I'm someone who likes to remind people that Musk bought Twitter for his own business interests more than out of any care for "free speech" - yet even I'm kind of surprised they took down the account. Maybe because it was obviously a one-off alt only created to upload that, but still...
I hope he is under no allusions about the power the mockingbird media still has to destroy someone's reputation, and that positive responses he gets online don't reflect reality. Twitter is not real life. Neither is San Francisco, but those are the kind of people in control of media and government.
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I'm someone who likes to remind people that Musk bought Twitter for his own business interests more than out of any care for "free speech" - yet even I'm kind of surprised they took down the account. Maybe because it was obviously a one-off alt only created to upload that, but still...
I hope he is under no allusions about the power the mockingbird media still has to destroy someone's reputation, and that positive responses he gets online don't reflect reality. Twitter is not real life. Neither is San Francisco, but those are the kind of people in control of media and government.
I see a fantastic public relations campaign being spun which might get enough traction to break out of the mould of censorship.
It might not but there is a whole lot of buzz around him at the moment.
But yes, when it is all said and done he's a businessman looking for a return on his investment.