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by JohnnyHerz
1255 days ago
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Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber. The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication. Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan. The critique of Elon's public musings and actions based on a specific idealogy could just as easily be turned back on the author. dreaming of unbiased journalism... |
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> Twitter might have had a reputation as a left-leaning workforce, but there had always been a faction that disapproved of its progressive ideals. On Slack, some of these workers had formed a channel called #i-dissent, where they asked questions like why deadnaming a trans colleague was considered “bad.” When Musk announced he was buying the company, one of the more active i-dissenters was thrilled. “Elon’s my new boss and I’m stoked!” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I decided to send him a slack message. I figured you miss 100% of the shots you don’t make ”
> This employee was cut during the first round of layoffs. Soon, all the prominent members of the #i-dissent Slack channel would be gone. The channel itself was archived, while bigger social channels like #social-watercooler were abandoned.