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Twitter’s always had lots of drama, but the last couple of days there’s been a back and forth between Dr Yoel Roth, ex head of twitter trust and safety, and Linda Yaccarino the new CEO of X ne twitter.

First off Yoel wrote an op-ed in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html

It’s good, it talks about the way that targeted attacks and harassment are used to silence and limit speech.

Then a couple days ago Dr Roth and Yaccarino had back to back interviews at the code conference.

Yoel’s Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XoUUYeZD8

Linda’s Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYymRU-bfpQ

Both are worth listening to if you want to understand the debates about where Twitter is today. There’s also a funny bit where Linda tries to reference X by showing her phone, but it doesn’t have x on it, only instagram, facebook, blind. The latter is a back channel gossip app for employees at companies.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7J8jnrbsAATbb_?format=jpg&name=small

pam 2y ago

"I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move."

"Jack Dorsey, who was then the chief executive of Twitter, overruled Trust and Safety’s recommendation that Mr. Trump’s account should be banned "

"when we wanted to disclose a propaganda campaign operated by a branch of the Indian military, our legal team warned us that our India-based employees could be charged with sedition — and face the death penalty if convicted"

"ahead of Russian legislative elections, officials of a state security service went to the home of a top Google executive in Moscow to demand the removal of an app that was used to protest Vladimir Putin"

thanks for sharing nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240. This is good stuff. I've followed Yoel for a while and he openly discloses gov't suppression worldwide - hence i was surprise why twitter file was a shock. Coming from a country that can put you in prison for speaking up against the gov't,I'm appreciative of twitter under nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m. >70% twitter users were global so it must have not been an easy feat being guardians of the people. I cannot imagine the amount of threat Jack received and still does. But I can understand why he kept saying twitter should not have been a company, and why protocol based is so important - can't take sides, for or against. Also, wasn't Modi and gang pissed at Jack for openly sharing about India's threats recently? And denied it ?

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rabble 2y ago

I don’t know nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m’s motivations but my guess is that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he suspended Trump then shareholders would revolt and remove him as CEO. If kept him then users are upset, but he’d be able to keep running twitter and not have it taken over by hedge funds and activist investors.

Once January 6th happened, a bunch of other sites started suspending Trump and the decision much easier. I don not envy anyone who had to balance those interests.

Dissident Sound 2y ago

users would be upset if Trump was allowed to stay ?

you're smoking some good shit.

removing Trump killed Twitter.

i understand you hate Nazis, i would too if i was gay, but what you're saying isn't based in reality.

the logic nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wddhkcmrfv3jhytnc09aqzxrhwden5te0wajkccm0d4jjumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2cfkckq used isn't mysterious at all. keeping Trump was the right choice. but the ZOG made it known that THEY are in charge and forced Jack to leave Twitter.

only a person with purple hair could fail to see something so obvious.