Elon Musk has finally completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, He immediately fired a number of top executives including the boss, Parag Agrawal.
Musk tweeted “the bird is freed.”
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump are ecstatic. Trump was banned by Twitter last year. His disciples expect Musk will overturn the ban.
According to the BBC:
Mr Musk, a self-styled “free speech absolutist”, has been critical of Twitter’s moderation policies and the news will be greeted with mixed feelings by Twitter users and employees.
Many people on the right of US politics will celebrate the exit of Mr Agrawal as chief executive. They view people like Mr Agrawal, and his predecessor, Jack Dorsey, as liberals who are curtailing free speech.
They also think that under their stewardship, Twitter has censored conservative voices – an accusation that Twitter denied…
Musk said he bought the social media platform to help humanity and he wanted “civilisation to have a common digital town square”.
On a recent earnings call, the Tesla founder said Twitter was “an asset that has just sort of languished for a long time, but has incredible potential, although obviously myself and the other investors are overpaying for Twitter right now”.
Millions of Twitter users have had their accounts deleted for simply stating an opinion. Will Musk lift the bans and restore those accounts?
Not a chance. Elon Musk is no “free speech absolutist.”
Musk is a businessman. Market forces will dictate how he runs his platform.
I heard a BBC radio presenter opine this morning, that if Musk was to restore the accounts of people with gender critical views or people who questioned the official narrative on covid and vaccine safety, advertisers would walk away.
The presenter suggested that Musk might prioritise free speech, tell the advertisers to get stuffed and make Twitter a subscription service.
No chance. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I won’t be.
I’d pay a subscription to Twitter if my account was restored and I was allowed to grow it organically without interference from algorithms.
I had 100,000 followers and was gaining hundreds more each month before my account was deleted.
I was banned for telling a covidiot who supported fining people who refused the jabs, that future generations would piss on his grave and the graves of everyone who supported this tyranny.
Hardly a hanging offence, right?
My account will not be restored. I’m sure a few celebrity truthers will be invited back, but not guys like me.
Nothing has changed at Twitter. It’s business as usual.
