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Let's be honest - he owns the company and he have every right to do whatever he want with it including burning it all to the ground. So he could just ban that a
by SXX 4y ago
Let's be honest - he owns the company and he have every right to do whatever he want with it including burning it all to the ground. So he could just ban that account to begin with and everyone would just learn that Twitter is now his private fan club.
Instead he given some empty promises about "being free speech absolutist" and "not banning account that track his private jet" just to do exactly that shortly after. It's hypocrisy and he should pay dearly for that with what reputation he still have.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe problem he's going to have to contend with is that you can't be a partial free speech absolutist, especially not when all the exceptions have to do with your own person. It puts the lie to most of his statements on the subject so far. Not that there was any doubt.
- sylens 4y agoThe Verge called all of this (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...) back when he initially took over
- jacquesm 4y agoI closed my Twitter account the day before the deal became final. The writing was very much on the wall.