It gets even the richest and (arguably) the most intelligent of us. The Twitter takeover is nothing but Elon's ego. Sure, he thrives in the tech space, but spare me the freedom of speech battle cry. When did he ever care about protecting civil liberties anyway?
Clearly, I am not an Elon pumper. While I do respect his ambitions and innovations, I think a lot of his achievements have to do with social privilege and being at the right place at the right time. He is not a god or an alien from the future. He is not a hero. He is not infallible (no one is), but he is not humble either. And the latter is the root of this whole Twitter shitshow.
He thought he can do a better job than those who have been trying their very darn best for eight years to keep the platform afloat. He thought that censorship is arbitrary and biased. He thought that freedom of speech is absolute or at the very least, easy to regulate. He thought that identity verification is only a status and should be made a commodity (rather than a policy and security feature). He thought that individual subscriptions can replace corporate advertisers. His actions reflect these thoughts. He is wasting everyone's time and playing with people's emotions.
I think I will stay out of Twitter until Elon's arrogance and fit of madness dies down.
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