E107 - Dec 9 2022
- Supergut grift 🙂
- Twitter Files Part 1-2
- Same workers for NYT are on strike who were abusing Elon for his oppressive working conditions - against Sulzbergers - will NYT give them 3 months severance?
- Matt Taibbi
- Left leaning, worked at Rolling Stone, covered the financial crisis
- Bari Weiss
- Right leaning, worked at NYT
- Drop 2
- Dan Bongino - was shadow banned
- Charlie Kirk was tagged as do not amplify
- Jay Bhattacharya was placed on a trends blacklist - because he had a dissenting opinion on covid that has turned out to be true - a Stanford Professor
- These decisions were taken inside Twitter - against conservative voices
- This is an FTX level fraud - what was stolen was not customer funds, but people’s rights - not just Jay B’s speech, they were using Twitter as their personal ideological piggy bank
- Jack, Gadde and Yoel denied they were doing shadowbanning - because they knew they were supposed to be custodians of customer trust
- Even when they could not justify removing content based on their on ToS
- Eg LibsofTikTok
- Twitter also admitted LibsOfTiktok didn’t violate their ToS
- Maybe not so different from private companies being able to do what they want and editorialize product they want
- This is incredible gaslighting
- They denied multiple times that they did anything like this - but they were doing it - so its a big deal now
- Its a hard problem for all these companies - they made bad decisions faced with volume and scaling
- Huge deal for Elon to take on twitter and make this public - software update he has announced show transparency
- Problems
- There was no transparency - they were not told what happened
- These were not evenly enforced (especially when they were denying they did it) - Twitter is 96%+ left leaning
- Shadow banning seems underhanded - block people and tell them why
- If you want to intellectually test this, imagine rachel maddow or ezra klein were shadow banned covertly by right wing rogue moderator groups
- Section 230 change needs to be law - this is why it was banned, etc
- Twitter had an ex-FBI agent Jim Baker working for them who was curating the Twitter Files - he was intermediating the Twitter Files
- Security state officials have power that they should not have - they should be non partisan and non political
- Hunter Biden story shows FBI primed social networks to suppress story
- China ends Zero Covid rules
- Claim is that letter from Foxconn Terry Guo jolted CCP into action to relaxing rules
- Instead its maybe Xi Jinping’s power play phases:
- Phase 1 - consolidate power
- Phase 2 - make it through November and become ruler for life with no competition
- Phase 3 - now relax rules
- Maybe there are limits to autocratic rule
- Iran ends morality police policy
- Demographics are evolving, most of population is 40s and younger.
- China population will halve by 2100
- Nigeria and India have lots of younger people
- World needs more people - Western nations not as badly off as China but still not much better
- Kevin O Leary defending FTX and SBF
- Fraudulent conveyance - you have to return money even if you didn’t know you got it as fraud
- But there’s a 90 day limit post bankruptcy - so there’s an incentive to delay a ruling so they don’t have to return their money
- Krysten Sinema
- Senator from Arizona, complicates Democratic control of Senate - was equally responsible with Joe Manchin for reduction in spending during BBB
- Daring Dem leadership to run against her because then they will split the vote and Republican will win
- If she doesn’t do this now - she will get primaried in 2 years and then if she switches to Independent it will be
- Joe Manchin
- Doesn’t have this problem because West Virginia is a +22 red state and Dems know they will lose the state when he retires - so they are lucky to have him until then
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