Let that sink in.
Elon Musk has formally taken over Twitter, triumphantly posting ‘the bird is freed’ and immediately firing several top executives.
His next move will be to restore users who have been handed lifetime bans from the platform – including former US president Donald Trump.
Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal, the chief financial officer Ned Segal and the top lawyer for the firm, Vijaya Gadde, were culled just hours after Musk finalized the $44 billion acquisition last night.
Twitter is a toxic example of all that has been wrong with public discourse over the past decade and these arseholes are responsible, so ousting them was the best thing to do. Reversing their lifetime bans was also a good thing to do.
It’s just unfortunate that they were paid off with such large sums. They should have been flogged through the streets and kicked penniless into the gutter, but that’s just me. Maybe I’m just not of a suitably generous disposition. Even so, the wailing and general rending of garments and gnashing of teeth (which will be provided if necessary) is glorious to witness.
Members of Twitter’s trust and safety team, which includes content moderators, are expected to be among Musk’s deepest job cuts, employees fear.
‘Imagine a world where all those people are gone,’ one employee said. ‘It’s going to be a hellscape.’
Lordy, lordy. So people will be able to say things that these scumbags don’t like. Good.
I guess they were paid off to prevent legal claims later on. If so, money well spent – we don’t want any ‘martyrs’.
The Twitterati are projecting again. They poison the platform with hate filled rants themselves, so they assume that the people who disagree with them will do the same.
It’s funny to see how quickly the pivot from “it’s a private company that can do what it wants” to “it’s a public utility and Musk is a danger” by the liberals, has happened.
Already the howling and wailing has begun.
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/29/gm-stops-twitter-advertising/
There was a time, not very long ago, when being opposed to freedom of speech was widely seen as something to be thoroughly ashamed of, the Nazis and the Communists were so obviously bad guys and they suppressed free speech, we’re not like them obviously. This was even acknowledged by people who were opposed to freedom of speech claiming to be supporters of free speech but… Now the opponents of freedom of speech have made their position sound respectable by claiming that they are opposed only to hate speech. Hate speech of course is very broadly defined to encompass anything that they don’t like. I will be striking General Motors off the list of companies that I will ever hand any of my money to.
It’s nice of them to let us know what they are so publicly. Makes it easy.
The reason GM are showboating is that they do not wish to fund a competitor, ie Tesla, via ad revenues for Twitter.
That they dress it up as moral outrage is laughable, given the amount of taxpayer’s cash they were bailed out with in 2008, some of which came from people they hate.