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This is not a moralistic position. Brazil always has been a big market for Twitter and there were always significant resources invested by the company for legal

This is not a moralistic position. Brazil always has been a big market for Twitter and there were always significant resources invested by the company for legal compliance. This included dedicated cross functional teams. These teams no longer exist, since the owner thinks 90% of the people in the company were useless. Now they simply don’t have the ability to stay compliant and therefore run into the risk of being fined. They’re minimizing that risk.

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olalonde 2y ago
Perhaps but that's just speculation and not supported by evidence.
- darth_avocado 2y ago
  That’s true, but there are some publicly available facts like Brazil’s content moderation team no longer exists. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-fired-brazil-twitter-content-moderation-1234657777/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus... https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoffs/# https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoff... And the policy team: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wave-of-layoffs-in-public-policy-team https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wa... We could all pretend that you’d be able to deal with operating in hundreds of countries with a bare bones team, or we could speculate that it’s hard & opens you up to many legal problems.
  - olalonde 2y ago
    I know that they're closing down their Brazil operations, that's literally the title of the article. The speculation I was referring to was your claim that they're really closing down because of financial considerations rather than their stated reason (e.g. unwillingness to comply with the judge's orders).
    - darth_avocado 2y ago
      The links I shared are from 2022/2023, long predating the current dispute. Financial considerations are most definitely at play.
      - ilikehurdles 2y ago
        That's speculation. You see how that's speculation, right?
        walterbell 2y ago
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    - jeremyjh 2y ago
      In TFA it says X told the court that they had failed to follow its orders previously because of operational deficiencies. GP is not really going out on a limb here.
mmooss 2y ago
They could implement those teams again if they wanted to. It appears they don't want to do that.
- maronato 2y ago
  It appears the solution is to fire people until the problem goes away. Musk’s favorite leadership strategy.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
    Weakness masquerading as strength. Anybody can fire, cancel, or cut to make a problem go away. It takes no strength or intelligence.
joenot443 2y ago
Do you work at X? I'm sure you wouldn't be speaking in such confident terms if you didn't have some inside knowledge. Are you meeting with Elon to discuss these things?

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olalonde 2y ago

Perhaps but that's just speculation and not supported by evidence.

darth_avocado 2y ago
That’s true, but there are some publicly available facts like Brazil’s content moderation team no longer exists. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-fired-brazil-twitter-content-moderation-1234657777/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus... https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoffs/# https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoff... And the policy team: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wave-of-layoffs-in-public-policy-team https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wa... We could all pretend that you’d be able to deal with operating in hundreds of countries with a bare bones team, or we could speculate that it’s hard & opens you up to many legal problems.
- olalonde 2y ago
  I know that they're closing down their Brazil operations, that's literally the title of the article. The speculation I was referring to was your claim that they're really closing down because of financial considerations rather than their stated reason (e.g. unwillingness to comply with the judge's orders).
  - darth_avocado 2y ago
    The links I shared are from 2022/2023, long predating the current dispute. Financial considerations are most definitely at play.
    - ilikehurdles 2y ago
      That's speculation. You see how that's speculation, right?
      - walterbell 2y ago
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  - jeremyjh 2y ago
    In TFA it says X told the court that they had failed to follow its orders previously because of operational deficiencies. GP is not really going out on a limb here.

mmooss 2y ago

They could implement those teams again if they wanted to. It appears they don't want to do that.

maronato 2y ago
It appears the solution is to fire people until the problem goes away. Musk’s favorite leadership strategy.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
  Weakness masquerading as strength. Anybody can fire, cancel, or cut to make a problem go away. It takes no strength or intelligence.

joenot443 2y ago

Do you work at X? I'm sure you wouldn't be speaking in such confident terms if you didn't have some inside knowledge. Are you meeting with Elon to discuss these things?