Katherine Boyle
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Even big tech has gotten sick of it.
You know, it's like you kind of see Mark Zuckerberg has completely changed his tune on a lot of things.
He's kind of gone, you know, he said the culture became too feminized at Facebook.
I mean, what he's really saying is we became way too radical.
We became way too hall monitor in our views of social media and free speech.
Totally.
That's why when Elon bought Twitter, he was saying, we could fire 75% of the people at Twitter and the service still ran perfectly.
What were these people doing?
Well, they were deplatforming people or they were the trust and safety team making sure that things on Twitter were fine.
There's still massive problems at Twitter.
There were still ridiculous amounts of porn and child pornography on Twitter.
that they didn't deal with when they were there.
But Elon got in and saw, he's like, this is completely backwards.
We need one fourth of the people who are here.
We need great engineers and we need to solve the real problems at this platform.
And we need to have free speech.
So in some ways, it's like a lot of these companies got really fat.
The business models were good.
They were really bloated, but people weren't working.
And what were they doing?