Ryan Mac

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469 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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But I think of things like Gamergate, for example.

This online abuse campaign that came from Twitter and there was death threats, that kind of thing.

Remember that Twitter's, one of its founding kind of goals was the free speech wing of the free speech party.

And its founders and its executives started to realize that, you know, actually this like free for all approach to free speech is,

is not maybe the way we want to approach the modern internet and having large groups of people communicate on the open web.

You know, you need content moderation, you need rules of the road and how to behave on a platform.

They grappled with that constantly, whether that was with Gamergate or COVID or, you know, the- Or Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, the January 6th.

Yeah, like these issues would constantly come up and there'd be people always yelling at them online, you know,

I was banned for this reason, or, you know, you should ban these people because they're abusive, or, you know, I just got a death threat.

And that weighed heavily on the company and its founders.

Yeah, he would do customer service for Tesla over it.

And, you know, he just started to cultivate this like brand online of being very real.

At one point he announced his divorce, one of his divorces on Twitter, you know, really messy kind of stuff.

And people were like, hell yeah, like that's a real person.

I want to like follow that guy and like be like him.

And I think that he was like one of the first like business executives to realize being real online can engender a lot of goodwill.

So also during COVID, he becomes very anti-trans.

Even though he has a trans child.

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