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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't have to use Google to be familiar with Twitter employees. If the young ones are upset, it's because they're going to get a new CEO, and so there's going to be a lot of upheaval. If you try, just for a second, to think of Twitter as a business rather than some sort of playpen for the woke, you can maybe imagine this.
"Yeah, it's a great place to work" -- No one I knew at Tesla or Solar City
Also, they're employees, not day-traders. They could get a premium over what they could have gotten last week, but only if they're vested. And the stock was trading above 70 last year.
Perhaps. Or on the company. Are you familiar with anything anyone has said about Google over the last 15 years? It's a bigger concern for a company with market power, which no one thinks Twitter has.
Yep.
You seem to think I am defending all the moderation that platforms do. Uh, no.
I don't know what you think a "political conflict of interest" is, and I don't think you do either.
You can keep saying things like that, but the conclusion simply does not follow from the conclusion. As you have put it here, Twitter should be "deemed" biased towards "fashionable political positions" which some of its advertisers support. You would be laughed out of town with that kind of argument about just about any other company, but, well, it's Twitter, so there you go.
I understand that you are ideologically committed to the principle that Twitter is biased against you, will continue to believe it whatever the evidence, and will keep working to turn facts into proof of your beliefs. You've made that very clear. If you ever want to understand how the company works, that'll call for a different approach.
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The only thing I’m ideologically opposed to is non-transparent moderation. But I’m not in favor of doing anything about it. Twitter can do whatever it likes and it can moderate anything, for any reason it likes. If people don’t like it, they can go elsewhere.
BUT, if Twitter wants to make indefensibly poor decisions, it can take shit for it. And it should not be trusted. And if a crazy billionaire sees bias and decides to buy it because of its bad decisions, and turn it into something that robs those mobs - right and left - who use Twitter to call for squelching of info and views they don’t like, well... Good. The market has spoken.
