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Sep 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
At one Amazon delivery hub in California, nearly half of the drivers vomited from heat-related illness in recent weeks.
I wrote about how drivers feel pressured by Amazon's strict metrics to push themselves beyond safe limits during a crazy heatwave news.trust.org/item/202209131…
The crazy heat is a major topic of conversation among drivers online — people regularly share photos of temperatures in their vans surpassing 110 degrees. Here's a photo someone shared on Discord of a thermometer literally erroring-out because it was too hot.
May 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Again, Musk doubles down on the "follow the law" theory of content moderation. I wrote a little thread earlier about why this skirts some of the major challenges platforms face about when & how they push back/resist "legal" demands.
For one second, put yourself in the shoes of Twitter's India legal team:
You get a formal demand to censor a Kashmiri journalist, the Modi govt says is "promoting" terrorism
But...local rights groups say doing so would violate the Constitution.
What do you do?
Apr 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Twitter has tens of millions of users in places like Turkey, Saudi, & India where governments use the "law" to censor political speech/journalism online.
Fielding these "legitimate legal" requests is an important part of Twitter's job—and it's not clear Musk grasps that.
