my prediction: twitter stays lame, the "free speech" stuff is just smoke and mirrors, doesnt change as much as conservatives would hope
Agreed, but what will be interesting is to see him run a money-losing company which doesn't rely on massive government handouts to stay afloat. My suspicion with Twitter and Facebook is that they're so useful for the surveillance state that they're both, at this point, effectively "too big to fail".
He’s doing it to control one of the main flows of communication on the internet. The fact that just one man can buy something like this on a whim should be concerning for everybody. I feel like this is a further slide into authoritarian oligarchy and it’s gonna be a problem.
No different than Bezos buying the Washington Post. It's amazing to see people pretend like he's doing this out of some kind of
noblesse oblige of a free speech purist, rather than to ban people from posting photos of him with Ghislaine Maxwell and from before he had his hairplugs and plastic surgery. I personally find Musk much more annoying and disgusting than Bezos, because at least Bezos has the courtesy of just being evil, whereas Musk is what would happen if made Reddit sentient and gave it $100b (banal evil).