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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    The cream on top of this cherry is that Meta claim that they don’t have any ex-twitter employees.

    “Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, told Semafor that Twitter’s accusations are baseless. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” he said.”

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.