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If it actually came to that, he could just disable the videos/media feature. I don't personally like Mr Musk, and I don't approve of how he has handled this ta

If it actually came to that, he could just disable the videos/media feature. I don't personally like Mr Musk, and I don't approve of how he has handled this takeover, but I wonder if some of those hurrying forth with negative predictions about every Twitter development are just saying what they hope happens. The blind praise is just as bad, of course. (The 'some' people I am referring to isn't the parent commenter, btw. I'm referring to the news articles and (like the linked content) Twitter posts I see getting posted about this.)

kevinventullo 4y ago
I agree, I think it’s way too early to tell. It’s also interesting that pre-acquisition, I personally observed a widely shared sentiment that 7500 employees was an absurdly high number given the actual functionality of Twitter. “What do they all do?”
solarkraft 4y ago
> I wonder if some of those hurrying forth with negative predictions about every Twitter development are just saying what they hope happens Personally I don't claim to have any strong predictions, but find it fun to think about the most entertaining scenarios.
c7b 4y ago
Sure, there is some element of disaster voyeurism to observing Twitter right now, and a lot of people surely do have vested interests (for any other medium, Twitter is a competitor for ad revenue, tech employees might be concerned that the layoffs might serve as an example,...) - but that concern was genuine as far as I can say. It's not my base case, but it is something I'd be concerned about if I was one of Musk's co-investors. Disabling media wouldn't tackle nearly all the problems that a broken monitoring system could create, but you're right that it might demonstrate enough effort so that it's legally sane to keep the site up until you can fix it.

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If it actually came to that, he could just disable the videos/media feature. I don't personally like Mr Musk, and I don't approve of how he has handled this ta

by racktash 4y ago

kevinventullo 4y ago
I agree, I think it’s way too early to tell. It’s also interesting that pre-acquisition, I personally observed a widely shared sentiment that 7500 employees was an absurdly high number given the actual functionality of Twitter. “What do they all do?”
solarkraft 4y ago
> I wonder if some of those hurrying forth with negative predictions about every Twitter development are just saying what they hope happens Personally I don't claim to have any strong predictions, but find it fun to think about the most entertaining scenarios.
c7b 4y ago
Sure, there is some element of disaster voyeurism to observing Twitter right now, and a lot of people surely do have vested interests (for any other medium, Twitter is a competitor for ad revenue, tech employees might be concerned that the layoffs might serve as an example,...) - but that concern was genuine as far as I can say. It's not my base case, but it is something I'd be concerned about if I was one of Musk's co-investors. Disabling media wouldn't tackle nearly all the problems that a broken monitoring system could create, but you're right that it might demonstrate enough effort so that it's legally sane to keep the site up until you can fix it.