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I have not been impressed with the average tech person's ability to understand parts of a business outside their immediate responsibilities. There were people on here seriously questioning the need for a general counsel for a company that's constantly under legal assault by every country on the planet. Never mind the long recurring "why does an ad-dependent company need people to manage relationships with the big spenders who expect that?" discussions.



By being a free speech platform without the censoring role of an editor, Twitter does not need to care if Qatar is mad about what is written there. If Qatar bans twitter, they ban twitter.

What is a "legal assault" and why does Lichtenstein have an ongoing "legal assault" against twitter?




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