I still believe that this was the intention all along and doing it in such a way that it would be blamed on incompetence and not hostility. If he had announced

I still believe that this was the intention all along and doing it in such a way that it would be blamed on incompetence and not hostility. If he had announced he was going to buy the platform to shut it, there would've been much more of a backlash. Now it just gets diluted more and more until it dies naturally and the effect on free speech will be the same. It's not his money so he can play the long game.