rmatt2000

People get layed off from companies all the time. Why is it the end of the world when it happens at Twitter?

I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. I mean, maybe the company culture really is broken.

> "I promise you: We will be able to do it."

While the idea was almost certainly to warn Putin, it doesn't seem very smart to me to have said it out loud.

I suspect many countries know who did it, but think it is not in their best interests to either admit that they know, or let others know that they know. International intrigue indeed!

I always read the story as a warning against forced collectivism. Specifically, forcing people to act against what they believe are their own individual interests, and instead sacrifice those interests in order to advance the goals of the wider society.

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I'm somewhat skeptical that giving more power and discretion to federal regulators will result in increasing freedoms for the American people.

Who are you gonna believe? Two forms of government issued paperwork, or your buddy on the other end of the radio? /s

I can think of a spec for a simple application that would fix all the problems associated with "courtesy [sic] towing". However, it also seems pretty clear that any city government that would engage in "courtesy [sic] towing" probably has zero interest in fixing it.

Twitter stores the IP address associated with every Tweet. If someone posts an illegal tweet (say, criticizing the CCP, or supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong or Taiwan), the Chinese government could combine the IP information with other information that it collects to identify the individual.

> Forcing private entities to host speech they don't want to goes against what I define as freedom of speech.

What if the private entity is suppressing speech at the behest of the government?

You should spend some time on a college campus. Shouting down speakers and deplatforming non-progressives is more common than one might think.