The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    1218·
    9 months ago

    You seem to be taking pleasure in it, but the fact is this was the plan from the moment he was locked into the purchase. Buy the business, run it into the ground, destroy the platform that people use to organise on. On the way down, try a bunch of shady shit and see what they can get away with - this will be the new standard for any platform that comes next.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      365·
      9 months ago

      That’s been the outcome, but I think you’re dramatically overestimating Musk if you think that was his intent.

      It seems clear to me that he’s of below average intelligence with an overinflated, incredibly fragile ego.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        116·
        9 months ago

        It wasn’t his intent when he posted about wanting to buy the company, but after the SEC forced him to buy, and once he formed a coalition to buy it, the plan became to kill the business off with a leveraged buyout.

        Make no mistake, Twitter isn’t dying because of Musk’s mismanagement, it’s dying because it was saddled with $13bn of debt that it could never have hoped to pay back. The mismanagement is just a show to provide deniability.

        That isn’t to say that Musk is some kind of genius, just that he’s a clown playing his role.

        • Littleborat@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          How is Musk going to profit from running Twitter into the ground? I think I did not understand that part.

          • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            He isn’t. However, you can still make something from a loss - such as establishing new standards of what social media websites can get away with.

      • Huschke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        That is one explanation, but imho a more likely explanation in the spirit of Hanlon’s razor is that he receives 100s of crazy texts like this on a daily basis and one of them just happens to somewhat align with what crazy shit he is doing now.

        • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          You should read the article. It details how Musk followed the text’s suggestions exactly, and is aligning himself closely with the same far right neo-nazis that begged him to buy Twitter and deplatform it.

          Even if that exact text didn’t convince him, one of the well known far right political pundits has definitely tried. Free speech is like their worst enemy, they can’t let Twitter be open to all that free information.