Dan GillmorDec 11, 2022

Increasingly, I believe that the destruction of Musk's Twitter is crucial for the preservation of American democracy. I was neutral on this until the past few days. But it's now obvious that his intentions -- and actions -- are aimed in part at promoting right-wing extremism.

The Murdoch family is still the greater threat, but Musk looks set to supersede them as a force for evil.

#TwitterTakeover

Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Dec 11, 2022
@dangillmor I agree save for one point. The Murdoch family is still constrained by the need for advertiser revenue so they cannot go monkey shit. Musk has no such constraints.
Show threadKBSez ✅Dec 11, 2022

@ablackcatstail @dangillmor

But the bottom line is Twitter was not a profitable business before the buyout. That means they were surviving on cash flow to pay bills and employees - musk has killed that cash flow in a huge way.

No ad sales / cash flow means bills don’t get paid and I don’t think any of his investors are going to float him cash to get through the month… and their credit rating is crap now too.

Unless he’s going to start writing checks the sh!t is gonna hit the fan shortly

Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Dec 11, 2022
@kbsez @dangillmor I kind of hope it dies. Personally, I'd like to see Gopher make a come back. I miss the Gopher protocol. I know ... I am dating myself here. 😹
Show threadWTFDec 11, 2022
@ablackcatstail @kbsez @dangillmor I don’t hope it dies. Twitter is the voice of the resistance, the voice of the disenfranchised all over the world. There will be no grand exodus from Twitter to one platform. Divided we fall.
Show threadRobert MacAnthonyDec 11, 2022
@kbsez @dangillmor @Kitchi @ablackcatstail Musk relies on active users—that’s what he cares about, no matter what those users are saying. My account is still active, so I’m not throwing stones, but any use of Twitter supports Musk and what he is doing there, whether we want to think of it that way or not.
Show threadWTF
@rmacanthony @kbsez @dangillmor @ablackcatstail same with FB all of them oh well
Dec 11, 2022 at 6:25pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadRobert MacAnthonyDec 11, 2022
@dangillmor @kbsez @Kitchi @ablackcatstail I don’t feel that the others are close to the same thing. Maybe truth social, parler, and the like.
Show threadWTFDec 11, 2022
@rmacanthony @dangillmor @kbsez @ablackcatstail you’re naive