Jack Dorsey privately met with Trump aides in DC to apologize for the platform’s liberal bias while the family separation horror at the border was unfolding. He lacks judgement.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/06/27/inside-facebook-twitters-secret-meetings-with-trump-aides-conservative-leaders-who-say-tech-is-biased/ …
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Twitter employees can and should demand better governance, whether through an ombudsperson or user advocate, advisory board, employee union, or all of the above. At the very least, Twitter needs a full-time CEO who can run Nazis off the platform, not a half-time celebrity chaser.
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Twitter engineers and ops people have the power to make real change happen at Twitter. The obstacle has been coordinating and uniting around a concrete set of demands, but I hope that with time they will power through and find a way.
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If you work at Twitter and are fed up, and want to find a way, talk to
@michelleimiller at http://coworker.org . Maybe over Signal rather than DM. There is power in numbers, and I know that people at Twitter are aghast at a leader so clearly out of his moral depth.4 replies 90 retweets 195 likesShow this thread -
I'm fine with the idea of meeting with people far from you ideologically, as long as you can talk in good faith, and as long as you don't let yourself get played. But
@jack is breaking bread with Sean Hannity and Ted Cruz.pic.twitter.com/GeU2NC5gbR
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The problem here isn't the particular shortcomings of a Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg, but the idea of rule by founder. These platforms are too important, and affect too many people's lives, for us to have to wait on a tech CEO bro to find himself. We need a union.
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I'm thinking a co-op would be more in line with being able to distribute management authority among the workers than a union would be. But a co-op might be harder to finance in the current money world.
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I think Twitter is a perfect example of a company that should be a worker-owned co-op. But I agree that the path to that is much harder now that it's big.
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Thanks. From the current state of play, a union may be the best way to bring pressure for ethical accountability on the management of information technology giants. I'd love to see a co-op cross the chasm and get big, but there seems to be a difficult gap.
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I've talked and worked a lot with the Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative in hopes of finding a model like this for the tech world. They are awesome people and gave a great presentation at a Tech Solidarity event recently.
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