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List of alleged ex-FBI people working for Twitter.
Quite a lot of names. 16 directors or managers. All hired since the '16 debacle.
Reminds one of the Chinese demand for CPC members being in company management.
Is it random ? Or does this support the claim Twitter is uniquely important in the information landscape as a place where journalists get their stories and hang out.
Volunteer reddit moderators purged trump supporters from their subreddits with no institutional backing whatsoever! You'd expect - and did see - the same from progressive twitter moderators without FBI intervention. Most being hired after '16 is explained by most twitter hires as a whole being recently - if a company's exponentially growing employee count (including if it overhires), most employees are recent. Thinking the FBI is somehow a specific central organ that's dictatorially intervening isn't right - are there even any specific pieces of evidence for that - distributed consensus and pressure from all parts of civil society, including your leadership and employees is much more accurate. And 'pressure from leadership and employees' is just being part of it and agreeing!
Also, most of those employees are in 'security', as opposed to 'trust and safety' or similar, and ex-FBI hires make sense for that.
Of course it makes sense you put them in 'security'. They're ex-FBI, duh.
But are they doing actual security, or are they there to ensure compliance ?
The political editor over at Newsweek who got the half-Arab/half-Russian reporter fired was officially doing something related to sports.
His slack activity showed something else.
Because twitter is where marching orders for all the second-hand ideas dealers are handed out.
It's where likes and retweets can be used to reward worthy causes and sink unworthy causes.
The entire plot against Trump was very heavy on FBI people.
FBI apparently orchestrated the J6 farce.
You know, when it comes to you, I can't decide whether you're a reflexive contrarian or something else entirely.
We can read their "experience" tab on linkedin (most of them aren't visible logged out, cba to make a throwaway):
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To illustrate the point with some hyperbole - If, hypothetically, I was a dark elf silently plotting to dismantle the USG, execute Plan Moldbug, and install BAP as Emperor, it'd still be (if I was talking to other live players who too might take action) worth contesting confused claims about how the Cathedral works and uses power - lest my allies box shadows and spend years on based political projects that accomplish nothing.
You expect Intelligence people to put things like "* And oversees compliance with government directives and assorted 1st Amendment violations" in their LinkedIn?
twitter has "trust and safety" people whose job it is to censor threats, cp, racism, extremism, etc. there are a lot of people who explicitly that. the people that OP linked whose profiles I could view and get information from very clearly laid out security (computer or physical) roles instead.
rewording my question: do you expect them to put a smoking gun in their Linked in profiles?
Them working for T&S isn't a smoking gun though, it'd just be twitter hiring people to do a task they explicitly claim they are doing and intend to do. If an ex-FBI person is 'preventing extremism on twitter', they're just one of a hundred twitter employees doing that, it isn't illegal or anything. Most 'normal' people, and especially the 'cathedral', will just read that as 'fbi person who works at twitter now', and not infer any "government directives" or "1st amendment violations". Despite that, the linked individuals are just twitter hiring people with security skillsets for security roles.
Nobody said that it is, why are you fixated on it?
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