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It makes me wonder just how hard it would be to pierce the corporate veil and go after him for these decisions? He has this pattern of behavior that can't be chalked up to anything other than old fashioned misogyny and it's clear he alone was making the call on the layoffs. It can't be that hard in this instance to lay the foundation that he wasn't doing this in furtherance of a company goal.
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It's a good question because there really isn't much protection for Elon. He fired everyone and near as I can tell every single decision goes through him. So if they can prove that the layoffs disproportionally affected women, and he either directed that or signed off on it with full knowledge...I would hope the state would get involved and go after him at a minimum.
Although it's a bit surprising because he's almost certainly also underpaying them, so it's effectively a 20% discount on payroll.
Considering how much he overpayed for Twitter this makes sense.
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From 2018:
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning.html
And is pretty similar to what Musk said the policy would be:
The Algorithm has decided you are a white American man: you must therefore be served quasi-fascism until you end up wearing a polo shirt at a rally against miscegenation.
I would imagine that he would be 'safe' here, as I expect that what we are seeing here is structural sexism at work. Elon didn't say, "fire all the women", Elon simply eliminated all the remote workers (a work style women prefer), demanded stupid hours (clashing with our societal expectation that women be primary caregivers), eliminated key managers (damaging the social networks that many successful women rely on in the workplace), and actively welcomed bigoted sexists back onto Twitter (upsetting women). Women are also more familiar with dealing with badly behaving men in positions of power, and are more likely to see Elons terminal spiral of behavior for what it is.
Also, a big fraction of unfired people are on visas, and far fewer women apply for H1B visas than men.
So, massively sexist, but probably not in a way which is actionable. Unless someone told him the changes would affect women in advance. But, I imagine that person was first out the door.
Example fictional because I’m sick of pretending these people might ever have anything useful or accurate to say.
Then apparently the algorithm can't read an IP address.
The bizarre part was it was in a private window (Firefox). Both times. With a reboot in between.
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I don't think he did it on purpose, but I still think Musk settles before the lawsuit hits the discovery phase, because he really doesn't want discovery. There's also a good chance Musk screwed up the documentation so he can't actually prove that he did it legally.
Journalists willing to act as Musk's mouthpieces to push his message of "radical wokeness = white censorship" is not that one iota.
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Yeah. The story here is that Twitter was literally covering for a terrorist.
I am actually really fucking mad about that
Edit: and continue to provide cover for her obviously because Musk is also a massive transphobe
(The women referred to runs the Libs of Tiktok account which directs hate targets. For example Boston Children's Hospital for treating transgender children)
November 21, 2022 you say. Perhaps firing all your moderators has a negative impact on content moderation.
The memo from SIP-PES (later in that thread) reads like they want to be contacted because they're looking for a reason to permaban her.
Emphasis mine. Interpretation: They keep temp suspending her for indirect violations, but their policy doesn't allow for permaban on those grounds, so please, please, let them know if you found a tweet explicitly violating literally any rule.
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Please note: *I* didn't cut the memo off right before they they [presumably] describe the various ways in which Raichik is a genuine public menace. That was where [presumably] Bari chose to crop the screenshot, [presumably] because it would really undermine her narrative where Raichik is somehow the real victim here.
Like Twitter was a publicly traded company. Those executives were all publicly known! That's not a secret group holding meetings those are just regular old executive meetings?!
Also I am genuinely curious as to whether Elon proscribed to these hacks what he wanted them to find? Or if he's just such a credulous dumbass he believes that because they framed non-scandals in a scandalous voice that they're an actual thing.
So much stuff getting lost.
For me, it's definitely the describing of regular internal communications as "secret" simply because they were not live-streamed.
I think that they would've just moved the goalposts.
If this had been live-streamed on twitch, the scandal would have been "Why didn't CNN devote a 3 hour news block to this? The Main-stream-media is supressing this because they're so Woke! On top of that, Twitch did not promote this in their hot-streams because they HATE conservatives"
It will literally never be enough, because they MUST be a victim.
That's the thing with digital storage: It's all eternally available, until it very much isn't.
The joke in archives is that digital files will last for forever or 20 years. Whichever comes first.
She also quotes “ LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy” without noting the part before this which clarifies “since their most recent timeout” as if this is some sort of gotcha
Anyway while the Sep-pes team did look like they wanted to ban her they still prevented any action against the account until they conferred. This isn’t going to have the effect of the account receiving more moderation
Seeing as Elon handed the keys to the system over to some nakedly, blatantly transphobic assholes, I'm having a harder and harder times believing this is an oopise-boingo and not a calculated attempt to harm the marginalized.
This is the reddest of red flags
delete everything
get out now
Because when those court cases start rolling in…
What the ever loving fuck is he thinking? That kind of document dump is bordering on criminal negligence.
Remind me how many counts it takes for the penalties to hit 100% annual revenue?
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Probably not long before it’s available somewhere on demand for the full chud army to start causing MAJOR problems
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Matt Taibbi put a comment in his regular news service thing about how Elon had given specific requirements for reporting on his big Twitter news. The context was that it meant it had to be reported on Twitter, but the implication was certainly there that Musk dictated how the story would be reported.
Musk is stupid sure, but he knows enough to control the story and he knew he needed journalists to "report" it so looked legitimate and not like petty axe grinding.
Congress/The FCC needs to haul him in to explain himself like yesterday.