Lauren WeinsteinDec 11, 2022

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 11, 2022
@lauren
What's to stop Google from going all Twitter on us?
Show threadLauren WeinsteinDec 11, 2022
@PoeticLicenseDK Well, first off, the way the company is organized it would be very difficult for a fiend like Musk to do a hostile takeover. That's a big help.
Show threadIt's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 11, 2022
@lauren @PoeticLicenseDK I'm pretty sure Google is so big that no one person could raise the equity to just buy it, for one thing. I think we forget that as big as it is, Twitter is small change compared to companies like Facebook and Google.
Show threadLauren Weinstein
@Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK And the stock is organized in a way as to make a hostile takeover exceptionally unlikely.
Dec 11, 2022 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 11, 2022
@lauren @Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK Well, yeah, Larry and Sergey are basically autocrats accountable to noone thanks to dual class shares. Of course, they can at any time *decide to go full Musk*, as rich people with a history of sexual harassment and abuse are wont to do.
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 11, 2022
@lauren @Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK Google's primary protection seems to just be that Larry and Sergey are way too fond of their yachts and private islands to burn it all to the ground, the way Musk is rapidly lowering his rank on the world's richest people list.
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 11, 2022
@ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction
Yikes ...
I wonder if Xeni ever made it over to Masto. She had personal experience.
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 11, 2022
@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren @Tweetfiction Don't know this person, but can confirm from trying to find out that she deleted her Twitter account.
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 11, 2022

@ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction
What's the downside of just leaving an account dormant on the #DirtyBird site a few Scaramuchis to wait Elon's creditors out for foreclosure?

He can't simply bleed out indefinitely? Didn't he use Tesla as collateral? Isn't he headed for personal guarantee He!!?

Show threadocdtrekkieDec 11, 2022
@PoeticLicenseDK @lauren @Tweetfiction Arguably that he has access to the data in it. But at this point there's really no guarantee he'll delete your data if you delete your account anyways. It probably just depends if those particular microservices got shut off or not.
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 11, 2022
@ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction
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Jimi Hendrix - Someone's house is burning down ....
Show threaddragonfrogDec 12, 2022
@PoeticLicenseDK @ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction I suspect Twitter isn't "coming back". He'll for sure manage to hang on to the site for long enough to make it somewhere no one sensible will want to go back to. Letting the Nazis have the run of a place isn't an easily reversible operation.
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 12, 2022
@dragonfrog @PoeticLicenseDK @lauren @Tweetfiction Yeah it'll eventually get sold off for parts but it'll never return it what it was. Maybe like AOL and Yahoo it'll get sold to Verizon for a chill billion.
Show threadIt's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 12, 2022
@ocdtrekkie @dragonfrog @PoeticLicenseDK @lauren It'll be back in some form or another. Hell, the name alone is probably worth a billion. Look at Napster, they sold the IP and now ironically it's a legit music streaming service!
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 12, 2022
@Tweetfiction @dragonfrog @PoeticLicenseDK @lauren Yeah but probably not as something you'd still feel the need to have an account with.
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 13, 2022

@ocdtrekkie @Tweetfiction @dragonfrog @lauren
A small group nearly pulled off a coup on 1/6. Some would argue that TFG seized the presidency with the help of governments & organizations hostile to democracy. Most still salute the flag of the USA, despite the 4yr reign of a saboteur.

The social media brand itself hasn't been destroyed, because the #DirtyBird site is really something completely different. It's a longshot, but why couldn't banks force Elon to sell?

Show threadMark TomczakDec 12, 2022

@ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK

Turns out there's an awful lot of human-constructed systems that burn quickly to the ground if the humans in charge choose to do the wrong thing.

In the era after the Trump Presidency, I'm under-impressed at dire warnings of what tech CEOs might do. Alternative power structures, it turns out, are also unimpressively robust to failure.

Show threadLauren WeinsteinDec 12, 2022
@mtomczak @ocdtrekkie @Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK Exactly. Speculation about other CEOs and persons is just that -- speculation. Right now we have a *known* evil in Musk, who is turning #Twitter into an instrumentality to spread evil. That is enough to be thinking about for now.
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 12, 2022
@mtomczak @ocdtrekkie @lauren @Tweetfiction
Many human created systems, not just Twitter, are reeling, despite checks and balances. The US Govt, despite the Constitution, crash tested by TFG. The ultimate check, the peaceful transition via the popular vote, almost failed. A case b4 the Supreme Court could set the stage for an electoral coup. Local school boards. The grid, being probed for weaknesses. Sure feels like a coordinated assault.