Monday, December 04, 2017

Lost in Translation

Bahtiyar Duysak (Times Union)
President Trump's Twitter account was shut down for 11 minutes in November. The "rogue employee" has left the United States and has been identified as a German contractor who no longer works for Twitter. [bold added]
[Bahtiyar] Duysak, who had not previously been identified as the person behind the takedown, told TechCrunch that he considered Trump’s temporary silencing a “mistake” and never thought the account would get deactivated.

It was not a planned act, he said. Rather, he said, the chance to shutter the account fell into his lap near the end of his scheduled final shift, and he decided to take it.

“There are millions of people who would take actions against him if they had the possibility. In my case, it was just random,” Duysak said in a video of the interview posted online. He wore a gray sweater emblazoned with the American flag.
"Random" (made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision) doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

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