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For me it boils down to that people are looking for alternatives because of a risk that Twitter allows more different opinions.

Weird times.

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Wanna bet Elon will try to shut down the account tracking his flights?

To think this is about freedom of speech is naive. This is about restricting and allowing different speech, but I can promisee you it'll be just as limited.

People are looking for alternatives because they don't like the idea of their speech being controlled by an unstable manchild that calls people that point out his ideas are bad "pedo"

You are right - the status quo right now with things like suspending people because they think biological males shouldn’t compete with biological females is obviously the best way to go. I mean why be allowed to have an opinion on something?

This, my friend, is called a straw man argument.

How is straw man to state a fact.

You tried to frame things as if I said I supported the status quo. I never said such a thing. You are arguing with a straw man you built.

The risk is that Twitter will become owned by a single person with a strong personality. You may agree with Musk's agenda. But he does have an agenda.

Not to mention: media relations, community management & risk exposure are all really really hard problems. Hard problems that an entity like twitter has to sink huge effort into just to be bad at it.

Musk brings absolutely nothing to the table in any of these arenas and has been publicly terrible at at least two of them.

The internet is full of agendas, opinions and viewpoints. All this move shows is that there's also at least one idiot will to watch 45billion evaporate.

Ok, ok, it's Elon. So he's willing to talk about it and anything substantiative coming out of this will probably arrive just after full autonomous self driving vehicles.

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