• be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Because he’s doing everything to make it fail and destroy the platform, isn’t it obvious?

    It is tremendously obvious, I agree. At one point it felt kinda hyperbolic to say, but not for awhile now.

    I’m not knowledgeable enough to be able to speculate what’s in it for him, but it’s 100% obvious that’s what’s being done.

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      1 year ago

      He might call him self pro free speech, but he actually hates it (as long as it’s not his own free speech). Getting rid of Twitter is a massive blow to free speech. One less platform where he and his companies can get outed and criticized on.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s less nefarious than that. He wants to be a championed business leader. He’s just a fuck up who was forced to buy a platform that he never actually intended to buy (except for maybe a couple of days when he first suggested it). Sure, it will help his side when he runs it into the ground, but that’s not his intent despite being the cause.

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        1 year ago

        Twitter was becoming another walled platform (not being able to read the content without being logged in) even before Musk’s take-over.

        I’m happy for any walled platform to fail. IMO they have no place on internet.