And a lot of it is going to be the institutional knowledge that could help Musk realize why he’s wrong on so much of this. Other tech companies are going to lead a feeding frenzy on Twitter’s best employees, and a ton of important and useful institutional knowledge is going to rush out the exits. His views towards many marginalized groups seems equally disgraceful, and I know many people are - for good reason - fearing that they will be put at risk. And, of course, Musk’s reputation for how he treats workers at his companies remains reprehensible. I stand by the idea that his beliefs for how Twitter should work are unlikely to be good in the long run, if implemented in the manner he claims to want them implemented. At this point, I think it’s quite clear that Elon Musk’s comments about Twitter show an incredible disconnect from how any of this works, and he’s about to discover that his ridiculously naïve ideas about how Twitter should work, will not work in practice. With it looking almost certain that Elon Musk will own Twitter in the very near future, a lot of people are freaking out, and I did think it was worthwhile to explore ways in which this might actually be good.
Mon, Apr 25th 2022 10:45am - Mike Masnick
