Could it be this was all a publicity stunt to introduce and have welcomed the new CEO that Elon was going to put in place regardless? Am I giving him too much credit? i.e. Make people dislike him even more and then let the people of Twitter think they are voting him out?
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#892Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...
> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?
The saudi and qatari money are asking him to step down https://mobile.twitter.com/iamraisini/status/160461985725702....
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Whoa, is this possible? is this even legal?
When you hear about layoffs these days, you will usually see terms like "2 months of salary" as part of the severance package. What this actually is, is paying the employee throughout the entire "notice" period of the WARN Act. The WARN Act says that any company doing layoffs must give 60 days notice to employees, so to comply companies layoff employees but keep them on payroll for 2 months to meet the obligations of…
IANAL, but this doesn't make any sense. You can't fire someone but actually not really fire them. What if they find another job in the meantime?
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Just voted using all of my 12 Twitter accounts. There is a huge startup opportunity to let customers buy poll outcome through human farms in Indonesia. They will need to compete with state sponsored bots but that's ok.
What's the problem, money is just another form of free speech isn't it?
One shouldn’t have more free speech by virtue of their net worth or disposable income.
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#895You will enjoy Twitter or else you will be banned from Twitter.
This is like an old joke in the USSR. If you don’t like life in USSR, KGB will be interested in you. If you love life in USSR, OBKhSS (economic crimes/anti-profiteering department) will be interested in you.
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#896Who is Paul Graham and why is it controversial?
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#897I think we're speedrunning Soviet history here or something. It started with the journalists and the peasants and within weeks we're already at infighting among the party leadership. Paul actually got the Trotsky treatment lol. In a week or two we'll be engaging in samizdat and try to climb over the Twitter walls to Mastodon while Elon is sniping people from his throne
See my remark at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047006
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Paul was a big cheerleader for Elon. Touted his “skills” at Tesla & SpaceX. Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized. Meanwhile Tesla is pile driving into the ground. I’m waiting for the FTC & the EU to weigh in on ALL of this puerile behavior by sham Tony Stark.
> Elon kicks him off, because Dear Leader will not be criticized We have no proof Elon personally kicked off PG. We can hold him accountable for creating this shitshow. But Hanlon’s razor wields well, here.
He very publicly disbanded the Trust and Safety group at Twitter. It's his baby now.
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No mod of any other major social network issues site wide bans based on the mere mention of another social network.
Reddit bans for linking out to alternative communities. Facebook blocks links to sites it finds problematic, even in private message.
I remember there was one point when Facebook was blocking links to minds.com.
However, that was quickly explained away as automated spam filter false positive when it was publicized. So even if it happened before, I can't think of any case other than Twitter right now when it was so open and explicit.