Twitter #49: Bijna nieuw management, volgens Musk

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Op woensdag 7 juni 2023 19:37 schreef Raw85 het volgende:
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Wat een smeerlapperij

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Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent

Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there, court documents show.

Since its takeover by Elon Musk, Twitter’s business has more or less fallen into disarray, and there have been numerous reports of unpaid bills. While a contractor going unpaid during a rocky transition is unfortunate but not uncommon, ceasing to pay rent altogether for months suggests Twitter’s operations may be farther gone than anyone expected.

According to court documents and reporting by the Denver Business Journal, Lot 2 SBO LLC, the Chicago-based landlord that owns Twitter’s office at 3401 Bluff St in Boulder, was provided a $968,000 letter of credit back in February of 2020. It has been drawing on this to pay the rent in lieu of ordinary payments (the details of this arrangement are somewhat obscure), but the money ran out in March, and the company has not paid since. (If we assume rent was paid regularly from that sum, that places it at around $27,000 per month, giving a sense of the values involved here.)

In May the landlord took it to court, and on May 31 the judge issued an order that the sheriff should assist in the eviction of Twitter within the next 49 days — i.e. before the end of July. The case number is 2023CV30342 in Boulder District Court.

As many as 300 employees once worked in Twitter’s Boulder offices, but between layoffs, other firings, and resignations, it is probably less than half of that now.

TechCrunch confirmed the legal records cited by the Denver Business Journal, but the Sheriff’s office explained it could not comment on matters until they were concluded. In the course of looking up the case another appeared apparently confirming a separate case in which a cleaning company is seeking $93,504 in unpaid fees from the company.

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

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Op maandag 12 juni 2023 20:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Vast en zeker!

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Op donderdag 15 juni 2023 07:11 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Oeps. Ik blijf het raar vinden om gewoon geen huur meer te betalen. Het lijkt mij bullshit, maar denken mensen nog steeds dat dat gedaan werd om huur te “heronderhandelen”?

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Op maandag 12 juni 2023 20:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Op donderdag 15 juni 2023 09:07 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Tuurlijk niet. Zo ga je gene onderhandelingen in. Het is ook helemaal geen drukmiddel want dat geld eis je gewoon op bij de rechter.

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Op donderdag 15 juni 2023 09:21 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Zo lijkt het me ook gaan in de echte wereld. Maar daar dachten enkele posters hier klaarblijkelijk anders over. Misschien dat dit nieuws hen op andere gedachten brengt... of juist niet.

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Op donderdag 15 juni 2023 21:40 schreef Gehrman het volgende:
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akward

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Music publishers sue Twitter for $250m citing Elon Musk’s copyright stance

A group of 17 music publishers have sued Twitter for more than $250m (�195m) over bulk copyright infringement, citing Elon Musk’s tweets to argue that the company has deliberately stopped enforcing the rules.

In the lawsuit, filed in a US federal court in Tennessee, Musk is cited as having said copyright “goes absurdly far beyond protecting the original creator” and “overzealous” application of copyright laws “is a plague on humanity”.

“This statement and others like it exert pressure on Twitter employees, including those in its trust and safety team, on issues relating to copyright and infringement,” argues the suit brought by the National Music Publishers’ Association on behalf of firms including Sony Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Publishing Group.

Since Musk bought the company late last year, two of its trust and safety officials, Yoel Roth and Ella Irwin, have left.

At the heart of the claim lies the fact that Twitter has not paid for a blanket licence allowing its users to upload copyrighted material, unlike most of its competitors including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.

As such, it accuses the platform of having an “unfair advantage” over rivals. This year, the New York Times reported that talks at Twitter to license that material, ongoing since 2021, had stalled over the $100m price tag and fallen apart since Musk bought the site.

A list of 1,700 songs is included in the court filing, with the plaintiffs claiming that each had been uploaded by “specific users who had already been identified in multiple earlier notices”. In each case, it says, Twitter “did not expeditiously remove or disable access”.

“Twitter’s policies demonstrate that Twitter views itself, not the law, as the arbiter of what content is permitted on the Twitter platform,” the case argues.

“Despite claiming to take down tweets in response to an infringement notice within hours or minutes, Twitter routinely waits much longer before acting, if it acts at all,” it adds. “There are thousands of instances where Twitter waited 30 days or more to remove or disable access to the content identified.”

The lawsuit asks for a $150,000 statutory penalty for each one of the thousands of violations.

Twitter users have noticed the lax enforcement of the company’s own policies. This year, users began posting entire movies to the platform, initially in two-minute chunks and then, as upload limits were increased, in hour-long segments. One user posted the Super Mario Bros Movie, while it was still in cinemas, to the platform, and received almost 10m views in just two days.

Musk acquired Twitter for $44bn last October, but under his reign its value has tumbled. According to one of the only remaining independent shareholders in the company, the asset manager Fidelity, it is now worth barely a third of that. Fidelity revalued its holdings in the company, now officially called X Holdings Corp, from $20m last year to just $6.6m now, a reassessment that would value the entire operation at less than $15bn.

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Op woensdag 21 juni 2023 16:53 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Haha, nou, dit zal wel het nodige stof doen opwaaien binnen bepaalde kringen.

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Op woensdag 21 juni 2023 16:53 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Haha, nou, dit zal wel het nodige stof doen opwaaien binnen bepaalde kringen.

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New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6
In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.

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Twitter’s current owner, Elon Musk, commissioned a series of reports intended to reveal how the company had previously sought to squelch conservative speech, and a Republican-led committee in the House of Representatives is working to build the case that the tech giants have been digitally weaponized against conservative ideas.

But the video and other newly obtained internal Twitter records show that, far from working to censor pro-Trump sentiment in the days before the Capitol riot, the company’s leaders were intent on leaving it up — despite internal warnings that trouble was brewing.

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The records also undercut claims that Twitter had worked on behalf of the Biden administration in freezing Trump’s account, as Trump claimed in a lawsuit against Twitter that was dismissed last year by a federal judge.

None of the records obtained by The Washington Post — including the 32-minute video, a five-page retrospective memo outlining the suspension discussions and a 114-page agenda document detailing the safety policy team’s meetings and conversations — show any contacts with federal officials pushing the company to take any action involving Trump’s account.

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Navaroli, who declined to comment, ultimately testified before Congress that Twitter’s reluctance to take action earlier had been fueled by anxiety over both the political and financial consequences of pushing out one of the platform’s biggest attractions.

Another former employee, who testified before the committee under the pseudonym J. Johnson, said “Twitter was terrified of the backlash they would get if they followed their own rules and applied them to Donald Trump.”

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Still, some Twitter executives voiced hesitation about taking down Trump’s account, arguing that “reasonable minds could differ” as to the intentions of Trump’s tweets, according to Navaroli’s document. Twitter had for years declined to hold Trump to the same rules as everyone else on the basis that world leaders’ views were especially important for voters to hear.

Hele artikel: https://www.washingtonpos(...)-twitter-video-jan6/