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Musks’s bizarre decisions in running Twitter seem to stem from a belief that the Twitter platform itself is what draws in users, rather than the content on the platform. It’s quite baffling how someone who seems to spend every waking moment on the service has such a poor understanding of it.

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I can't be convinced that this whole situation isn't just a group of tyrannical regimes and finance heavies clubbing together to bury Twitter (often used as a co-ordination place against their interests) and are simply using Musk as a front man because they have leverage over him.

Or maybe the worlds greatest genius just got in a dick waving contest with himself and lost.

It's an attack on progressives. That's how I've been viewing all of this. I can believe Zuckerberg is not a fan of Musks handling because Z tried to keep his users but manipulate their beliefs via targeted political posts (and this worked to some degree). Musk screwed the pooch and is just kicking out his users, which doesn't disempower them, it just makes them look elsewhere.

Interesting - but I don’t assume malicious intent when incompetence is a simpler explanation. Wealth does not imply universal competence, though it often gives its beneficiaries such a delusion.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

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