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The twittefiles nothingburger?

wyclif 2y ago
Sorry not sorry, but that was no "nothingburger." The fact of the matter was that Twitter under Jack Dorsey had become completely bloated and abusive. You had people working there whose only job was to do things like manipulate pixels in emojis and more seriously, they had created a vast and cancerous DEI bureaucracy.
- Hikikomori 2y ago
  Guses the government is also that? You're choking on that coolaid.
  - wyclif 2y ago
    That the CISA works with the EIP isn't Kool-Aid, it's a fact, no matter how much it upsets the apple cart of established big media narratives. You know what else isn't "Kool-Aid"? The FBI was having monthly and even weekly meetings with Twitter executives to coordinate their efforts. Twitter under Dorsey did this in conjunction with the DHS, the DOJ, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA, and the NSA. In Twitter’s interactions with the FBI, former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth considered the Bureau a proxy for the entire “intelligence community” as a whole; and that the FBI and Twitter have become closely enmeshed. If you don't think that's a problem for freedom of speech and privacy, perhaps you ought to read up on the topic.
    - alex1138 2y ago
      Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Dorsey was personally involved in any of this
      - wyclif 2y ago
        I don't make any claims as to the level of his involvement, but the bad stuff happened both before and after his departure. Many of the moderation decisions discussed in the Twitter Files took place while he was still CEO.
alex1138 2y ago
I really hope you don't actually work in tech and are putting your thumb on the scale of decisions
- Hikikomori 2y ago
  I'm European so I don't believe in absolute free speech, as you know we had a big problem with fascists, as the US now has. Do I believe that the government can be criticized? Certainly. And we do so frequently here, both online and with protests. Do you see our police cracking down on students here like in the US? No. And now US students are called terrorists because they don't support and propagate a genocide.

Sorry not sorry, but that was no "nothingburger." The fact of the matter was that Twitter under Jack Dorsey had become completely bloated and abusive. You had people working there whose only job was to do things like manipulate pixels in emojis and more seriously, they had created a vast and cancerous DEI bureaucracy.

Hikikomori 2y ago
Guses the government is also that? You're choking on that coolaid.
- wyclif 2y ago
  That the CISA works with the EIP isn't Kool-Aid, it's a fact, no matter how much it upsets the apple cart of established big media narratives. You know what else isn't "Kool-Aid"? The FBI was having monthly and even weekly meetings with Twitter executives to coordinate their efforts. Twitter under Dorsey did this in conjunction with the DHS, the DOJ, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA, and the NSA. In Twitter’s interactions with the FBI, former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth considered the Bureau a proxy for the entire “intelligence community” as a whole; and that the FBI and Twitter have become closely enmeshed. If you don't think that's a problem for freedom of speech and privacy, perhaps you ought to read up on the topic.
  - alex1138 2y ago
    Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Dorsey was personally involved in any of this
    - wyclif 2y ago
      I don't make any claims as to the level of his involvement, but the bad stuff happened both before and after his departure. Many of the moderation decisions discussed in the Twitter Files took place while he was still CEO.

alex1138 2y ago

I really hope you don't actually work in tech and are putting your thumb on the scale of decisions

Hikikomori 2y ago
I'm European so I don't believe in absolute free speech, as you know we had a big problem with fascists, as the US now has. Do I believe that the government can be criticized? Certainly. And we do so frequently here, both online and with protests. Do you see our police cracking down on students here like in the US? No. And now US students are called terrorists because they don't support and propagate a genocide.