Jason Ball

Australian, 18yrs in Japan, run Business In Japan group on LinkedIn and am always connecting GoodPeople around common subjects of interest.

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@LINEjp_official LINEさん、送信したメッセージを10分以内だけでも編集できる機能をお願いします！

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

Hey @Klarna - you guys bought @StocardApp @Stocard and it’s been notifying me to ‘Take a moment to love your cards over’ but then no instructions how. Just opens the Stocard app. Help redirects to a Klarna 404 page!

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@truthseeker0779 Yes, Queensland. Southern Gold Coast.

Their website says all green, but https://t.co/mjSnNitjou tells another story!

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@MugiwaraKenshin @TrumpDailyPosts Well said. Pity most Trump supporters won’t read it and those that do won’t believe it won’t comprehend it.

Sad.

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@TrumpDailyPosts Anyone approaching retirement age or in it in the US has been fxxked by this nonsense.

Their quality of life will drop painfully for the foreseeable future.

Make Americans broke again? Was that the plan?

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

On TODAY from 12pm JST #dropin #audioonly
#Business + #Work + #Japan | #Networking #042
#Event by #BusinessInJapan
Mon, Apr 7, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM JST

On the BIJ #Discord
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📅 31st Jan (Fri) from 6:00 PM JST~
📍 #Shinagawa @Spaceworks, #Tokyo
💴 2500 yen (includes Food, Alcoholic & Soft drinks)
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[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

[BIJ Event] Friday, Jan 31, 6pm~

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Spaces Shinagawa

¥2,500: Food & drinks, alcoholic & non!

RSVP please: https://t.co/42A42o5jl5

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

With a certain amount of trepidation, I'm posting this open letter to @elonmusk, someone I have admired, but who, right now, is causing me concern. I know I'm not alone in thinking these thoughts. Please like or repost if you're willing... And Elon, if you're listening, please know this is offered in a constructive spirit.

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Dear Elon,

A thought hit me this morning.

On top of all your achievements in technology and entrepreneurship, you have become this century's single most influential writer.  You have more than 200 million followers on a powerful platform that you yourself control. And the words that you write flow well beyond just those followers into almost every user of X and far beyond courtesy of extensive media coverage.   This makes Rupert Murdoch at his prime seem inconsequential.

It must feel exhilarating. You made a huge gamble buying Twitter and it seems to have paid off spectacularly to the point that you can use it to massively impact the world, including changing governments.  You believe that X can largely replace most mainstream media. It is the new platform for citizen journalism, and you are citizen number 1.  You don’t need the hassle of editors and fact-checkers. Every single thing you post garners millions of likes and reposts. In a heartbeat you can change the global conversation.  No one in history has had this much power.

So there’s a lot at stake here, and, as it happens, journalism is something I care deeply about. I began my career as a journalist because I believed that good journalism was essential for the healthy functioning of democracy. Today I am worried — quite deeply worried, actually — that in your triumphant seizing of the global conversation, some of the core tenets of journalism are being forgotten. Without them, I think your efforts to make X the respected home of citizen journalism will fail.

There are numerous journalistic principles that matter — Grok can summarize them quite nicely. But there’s one in particular that’s been troubling me. It’s the fairness doctrine. The one that says that before you publish savagely critical claims about an individual, or an institution, you reach out to them for their side of the story. After all, just possibly, you may have missed a key fact or two that would change how people assess what has happened. Just possibly your sources were motivated to cause damage to that individual. Just possibly there’s an alternative explanation of what happened.

So, for example, when you tell hundreds of millions of people that someone should be hanged or jailed for outrageous crimes against humanity, just possibly you should first sound out what those who know those people really well would say about them. Some of your recent posts could literally get someone killed. Do you really want to risk that? How is it possible that you can do this at the very same time that you’re calling on people to make X more positive, more beautiful?  You say you want to maximize un-regretted user-seconds on X.  By far the simplest way you could do this, Elon, is simply to thoughtfully edit what you yourself post.

I get that from your eyes the issues you are championing are unbelievably important and worthy of extreme efforts. But the way you are presenting them is not citizen journalism. It's playground bullying. It’s crass and it’s cruel, and it’s therefore not nearly as effective as it could be.  You’re hearing the cheers of your most loyal followers, but missing the fact you’re making yourself a laughing stock among many who you really want on your side. Long-term that’s going to damage X, your other businesses, and indeed your long-term dreams for humanity.  No one wants to follow a playground bully to Mars.

I miss the old Elon. You can be funny, interesting, insightful and inspiring. You've fought incredibly hard for what you've built. And you may feel you're entitled to do whatever the hell you want with it. But I also know that you understand the danger of holding too tightly to the ring of power, how it can distort someone's judgement and turn them ugly.

I’m hoping you can loosen that ring just a little. For the love of humanity that you profess, I really urge you to embrace the fairness doctrine and showcase a better face of X.

Thanks for listening.

Chris

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@TEDchris @elonmusk Um, well said.
Obviously.
Thank you.

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@jakepaul Well technically she is born a woman and identifies as a woman and isn’t Trans… but don’t let that get in the way of your Fox News style headlines.

https://t.co/T7EiqIAMRh

None of the boxers in female categories in Paris 2024 are trans woman.

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@hikosaemon FTW…

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

BlendTokyo: Bridging Cultures and Expanding Networks https://t.co/Qh93M6GYba #BusinessinJapan via @@BIJWebportal

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

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[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

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[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

Interested in #Japan and #Tech, #hiring #GoodPeople or getting a good #Job, finding good #Work in #Japan?
3人Panel discussion and Q&A + #Networing #pizza & #beer other drinks.

[BusinessInJapan.com @BIJwebportal]

BIJ #Event #InPerson #Tokyo Friday May 31 6pm~9pm | Tech in Japan: Hiring Good People, Resourcing Offshore & Getting a Tech Job in #Japan | at #NishiShinjuku #SPACES | #Tekkon #JAIT #Australia #BusinessInJapan

[FutureShift @futureshift]

Yes, this is a real headline from 2024. https://t.co/7ahJGAzm44

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@RightKingTodd @JohnCleese Yeah Nutjob Billionaire Narcissist is just sooo much better than the ‘them’s gonna take our guns’ “globalist warmonger banker elite”… riiiight.

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@drvolts @dfunkedtt Well both Trump & Biden are pretty old. Neither can be working for too much longer, surely?

[Jason Ball @GoodPeopleJapan]

@lilyproJP Well there’s cue if ever I heard one @lilyproJP !

Presenting my 16yo, 87K+ member community on LinkedIn and beyond!

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