Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, November 15th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough

today. If you tell Elon, he doesn't know what he's doing you could get fired.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Today in Twitter, quoting Bloomberg,

Twitter, quoting Bloomberg, Twitter owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a free speech absolutist,

has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social media service.

In one case, Musk announced the firing in a tweet.

In another, the former employee said he was fired after he openly rebuked Musk.

Engineer Eric Fraunhofer, who worked on

Twitter's app for the Android mobile operating system, on Sunday reposted one of Musk's tweets

with a comment saying that Musk's understanding of a technical part of

Twitter's app was, quote, wrong. Musk replied and asked Fronhoffer to elaborate before writing,

quote, Twitter is super slow on Android.

What have you done to fix that?

After attempting to explain his thinking in a number of tweets,

Fraunhopper was asked by another user why he hadn't shared his feedback with his new boss privately. The engineer who has worked at

Twitter for more than eight years replied, quote, maybe he should ask questions

privately, maybe use slack or email, end quote. On Monday morning, Musk wrote that Fraunhofer had been fired.

Fronhofer retweeted that post and included a saluting emoji that many employees used

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