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Twitter accuses Meta of hiring former staff in cease-and-desist letter (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by assassin_aragorn to c/technology
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There's just something fucking hilarious about laying off employees, mocking them, and being sued for improperly firing them -- and then whining that your competitor hired them and that they have access to Twitter information still.

I believe this fits well under the "fuck around and find out" doctrine.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's kind of weird that Musk assumes there's anything special about Twitter that you couldn't build in a few weeks with a competent dev team.

The only value Twitter has/had is its user base. There's no patents or intellectual property that can be sold off if they lose that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, It is definitely a case of taking US$44 billion and throwing it away. But it is worse than that, because Twitter was a resource for the internet community.

And his attempts to make money after the fact are as pathetic as a World Leader using his position to spruik tins of beans.

It is almost like some sort of performance art.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I never liked that the supposed public square on the internet was in private hands, it should've always been a protocol like Usenet or Mastodon where anyone could spin up a server and participate.