Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

This is quite an opening letter from @AkivaMCohen to Elon telling him to pay up the severance he owes employees. https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983

I'm not really a big de-platforming guy but Kanye definitely clears the hurdle for me. If you want to make anti-semitism and defending the Nazis your thing, you should be run out of polite society.

I truly don’t agree with the pervasive criticism that departing Twitter 2.0 is an act of privilege. Under the new management it immediately became a shoddy, unsafe platform. At the very least, who wants to continue using a crappy product when there are perfectly good ones elsewhere? I understand people who feel they *have* to remain for whatever reason, but it’s hardly privilege to abandon a sinking, junker of a ship.

Just incredible how Musk blatantly lies and there will be zero consequences for it. Journalists will keep dutifully writing up what he says as fact, banks will keep pouring money into his various ventures, regulators will keep letting him skate by.

Ursula K Le Guin: "this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain"

Trailmix without m&m's is completely nuts.

The enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend. #Apple  is the largest natural monopoly in the tech industry. They have far too much power with their App Store lock-in.

Apple caves to the demands of repressive regimes in the US, Israel, and China. Apple actively deplatforms sex workers. Apple exploits poor workers in China and the global south.

We can praise some of Apple's privacy decisions (e.g. standing up to governments pushing for crypto backdoors) while also recognizing that no corporation will EVER have your best interests in mind.

We must bring all tech companies to heel with regulation. We also need to build alternative digital ecosystems that don't rely on monopolistic private companies.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-apple-twitter-app-store/

I'm a Democrat. But my primary allegiance is to absolute justice—not to a political party.

President Biden urging Congress to pass a bill to impose a contract on railroad workers w/o paid sick day. That's unjust. Biden is wrong. Railroad workers want 15 days paid sick time but 4 main Corps are offering only 1 personal day:
•Union Pacific (13%⬆️profits)
•CSX (15%⬆️)
•BNSF (16%⬆️)
•Northern Southern (17%⬆️)
The problem isn't satisfying workers in need—the problem is we can't satisfy billionaire greed

become ungovernable

Web developers need to be launched into the sun.

Calling out advertisers for not advertising on your platform and then wondering why advertisers think there's brand risks of advertising on your platform 😂🙃

Ding dong, yes it is.

The Online Safety Bill introduces mandatory age verification on content platforms. Non-profits using community content moderation will have to collect more user data. Adults and children will be exposed to privacy risks as there isn’t capacity to hold data securely.

The Wikimedia Foundation warns of the Bill's impact on Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms.

#BlockTheBill #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/deep-dive-the-united-kingdoms-online-safety-bill-b7020723dd39