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Not responding to the article itself. I do think that whoever runs social media has a responsibility to take an active shooting stream down. That said, this art

by _ktx2 4y ago

Not responding to the article itself. I do think that whoever runs social media has a responsibility to take an active shooting stream down. That said, this article is facetious at best. > And as America reeled from the news, Elon Musk remained silent — despite Tesla’s sizable presence in Buffalo... The CEO of my company does this, though he stopped recently. He'd start by addressing "tragedies" in various parts of the US, but I realized over time they were only certain tragedies. After seeing the absolute circus of comments that many from the C-Suite generated over the last 5-7 years not hearing from a CEO about things outside of business would be a god send.

MBCook 4y ago
Under normal conditions I would say you were right. There usually isn’t a need for a random CEO to comment on this stuff. But Twitter was specifically used to spread some of the images/videos(?). So I can see why someone might want to ask them. Furthermore, Elon has been talking a lot about how he would change the way Twitter is moderated. I think that also makes it a fair question. So if Twitter was directly involved and Elon wants to change the Twitter policies I think it is 100% fair to ask him what would happen and expect an answer. He hasn’t been shy up to this point. Why start now.
- kodah 4y ago
  Agreed. Managing an on-going domestic terrorism incident is part of Twitter's business so it's a fair question to Musk. I do think, based on the authors approach, that no matter the answer he gave they'd have something negative to say about it. I don't think it's worth giving a megaphone to those who are opportunistically trying to lay landmines rather than promote healthy discussion; I say this in the light that there are a lot of Twitter users who just don't want Musk to own Twitter though they seem unable to explain why beyond a myriad of supposition.

by _ktx2 4y ago

MBCook 4y ago

Under normal conditions I would say you were right. There usually isn’t a need for a random CEO to comment on this stuff. But Twitter was specifically used to spread some of the images/videos(?). So I can see why someone might want to ask them. Furthermore, Elon has been talking a lot about how he would change the way Twitter is moderated. I think that also makes it a fair question. So if Twitter was directly involved and Elon wants to change the Twitter policies I think it is 100% fair to ask him what would happen and expect an answer. He hasn’t been shy up to this point. Why start now.

kodah 4y ago
Agreed. Managing an on-going domestic terrorism incident is part of Twitter's business so it's a fair question to Musk. I do think, based on the authors approach, that no matter the answer he gave they'd have something negative to say about it. I don't think it's worth giving a megaphone to those who are opportunistically trying to lay landmines rather than promote healthy discussion; I say this in the light that there are a lot of Twitter users who just don't want Musk to own Twitter though they seem unable to explain why beyond a myriad of supposition.