Awesome! (Unrelated: Now I just need to figure out how to overcome all these "Admiral" nags that are chipping away at my love for filtering on half of the legitimate news sites... any advice?)
Yeah but after carefully overriding, TFA is basically saying that it's sharing a story about how this very domain used to be nefarious and no longer is... So I think it's just stuck in deny lists despite new ownership?
> I'm also not sure why the CEO is being so pernicious with these tiny windows. Why only give your people 4 hours with no advance notice?
Especially since the company is proudly remote with employees all over the globe, and some of them might not even be awake to see this 4-hour window email.
This strikes me as performative and manipulative to show there are no more "dissenters".
Judging from this post, it seems there are lots of regulatory holes in the way Automattic operates in the EU. Mullenweg needs to be careful that the eye of the EU doesn't turn its gaze towards him and his company, or he could be in some trouble. But I can't say I'm surprised by his belief that he only answers to US laws and jurisdiction.
The mention of the self-employed employees could be interesting to HRMC in the UK, if they are skirting around IR35 it could end up with them being handed a large tax bill.
Also their UK branch is called "MINISTRY OF AUTOMATTIC"... really.
I would argue that his recent behaviour warrants Automattic (and WordPress, as its dependence) being classed as a Designated Gatekeeper by the EU Commission under the Digital Markets Act.
The reference is to this, where Matt has replied to a query about what constitutes "affiliation" by saying he could not answer that and the person should consult an attorney.
Read that whole thread from the earlier tweets too. People are getting banned from the Slack channel for asking what the checkbox means. This isn't just drama from OP.
That’s a pretty meaningful mistake, given that the nature of the non-profit entanglement is fundamental to several claims. It seems like you were as confused as the community was, which sure doesn’t help any of Matt’s claims about everything being “open” and “transparent” all along.
Well, I guess this thread answers the question of “how can Matt’s lawyer possibly be encouraging this?”
And from Javier's thread, Matt is gaslighting people by telling them to consult attorneys to decide the meaning of "affiliated" in a checkbox HE introduced.
Can we now agree that Matt has lost his marbles and his ego is leading him to burn the entire Wordpress ecosystem down? These are megalomaniacal and dictatorial actions.
This is actually one of my favorite uses for contemporary AI technology. It very much can (and does) catch this type of spelling error. Google Docs does this for me quite often. It's not always right -- but it often prompts me to review exactly this type of situation. It's pretty amazing, really.
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