More twitler madness.

[usonian]

Rage is Twitter’s currency and Elon Musk is mining it
https://qz.com/rage-is-twitter-s-currency-and-elon-musk-is-mining-it-1849857054
Twitter's new owner is essentially selling tickets—and tomatoes—to his own bad play

Musk might or might not know what the First Amendment does. But he’s trying to tap into the broader vibes of free speech, whether or not they’re grounded in legal reality. He’s pandering to an audience that believes that Twitter has such a chokehold on modern speech, and that preventing anyone from having an account or posting constitutes an affront to free speech.

On Dec. 2, Musk tweeted, “You know Twitter is being fair when extremists on [the] far right and far left are simultaneously upset!” By ticking off everyone, Musk might be able to make everyone on the website upset enough to keep posting, keep scrolling, and keep replying. He doesn’t have to be right—in fact, it may pay to be wrong. Sure, Musk is putting on a bad production, but he’s selling both the tickets and the tomatoes.

Elon Musk’s Release of Documents Triggers Twitter Lawyer Jim Baker’s Exit
https://archive.ph/Ne0h6

Elon Musk said one of Twitter Inc.’s top lawyers (Jim Baker) “was exited,” part of the fallout from the billionaire’s unusual efforts to release internal communications to criticize prior practices at the company he bought almost six weeks ago.

Mr. Musk publicized the exit of the deputy general counsel on Tuesday, expressing “concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue,” without providing more details. Mr. Taibbi said Mr. Baker was vetting documents given to himself and Ms. Weiss. Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Before Twitter, Mr. Baker held various roles at the Justice Department, including as general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2014 to 2018.

There is some precedent for companies that are dealing with controversy to perform high-profile self-examinations, though they usually hire outside law firms or former government officials rather than tapping journalists to review the materials.

S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at Twitter HQ, as Elon Musk criticizes Mayor Breed
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/S-F-officials-investigating-allegedly-illegal-17635717.php

San Francisco officials are investigating a complaint alleging that Twitter illegally converted part of its headquarters into bedrooms.

The complaint was filed to the city’s 311 service by a user on the social media network itself, after Forbes reported that some conference rooms had been converted into “modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors.”

Unnamed Twitter employees told Forbes that an estimated four to eight bedrooms per floor were installed in the 1355 Market St. building. The Chronicle was unable to independently verify the claims. City records show that there have been no applications to convert any of portion of the building to residential use.

The city’s Department of Building Inspection is seeking to conduct a site inspection for potential violations and has reached out to the building manager for more information.

[niyad]

1. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[haele]

2. Re: illegal bedrooms. Sounds like how human traffickers warehouse "workers"

As a federal employee, one of the courses I'm required to take is recognizing human trafficking. One of the signs is that a trafficked workforce is housed on site in a closely controlled environment where they cannot leave or act independently when not at work. So it looks like Musk is "giving" his "hard core workforce" a place to sleep when they're not coding for him. Just like Qutar did for all those hardcore laborers who built the World Cup venue...

Does he have AI or a security group overseeing his Human Production Capital, I wonder?

Haele

[usonian]

3. He is treating twitter like a startup, but startup workers are generously compensated

whereas twitter was an established company, nay a utility, with salaried employees, and his treatment is clearly labor abuse.

Reported to the governor.

Like many others, the "bully" complex demands exceeding limits and crossing Rubicons until slapped down.

You know about those "others". Arrogant "privilege"

[joshcryer]

9. Nevermind the decade of development that went into it.

[Submariner]

4. Musk was raised as a racist Afrikaner during PW Botha's apartheid regime

all the while living the reality of the Afrikaner style of 'freedom of speech (non-whites EXCLUDED)', and not our interpretation of that freedom.

[Caliman73]

5. The claim of Twitter's "chokehold" on Free Speech is as valid as...

me not allowing you to stage a protest INSIDE MY HOUSE is me having a chokehold on the right to assemble and protest.

Again, we can argue the merits of companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, etc... to monopolize a market but that is a very different discussion than Free Speech.

I think that Musk is not as intelligent as he thinks he is, but he has shown the ability to spot a mark and Conservatives are EASY marks, especially when you feed into their established prejudices. They (Conservatives) have been whining so much about "free speech" so much that it basically means whatever they want it to mean. They are particularly easy to spot when they are talking about their "right" to say whatever they want without any social or financial consequences.

The Conservative message is a pretty stupid message. They dress it up with "freedom" and "patriotism" and all kinds of vague and nice sounding crap, but it is just that... crap. Conservative ideology is built on the foundation of Monarchism and the belief that there are certain people who are either ordained by a god or by "the natural order of things" (still a religious sentiment), to rule. Now, if you have ever seen a pyramid, you know that the space at the top is very limited and that top is held up (supported) by the structure below it. That is Conservative ideology in a nutshell. The "betters" are on top, deserve their benefits, and the rest of us should "know our place" and not want to disrupt this very natural system. If you are logical at all, then you realize that this kind of structure allows a small group of people to have lives of power, extravagance, and pleasure while the vast majority of the rest of the society has to struggle for the resources that those at the top "allow" us to have. That sucks to anyone who actually values freedom, equity, and justice.

The point of this is that Conservative ideology sucks, they cannot win an actual fair fight with these ideas, so instead they whine about how "the left wants to destroy free speech". No, we do not, our ideas are just better than yours and we have the numbers on our side. Your bad ideas should just fall into the dustbin of history, however you use your considerable resources to prop up a really stupid and bad ideology by buying Twitter, and owning Facebook and amplifying right wing speech or decrying society whenever a fair fight does occur and your ideas get trounced.

[usonian]

6. Money talks, doesn't it?

The unthinking, prejudiced and reactive are so much easier to buy or hoodwink.
Hence the attack on education .... instigated by educated people without compassion for anyone else.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Wonder if the Egoloon believes twitter is a U.S.A. thing, only.

[usonian]

8. That mind is inscrutable (until he has the neuralink installed?)

And what you wonder is likely true.

Facebook/Meta, Instagram and WhatsApp just had their business model trashed by EU
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp can no longer run personalized ads without user consent in EU
Summary:
https://democraticunderground.com/100217437965
Article:
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. We need personal data protection laws. It's -our- data.