Schneier on Security

echo • April 16, 2024 10:35 AM

Musk hates people deadnaming Twitter but Musk thinks it’s funny to let transphobes deadname transgender people. “Cis” (short for cisgender) is not a slur but he’s banned that while letting the “N” word get a free pass. Twitter has more problems than dodgy code and mangling its URL’s and that’s the bigger security problem. It’s a rabid disinfo and stochastic terrorism platform now.

@Winter

Some of the smartest people would refuse to work for Twitter in its present form. Transgender people are notorious for sticking together as a tribe and the tribe refuses to cooperate with its own genocide. Some I know would rather go hungry than take the coin.

I’m disappointed in Linda Yaccarino. It’s her choice to work as CEO. The circle doesn’t square for me and she’s compromised by staying there. Mind you she has a dodgy history anyway so…

echo • April 17, 2024 6:27 AM

Transgender people on Twitter are reverse engineering “Community Notes”. The working theory is that they are deliberately designed so they put people with opposing views in contact and Twitter can build a database of those who disagree. Add in all the other nonsense behind the scenes and it looks like another mechanism in weaponising hatred and disinformation. Pattern and frequency analysis also suggests there is an organised effort and/or bot army weaponising Community Notes content into another layer of disinformation.

As usual transgender people are ahead of the curve because A.) Transgender people are smart and B.) Transgender people are often targeted first. C.) Musk has Nazi levels of attitude against transgender people and transgender people are not cooperating with their own genocide.

Advertisers leaving Twitter have really hurt their revenue stream. Musk is desperate to portray the platform as being safe hence mechanisms like this. Most people won’t notice the level of hatred on the platform. One guaranteed way to trigger it as a mainstream cisgender politician or journalist or celebrity is to post anything supportive of transgender people. The wall of vile hatred which will slam into your account will last days, or even weeks or months. This is one reason why transgender people have blocklists running into the tens of thousands and in one case over 200,000. Then throw in the stochastic terrorism including death threats and organised letter writing campaigns in attempts to get people sacked or businesses or schools shut down and you have a real mess on your hands. They even attack grieving mothers of transgender children who committed suicide because of healthcare system neglect and school bullying.

It doesn’t effect cis (white) male techbros so they never notice or write about it.