{"id":12468,"date":"2022-04-25T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2022-04-25T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:04:37","slug":"twitter-accepts-musk-purchase-offer-locks-down-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/04\/25\/twitter-accepts-musk-purchase-offer-locks-down-source-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter accepts Musk purchase offer, locks down source code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does this say something about the type of employees Twitter has hired?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For now, Twitter won\u2019t allow product updates unless they\u2019re business-critical, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the situation is private. The company accepted a $54.20-a-share bid from Musk after a whirlwind courtship that began with the Tesla Inc. magnate disclosing a 9% stake in Twitter earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Product changes will require approval from a vice president, the people said. Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from \u201cgoing rogue,\u201d according to one of the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-25\/twitter-locks-down-product-changes-after-agreeing-to-musk-bid\">Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is understood that some Twitter staff are upset about the Musk buy out (he says he won&#8217;t permit as much tweet censorship) &#8211; and management fears possible sabotage by staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter was just acquired by Elon Musk. The company, fearful of retribution by staff, has locked down the source code to prevent sabotage by employees.  What does that say about the company culture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-censorship","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}