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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by thayne on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:04PM (#44513089)
I don't think she is entirely to blame, but I think there is some blame for not standing up to Musk and leading better.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by dctoedt on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:09PM (#44513141)
> I think there is some blame for not standing up to Musk and leading better.

That seems in the same category as saying there's some blame on her for not working harder on basketball in her youth and so never becoming a WNBA Finals MVP. (Narrator: Um, no, she's not nearly tall enough ....)

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:02PM (#44513658)
I'm just not sure her complete lack of power to stand up to Musk is a defense. If a controversial rich guy offers you a CEO job that consists entirely of laundering his reputation by pretending his decisions are your own, you have a social responsibility not to take it. I'd be more sympathetic if she were some random person who couldn't otherwise dream of an executive level pay package, but she was the head of ads at NBC.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by greedo on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:40PM (#44514005)
“We have established what you are, madam. We are now merely haggling over the price.”
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by michaelt on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:34PM (#44514944)
> If a controversial rich guy offers you a CEO job that consists entirely of laundering his reputation by pretending his decisions are your own, you have a social responsibility not to take it.

I don't think you become the CEO of any major company by believing that "social responsibility" exists. Doesn't the job pretty much select for the type of person who thinks the world owes them $20+ million a year?

With that said - it's dumb to blame the puppet for the acts of the ventriloquist.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by XorNot on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:51PM (#44515518)
"just following orders" has been well established as no defense, and is more relevant than usual.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by BurningFrog on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:12PM (#44515656)
In a genocide context, sure. I don't think that applies here.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by sorokod on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:35PM (#44516932)
"just following orders" implies being morally bankrupt in general.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by chgs on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:31AM (#44517949)
It’s Facebook that causes genocide, not Twitter. Funny how the left gives sick a far easier pass.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by Lu2025 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:18PM (#44516324)
> a social responsibility not to take it

She was paid $6M a year + undisclosed stock package. A lot of people will set aside their morals for this amount of money.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by SpicyLemonZest on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:30AM (#44533308)
She was making $4M at NBC! Again, I can imagine and be sympathetic towards a story where a billionaire gives you otherwise unimaginable wealth if only you'll sit in a comfy CEO office while they run the company around you. That isn't what happened here, and not because of some tactical mistake by Musk - her experience and connections as an ads executive for a major media company were at least a big part of why Musk wanted her, if not the entirety of it.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by Aeolun on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:41PM (#44515439)
I mean, you are hired as a CEO by Elon Musk, there must be some certain expectations on the capabilities of a CEO, and I think one of the first one is being able to stand up for yourself, if nothing else.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by squeaky-clean on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:15PM (#44516570)
This analogy would work if she actually was the WNBA Finals MVP but didn't score a single point.
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