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People have been screaming for him to step down as CEO of Twitter for a long time, and he's doing it. It looks like the general reaction in this thread is that this is somehow even more evil than not stepping down. What makes this either a catastrophic mistake, or a malicious act?

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He doesn't seem to be stepping down from much of anything. It's an online social media company and he's still going to be in charge of product and technology, so what exactly is this new CEO going to be doing? This just looks like he hired a VP of Advertising and decided to call her a CEO for no reason. What kind of tech CEO doesn't control product and technology?

> What kind of tech CEO doesn't control product and technology?

The kind that has a CTO to do that.

I think they were expecting someone who has been a CEO before. My money was on Marissa Mayer personally

I also had her in mind. Though she does not get social?

If Elon Musk (or one of his companies) cured cancer tomorrow a significant part of the population would find a way to hate him for it.

The more realistic outcome would be that Elon promises a cure for cancer is coming next year and repeats saying that every year until all of his competitors have caught up.

...or he finds someone who's just about to find one, buys the rights from them to say that it was him, and then charges $millions a head for the cure.

Yes, because famously his competitors have caught up in rockets and electric cars.

SpaceX is just an amazing anomaly in every sense of the word. Tesla is nowhere near that.

Point is they’re ahead of the competitors on pretty much any metric you could point to.

And then he calls the people who call him out on it pedophiles.

He called one specific british man living in a specific part of Thailand a paedophile

Are you saying it's ok to call someone you're arguing with on the internet a pedophile with no evidence, if it's just one British person living in Thailand? What point are you making?

Edit: Looking at your post history, do you own a lot of SpaceX and Tesla stock? You do a lot of name calling to defend Elon, so your opinion defending one of the world's richest guys doesn't seem altruistic.

> And then he calls the people who call him out on it pedophiles.

> What point are you making?

That your statement was inaccurate.

It wasn't their statement, it was mine, and your response concedes that Musk did exactly that.

I just can't wrap my head around this. How can you both concede the behavior and be perfectly fine with and defend it?

Addressing your edit:

1. I have not called anyone names. That is also false.

2. All people deserve defending from untrue statements about them regardless of how wealthy they are, I'm not sure why anyone would think otherwise.

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