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SAD! —Trump is desperate to

artappraiser — Sun, 31 May 2020 01:32:06 +0000

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SAD! —Trump is desperate to punish Big Tech but has no good way to do it

Trump's executive order shows how little power the president has over Silicon Valley.

By TIMOTHY B. LEE AND KATE COX @ ArsTechinca.com- 5/29/2020, 7:55 AM

Wow. @therickwilson at his

artappraiser — Sat, 30 May 2020 03:46:36 +0000

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Wow. @therickwilson at his best. Cough up the $35 for an annual subscription to the Beast. Worth it in spades. https://t.co/t2JnnEeCuG via @thedailybeast
— Coffee Me (@RealScottSharp) May 30, 2020

could at least read the first 3 graphs w/o subscription

Here's what employees are

artappraiser — Sat, 30 May 2020 01:45:15 +0000

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Here's what employees are saying inside Facebook today about the company's decision not to take action against Trump's threatening posts: "History will not judge us kindly."https://t.co/vXVwULz8T3 pic.twitter.com/xU9SyrS448
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 29, 2020

Pretty sure all-hands don't

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:54:41 +0000

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Pretty sure all-hands don't have a "no like" option" either. Maybe a frowny smiley?

I used to have the job of

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:49:00 +0000

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I used to have the job of taking out the bags of dissected lab cats - better at this than you imagine.

[in a just world, this comment would win the internet for the day, but hélas...]

Maybe your new career in new

artappraiser — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:45:07 +0000

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Maybe your new career in new world could be herding cats!

NYTimes cybersecurity

artappraiser — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:43:03 +0000

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NYTimes cybersecurity reporter:

Huh. Just had my third conversation in two days with an employee at FB who admires the position Twitter has taken, and is disappointed in Zuckerberg's response. Wonder if this will come up at the all-hands meeting today.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) May 29, 2020

Ahem, and the fine superfine

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:34:31 +0000

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Ahem, and the fine superfine moderation at Ye Ole Daggeblogge. [saved ya the trouble - knew it was on the tip of your lippes]

Brings to mind even something

artappraiser — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:30:23 +0000

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Brings to mind even something family members of differing views have mentioned to me: the New York Times itself does a superb job moderating comments on articles! It's easy to find bitchin from all sides about who they hire for op-eds and how they handle them, but you rarely see anything about how reader comments are handled except marveling at how they differ in quality from like, Facebook comments.

Sometimes, the mods quelled

artappraiser — Fri, 29 May 2020 18:46:54 +0000

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Sometimes, the mods quelled the fight or struck a compromise, and brought the board back into harmony. Other times, the angry users broke off and started their own forum, or the board simply became so intolerable that everyone left.

There's big big money involved this time, tho. A lot on the line. So I am most curious to watch how The Twitter proceeds. There is evidence that the way they have nonsensically moderated up to this point (seen enough examples myself, people cut off for really silly reasons) doesn't bode well. But now hopefully more than minimum wage moderating types have been engaged to handle the problem. We'll see.