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David Gerard

lol, Bluesky is now getting it on LinkedIn

"When your racism is so bad old white guys on LinkedIn think it's bad"

linkedin.com/posts/scotthirlem

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Scott Hirleman
Data Mesh Radio Host - Helping People Understand and Implement Data Mesh Since 2020

Hey Jay Graber, Paul Frazee, Emily Liu, Rose Wang you have an incredibly bad anti-blackness problem on your platform. It says you are hiring. Where is the posting for your head of Trust and Safety? Why is this such a big problem every week or two it seems? If you don't want to run a social media platform, split the company in twain and go focus on the protocol and fund the platform with another team that cares. Or do you not care about marginalized groups?

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Hey Neo, are you aware that your most recent investment Bluesky PBLLC has a pretty big anti-blackness problem? They didn't even think to block the N word from being in usernames... that's just 101 level. They did block someone from taking the username 'danieltosh' at least... yeah... It's a VERY recurring problem of anti-blackness and the entire userbase is not happy. The company has refused to make an apology or statement, barely doing an update to the codebase.

If you took a board seat in your seed investment, can you be reached for comment regarding not hiring a Trust & Safety Lead? Is this what you want to be associated with? I can mention some reporters in the comments that might like to write a story on it.

Ali Partovi, Suzanne Xie, Jan C., Emily Cohen, Stephen Cornwell please address immediately with your investment.

Are you okay with this type of lax attitude regarding Trust and Safety towards underrepresented groups being associated with your brands Neo mentors? Aduke Thelwell, Amir Kantor, Anand Subramani, Aston Motes, Ben Newhouse, Camille Ricketts, Carol Reiley, Claire Shorall, David Mace, Fuzzy K., Jason Dorfman, Jehron W. Petty, Jesse Zhang, Kyle Parrish, Lin-Hua Wu, Maria Zhang, Melissa Tan, Neha G., Omoju Miller, Pavla Bobosikova, Pierre Martin, Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat, Sima Gandhi, Rainer Sainvil, Alan Flores-López, Anne Solmssen, Ansh Nanda, Ari Steinberg, Asta L., Dhruvik P., Mihir Garimella, Neil Patil, Nidhi J.

It's simple to say we're sorry and will do better. Why is the company refusing to do this. T&S is an urgent need if Bluesky is going to actually be a social platform and not only develop the protocol. Please spur them to do the right thing.

14 Jul 2023 at 21:01 | Open on circumstances.run
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Scott P. Johnson

@davidgerard The devs have started blocking the users on bsky, several of them locked their twitter accounts, and one of them took their website offline.

14 Jul 2023 at 21:03 | Open on ioc.exchange
David Gerard

@vortex_egg and to think the devs didn't want to implement blocking

14 Jul 2023 at 21:04 | Open on circumstances.run
Scott P. Johnson

@davidgerard I guess they learned something from the community after all.

14 Jul 2023 at 21:04 | Open on ioc.exchange
Tidings of Comfort & Jo

@davidgerard

racists are gonna racist. Not sure why this guy sounds so surprised.

14 Jul 2023 at 21:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Erin Conroy

@davidgerard

I mean, the entire reason for #Bluesky was because Jack Dorsey doesn't want to block Nazis and other racists from using his social media platform cash cows - like Twitter, where he still holds a $1 BILLION investment - to radicalize others.

He said many times that his solution for Twitter is a protocol so that abusive accounts can't be banned, & their victims will be forced to use algorithms to hide from them, but give them free rein to radicalize others
progressives.social/@chargrill

@davidgerard

I mean, the entire reason for #Bluesky was because Jack Dorsey doesn't want to block Nazis and other racists from using his social media platform cash cows - like Twitter, where he still holds a $1 BILLION investment - to radicalize others.

He said many times that his solution for Twitter is a protocol so that abusive accounts can't be banned, & their victims will be forced to use algorithms to hide from them, but give them free rein to radicalize others
progressives.social/@chargrill

@chargrille Dorsey said his greatest mistake was letting Twitter suspend/ban Trump’s account during the Jan 2021 Republican coup & that it “we did... the wrong thing for the internet and society.” He spent years trying to give Musk control at Twitter. His politics are anti-democratic. 7:37 PM - Jul 4, 2023 - 175 Views [screenshot of Dorsey remarks:] "have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with . ’ our suspension of Trump s account. As I've said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society."
@chargrille Dorsey started Bluesky because he wanted to keep the Nazis and violent coup instigators on Twitter. He said kicking Trump off during the coup was "the wrong thing for the internet and society." In 2019 he couldn't say he'd kick Trump off for explicitly calling for murder. [Screenshot of Dorsey quote]: "The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building zools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account."
@chargrille@progressives.social Well who could possibly have foreseen how things are going over at Dorsey's Nazi free speech zone/brainchild. /s/ What surprises me most is how many people imagined an intent to ever implement any real moderation on #Bluesky to protect Black users from the fascists he let run wild for years on Twitter Everything Dorsey ever wrote on it says the entire point of #Bluesky was to help monetizers avoid any moderation at all. Users are just meant to cover their eyes with an algorithm & let it happen [screenshots from this toot {add link}]
@MarkDice - Apr 15,2022 @Jack in hindsight, do you think it was the wrong decision to ban President Trump? (and Alex Jones, CarpeDonktum, and all the other conservatives unfairly purged from Twitter?) @jack as | said in a thread on the event, | believe all permanent bans are a failure of the company. But likely right decision for the the company. Wrong for technology underlying the service. Hence @bluesky 8:37 PM - Apr 15, 2022
14 Jul 2023 at 23:59 | Open on progressives.social
Erin Conroy

@davidgerard

Obviously he didn't use those words. But that's what he's talking about.

15 Jul 2023 at 1:37 | Open on progressives.social
Shiny Quagsire

@chargrille @davidgerard tbh there's definitely something to be said about giving good tools to users, because most of the Usual Suspects were *pissed* when they came to Bluesky and saw posts about this mute list

A bsky mute list by @skywatch.bsky.social titled "Enlightened Centrists, Reply Trolls, Bigot Defenders"
15 Jul 2023 at 7:39 | Open on mastodon.social
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