I wish we had video of everyone at Twitter having a meltdown over the fact that they will no longer be able to censor their political enemies.
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
But hey – a news story about that fat Paki bitch who was the ADL’s hatchetman at Twitter breaking down in tears at a meeting about the takeover is pretty good too.
Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them.
Gadde cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change, according to three people familiar with the meeting. She acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk’s leadership.
There are definitely significant uncertainties.
However, one of those uncertainties is not “will Vijaya Gadde and everyone like her be fired from Twitter?”
She spoke at length about how she is proud of the work her team has done and offered employees encouragement, urging them to keep striving to do good work at the company.
Gadde, who has worked at Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter’s trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter’s “moral authority” and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.
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She has shepherded Twitter through some of its most contentious political battles, including the decisions to remove all political advertising and to boot former President Donald Trump from the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill — a position that has earned her devoted fans within Twitter, as well as a large contingent of right-wing critics.
But as news of Musk’s official takeover broke, policy and legal employees fretted at the meeting about what his leadership could mean for Twitter’s carefully crafted online speech rules, including its policies against hate speech, misinformation and even political advertising.
It’s just like Elon said.
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Imagine being afraid of speech. Just imagine that. We’ve all come to accept it as normal, but take yourself back to say, 2013, and imagine being afraid of speech.
“I think everyone at Twitter, regardless of how they feel about the news, is feeling reflective and emotional,” said one Twitter employee. “We’ve gone through a lot in the past two years and I think it’s generally instigated a lot of reflection. I think this was more of an acknowledgment of the uncertainty everyone is feeling right now.”
Gadde and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s acquisition, which places the world’s richest man at the helm of one of its most influential social media networks, is one of the largest-ever activist takeovers of a publicly-traded company.
Musk has called for Twitter to truly embrace free speech and has advocated for open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithm and removing all spam bots from the platform. Most significantly, Musk has signaled he supports vastly loosening the company’s content moderation policies, suggesting it should only remove content if it is required by law. That would be a huge shift for the company, which has spent years creating elaborate guidelines to reduce the amount of vitriolic and threatening content on its platform.
Haha.
That characterization was goofy from the beginning – what whiny babies? But now it’s just absurd. After the coronavirus hoax began, they started censoring “misinformation,” which has since transformed into “anything the government doesn’t agree with.”
Look at the censorship of the conflict in the Ukraine – this is the biggest censorship campaign ever, and it has nothing to do with hate speech or threats, it is just purely about covering up government lies saying that Putin is an evil madman and the Ukraine is winning the “war.”
So long, you dumb fat brown cunt.
If you look up the word "inspiring" in the dictionary you find a picture of @vijaya 💙
— Kennedy O'Brien (@kennedy798) April 25, 2022