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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