It's not about "free speech". We already have that . Twitter is an advertising and data business that pretend's its not responsible for the comments of real and fictional customers. It is about the manipulation of social media. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… 
Once Elon accepts and aggressively addresses algorithms and paid influence campaigns based on deceit, public inflammation, special interest and general fuckery... not free speech. Then we can relax. investopedia.com/ask/answers/12…
It's not new and it is not unique to Twitter, but it is an easy fix. Kill the professional propaganda trolls, use real names, hold people accountable..like that Trump guy who was kicked off for lying and inciting violence.#LitmusTest cnbc.com/2017/03/10/nea…
It would be extremely easy to firewall fuckerists. You want to post pics of the grandkids or argue the news. no problem. But Twitter is where the bombthrowers hide. theregreview.org/2021/12/21/ste…
It is Twitter's immediacy and media popularity that make it dangerous. Twitter is a major global news source with zero editorial brakes, Like the New York Times run by chimps. Better yet it can be fine tuned to automatically start fights over fuckery. scientificamerican.com/article/how-tw…
"Zero Editorial Brakes" Is that fair? Twitter has all kinds of policies. Sure they can ban your tweet. But that's not what editors do. Editors demand accuracy, fairness and quality in content. Making free speech readable or watchable. Almost Trustworthy help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
Elon has more followers now that Trump had. That's probably good...and free advertising for his ventures and ideas. But he has been caught abusing Twitter "free speech" to make money or at least mislead.boston.com/news/business/…
Twitter (and all social media) is an exceptional source of real unfiltered news, images, video and ideas. It is also a cesspool of stupidity and villainy. We are supposed to be the unpaid editors but we have no influence over propagandists and fuckerists. fastcompany.com/3031500/how-tw…
I encourage Elon to cut the "Free Speech" bullshit and deal with the flawed editorial influences that are simple to address but left to live because it churns their ad revenue and readership. Yes Trump is coming back because Twitter is a damn business people. He needs eyeballs.
Maybe Elon could create a "self driving" Twitter where only bots, influencers, paid campaigns and trolls earn their keep? He could just leave us boring normal people from being targets of the fuckery factory. knightfoundation.org/features/misin…
Oddly enough that's not free speech, it's "paid speech" so he can focus on that. We should be good left to argue about news headlines and cats on roombas. Elon's gonna need help.
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