Posted on 11/04/2022 6:58:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Human rights advocates are denouncing Twitter owner Elon Musk's decision to fire the social media platform's human rights department.
Musk on Friday terminated thousands of Twitter employees, roughly half of the company's workforce of 7,500. Many of the now-former employees say they were given no notice before being abruptly let go via email. Musk is facing multiple lawsuits due to the mass firing, which potentially violated a California labor law.
Workers with responsibilities that included content curation, machine learning ethics and communication were among those fired this week, according to Reuters. Former Twitter employee Shannon Raj Singh, who was the platform's human rights counsel, said in a tweet that she was fired alongside her entire team on Friday.
"Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company," tweeted Singh. "I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights [UNGP], to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine."
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Human rights groups and experts soon expressed alarm at the elimination Singh's team, denouncing Musk for abandoning the company's "responsibility" to protect rights.
"Twitter is instituting company-wide layoffs, including the elimination of its entire human rights team," Human Rights Watch tweeted. "Companies have a responsibility to employ people who are essential to the protection of people's rights — this includes content moderators, trust and safety teams, and others."
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What part of ‘It’s not THEIR company’ do thy not understand!
So silly, they’ve known for months that Musk would fire many or most of them. Plus, he paid 90 day severance, which exceeds state and federal requirements. These people should stop whining and get started looking for new jobs.
Musk is using the playbook from “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap and “Neutron Jack” Welch.
Offload headcount until you observe some noticeable degradation in the organizational performance.
Or as Lee Iacocca said “Our costs walk in on two legs every day”
Human rights groups and experts soon expressed alarm at the elimination Singh’s team, denouncing Musk for abandoning the company’s “responsibility” to protect rights.
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This from the company which banned Trump.
Human rights watch is one of The most corrupt inter-governmental entity out there!.....Companies have no such responsibility as she has stated.....They exist to earn a profit for their shareholders. Sell a product/service that people want, profitably, and all is good.....
BTW - Their Human Rights is literally a violation one’s inalienable rights
“Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company,” tweeted Singh. “I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights [UNGP], to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.”
Twitter will be immeasurably better with this type of dead wood gone.
Oh please!
They should learn how valuable they are as coders.
Like most recent foreigners ‘Shannon’ Raj Singh does not have a damn clue about the US First Amendment and couldn’t even give a damn even if she did.
Human Rights 🤣🤣🤣 These crackheads actually believe this scat that they eat…..
They were screaming if musk is ceo we’ll quit!
Hahaha
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The Ayatollah Khomeini still has a twitter account among numerous other monsters. Singh is a fraud.
Didn’t the liberals say it’s a private company, they can do whatever they want at Twitter?
Yeah, and I think they told conservatives “if you don’t like it here go start your own twitter.” So Elon Musk is. LOL
Will someone get Amnesty International on the line? This Elon Musk character has to be stopped!
Since when does any business PRIVATE or PUBLIC have a responsibility to “protect rights”!
Companies have LEGAL responsibilities for their products, not some nebulous thing called “RIGHTS”, would those be the same rights as in NORTH KOREA, PAKISTAN, IRAN?
Somebody please explain this “rights’ thing to me, sounds like woke/liberal/UN/communist/snowflake CRAP to me.
Human rights groups and experts, yeah ok
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