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Things are going good. The Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer are all gone for good, along with half
by Comevius 4y ago
Things are going good. The Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer are all gone for good, along with half of the employees, basically everyone needed to keep things running. It is a remote-first company, but everyone is ordered to work from the office.
Update: Twitter's Head of Trust and Safety and Head of Ad Sales are also gone.
Meanwhile Elon Musk is running around haphazardly trying to monetize the entire platform, sacrificing verification for no reason and replacing it with a paid tier. Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers, which doesn't have to do anything with also having a paid tier. The difference is that Youtube Premium pays content creators, not charges them like Twitter Blue. Sure, content creators will pay to be featured, but there aren't that many of them.
- georgemcbay 4y agoI've seen quite a few of the still-existing Twitter employees openly mocking him on twitter at this point with joking references to being "hardcore" and other memes that seem to be coming out of this disastrous all-hands. Its almost difficult to believe at this point that he isn't intentionally running the company into the ground.
- legitster 4y ago> Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers Well, if there's one thing to try to commend Musk here for, it's that he's trying to move away from just another "users are the product" business model.
- Comevius 4y agoYouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for offline use without any DRM.
- MallocVoidstar 4y agoI don't think this is true: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233 >Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 29 days. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to the internet. That sounds like DRM. The page also seems to suggest that you need to use youtube.com to watch videos, not a file on your system.
- Comevius 4y agoIt looks like you are right, it saves offline-enabled content to a number of encrypted blobs only the official app can play. I wouldn't now, I use yt-dlp that can also make use of YouTube cookies, since otherwise YouTube is not DRM protected like Netflix is for example.