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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's a thing with large corporations that want to do something unpopular, and she probably knows he's doing it. Hire a woman to be a CEO, do ALL SORTS of nasty things that she can't directly veto because you're the owner, then fire her for the backlash to those things and come in as a conquering hero.

The Ellen Pao effect.