Elon Musk is The Nickelback of Billionaires
I swear this will be my last Elon Musk post for a while. I am going on a self-imposed Elon Musk ban right after I hit publish on this post.
Welcome to Elon Musk's town square, which currently resembles a warzone. Pieces of advertisers from the Musk atomic bomb dropped on Twitter in only its first week.
If you haven't seen the news stories, Elon Musk is on a war path over at Twitter HQ, banning accounts "impersonating" him. And by impersonating, I mean celebrities with large follower accounts making a satire-like statement by copying Elon's profile photo and name.
As it turns out, Elon Musk is all for free speech, but he is off-limits. Twitter has been home to parody accounts (especially Donald Trump parody accounts) without much trouble for years. But since Elon took over, it's clear he isn't a fan of people pretending to be him, even if they are joking.
This meme circulating on Twitter sums it up perfectly:
This all comes after Elon claimed that Twitter would no longer do permanent suspensions. Yet another reason not to trust Elon, especially if you upset him over his disastrous overpriced impulse purchase.
Comedian Kathy Griffin was one of the first people to be banned under the new rule:
If this is how Musk is planning on turning a profit on Twitter, he might want to rethink his strategy. Freedom of speech is now a convenient $8 per month on Twitter. Just don't joke about Elon, or you'll be banned.
RIP, Kathy Griffin.
I think it's best to see what will happen. It's only been a few days....
That's the crazy thing. Only a few days, and look what has happened:
If this is week one, what will the other weeks be like?
Here is what I see from all of these points.
fired about 50% of the Twitter workforce - the platform is already fully developed, if they are just baggage then they should be laid off. The rest are probably just the social police doing the so called social construction in Twitter to make it more left leaning. Remembering Musk is trying to make a centered platform.
Having software engineers some in to look at the code for him, people he has trust to do a job, even if they have been doing predominantly car software, it is still software they are reading for Musk, who he trusts. One way to weed out any code inserted in there by engineers he does not trust is to bring in people he trusts.
advertisers fleeing? No the media is saying fleeing, the advertisers are observing and pausing how it will pan out. Times of uncertainty.
Blue ticks are now purchasable, well he is the owner and he is looking at making the platform profitable. You ever seen or remember when Teslas were sold even without the cars? Sometime about 4-5 years ago? Down payment of 5 or 40 grand a pop? And people still put in lots of money. Eventually the cars did get delivered, and now look the cars are everywhere.
anti fee speech bans no idea about this so will not have an idea. Still got a ways to do and look at it.
Again outside looking in it is easy to come to conclusions.
And more importantly like me we do not know how this will pan out, unless of course you have a crystal ball.
First, fuck Kathy Griffin. She's a piece of shit that foments crazy amounts of hate online with her wild and inappropriate effigy's of the former president. I am not a huge fan of Trump, far less so of the senor citizen currently sitting in the chair right now, but no matter what my level of dislike for a president, you would never see me put an effigy of their head on a fucking spike. That's some crazy shit that's completely inappropriate, regardless of what your affiliations would be!
As well, Elon is bringing some much needed balance back to the shit-hole that is Twatter. I don't use it myself but the shit that used to go on there, the insane echo chambers of ultra-progressive shit and shadow banning voices who said otherwise, is a breath of fresh air.
That being said, the whole plan that is underway for the internet as a whole is digital ID's. This paying 8$ a month to have that verification is 110% this plan being set in motion. Right now it's voluntary, eventually they are going to not allow it to be voluntary and those are going to be dark times.
I have mixed feelings about what this is all doing but one thing is for sure, the platform and the content allowed on there, is a farcry better than it was a few months ago.
I think that him suspending accounts impersonating him isn't a bad move. He said he gives a pass to those CLEARLY labeled a parody which is fine however with online scams and people trying to manipulate things, impersonating someone as prominent as Elon is the status-quo of thousands of trolls out there. I don't blame him in the least if someone tries to make it seem like it's him and they do not specify that it's a parody, see-ya!