@mcnees This boils down to 2 fairly objective factual realities: 1) Musk leveraged himself to the eyeballs to buy twitter, and 2) Contrary to the hype, he is not particularly bright.

Fact 1 meant that he had to cut costs right away, but Fact 2 meant that he did so by firing people at twitter who carried whatever "social intelligence" the Twitter enterprise had managed to accumulate. For instance: legal experts whose job it was to know the law in various countries, and therefore allow the company to buy time before compliance by resisting censorship orders as long as possible.

Musk is an powerful idiot, chose to lobotomize Twitter, market it using an entirely bogus "free speech ideology", while simultaneously rendering it unable to defend actual free speech. Consequently, he instantaneously rolled over for Erdogan the day before an election because Painting Themselves Into Corners is what idiots like Musk often do.

Not painting one's self into corners is literally "not rocket science". Sadly, Musk is an idiot, and will keep doing dumb and harmful crap like this as long as people continue to bankroll him with social capital, as well as mountains of real capital.

And I do mean "sadly", because a "not idiot" in his position could do some real good in the world.