A lot of people hate Elon Musk for little reason other than his perceived politics. Not declared politics or policies he holds like promoting green energy, but just the general mood of other Twitter followers. No wonder the idea of this platform promoting open ideas scares them.
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This used to be one of the most insightful people when it came to new media.
“Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. I don’t care about the economics at all,” Mr. Musk said Thursday in an interview at the TED conference in Vancouver.
If social media censorship is bad, why are conservatives doing it in schools and in libraries? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/
Every day, the Republicans revert more and more towards the politics of Falwell, Buchannan, and other 1980's Republicans. They're GW Bush with less impulse to intervene. And there's a shit ton of libertarians heading towards Pat Robertson politics too.