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So much for "libertarianism" In reality Musk is trapped in his own nightmare, stuck between his rear full of MAGA hats and disinformation and corporate KPI he can't produce with the kind of non-governance he is promoting while shitting on creators, brands, media and journalists. That recipe, cannot work. It's fun to ride for the nihilistic but it leads nowhere.
Who didn’t see this coming? The people falling for the latest round of the free speech grift and attempting to dunk on previous ownership don’t really know Jack (shit). My guess is that this will take 2 years to unwind. Celebrities leaving don’t matter until they pop up on better services/protocols.
Elon has been outspoken about his pro free speech views. Could this data simply imply that Twitter itself is less self-censoring following the Elon Musk takeover, which inevitably would increase the amount of requests from governments (including a higher degree of legitimate requests than before)?
Jack, would you have said anything different from what Elon said here? "We can’t go beyond the laws of a country,” he said in a recent interview with the BBC. β€œIf we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we’ll comply with the laws.” There's a practical reality to running a large publicly-traded company. Not to mention, since Twitter became a much freer place than it was before, there are plenty of hit pieces written about it, so it may be important to take that into consideration. Besides all of which, there was (and probably still is) a huge contingent of twitter employees who work for or at the behest of the government anyway...
I'm okay with the government doing its job. Some people don’t have the best intentions β€” I’m sure you know. I’d be thankful for people keeping us safe. A better approach to helping the world is to teach people values if you care about equalizing and bettering human life.