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«I hope that you will agree with me that the Government must make it clear to Twitter’s new owners a digital P&O would not be acceptable and that no-one is above the law in the UK, including big tech barons.»
‘It is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly. If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship, it raises serious First Amendment questions.’
He was discussing his vision for Twitter and other companies when fellow billionaire Ron Baron joked how he would live forever, with Musk quipping: ‘If I keep increasing that enemies list it might not be much longer.’
The world’s richest man arrived at the Baron Investment Conference at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan in high spirits and laughed about the number of enemies he had in front of New York’s wealthiest investors.
On Friday morning, he tweeted angrily: ‘Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Twitter employee Simon Balmain told Sky News: «Late last night we all received an email saying there is going to be a large reduction in headcount and the email stated that if we would be laid off, it would go to our personal email and if not to our work email.
Mr Clancy described the situation as the «digital P&O» — in reference to the shipping company, which was widely condemned after it sacked nearly 800 crew members without notice in March and replaced them with cheaper agency workers.
Still, the dangers of such crackdowns were illustrated in the closing days of the 2020 election, when Twitter and Facebook limited or banned sharing of the New York Post’s reports on Hunter Biden’s international business dealings.
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‘Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,’ he said. ‘Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.’
Simon Deakin, a professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, said if 100 or more employees are sacked within a period of 90 days, the Business Secretary must be notified 45 days before the first dismissal.
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arge.» Unlicensed recyclers «take what’s useful and toss out the rest, including items that are toxic for the environment,» said Armel Poughela, director of Solidarite Technologique, an NGO that works in licensed processing o
The documents show that Facebook has a special online portal for DHS and other government officials to request content moderation, and that the federal department plans to target ‘inaccurate information’ on a wide array of topics.
Though the Biden administration earlier discover this year disbanded its controversial Disinformation Governance Board after furious backlash, the documents suggest that DHS has quietly maintained an intense interest in policing speech it deems false or dangerous.
‘There is growing evidence that the legislative and executive branch officials are using social media companies to engage in censorship by surrogate,’ Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, told The Intercept.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (left) and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (right) filed a suit last month accusing the Biden administration of working with social media companies to censor disfavored viewpoints.
The report indicates that most of the government’s work on disinformation is taking place within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a DHS sub-agency created during the Trump administration with a broad mandate to protect US infrastructure.
‘One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,’ Easterly said at a conference in November 2021.