So I'm seeing some... let's call it well-intentioned hacker contrarianism about Musk's now-aborted battle with Apple, and his proposed "amnesty" on the platform.
It runs something like this.
* Musk sucks as a spokesman, but Apple's monopoly is bad for tech and *should* be broken up.
* Most of the people who've been banned from Twitter are actually sex workers, leftists, Muslims, etc. and we should be happy Musk will liberate them.
Let's talk about ideological drift for a second.
Policy, whether enacted by a government, a corporation, or some other organisation, has what I call a "drift." The bias of the momentum created by the policy's intentions, architecture, and timing.
When Brexit was still a mad fever dream, there were leftists who supported the idea who were "Lexit"-ers, whose criticisms of the EU stemmed from its capitalistic economic policies (epitomised by what it did to Greece).
When the Brexit referendum came along they barracked in support of it.
@Quinnae_Moon it also matters a whole lot who is left in charge of it. A Corbyn-exit would have looked very different. Probably equally ineffective, because "I want to be the weaker negotiating party" is not a great start to anything, but there would at least have been some effort involved.
Musk is a fascist-adjacent manbaby. Apple is a faceless corporation that loves walled gardens and monopolistic power. Neither would even be trying to do good.
Katherine Alejandra Cross
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