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 WeinsteinDec 11, 2022
@Tweetfiction @PoeticLicenseDK And the stock is organized in a way as to make a hostile takeover exceptionally unlikely.
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 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 Weinstein
@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.
Dec 12, 2022 at 3:56amWeb