All I wanted to do is show that this whole charade for and against Elon Musk is political, thanks for the QED Tony.
Lets recap.
Skipping the pre takeover stuff.
Musk says he wants twitter to be a free for all townhall whilst ensuring it meets relevant laws.
He then proceeds to basically decimate the ability to do so (probably bar within the US and countries that have zero protection from things like hate speech, fraud etc) by sacking most of those responsible.
He also unbans many that were banned for precisely those reasons, to avoid twitter having issues with content these people post.
Musk fails spectacularly in regards a "not to be fired" employee and mocks him in public.
Later finding out the person was do not fire due to how the purchase of his company was dealt with and that he was technically disabled.
Advertisers run scared when they do not want to be associated with a platform that is seemingly going out of control.
Musk attacks them rather than listening to their concerns.
Musk decides that one of the core functions of the platform, being able to trust the blue tick person is who they say they are should become a paid for service without any actual validation and those previously who had the tick should pay or lose it.
Many with ticks refuse to pay and Musk partially (its unclear how much) reverts to giving some blue ticks back to refusers. But the tick is there and can be purchased by for example someone who wants to pretend to be someone trustworthy in a way that could be used for fraud.
Now I have skipped quite a lot but thats some of the pertinent points. Nothing really political there and what most of us have been mocking.
Its hardly been a successful strategy so far.
In the mean time despite claims to be neutral, musk posts things like "vote republican to create balance".
Thats really the limit of the political from my perspective.
What seems to have happened is that with more right wing loons banned than left wing loons banned the overtly political right claimed this as some vindication that new twitter was impartial.
They seem to be the ones desperate to make it political when the majority don't see it as political, but just keep looking at the "strategy" and laughing. Which seems to be annoying some of them who want it to be political when its not.
