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Disney severs ties with James Gunn after controversial tweets
- Thread starter Sibersk Esto
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I don't remember seeing anyone saying that he would get rehired, but I do believe and hope that now that the shareholders voting is done and Disney has successfully get their approval that cooler heads will prevail. Here's hoping rather sooner than later / not at all.
I could've sworn someone ITT or the Gunn petition thread said they were confident that Gunn would be rehired by today.
But I'm probably mistaken.
But I'm probably mistaken.
They didn't, but Twitter has shown an unwillingness to do anything to mitigate it.
Neither has other platforms, though? But maybe people actually leaving the platform will force them to actually make a change.
I think it's because Twitter allows certain characters and movements to persist even in the face of overwhelming evidence of abuse and harassment
I think it's worth a new thread, also mentioning that Pratt says he'd like to see him reinstated on his instagram.
This, no one is leaving twitter cause twitter made them say these things. They're leaving twitter because it's failing to do anything to prevent these trolls.
I'm very happy to see this. Also happy that this story doesn't seem to be dying out.
And even Pom's signature is adorable.
I mean, Gunn made the posts....if anything, it's to Twitter's merit that they didn't delete the messages, I guess in the name of free speech. The problem is, it's a two way street, which is probably why you still have alt-right idiots on the platform who still play by their rules.
But I don't think these actors are quitting because of alt-right, are they?
They are wanting to quit because there's a whole shadow "reporting" industry from willfully misinterpreting / removing tweets from context and then getting outraged by it and writing "thinkpieces" about how some random manipulated comment missing context speaks about some large societal issue that is Very Important. Basically, a bunch of websites are trying to keep themselves going by fomenting outrage via Twitter and then writing about it, and they believe (rightfully?) that a no character limit medium would make it harder to pull that stuff out of context (and is much easier to manage than twitter in terms of removing old forgotten things)
Honestly? The guy randomly printing off tweets and passing them round would be fired first. No one would give a shit, my boss would probably find it funny and even if he didn't as long as it doesn't impact my ability to do my job why would he care?
But it's a silly question because neither of us are in Gunns industry.
It's very satisfying to watch it climb up to 350K in real time. Less than 1K until that landmark.