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Taylor LorenzA Twitter lawyer sent an alarming message to colleagues this morning, saying that Elon Musk “is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to this company and its users” and is at risk of putting the company in violation of its FTC consent decree https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning via alexheath
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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@taylorlorenz I want nothing to do with Twitter, but in general I like his willingness to bend the rules to get things done. I do not like his attention-seeking or failing to repudiate bigots or at least acknowledge that non-bigots' desire to avoid bigots and conspiracy theorists is not censorship.
Alan Twigz@cgervasi @taylorlorenz if you're rich enough to buy your way out of consequences, bending the rules isn't bold, it's just lazy
Scott Bronson@taylorlorenz @cgervasi report on yesterday’s livestream: “Elon suggested that, in the future, users would be able to send money to others on the platform, extract their funds to authenticated bank accounts and, later, perhaps, be offered a high-yield money market account to encourage them to move their cash to Twitter.”
Is bending the rules admirable if Twitter moves in this direction?
(honest question, no snark intended)
@sb @taylorlorenz I think yes, *if* the market wants social media combined with banking. I don't see why customers would want that. I think decentralized finance may be huge, but I don't get how it relates to a social media company.
Ryan Smith@cgervasi @taylorlorenz Musk isn’t just “bending rules”. That’s a massive scrubbing of his behavior over years.
ResaJo@taylorlorenz I am not surprised
nullagent@taylorlorenz I've been live blogging today's updates over on medium as to not trigger my elaphant friends.
https://medium.com/@alanmeekins/when-cisos-resign-lea-kissner-leaves-twitter-a09d218abfb5
carbon offsets are BS ☕️🥬@taylorlorenz I enjoy watching Musk implode and I hope that means more migration to Mastodon.
Derek Kompare@taylorlorenz At what point is it plausible to ask if he's doing this all not to remake Twitter to his liking, but to deliberately destroy it, no matter the financial cost?
Slam@dkompare @taylorlorenz He could have bought it and just shut it down, if that was his end game. He looks completely incompetent doing it this way.
@TimeFadesAway @taylorlorenz That's a fair point. Maybe he's just that incompetent after all!
@dkompare @taylorlorenz Hanlon's Razor.
Alice@dkompare @taylorlorenz yes, I too think this is intentional destruction.
Shomila@taylorlorenz thanks for sharing updates. I'm trying to avoid being on there but it was useful for news like this.
@taylorlorenz That’s good news
k cavaliere@taylorlorenz Glad I don't own Twitter stock anymore.
Colorblind Cowboy@taylorlorenz each day I'm more and more glad I pressed "delete" on my Twitter account. This is a nightmare scenario for anyone to work under and can only lead to compromising user data and safety.
Ilsa 🍁 ✅@taylorlorenz "Meanwhile, Musk’s personal lawyer is telling people, ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’" Who's his personal lawyer? Rudy Giuliani?
amyseekstruth@taylorlorenz I don’t understand how his ownership and the finances aren’t a serious conflict of interest to national security and public safety.
Josh Wieder@taylorlorenz "what could go wrong?" - the guy at Boeing who self certified the 737 MAX