Labor watchdog wants SpaceX’s gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets
[…] The complaint, filed Wednesday evening by an NLRB regional director for Seattle, says SpaceX requires its former workers to: - Not disclose the terms of the severance agreement. - Not disparage SpaceX, its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, or agents. - Not to voluntarily assist any litigation against the company and if compelled to do so, to notify SpaceX. Those requirements, depending on how they’re worded and the specific circumstances, are potential no-nos right now in the US.
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I’m honestly surprised he’s been able to hang on to over three-quarters of his daily users since taking over the platform given everything that’s happened since his takeover. Why are so many people sticking around?
I heard some prospective buyer had questions about the number of bots on Twitter that threatened to disrupt its recent sale; I wonder whatever became of that.
Gee, when a bar becomes a Nazi bar, non-Nazis stop going to it? Who knew!
The people I know who are still on it are usually people using it to follow a few accounts posting relative to their interests and aren’t members of targeted groups, so they don’t see nearly as much BS as those of us who are. But even those people’s feeds are starting to be infiltrated by the shitty parts of the site and they are slowly abandoning the platform.
I figure once enough people who aren’t bigots leave, the user numbers will plummet to those of other right-wing social media sites, since bigots need an audience of non-bigots to bully or it’s no fun for them either.
I’m convinced it’s not 3/4 retention - even if you count bots (and there are sooo many these days), those are new accounts, not old account users that have stuck around. I also think a lot of people gave up on Twitter shortly before Elno took over. However, I see some communities still sticking around because there’s no other place for them, yet. If a significant part of your social graph doesn’t make the move, simultaneously, to a particular place, it’s not a functional alternative.
People I follow in game dev Twitter, for example, mostly have stuck around, despite individuals having created accounts in a bunch of alternative sites. They’re there to a) market the games they’re working on (in which case Mastodon isn’t ideal as it frowns on that, and Bluesky isn’t ideal because you can’t read what people post without an account, and until recently that wasn’t really possible), and b) game discourse, which requires the whole group to move, en masse, to the same place to continue. Sci-fi/fantasy author Twitter I, on the other hand, allowed itself to be scattered, with different social media sites being used for different things (and a lot of copying and pasting between sites).
