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I'm not Musk fanboy, but the leap in the end to put the dirt on him is outrageous ("I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter th

by galkk 4y ago

I'm not Musk fanboy, but the leap in the end to put the dirt on him is outrageous ("I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data."). Let me try to summarize what author actually said in the end: "I left, I sent email to then CEO of twitter and PER MY KNOWLEDGE the project was canned, I don't know if it actually was. But new guy still could do worse things". If you're so moral, why not blow whistle to public when you left previously, and not write unsubstantiated claims about new owner now.

deltarholamda 4y ago
Ex-Twitter employees blowing the whistle on the highly dodgy stuff they were asked to do during The Time when Twitter Was The Best Twitter and somehow attributing it to The Dark Now-Times Of Current Twitter is very 2022.
- bfgoodrich 4y ago
cauthon 4y ago
I don’t perceive the original author to be “putting the dirt” on Musk. It is likely that the third-party partners who were interested in collecting that data remain interested. The leadership who formerly blocked access to that data has left, and the new ownership finds himself in need of new revenue streams. It seems like a reasonable time to call attention to the issue, though I agree with others in the thread that it should be a larger story not specific to a single platform.
- nomel 4y ago
  Calling attention to a problem is great. Assuming the worst path from someone is very different than that, and not so great.
bogwog 4y ago
> If you're so moral, why not blow whistle to public when you left previously, and not write unsubstantiated claims about new owner now. The first tweet in that thread: > With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. IMO this guy demonstrated an incredible amount of personal integrity here. He likely could have made a lot of money by building this out, but decided not to because he knew it was wrong. This is why we need more laws and government regulation: people that do the right thing like this are very rare. Typical incentive structures don't optimize for these types of people, so legal ones need to exist to limit the damage that the inevitable bad apples will do.
dang 4y ago
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by galkk 4y ago

deltarholamda 4y ago

Ex-Twitter employees blowing the whistle on the highly dodgy stuff they were asked to do during The Time when Twitter Was The Best Twitter and somehow attributing it to The Dark Now-Times Of Current Twitter is very 2022.

bfgoodrich 4y ago

cauthon 4y ago

I don’t perceive the original author to be “putting the dirt” on Musk. It is likely that the third-party partners who were interested in collecting that data remain interested. The leadership who formerly blocked access to that data has left, and the new ownership finds himself in need of new revenue streams. It seems like a reasonable time to call attention to the issue, though I agree with others in the thread that it should be a larger story not specific to a single platform.

nomel 4y ago
Calling attention to a problem is great. Assuming the worst path from someone is very different than that, and not so great.

bogwog 4y ago

> If you're so moral, why not blow whistle to public when you left previously, and not write unsubstantiated claims about new owner now. The first tweet in that thread: > With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. IMO this guy demonstrated an incredible amount of personal integrity here. He likely could have made a lot of money by building this out, but decided not to because he knew it was wrong. This is why we need more laws and government regulation: people that do the right thing like this are very rare. Typical incentive structures don't optimize for these types of people, so legal ones need to exist to limit the damage that the inevitable bad apples will do.

dang 4y ago

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html