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> Twitter’s engineers can no longer make changes to code as of noon in San Francisco, the people said.

I'm quite curious about the

- Structure: Deployment freeze VS full-on halt of development on feature branches

- Enforcement: Mere policy VS technical block via permission revocation (what happens if an urgent hotfix is required?)

- Communication: Did anyone see this coming? Was it communicated in a respectful manner?

Any Twitter engineers here who are able to talk about any of this?

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Enforcement: I would imagine that there is a way for hotfixes by a small group of trustworthy employees. That would be the common sense approach.

Communication: yes, this is the obvious cautious first step. There seem to be many ideologically driven people at Twitter and those kind of people can become dangerous very quickly. The big first task will be to find them and remove them from their positions, so that the rest of the employees can continue with their jobs.

This is basically the "seize the telephone exchange and TV station" phase of a coup, where ideologically driven people can be replaced with different ideologically driven people. Musk himself has described his ideological motivations.

No, we just want people to stop censoring the other side. It doesn’t take a genius to see where that road leads. Only one party, uses their feelings as justification for silencing dissent.

> It doesn’t take a genius to see where that road leads

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1585808070466076673 (screenshots of racial slurs and calls for mass murder)

??? Your post has no content.

I think the linked tweet makes a very good point.

All those accounts are now suspended or removed, one is private; what was your point again?

What are those motivations you claim he described?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728/phot...

Sounds more like an absence of ideology and the desire that diversity of opinion returns to the virtual town square.

Is walking in with a sink and saying "let that sink in" a respectful manner? No, respect isn't his style.

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