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🧵Who's funding @elonmusk's Twitter and what do they get in return?

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1. Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Binance (which was founded in China) get:

"Access to confidential company information... (including?) personal data about Twitter’s users... (given to) governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms."
2. Venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital get:

The ability to influence: "How Musk decides to run the company, who he hires and promotes, and what features and products he emphasizes."
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#PostNews is ableist by intent. When I made my first post I was astonished that I couldn't add an image description to an infographic.

It turns out this is not an oversight. It's intentional. #Accessibility. /1 Post by Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social November
The founder of Post says "We want to do it all but first, let's get everyone in."
Well, everyone in who is sighted, that is.
If #accessibility is not part of the design from the start, it won't be easily added in the future. /2
Post is excluding smart people like @DavidLepofsky, a lawyer who was responsible for forcing the Toronto Transportation System to add stop announcements. Which of course helps the sighted too. /3
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