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It's about money, not "free speech". Kanye posting hate speech drives away advertisers and twitter loses money. Musk is a grifter just like everyone else, his s
by corytheboyd 4y ago
It's about money, not "free speech". Kanye posting hate speech drives away advertisers and twitter loses money. Musk is a grifter just like everyone else, his siren song being this "free speech" bullshit. The grift stopped working so he backpedaled. Seems fairly simple to me.
- ben_w 4y agoI don’t think that fits, because Musk’s every act since buying Twitter seems to have also driven away advertisers.
- dfxm12 4y agoThis gives Musk too much credit in being particularly skillful in gaining advertisers. He's trying, but he's just bad at it.
- ben_w 4y agoI don’t think I’m giving him any credit at all. I think, somehow, he’s currently acting even worse than I would if I somehow got parachuted into this position. Which is really really odd because quite a lot of his previous PR stunts — the Easter eggs in the Teslas, the “ring of fire” SpaceX video, the trans-Martian Roadster, the announcement of the Cybertruck — are things I regard as pretty effective brand building. But this? This is weirder than trying to build a civil engineering brand by labelling weed-removal-torches as "flamethrowers".