What Musk is doing at Twitter right now is clearly a demonstration of power -- that is, his ability to be a capricious dictator of the platform he controls. He is the opposite of a benevolent dictator. He is fomenting extremism and hatred, and mocking his always obvious lie about believing in freedom of expression. He and Twitter are a clear and present danger to the rest of us.
Friends should be telling friends to stop supporting this increasingly evil man and company. Now.
Tried to update my Twitter profile (which already says to find me here) to be clear that I'm done posting and reading there.
Update was rejected because Musk and his minions now want you to believe mentioning and/or linking to my Mastodon account constitutes "malware".
He's panicking, which is good.
He still controls one of the most important media companies in the world, which is bad.
NASA and other government agencies doing business with Musk should be thinking hard, right now, about what kind of person they're doing the public's business with.
Meanwhile, anyone who bought stock in Tesla during the past year should be cursing the name Musk.
Confession time.
About 6 years about I bought some #Tesla stock. At the time all these people I knew were just *gushing* about #Elon and his electric cars and I couldn't stand the guy.
I figured buying the stock was a win-win for me. If Musk was doing well at least I'd get money.
If he was doing poorly? I could enjoy *that* instead of the money.
I did REALLY well with those stocks. Sold most of them two years ago.
But clearly the time as come to dump the rest.
Dan Gillmor
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Francis Norman
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