Stop worshipping billionaires.
Elon Musk threw away tens of billions of dollars to buy Twitter, and has spent the last year running it into the ground.
When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.
It’s a win for oligarchy.
@Gashnor @NiaMolinari @rbreich I think his concept of the value of money leaves something to be desired; he was born a rich kid, and had everything handed to him.
Also, he may consider it to be money well spent if it lets him be a troll to his heart's (obvious) content. "Making libs cry while I LOL" is clearly on his personal wish list, and he's clearly not above killing the bird site if those he opposes suffer in the process.
@Gashnor @HellQuacker @NiaMolinari @rbreich the anti-CCP YouTuber serpentza does a really good analysis on it, in my opinion. 1) Musk owns factories in China. 2) Chinese Twitter accounts kept getting labeled "state affiliated media."
Destroy the platform, and you force people to migrate to social networks that are less antagonistic towards state-owned media.
Link here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvsAq1sC5xM&feature=share8
@HellQuacker @NiaMolinari @rbreich I don’t really buy that this is intentional because what exactly does it do? He kills Twitter then people move on to Mastodon or Blue Sky or whatever other social media platform.
Hell Twitter was far behind that of Facebook in terms of active users when he bought it which is why people didn’t understand why musk bought it.
Occam’s razor: Musk is doing stupid shit because he is stupid.
He hated everybody at Twitter before he bought it, because he considered them too "woke".
@NiaMolinari @rbreich “When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication”
Twitter is not vital at all. At all! The fact that we treat such a trivial limited website as important reflects more badly on us than them. We should know better. And definitely governments should not be using such proprietary platforms to communicate with the public. That's just embarrassing.
@NiaMolinari @rbreich You're gonna love the following quote, considering your profile header:
“If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” —Henry Ward
@rbreich I'm hoping that this latest "rate limited" thing pushes more people to platforms like this.
Twitter still has some uses (I can use it to entice people to read/listen to my work, I can hear the voices of people who aren't usually listened to) but even then, it's been failing at even that for a while.
The Free Speech Absolutist, Elon Musk, has just totally throttled valuable voices on the left. Early this morning, Twitler in Chief Elon Musk announced that he has temporarily limited our ability to communicate and receive news from our preferred sources by restricting unverified
@rbreich One of the only few good things this all does is make people more aware of the danger of such entities
The more know abour decentralized social media the better 
@rbreich Does the math work out to roughly 4 and a half bucks per human alive on earth to recoup the purchase price of the equivelent of a digital post it pad?
This is certainly A way to go about s thing, but would ordinarily not endear praiseworthy adoration and admiration, I'm not sure "Don't do that!" is going to help that much but completely understand the desperate confused attempts at reason.
@rbreich I don't think you have to worry about that here. Most people that I've chatted with are ready to eat the rich and use their bones to build houses.
Myself included.
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