Musk has the peculiarity that whatever he does, he has the world watching him. Whether he posts a tweet, presents a project or makes a financial transaction. He has been immersed in a thousand and one controversies and his figure does not understand middle ground between idolatry and contempt. If someone asks you what will happen to Twitter from now on, the honest answer is that we have no idea. The Musk effect is precisely based on the impulsiveness of someone who knows himself above good and evil. We will recognize that your capital projects (Tesla or SpaceX) have the virtue of putting disruption in favor of creating leading products at reduced costs, that not popular, but it is also an exponent of the unscrupulous innovation.
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Allow me to raise doubts, then, when it is proclaimed as “absolutist of freedom of expression & rdquor;. The combination of input terms makes me uneasy, the enlightened nostalgia for freedoms as an absolute individual right forgets that life in diverse and complex societies is a constant negotiation. In this case, we also have to add the power game that implies power buy the speaker and make it your own when you don’t like the rules of the game. This, in the context of a plutocracy dominated by white men, which includes the owners of the platforms that support our digital lives. Musk is not just acquiring a company, from the privilege he buys the ability to make the world more to your measure.
I am glad that many people on Twitter are showing discomfort and announcing that they are marching towards Mastodon (an open source and decentralized platform). I would be happier if it were because we understood that the alternatives exist and that you don’t have to be a multimillionaire to be able to use networks made from and for the community, with transparency and without interfaces that seek to model our behavior for profit. Well, Elon, if what you wanted was to preserve democracy and guarantee freedom of expression, you could have put these 44,000 million at the service of the hundreds of organizations that have been fighting for decades all over the planet for precisely that.