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Unknown number of Twitter employees circulating open letter to Elon Musk demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs
2022-10-26
Demand? That seems excessive, under the circumstances. Even successful union bosses negotiate rather than demanding.
Posted by:Fred

#11  5 people to 395 bots?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-10-26 12:27  

#10  They're such hypocrites, but the Indian government wrote the manual on hypocrisy 😋. They push the freedom of conversation as a basic right but deny the medium to politically cancelled individuals and parties.

An Indian judge told them, you cannot apply your American 1A here in a complex society. The freedom of expression varies in degree from society to society and is not universal. You play ball with local authorities or lose the biggest user base you have.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-26 09:26  

#9  Many of these so-called 'social media' platforms have Deep State and intelligence community tentacles. I cannot see the Orwellians handing over such capabilities.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-26 09:23  

#8  If public conversation on this scale must exist, it cannot be regulated. Just policed maybe, for when people put up pørnograpghy or their cat murdering videos. But the discussions, political voices, actors... they can't be denied or promoted by the platform. In India, we came down hard on twitter right after they zucced the Trump account. Their operations and permissions were stripped to minimal and they are forced to share all user data with the government, under threat of a ban. Around the same time, we banned several Chinese apps and games so they knew we were serious. We strongarmed them into letting the right wing do all sorts of propaganda and shut down Moslem and commie accounts at will. In fact, twitter sued a state government for harassment and forcing it to shut hundreds of troublemaker accounts which were Søros bought commies or Islamists. The dreaded TO (takedown order) has become a pain for twitter here.

These bastards need to be put in their place from time to time.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-26 09:14  

#7  Ha ha. I really hope he goes through with it.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-26 08:58  

#6  Make them defend their jobs like in office space. Ask lots of follow-up questions how circumventing the US founding documents and censoring people, how gleefully doing things the Nazi's and Soviets approved of is a good thing. Send them home crying.

Then don't fire them, sell the whole company to Trump.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-10-26 08:56  

#5  Make em live up down to their threats to quit. That way they don't get unemployment. Win-Win
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-26 08:47  

#4  You can always form a corporation and seek funding to buy it. Good Luck.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-10-26 08:32  

#3  I fear for Musk.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-26 08:20  

#2  And a Pony!

Everyone gets a Pony!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-10-26 07:38  

#1  An just 6 months ago they threatening to quit if Musk purchased Twit.

Looking at it differently.... Musk laying them off, allows them to collect unemployment and maybe get severance packages.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-10-26 05:39  

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