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.
Any journalist or news organization remaining on Twitter is now participating in Musk's mockery of free speech.
You cannot have this one both ways, journalists. You are with him, and his rancid extremism, or you are not.
Please choose to do the right thing for yourselves, if no one else.
@dangillmor The problem isn’t that journalists and agencies are on the platform generating data. The problem is that advertisers are willing to pay him for that data despite the reporting across platforms about what’s happening. Advertisers do not have a responsibility to spend on every platform, but we - #journalists - should feel responsible for fighting misinformation on the biggest platforms.
@ianhillmedia
You may well understand our frustration but I think you underestimate the bitter taste left in our mouths from what’s been wrought.
If all <that> destruction isn’t enough to make you look around and wonder why you are still there? If seeing what type of activity he himself has engaged in isn’t enough to persuade you social media must surely be more that that, especially if one wants to be taken seriously?
I wouldn’t want the association, myself. Not as a journalist.
@ianhillmedia
I applaud your dedication.
Yours is a professional obligation, it seems, to impart the light of truth while existing in a black hole.
Are there journalists, I wonder, on Truth Social, or Gab, or Gettr, trying to convince people there the sky really is blue?
@ianhillmedia
Thank you for your responses.
It seems I am incapable of understanding.
I appreciate your time and attention, though.
Dan Gillmor
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