Robb Aley AllanNov 23, 2022

It's hard to defend the chaos and silliness around #ElonMusk and #Twitter these days, it's also hard to digest the extravagant claims about his motives. I'm a liberal -- and I'm also an investor in the new Twitter. And while I think Musk confuses the public and press with his often sophmoric and glib posts and his tolerance for rightwing celebrities, I doubt he wants to destroy it.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-trump-twitter-account-republican-rcna57861

Elon Musk's revival of Trump's Twitter account shows his political mission

Elon Musk is increasingly aligned with the hard right, and views Twitter as a powerful tool for advancing his interests and his ideology.

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Show threadRobb Aley AllanNov 23, 2022
I doubt he's trying to reshape it as a personal megaphone, or for that matter as a #rightwing echo chamber. Rather he appears to seriously believe in an open, free-for-all public space in which everyone can talk and everyone can ignore what they want. My one fear is that expertise and #knowledge gets drowned out by frivolous opinionating and mob attacks when everyone's voice is "leveled".
Show threadGaryRLundbergNov 25, 2022

@robballan “Mob attacks”, that’s human I guess. Lynch mobs. The mob in China protesting forced zero Covid lockdowns plus disruption of pay and rations. The mob on January 6th; a weaponized mob. Tulsa race massacre. Stoning. Many iterations of human mob behavior. A desirable condition?

I think Musk is toying with and testing limits in social interaction, society and government. Testing limits of no moderation and cyber-social hysteria.

When will #birdsite offer Neurolink as blue check premium?

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