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Vayutuvan wrote:
vijayk wrote:[img...]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYmkSBaUcAE ... name=large[/img]

The Jihadi/BIF war is on every from ... Look at the list of orgs (Jihadis/Soros funded/Missionaries and Indian commies)
Hindus for Human Rights?!!! :eek: :shock:
That was setup Jihadi and their Commie Indians to oppose HAF
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vijayk wrote:
Vayutuvan wrote: Hindus for Human Rights?!!! :eek: :shock:
That was setup Jihadi and their Commie Indians to oppose HAF
I missed what was staring in my face - Hindus for Human Rights. Not "(Citizens) For Hindu Human Rights"
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Vayutuvan wrote:
vijayk wrote:[img...]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYmkSBaUcAE ... name=large[/img]

The Jihadi/BIF war is on every from ... Look at the list of orgs (Jihadis/Soros funded/Missionaries and Indian commies)
Hindus for Human Rights?!!! :eek: :shock:

https://www.ahouseofcards.net/tag/hindusforhumanrights/
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Anonymity not a fundamental right, says Centre in Twitter case
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 15365.html

The government’s stand came in response to a petition by Twitter, which opposed the Centre’s orders to block accounts 39 accounts last year. The government contended the social media company was “not taking effective steps to prevent the spread of fake news or deliberate misinformation, and as such, misinformation content relating to sovereignty and integrity, national security or public order related issues are on the rise.”
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^ This point. SC recognized the right to privacy when upholding Aadhar. Interesting argument that such a right does not extend to those not known to be Indian citizens.
Furthermore, there is no fundamental right of anonymity under Part III of the constitution. The only right guaranteed is the right to remain silent. As fortiori (as a result), the petitioner (Twitter) cannot defend Article 19 rights (freedom of speech and expression) of its unverified, untraceable and anonymous users. The said right is only available to an identified citizen of the country,
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https://indianexpress.com/article/citie ... r-8238421/

The wire is throwing the researcher under the bus. For the false story about Amit Malviya.
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Hey Ram! Twitter boss Elon Musk taking help from a sanghi... a person named 'Sriram Krishnan'

Who is Sriram Krishnan, the man helping Elon Musk with Twitter rejig
After taking over the microblogging platform and immediately firing its top brass including CEO Parag Agrawal, Billionaire Elon Musk has roped in Sriram Krishnan, the general partner at 16z crypto 'temporarily' to help with Twitter's rejig.
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https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587114424925442049
Lee Fang @lhfang
The emails and documents show close collaboration b/w DHS & private sector. Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (fired by
@elonmusk last week) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans. Microsoft exec texted DHS: "Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov't"
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https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/med ... eboard.pdf

https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/sta ... 7208320003
Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters
Representatives from JPMorgan Chase attended virtually all DHS meetings about federal government efforts to censor disinformation on social media.
Are they laying the groundwork for "de-banking" to become an (even more) mainstream strategy?
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... ng-minutes


https://thepostmillennial.com/dhs-leaks ... on-efforts
DHS LEAKS: Starting in 2020, DHS began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and more monthly to coordinate "content moderation" efforts
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Bappi Lahiri's 'Jimmy, Jimmy' becomes new anthem for Chinese to protest Covid lockdowns :shock:
BEIJING: Millions of Chinese suffering the dreaded lockdowns have turned to Hindi cinema legend Bappi Lahiri's superhit song "Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja" from 1982 movie "Disco Dancer" to express their anger and frustration over the country's stringent zero-Covid policy.
In the Chinese social media networks Douyin - the Chinese name for TikTok, the song composed by Lahiri and sung by Parvati Khan is sung in Mandarin "Jie mi, jie mi", which translates into "Give me rice, give me rice", by people in the videos mockingly showing empty vessels to show how they are deprived of essential food items during the lockdowns.
The video has so far managed to escape Chinese censors that are quick to remove any post deemed critical of the country's regime.
Indian movies have always enjoyed huge popularity in China, starting from the days of cinema legend Raj Kapoor in 1950s and 60s to the recent years when films such as "3 Idiots", "Secret Superstar", "Hindi Medium", "Dangal" and "Andhadhun" performed exceptionally well at the Chinese box office.
Observers say Chinese have found a smart way of using "Jie mi, jie mi" to make soft protests in their bid to highlight the public plight over the zero-Covid policy, which has literally cut-off China from the outside world.
China has been bogged down with zero-Covid policy under which dozens of cities, including Shanghai which has a population over 25 million, were under lockdown for weeks with people confined to their flats.
Scores of videos have surfaced in which security officials can be seen severely cracking down on people protesting the lockdowns.
In the latest protests, workers engaged to assemble Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone staged a walkout from a factory in central China's Zhengzhou following a virus outbreak and complaints of unsafe working conditions.
Reports said workers started leaving the Foxconn factory after some of them fell ill in mid-October and received no treatment.
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https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/soc ... ation-dhs/

Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.

The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.

Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
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Musk installs himself as Twitter CEO, dissolves board, becomes sole director of company
https://www.wionews.com/world/musk-is-n ... orm-530087
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Way to go. I am starting to like this guy. Man is going with sink to flush out the kachra. He may have given 100 million to the indian guy but in realty guy was flushed out. What humiliation.
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Remember this ... how he dealt with liars
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IndraD wrote:Musk installs himself as Twitter CEO, dissolves board, becomes sole director of company
https://www.wionews.com/world/musk-is-n ... orm-530087
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/elon-mu ... itter.html
New Twitter
owner Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla
employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, into his Twitter takeover, CNBC has learned.

Musk, who is CEO of automaker Tesla and reusable rocket maker SpaceX, completed the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 28 and made his mark there immediately. He fired the company’s CEO, chief financial officer, policy and legal team leaders right away, and has also dissolved Twitter’s board of directors.

According to internal records viewed by CNBC, employees from Musk’s other companies are now authorized to work at Twitter, including more than 50 from Tesla, two from the Boring Company (which is building underground tunnels) and one from Neuralink (which is developing a brain-computer interface).

Some of Musk’s friends, advisors and backers, including the head of his family office Jared Birchall, angel investor Jason Calacanis, and founding PayPal chief operating officer and venture capitalist David Sacks, are also involved. So are two people who share Musk’s last name, James and Andrew Musk, who have worked at Palantir and Neuralink, respectively.
Among the dozens who Elon Musk enlisted specifically from Tesla are: director of software development Ashok Elluswamy, director of Autopilot and TeslaBot engineering Milan Kovac, senior director of software engineering Maha Virduhagiri; Pete Scheutzow, a senior staff technical program manager, and Jake Nocon, who is part of Tesla’s surveillance unit, as a senior manager of security intelligence.
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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-co ... he-growing
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime -- and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program
We are launching a new live, one-hour, prime-time news broadcast. Armed with cable-sized budgets, it will be part of a network that Russell Brand has already debuted.

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@elonmusk
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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Biden lashes out at Elon Musk & Twitter
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-ne ... 67474.html

“Now what are we all worried about? Elon Musk goes out and buys an outfit that sends and spews lies all across the world,” Biden said during a fundraiser event in Chicago on Friday, news agency Bloomberg reported.

“There are no editors anymore,” Biden said, adding "how do we expect kids to be able to understand what is at stake?”
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See how important this disinformation tool is for these firces!
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From the glory days of Twitter executives treating Indian laws with scorn and calling Indian government officials high handed to be on the streets for a job, its a massive fall.

While one sympathises with those who lost their jobs, karma has a way at biting back. IITian Parag has a golden parachute so he doesn’t care, and the holier than thi Vijaya Gadde character no doubt will ingratiate herself to a think tank, but the ordinary employee will be the one suffering: both the ones left and the ones laid off.

To be fair a lot of the employees themselves were smug and full of patronising attitude as well, not just the CxO types.
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I hope the the employees who still have a job and think they are suffering see it fit to self select themselves out of the job. Slavery was abolished a long time ago, so these days, no one is bound to their desk with a chain and forced to work or prevented from leaving.
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Jack Dorsey endorses firing of twitter staff, accepting that he grew the company too quickly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63527893
Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey has addressed the mass sackings at his former firm, apologising for growing Twitter "too quickly".

Half of the social media giant's staff are being fired, a week after Elon Musk bought it in a $44bn deal.

Billionaire Mr Musk has said he had "no choice" but to slash the company's workforce as the firm is losing more than $4m (£3.5m) a day.

Twitter staff took to the platform to express their anger at the firings.

In a statement posted on the microblogging site, Mr Dorsey - who quit as CEO in November and left the board of directors in May - said Twitter staff "are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize [sic] many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize [sic] for that."
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Elon Musk threatens 'thermonuclear name & shame' of advertisers who back out from Twitter

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst
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IndraD wrote:Elon Musk threatens 'thermonuclear name & shame' of advertisers who back out from Twitter

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst
And what exactly is Elon going to achieve by naming & shaming!!!
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I am surprised that you ask. Cancel culture works both ways. Those who support Elon, may not buy their products.
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Tanaji wrote:From the glory days of Twitter executives treating Indian laws with scorn and calling Indian government officials high handed to be on the streets for a job, its a massive fall.

While one sympathises with those who lost their jobs, karma has a way at biting back. IITian Parag has a golden parachute so he doesn’t care, and the holier than thi Vijaya Gadde character no doubt will ingratiate herself to a think tank, but the ordinary employee will be the one suffering: both the ones left and the ones laid off.

To be fair a lot of the employees themselves were smug and full of attitude as well, not just the CxO types.

Immediately after completing the acquisition of Twitter on Thursday, Musk fired four top executives at the site — CEO Parag Agrawal; CFO Ned Segal; Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde; and General Counsel Sean Edgett.

Elon Musk has dismissed four top executives at Twitter “for cause” in order to avoid having to pay them eight-figure severance packages, according to a report.

The billionaire reportedly fired Twitter's top executives with 'cause' preventing them from walking away with $128M in golden parachutes.

Twitter is losing around $4 million a day, according to Elon Musk

Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.
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Ian Chappel is giving gyaan today on how ridiculous it is that India and Pakistan don’t play more often due to political issues.

The sheer hypocrisy of western commentators…
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Large scale lay offs in FB to begin soon

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/meta-co ... -says.html

“In 2023, we’re going to focus our investments on a small number of high priority growth areas,” Zuckerberg said at the time. “That means some teams will grow meaningfully, but most other teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year. In aggregate, we expect to end 2023 as either roughly the same size, or even a slightly smaller organization than we are today.”

Meta shares have plummeted 73% this year, falling to their lowest since early 2016, and the social media giant is now the worst performer in the S&P 500 in 2022.
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Twitter fires over 90% of India staff, leaving just a dozen
About 70 per cent of the jobs cut in India were from the product and engineering team which worked on a global mandate, one of the people said. Positions were also slashed across functions including marketing, public policy and corporate communicatio...

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/b ... 60112.html

Hopefully next bunch of staff will keep political biases out of window. Vijaya Gadde was cheered and celebrated for deplatforming Trump
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IndraD wrote:Twitter fires over 90% of India staff, leaving just a dozen
About 70 per cent of the jobs cut in India were from the product and engineering team which worked on a global mandate, one of the people said. Positions were also slashed across functions including marketing, public policy and corporate communicatio...

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/b ... 60112.html

Hopefully next bunch of staff will keep political biases out of window. Vijaya Gadde was cheered and celebrated for deplatforming Trump

Looks like Musk might close whole Twitter India operations. Time for KOO to expand in India. GOI has to use this opportunity to put Modi on Koo

Twitter and Twitter India seem to be collecting $5K to $15K under the table to do verification (actually Musk himself said this is true)
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https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/sta ... cOHnDeEHnA

similar to award wapsi drama in India, whoopi goldberg announces she will leave twitter as she won't be able to lie and get away now.
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Democrats and their dumb media unnecessarily giving too much importance to Musk.

Their main goal is to collect hafta ...

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vijayk wrote: Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
No, they are not. Free Speech does not make you free from consequences. After Elon twitted that dumb tweet, below is the response from one of the top ad executive who met Mush the day prior

Replying to
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Elon, Great chat yesterday, As you heard overwhelmingly from senior advertisers on the call, the issue concerning us all is content moderation and its impact on BRAND SAFETY/SUITABILITY. You say you’re committed to moderation, but you just laid off 75% of the moderation team!

Advertisers are not being manipulated by activist groups, they are being compelled by established principles around the types of companies they can do business with. These principles include an assessment of the platforms commitment to brand safety and suitability.


https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588600619904163842
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Elon is being led by his ego.. Could have backed out of the deal by paying a 1 Bill fee but instead held on stubbornly and paid 44 Billion for something that will never be worth as much again.

Any attempts to put the whole thing behind pay wall will mean people jumping ship in droves and that takes away AD revenue which is the only thing that makes them any real money

Not too bad from an Indian perspective tbh since the site was the darling of the BIFs.
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Jay wrote:
vijayk wrote: Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
No, they are not. Free Speech does not make you free from consequences. After Elon twitted that dumb tweet, below is the response from one of the top ad executive who met Mush the day prior

Replying to
@elonmusk
Elon, Great chat yesterday, As you heard overwhelmingly from senior advertisers on the call, the issue concerning us all is content moderation and its impact on BRAND SAFETY/SUITABILITY. You say you’re committed to moderation, but you just laid off 75% of the moderation team!

Advertisers are not being manipulated by activist groups, they are being compelled by established principles around the types of companies they can do business with. These principles include an assessment of the platforms commitment to brand safety and suitability.


https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588600619904163842
What you have said about free speech and consequences about the said free speech are correct Jay Saar, but it could also be that Elon Musk is probably wanting to have his own stamp on the new organization he envisions/try to build it from now.
The moderation team that has been fired/laid off/asked to stay away until Elon decides what to do with the company or its policies were all majorly driving the moderation policies that seemed to overtly favor one group over the other.

It was well know that Twitter had suspended many handles in Indian context under dubious pretexts, (the same moderating team or rules also would have applied). i doubt if it would change in any way in the long run, but right now it seems to be a fight in the Khan land about who gets to censor the speech and Elon not playing ball - whether it is to increase his negotiation leverage going forward or just power tussle between the "free speech" bearers and the other side needs to be seen.
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Jay, if speach has consequences from the state.

Then by definition speach is not free.
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Pratyush wrote:Jay, if speach has consequences from the state.

Then by definition speech is not free.
But speech has no consequences from the state, and that's what free speech means in the context of 1st Amend. I do not see any bills against Free speech.

With Twitter, it's just who ever in charge of the private company decides what's "Free Speech" on the platform. If Elon decided mocking him on twitter is not free speech on his platform then there is no law that's stopping him.
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venkat_kv wrote:
What you have said about free speech and consequences about the said free speech are correct Jay Saar, but it could also be that Elon Musk is probably wanting to have his own stamp on the new organization he envisions/try to build it from now.
No doubt, Venkat ji.
The moderation team that has been fired/laid off/asked to stay away until Elon decides what to do with the company or its policies were all majorly driving the moderation policies that seemed to overtly favor one group over the other.
Sure and that comes with the job. Now elon needs to decide what kind of moderation is needed. Also, social media by and large pushes right wing(western context, not Indian) stories as it has been proven time and time again that is what will keep the public engaged.
It was well know that Twitter had suspended many handles in Indian context under dubious pretexts, (the same moderating team or rules also would have applied). i doubt if it would change in any way in the long run, but right now it seems to be a fight in the Khan land about who gets to censor the speech and Elon not playing ball - whether it is to increase his negotiation leverage going forward or just power tussle between the "free speech" bearers and the other side needs to be seen.
Elon is not fighting for free speech as his own companies do not adhere to free speech. But he's using the "fighting for free speech" excuse as a cause to raise his profile which is directly tied to many of his finances.

India/BJP need to take advantage of this mess from Elon and demand concessions from him and also use this pretext to move to Indian social media platforms. This timing is ripe for a change and get our say in SM world.
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Jay,

The problem is basically the Biden admin trying to police speach on social media platforms covering multiple topics.

Even if you say that prosecution and persucation has not been happening. and I will agree with you on the facts as they stand.

The fact that the government has the access and ability to silence speach on what is public square of the modern time is disturbing.

That is why the original poster stated that they want to get rid of free speech.

The moderation policy of individual social media platform should be for social media platforms to decide.
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Biden comments: ELon Musk needs to be probed cos his control over twitter is unacceptable https://www.rt.com/news/566249-biden-mu ... -security/
It is worth looking into whether Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is a threat to US national security, President Joe Biden said at a press conference on Wednesday.

As Biden discussed midterm election results, Bloomberg’s Jenny Leonard asked him if he thought Musk was a “threat to US national security” and if the federal government should “investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign governments, which include the Saudis.”

“I think that… Elon Musk’s… cooperation and or… technical relationships with other countries, uh, is worthy of being looked at,” Biden replied. “Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting it’s worth being looked at, and uh, um, and that’s all I’ll say.”

Asked “how?” Biden laughed and said, “There’s a lot of ways.”
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The problem with free speech in the public square of modern times is potentially unlimited reach and unlimited persistence for an unlimited number of people speaking at once. Thats why so much temptation to control it.
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