomberg revealed that almost 70 per cent of India-based engineering staff were fired overnight.

While Musk is looking to hire engineers from India to help build Twitter 2.0, he hasn't yet specified the kinds of engineering or sales roles the company was hiring for. ....

 

 

[Wade1865]

1 hour ago, Mindwalker said:

After my second cheat day on twitter, here's just something funny:

 

Mindwalker -- cheat days, hahaha! That’s actually pretty decent willpower given the pull Twitter has on people (including me, I admit). Even CBS returned after only a day, to “monitor” the situation.

[Heartofice]

12 hours ago, Zorral said:

On 1A, many a talking head, including the editor of The Verge, he CEO of Gerber, say advertising isn't musky objective at all.  What he's really doing is taking on YouTube, to become a YUGE content creator and supplier.  Very, very, very smart sez these talking heaqds, who use musky's first name in a most familiar manner.  Also musky intends to make Twitter a bank -- like, um, Venmo?

 

Do you have a link to these specific comments?

This all makes a lot of sense and I've seen this said elsewhere. Part of the plan is to bring all the content creators over from other platforms, because on other platforms like Youtube you get paid for creating content.. on Twitter.. you don't. That really means a lot of demographics, of mainly young people, have very little interest in being on Twitter right now, but if you can bring them over then you might have something. 

Couple this with plans I've heard to bring back Vine. Ditching Vine now seems like one of the stupidest decisions ever made given the popularity of Tik Tok. Then there is the increasingly real prospect that Tik Tok gets banned or taken down by Western governments due to concerns over Chinese state interference and suddenly Vine is a pretty attractive alternative. 

So then you add payments and verification and it builds up to be something different to the Twitter everyone is thinking of.
 

[Varysblackfyre321]

34 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

That really means a lot of demographics, of mainly young people, have very little interest in being on Twitter right now, but if you can bring them over then you might have something. 

It’d  probably help if Musk enforced the TOS on tweets justifying mass-shootings of trans people.

 

Can you awknowledge what Musk is doing will lead to more getting murdered?

Like the concerns go beyond possibly not maximizing his profits in running Twitter?

 

[Week]

4 hours ago, Heartofice said:

So then you add payments and verification and it builds up to be something different to the Twitter everyone is thinking of.
 

Good luck with regulators. Internationally. They are already about to get up in Twitter's businesses and will be far more strict in regulating a payment platform.

This isn't a pixie dust and bippity-boppity-boo problem. 

[Week]

 

[LongRider]

3 hours ago, Week said:

 

Being a billionaire bro means you get to menace the other customers, make obnoxious passes at the cocktail waitresses, and try to cheat at cards.  In a real casino one would get thrown out for this type of behavior, in the new Twitter casino, it's encouraged.   

[LongRider]

I'm giving counter.social a whirl.  

[Zorral]

The link to getting to the 1A commentary re twit was provided in my comment.  Sigh.  Too bad people just cannot learn how the internet works, isn't it, even after all these years, while insisting upon participation.

Or ... is it merely lack of reading comprehension?

Not to mention ignorance of radio and the internet -- on the day of the program, it live streams. ¡Comprena! The segments go up the day after.  You just go to the web site which is linked. Obviously because, your cursor tells you it is a link, not an underline.

It's bizarre this silly pretense of 'me no understand so you r liar.'

 

 

[Heartofice]

3 minutes ago, Zorral said:

The link to getting to the 1A commentary re twit was provided in my comment.  Sigh.  Too bad people just cannot learn how the internet works, isn't it, even after all these years, while insisting upon participation.

Or ... is it merely lack of reading comprehension?

Not to mention ignorance of radio and the internet -- on the day of the program, it live streams. ¡Comprena! The segments go up the day after.  You just go to the web site which is linked. Obviously because, your cursor tells you it is a link, not an underline.

It's bizarre this silly pretense of 'me no understand so you r liar.'

 

 

No, before you go off on a rant, maybe check your own post. The link you posted was this:

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510316/1a

A link to their podcast directory. Not useful especially as there is no link to any podcast containing those comments. 
 

So please check your own attitude before stomping all over the shop.

[JGP]

re: managing an enfant terrible

Part of me has really been anticipating reports out of SpaceX. Totally scans.

[Spockydog]

From that thread... 

 

 

[DMC]

I have a hard time believing that Trump gorilla story.  Well, not the first part, but I don't buy that he kneels in front of the screen and encourages the gorilla.  I also don't buy that he does anything 17 hours straight except maybe sleep.

[Kalbear]

The trump gorilla story is not actually true. Just FYI. 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/05/trump-gorilla-channel-parody-326374

Surprised it didn't get banned as not being marked parody

[Kalbear]

Also another good story on Musk's backtracking of forming a council to oversee removal of suspensions. As usual he blames others and points to them to say how they're causing him to do these things.

The thing is having an oversight council is a good thing independent of anyone else. Having the ability to at least appear vaguely impartial is a value. Musk sees it as simply another way his views could be curtailed.

And of course he's wrong; advertisers are leaving not because of activists pressure but because of why they're putting the pressure on Twitter - because of Musk, his behaviors and his wrecking the company. 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/musk-breaks-promise-to-form-twitter-moderation-panel-blames-activists/

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According to the Post, advertisers have pointed to Musk’s “personal tweeting habits” as problematic to risk-averse brands that are confused by Musk’s stance on “free speech absolutism.” When Twitter’s former head of brand safety, Yoel Roth, left Twitter, he said in a New York Times op-ed that “advertisers have played the most direct role thus far in moderating Mr. Musk’s free speech ambitions,” even prompting Musk to go back on his own free speech promise to reduce banned content by “censoring more content, not less.”

It's easy to see why Musk could be frustrated with being told what to do when the feedback might feel so personal. Roth suggested Musk was already pushing to diminish control that advertisers had over how Musk manages brand safety.

“It’s perhaps for this reason that Mr. Musk has said he wants to move away from ads as Twitter’s primary revenue source: His ability to make decisions unilaterally about the site’s future is constrained by a marketing industry he neither controls nor has managed to win over,” Roth said, explaining that “Musk has made clear that at the end of the day, he’ll be the one calling the shots.”