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If the billionaire doesn’t want to break his shiny new toy, the first thing he should do is stop using it
Elon Musk has bought Twitter, overpriced at $44 billion and, while doing the deal, talked a lot about free speech. Would he let Trump back? Would he fire everyone at Twitter? What changes is he going to make and how is going to enforce them?
It seems to me he has bought a poisoned chalice – one that, for all his supposed “genius”, will not bend to his vision. For a start, as each man kills the thing he loves, he can no longer mess around on the social media platform himself. A recent tweet – “Fresh bread and pastries are some of the great joys of life” – is the kind of bland stuff he needs to stick to. Like all of us, his thinking aloud leads only to trouble. After the appalling attack on Paul Pelosi he tweeted a link to an extreme Right-Wing website with “There is a tiny possibility that there is more to this than meets the eye”. That has now been deleted but was a dog whistle to some very scary Right-Wing groupings.
Don’t forget in the past he has tweeted all sorts of blatant rubbish. Misinformation about the pandemic. Calling the man who helped rescue children from a cave in Thailand a sexual predator. Comparing Justin Trudeau to Hitler and Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawak to Stalin. He likes jokes about numbers.
Specifically, 420 and 69.