Probably Musk’s way of running Twitter will need to stabilize to a reasonably predictable long-term state, before it is feasible to spin up the council idea - if he even still wants to do the council idea.
For this reason I think it's likely that the following will happen:
- Trump will use TF out of his unbanned account--this is one of the few platforms that he could really count on, looking back, and so it's a viable tool for him, not just a place to vent
- Trump will eventually abuse the account/platform in some obvious way, again because he views it as a tool and he's desperate or very close to deperate, and he is also not a moralist
- This will raise a lot of problems for Musk. It will by this point have absolutely steamrolled Musk's lighter, more open view of free speech, and entered into his Find & Smash Annoyances Control-Zone
- Musk will have to move on Trump due to a variety of pressures, including internal to Musk's own psychology
- We'll probably get to see what Musk's council idea looks like in practice, and it will likely be formed around the concept of someone like Donald Trump communicating desperately
- If Musk waits too long to act, I think he'll probably slip up and call Trump a d-bag or some similar thing, because THIS is Musk's version of free speech--it's based on a high-pressure, subjective emotive assessment
It should be pretty fun to watch. :-)
Actually, now that I think about it a bit more, the whole thing is like an exercise in controlled opposition like on Russian media.
MSM + Social Media platforms and people that run them are extremely lop-sided. It is basically all liberals. What go could go wrong?
Half of the country feels disenfranchised as expressed in the Trump poll.
It's scary how more divided we've become since Jan 8 thread when Trump was banned. This feels way more balanced and less toxic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691912