Comment by darth_avocado
1 year ago
This is not a moralistic position. Brazil always has been a big market for Twitter and there were always significant resources invested by the company for legal compliance. This included dedicated cross functional teams. These teams no longer exist, since the owner thinks 90% of the people in the company were useless. Now they simply don’t have the ability to stay compliant and therefore run into the risk of being fined. They’re minimizing that risk.
Perhaps but that's just speculation and not supported by evidence.
That’s true, but there are some publicly available facts like Brazil’s content moderation team no longer exists.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...
https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoff...
And the policy team:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wa...
We could all pretend that you’d be able to deal with operating in hundreds of countries with a bare bones team, or we could speculate that it’s hard & opens you up to many legal problems.
I know that they're closing down their Brazil operations, that's literally the title of the article. The speculation I was referring to was your claim that they're really closing down because of financial considerations rather than their stated reason (e.g. unwillingness to comply with the judge's orders).
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They could implement those teams again if they wanted to. It appears they don't want to do that.
It appears the solution is to fire people until the problem goes away. Musk’s favorite leadership strategy.
Weakness masquerading as strength. Anybody can fire, cancel, or cut to make a problem go away. It takes no strength or intelligence.
Do you work at X? I'm sure you wouldn't be speaking in such confident terms if you didn't have some inside knowledge. Are you meeting with Elon to discuss these things?