Tag: Twitter

This is why you don’t lay off the legal department first.

Rebekah Tromble |

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I know everyone’s watching Twitter’s various features & systems fall apart. It’s clear that the wheels are falling off. But a quick reminder that you also need to keep an eye on what’s happening in the European regulatory space. In short, Twitter’s in BIG, BIG trouble. 1
https://twitter.com/rebekahktromble/status/1592290426148773889

Consider this piece on Twitter’s status under GDPR. It’s a bit wonky, but it’s REALLY IMPORTANT.

Layoffs and resignations mean that Twitter is now in clear violation of EU privacy law. 2/

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop?
Next stop: Regulatory hell?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/is-elon-musks-twitter-about-to-fall-out-of-the-gdprs-one-stop-shop/

They don’t even have a Data Protection Officer anymore. Having a DPO is the most basic of basic requirements under GDPR. And Twitter’s literally got no one in the building. 3/

The key European regulator, in this case the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), has already put Twitter on notice, and fines could be huge. 4/

And my bets are on the Irish DPC coming out swinging hard at Twitter. 5/

The Irish authority has taken a LOT of flak for supposedly being too slow and soft on big tech. Here’s an easy win, where such a clear violation means they can act fast and authoritatively and win some goodwill from Europe’s other data protection/privacy regulators. 6/

But here’s the kicker: Twitter’s ham-fisted moves have actually opened the door for all of those *other* European data protection regulators to start coming after Twitter, too. 7/

Before, Twitter only had to answer to the Irish. And, thus, everyone else was mad that the Irish weren’t doing enough. 8/

Now, it looks like Twitter’s probably given up the right to streamline GDPR compliance through the Irish. And, in turn, all those other frustrated regulators—more than two dozen in total—can come calling. 9/

So while the core tech issues are a real problem, Musk and Twitter have a lot more to worry about than that. And once again, Europe, not the US, is where we’re likely to see meaningful accountability take shape. 10/

Elon’s stupid plan

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @somebadideas
If you don’t pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up he said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. “You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users”

So his plan to ensure free speech is to actually block any speech thats…actually…free?

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721

Twitter and Blue Sky vs. CounterSocial

Billionaires are a policy failure.

Twitter and Blue Sky tracking everything you do
vs. CounterSocial who is protecting your privacy.

 

Elon and Jack will work together to shut down the existing Twitter tech stack and move it to Bluesky.

Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it
@davetroy
Elon and Jack will work together to shut down the existing Twitter tech stack and move it to Bluesky. Anyone paying attention would know this. That’s why he’s freezing development on the existing platform. It will take a little time, but this is what they’re up to. Watch. Since everyone has amnesia, here’s Jack in April. He thinks Twitter was a mistake and it should have been a protocol. I’ve known Jack personally since 2007. This is what’s going on.
@jackIn principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
Elon and Jack are the same entity, as far as this situation is concerned. Anyone thinking otherwise is simply delusional. All about longtermism and the “multipolar world.” For folks not yet aware of Bluesky, it’s Jack’s effort to rebuild Twitter as a protocol as opposed to a “company.” But it’s not some new competitor to Twitter, it’s Twitter 2.0, basically.
“Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” — Jack Dorsey; this means “become a multiplanetary species.” Which is fine with me, eventually. I’m just not obsessed with it over all other priorities like they seem to be.
And let’s be really clear, Elon’s concern is that if “mob rule” (democracies) run the planet, we will extinct ourselves before we make it to all the other planets, and wouldn’t that be sad. Therefore, “smart” people like him and his friends should be in charge instead. Also folks thinking Jack somehow “outsmarted Elon” on this deal… just NO. Jack owned like 2% of Twitter, so he did well, but Jack also was the one who practically brokered this deal so that Elon could take over, because he didn’t want Twitter to be a public company. I’m just shocked at the nutzo completely baseless narratives that have taken root in the public imagination. People have no idea what’s going on, or how business works.

Q: if Twitter is replaced with Bluesky, how will he make his money back?
A: by ushering in a multipolar decentralized world, which they (he and his consortium of investors) care about more than anything else. Twitter’s current business model is a joke in comparison to that.

Q: is this a bad thing?
A: Putin’s vision of a multipolar world is pretty objectionable, if you ask me. We could use a better vision than that, and should propose one. Here’s how they can implement it via algorithms, if we let them.

What is Blue Sky Social
What is BlueSky Social?
Jack Dorsey’s new app could spark exodus from Twitter
Bluesky’s ATP Protocol would allow users to roam between a number of social platforms using only one high-quality browser — its app

Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it / It’s all still very early and unfinished, but the AT Protocol is a step toward a different kind of social network

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