Twitter's Former Head of Trust, Safety, and Policy Vijaya Gadde was a joke who was pushed around by authoritarians (including puritans, to some extent).
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We have to remember that when companies like Twitter, or Facebook, got pushed around, they would come up with a PR excuse to justify their decisions. Oh, they are concerned about "safety" (a nebulous concept).
As I pointed out the other day, "safety" can be used to *justify anything*. This is how you have "Trust & Safety" folks giving rhetorical cover to authoritarian regimes in Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemisms_for_Internet_censorship_in_China In China, it is the very excuse which is used for censorship.
Facebook was an even bigger joke, readily bending to authoritarians the world over, and eager to build tools of censorship. Be careful about romanticizing these people, perhaps they don't have Musk's personality, however, things still got worse under them.