Are We Clear About Twitter Yet?
Mudge is right, but he’s backing up Musk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/
Twitter, Inc. has a lot of issues which now includes its former “Security Lead” lowering the boom on the embarrassing clusterfuck in Twitter HQ.
But, let’s be clear from the start. Mudge is doing everything he can to help Elon Musk take Twitter over. To say the very least, allowing another psychopathic sadist to take over a critical communication platform is not the answer.
Mike Flynn is happy about this story for example:
Here’s the big problem though:
“Twitter [does] not have “strict principles around who is allowed access to which tools and at what time, and require specific justifications for customer data to be accessed.”
This fight over access to Twitter controls was happening in January 2022. My account was inauthentically suspended for not breaking any rules on January 11th. Mudge was fired on January 19th.
The person who engineered my suspension from Twitter is this contractor, who has access to Twitter tools and is now trying to engineer my suspension from Substack.
His name is Remi Barrette and he is, as Mudge put it, “a danger to democracy.”
Remi is just one of hundreds of people on Twitter who are protected by management and allowed to run years-long harassment campaigns with no consequences.
Remi Barrette is one of these hate accounts. He also pushed the “Alfa Bank” conspiracy theory which led to the “Durham investigation.”
More to come but I find this note fascinating. The current CEO floated the idea of conceding to the demands of the Russian government to get more users.
Twitter, clean your fucking house.
#ArrestMikeFlynn
From the corresponding CNN article: “Last year, prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Agrawal — then Twitter's chief technology officer — proposed to Zatko that Twitter comply with Russian demands that could result in broad-based censorship or surveillance of the platform, Zatko alleges.” 😤😠😡🤬
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html
Why doesn’t somebody set up a liberal/centrist social media platform? I suppose it’s because investors in such a project, would be more interested in ‘clicks’ for their bang for the buck.
Right wing hate/bullshit gets 10 times more clicks than sensible/reasonable discussion and reporting.