This is such an obvious point but it is so funny to me that Elon's free-speech crusade on Twitter lasted all of six weeks before he started indiscriminately banning reporters. Like what an all-time hilarious business story
@caseynewton And what will he get from this? He's killing his investment!
@Trumptheloser @caseynewton It's like... Twitter, as it was, was doing well enough to sell it for a ridiculous price. It was a really stupid choice to pay more for it than you could possibly ever recoup... And then, in an effort to try anyway he shattered what had been (mostly) working thus far. And that was *before* he started forcing tweets on people, which in turn was before he started suspending journalists. Why do billionaires have such thin skins?
@thejustkat @caseynewton Musk has no personal support system, just people who want his money(1 way or the other). So no one around him is going to tell him to stop being a fuckmuppet. They're going to egg him on.
@Trumptheloser @caseynewton Very true. In a lot of ways he's naive. He didn't have a clue how to run a social media platform, and didn't know that he didn't know. He most likely hasn't figured it out yet. Because, yes, his fanboys will, as you say, simply egg him on; they'll tell him he's always right.
@thejustkat @caseynewton Musk has been a disaster whenever he's actually running a company.