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So what, it's his platform, he can do whatever he wants on it, he paid a lot of money for it.
I really don't get why this would upset anyone, he is not forcing you to use his platform.
lol
This reminds me of the behavior most common in subreddits such as /r/Bitcoin, we can even put it side by side:
You're misunderstanding what I wrote, because:
Is exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say with:
you can just leave, there are so many alternatives available, if you don't then you are part of the problem, giving him power and putting more money into his pockets. In fact you should have seen the writing on the wall many years ago and latest when he bought it.
Being upset about this now after he did so many worse things is just silly.
Upset? I think we're all just reveling in his pain.
"Twitter should be the global town square"
"free speech absolutist"
"make humor great again"
"leftists are snowflakes"
Sure, he doesn't force anyone to use Twitter. It's still unfortunately the de facto communication platform for a lot of government agencies. It's still an important tool for the world. Let's hope some large governments (EU? Please?) grow balls and leave Twitter alltogether...
This is absolutely newsworthy and worth being upset about.
I mean, calling out Musks hypocrisy is not a bad thing per se, but is it really news?
At the end of the day a lot of people choose to remain on a platform that got bought by an gigantic asshole, who can now do whatever he wants with it. That's how it works and being upset about it just shows that many users are either naive or delusional. Twitter can't be saved, there's nothing left.
Combined with the fact that most Lemmy users probably know about this and already chose alternative platforms a long time ago, articles like these rarely cause more than a shrug, at least for me.
But hey, if it get's a few more people off of twitter (especially like large institutions as you mentioned), I won't complain. As time passes I just tend to think that everyone who still stays on Twitter maybe belongs there.
Fair enough. It's still more news than the endless reporting major news websites do (I'm looking at you bbc) about his fucking tweets.
But I can see your point that it's not very newsworthy on Lemmy (nor is this new btw, he has done similar shit before)
I'm of the opinion that having a lot of money shouldn't, in fact, allow you to do what you want. No person should have this power to do mass censorship, not in the last place because manipulating online discourse means manipulating a fundamental aspect of democracy.
Musk specifically is meddling in elections, both in the EU and the US by e.g. bribing voters. Turning the dials of the algorithm lets him do this even more effectively.