Twitter was predictably full of hysterical reaction to the news Monday that Elon Musk has reached a deal to take the company private.
What Elon Musk is doing is what plutocrats have been doing: using money to buy power and power to protect their money, taking control of media to rig the discourse and hedge against resentment, and branding themselves the solution to the very problem they are.What’s not changing, once Twitter is fully in Elon’s control
To the extent that there is such a thing as a global consciousness, this silly website which gets far more attention than it deserves was not the thing that created it. If you’re big offline, you will be here. While, more often than not, ordinary users struggle to get the faintest blip of engagement with their tweets.
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