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> This is absolutely ridiculous.

Asking people whose work you trust to evaluate something you can't evaluate yourself is ridiculous now?

EDIT: however, it does leave a bit of a bad taste in Twitter employees mouths, in that it basically indicates that Musk doesn't trust them. Hmm, that's not optimal.

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Exactly! The thing is about trust. And I would even add that in this case here, due to ideological differences between both Elon and Twitter employees, there is more space for distrust to happen and it justifies even more Musk calling people he knows and who have a general idea of what is going on the code and notice some weird red flag.

Well, in this case there is sound reasoning for that lack of "trust".

You can support Twitters past actions and disagree w/ Musk but does anyone dispute that he bought the platform because he thought their practices were unethical, and the internal culture has been openly hostile to his purchase.

Yes, I dispute that. He bought it out of spite. Just like he called the hero cave diver a pedo out of spite. He's a genius businessman - I judge him so because he has somehow figured out how to sell electric cars to conservatives, but he is a flawed as fuck human.

> the hero cave diver a pedo out of spite ... he is a flawed as fuck human

Wow! You went from a 10 word tweet to "a flawed as fuck human"! I guess you've never said or written anything bad about another person given the angel that you are.

Oh btw, did you hear Musk won the case because the diver was trying to make some bucks off of an angry response, claiming it was "defamation"? Maybe not a "pedo-guy", whatever that means, but certainly a petty opportunist who received a nice basket of egg on his face.

backs slowly away

I bet you are just a much better person, sitting on Hacker News and judging others harshly for one angry tweet. A real angel!

> it basically indicates that Musk doesn't trust them. Hmm, that's not optimal.

I don't read it like that. The most anti-Musk people have likely already left. But with Peiter Zatko alleging serious security breaches, dysfunction, and cultural issues at Twitter, it's likely a good idea to get a few independent eyeballs on whatever problems there may be.

I disagree. If I was a trustworthy employee at Twitter, I would be glad to finally have all those ideologists be found and removed.

Which ideologists are those?

The ones who have been striking down conservatives, christians and every one else that does not agree with California-level progressive values.

That's going to be hard work Musk owning the company now.

He’s going to fire most of them. Many will quit fast as they can.

Being “nice” is not a goal.