The great Twitter cleaning has begun

[Tim the Tank Nut]

not likely, he's still the owner and his style is to make sure that the employees are aware of that

[Skywalkre]

5 hours ago, Murph said:

Well Elon just appointed a woke, globalist, BLM, anti-capitalist, pro communist, pro censoring woman as CEO of Twitter.  Shadowbanning, thought crime police incoming.

There's a front page post on reddit of the above possibly happening to an organization that is viewed as on the Left.  Is it ok as long as it happens to the right people?

[Ivanhoe]

8 hours ago, Tim the Tank Nut said:

not likely, he's still the owner and his style is to make sure that the employees are aware of that

I predict:

- he's not going to keep the new CEO on a short enough leash, so Twitter will return to a monoculture,

- the new CEO's ability to schmooze mainstream, woke advertisers isn't going to fix any financial problems,

- the Tucker Carlson channel that everyone thinks is going to happen, isn't going to happen.

 

[DKTanker]

7 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

I predict:

- he's not going to keep the new CEO on a short enough leash, so Twitter will return to a monoculture,

- the new CEO's ability to schmooze mainstream, woke advertisers isn't going to fix any financial problems,

- the Tucker Carlson channel that everyone thinks is going to happen, isn't going to happen.

 

Why he hired an acolyte of the WEF is anyone's guess; Musk is getting excoriated on his own platform.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

regarding Skywalkre's post above:

Yeah pretty much.  II didn't used to be but how has that worked out?  One side of the culture war literally burns things down.  They support hideous ideologies that would make Khan blush.  At this point there is no justification for trusting the other side.  Twitter is a textbook example of what can be done to control what people think. So yeah, at this point its a case of what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[rmgill]

17 hours ago, Skywalkre said:

There's a front page post on reddit of the above possibly happening to an organization that is viewed as on the Left.  Is it ok as long as it happens to the right people?

Insufficiently nuanced. 

The left is fine with globalists so long as they're on their side vis a vis the environment. But that's just a wedge for greater control of the market. They've been anti-globalist for years. 

[rmgill]

3 hours ago, DKTanker said:

Why he hired an acolyte of the WEF is anyone's guess; Musk is getting excoriated on his own platform.

Musk IS a globalist at heart it seems. 

[Stargrunt6]

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

[Ivanhoe]

On 5/13/2023 at 10:34 AM, rmgill said:

Musk IS a globalist at heart it seems. 

Testifying to facts not in evidence. 

Musk is a rando, and naive. He will regret his choice, and he sure as heck picked the wrong moment to own-goal. Stick a fork in his dreams to expand Twitter past 180 character quippage. 

 

[rmgill]

On 5/20/2023 at 11:08 PM, Ivanhoe said:

Testifying to facts not in evidence. 

He appointed a CEO who's a mover and shaker in the WEF. That's a fact that IS in evidence. 

[Ivanhoe]

[Ivanhoe]

[rmgill]

 

[Murph]

The left is getting desperate since their crimes are being exposed, but no one will ever prosecute them.  At least Elon is letting free speech flow on Twitter.  This drives the left insane.  

[Harold Jones]

On 5/23/2023 at 11:54 AM, Murph said:

...At least Elon is letting free speech flow on Twitter.

Unless asked not to by a government.

[Murph]

Point.  Sad, but true.

[Ivanhoe]

Behind a paywall;

https://www.theepochtimes.com/eu-issues-waring-after-elon-musk-pulls-twitter-out-of-anti-disinformation-agreement_5296657.html

Quote

 

Senior European Union officials were furious over the weekend after Twitter owner Elon Musk pulled the social media platform out of the bloc’s “Code of Practice,” which critics say is tantamount to a censorship regime.

The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, wrote that Twitter left the bloc’s Code of Practice, after reports claimed the platform would do so. Breton warned that Twitter would face some legal liabilities.

“Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run, but you can’t hide,” Breton wrote. “Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25. Our teams will be ready for enforcement.”

An EU official also told Euractiv that the bloc is “waiting for this,” and “it was purely a matter of time” before reports surfaced that Musk would withdraw.

The rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) require companies to do risk management, conduct external and independent auditing, share data with authorities and researchers, and adopt a code of conduct by August.

The 19 companies that are subject to the rules include Alphabet’s Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping, YouTube, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Amazon’s Marketplace, Apple’s App Store, and Twitter. The others are Microsoft’s two units LinkedIn and Bing, booking.com, Pinterest, Snap Inc’s Snapchat, TikTok, Wikipedia, Zalando, and Alibaba’s AliExpress.

“We consider these 19 online platforms and search engines have become systematically relevant and have special responsibilities to make the internet safer,” Breton told reporters earlier this year, adding that those companies would have to target so-called disinformation.

 

 

Nothing ominous. Nothing at all.

 

[Mikel2]

Nothing nefarious about governments regulating what is true and what isn't.

[Ivanhoe]

57 minutes ago, Mikel2 said:

Nothing nefarious about governments regulating what is true and what isn't.

Orwell was an optimist.

[DKTanker]

In other Twitter news:

Chief engineer of Twitter, Foad Dabiri, resigned the day after the Musk/DeSantis debacle.

Donald Trump is said to be going back to Twitter, the plan is to do his own Twitter Spaces address.

[rmgill]

He likely fell on his sword for failing to accurately gauge the capacity needs and probably the lack of a burst into the cloud function to respond to capacity demands. 
 

Site load capacity was something cnn.com struggled with in the 1990s. The 2000 election saw us throwing as many sun 420Rs as we could deploy into a main data center to handle the capacity needs. Election 1996 was our first test of load with 7 web servers. The site stayed up barely. 2000 was a near run thing as well. 2001 and 9/11 was another thing entirely. By the. We had quite a hit more capacity in my new data center and even then we barely kept the site up and responsive and then only by pushing nearly every web server behind cnn.com. 
 

CDN via Akamai helped later capacity needs. Then the cloud made it an exercise in programming and monitoring. 

[DKTanker]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

He likely fell on his sword for failing to accurately gauge the capacity needs and probably the lack of a burst into the cloud function to respond to capacity demands. 

There is no shortage of those believing he purposely failed, sabotage is the word being used.  Maybe he was merely inept, maybe treachery, perhaps his landing will be an indication of what transpired. 

[Murph]

Knowing Twitter, I suspect foul play on his part, but they are learning FAFO with Musk, he is serious about his money. Apparently he is great to work for if you WORK, if you want to do a day in the life videos, good bye.

[rmgill]

6 hours ago, DKTanker said:

There is no shortage of those believing he purposely failed, sabotage is the word being used.  Maybe he was merely inept, maybe treachery, perhaps his landing will be an indication of what transpired. 

I’d have to see some RCA work on the capacity/load issues. Could be he failed to deal with folks or do proper load testing of the environment. 
 

Of course I’d love to be opposite of the Talking heads on CNN enjoying the twitter schadenfreude. Site capacity issues were our nemesis for 15 years. It wasn’t until election 2016 that we’d finally set things up for a presidential election being a yawn worthy event. 2020 was barely a concerning event insofar as site reliability went. 

Edited May 30, 2023 by rmgill