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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by bitshiftfaced on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:42AM (#31154528)
> Musk has admitted he doesn't understand people, is a self-confessed troll & edgelord and and Tesla's culture seems less than ideal. So lacks any of the qualifications I see as being needed to run something like Twitter.

That's why he's perfect for this task. Most decision-makers feel intense scrutiny and tip toe around things that cause backlash, especially things that threaten the status quo.

When you're oblivious to how people will react to your vision, you're more able to follow through and make it to the other side.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rootusrootus on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:12AM (#31155989)
What does "the other side" look like in this case?
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by bitshiftfaced on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#31157471)
Just glancing at his feed, Elon seems to talk about spam bots, free speech, making the extreme left and extreme right equally unhappy, and shadow banning. Sounds like he wants more fairness and transparency in how Twitter moderates content.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by TheOtherHobbes on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:56PM (#31159140)
Unfortunately that depends on his personal definitions of "extreme left", "extreme right", and "free speech."
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by cornel_io on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:24AM (#31164238)
"extreme left" and "extreme right" are pretty widely agreed on by anyone who's not part of one or the other.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by imroot on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:35PM (#31158888)
If I am on Twitter's Trust and Safety team, I'm sweating bullets today.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by stjohnswarts on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:37PM (#31160993)
They should all be looking for choice B companies. I suspect there will be a mass firing/exodus for anything involving security or feed algorithm teams.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by otterley on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:57AM (#31155768)
This sort of thinking is how wars and genocides get started. Being decisive and following through on execution is an important skill, but ignoring other stakeholders’ opinions has downsides that are best not ignored.
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