I see a lot of bad faith assumptions made about Musk's supposed plans with Twitter in the case he should control it. Although I'm not suggesting to trust a cha

I see a lot of bad faith assumptions made about Musk's supposed plans with Twitter in the case he should control it. Although I'm not suggesting to trust a character like Musk purely on his words, it's at least interesting to be informed of plans he openly expressed. First, he clearly expressed there's no economic motive. Which makes sense as Twitter is a terrible investment. A pessimistic interpretation is that it's about prestige, a positive one is that he genuinely wants to improve Twitter, whatever that means. Personally, I think it's a little of both, they are not mutually exclusive. Regarding free speech, he stated that the first goal was to understand current "censorship" mechanisms and policy, and to make them more transparent. It's hard to disagree with this one no matter your leaning. Further, he intends to be fully compliant with free speech laws, in every relevant country. There isn't much choice in this matter, but still. As for what any new policy would look like, he stated that in the case of a grey zone, not censoring it is preferential. The grey zone is not defined, but in any case it means less censorship. As for any political direction, he stated to have none. His ideal would be for both extreme ends to be equally angry, so in balance. This suggests that it's not some play to revenge-censor the far left or steer things in any explicit political direction. Other than this, he has plans to improve/cleanup the broken parts of Twitter, like bots. Like I said, you can take all of these public statements with a grain of salt, and you should. I personally give them the benefit of the doubt, as pretty much all of the "worst case" interpretations make no sense. It's not an economic play. It's not a play to only allow speech that benefits him directly as what possible Twitter speech would benefit him directly, given the position he's already in? He's also not turning it into a 40 billion dollar 4chan, there's just no rational basis for such pessimistic takes. Perhaps a simpler take is that Twitter is so broken, dysfunctional and toxic that he can't possible make it much worse. And if he still does, let's hope it fully sinks. The world would be improved.