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.
@dangillmor
That said... I want to point out that some really great people work at Tesla. People who are sincere about the whole vision of making electric cars a part of a solution, people who are good engineers and who deserve a better boss. A company has never been one man.
Those people made the stock do well. It's to THEIR credit.
@futurebird @dangillmor I am sure that there are great people that work at Tesla, but I would implore these people to have some introspection on their ethical responsibilities to the safety of the public.
Tesla is a company that clearly maintains little to no systems safety lifecycle and, as such, they hand-wave all of the real complexities of operating an automotive company.
In my view, Musk has, over several years, polluted the top leaders of Tesla into actively supporting these wrongdoings.
Dan Gillmor
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