Our users deserve so much better than this. Also, given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BILLIONS of dollars pursuant to the FTC Consent Order, extremely detrimental to Twitter’s longevity as a platform. This will put huge amount of personal, professional and legal risk onto engineers: I anticipate that all of you will be pressured by management into pushing out changes that will likely lead to major incidents.Īll of this is extremely dangerous for our users. I have heard Alex Spiro (current head of Legal) say that Elon is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to this company and its users, because “Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.” I have heard another leader in the Legal department say that because of the tight SLA’s (of two weeks?!) between product inception > launch, Legal will “have to shift the burden to engineers” to self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws. the dissidents, our users in un-monetizable regions, and all the other users who have made Twitter the global town square you have all spent so long building, and we all love. I do not believe he cares about the human rights activists. He chose to enter into that agreement! All of us are being put through this as a result of the choices he made.Įlon has shown that his only priority with Twitter users is how to monetize them. Elon has shown that he cares only about recouping the losses he’s incurring as a result of failing to get out of his binding obligation to buy Twitter. This news will be buried in the return-to-office drama. Perhaps today is a good day to take some rest and recharge.Įveryone here should also know that our CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer ALL resigned last night. I also remind all Tweeps (at least in the US) that we have an unlimited PTO policy. I do not, personally, believe that Twitter employees have an obligation to return to office. It is a fundamental change to our employment contracts to require a 40hr a week in-office requirement. Twitter is a remote-first workplace, and has operated as such for years.
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